This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $200,000 to Vanderbilt University to facilitate new regional collaborations in Middle Tennessee centered on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for imaging. The primary goals are to enable connections between research-focused institutions and minority-serving institutions, provide training and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University). The grant will fund the development and validation of a novel closed-loop framework with AI-based sensing and characterization, physics-aware neural surrogate modeling, and advanced AFM navigation and control algorithms. This will lead to the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant award, with CFDA Number 47.070, will provide $599,945.00 to Clemson University to develop a 3D computer vision framework that fuses multiple sensing modalities, including RGB cameras, depth sensors, LiDAR, and event cameras. The goal is to enhance feature extraction, tracking, and large-scale scene reconstruction, thereby improving perception accuracy and adaptability in...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $310,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop an innovative training program for the materials science research community that relies on advanced microscopes. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CYBERTRAINING: IMPLEMENTATION: MEDIUM: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE TRAINING AND EDUCATION FOR LEVERAGING ADVANCED ELECTRON...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at Vanderbilt University focused on assuring the safety and efficacy of learning-enabled medical cyber-physical systems (LE-MCPS). The $255,978 award, spanning April 2024 to March 2029, aims to develop foundational techniques and tools for bridging the gap between experimentation and model-based design of LE-MCPS. The research...
This $292,844 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of a new organizational structure for envisioning new research directions in CISE that is informed by representatives across various disciplines. The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), a non-profit research organization, will lead this effort by conducting interviews and workshops to elicit...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $634,420 project grant under its Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to acquire an advanced confocal microscope system. This high-speed, high-resolution microscope will enable innovative and multidisciplinary research across various scientific disciplines, including neuroscience, microbiology, cell biology, and materials science. The microscope will be integrated into classes and student...
This $229,158 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program supports research to develop explainable and trustworthy integrated cyber-physical systems (I-CPS) with AI-driven components. The key objectives are to create a new explainable architecture with formal explainers, formalize the incorporation of user domain knowledge and feedback to enhance the learning-enabled I-CPS components, and...
This Project Grant award for $583,679.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The award is for the development of an "Integrated Multiphoton-Phase Microscopy for Simultaneous and Correlative Imaging of Neurovascular Coupling Dynamics" at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). The project aims to create a transformative field in fluorescence-phase multimodal imaging capable of simultaneously recording fluorescence,...
This $558,594 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to advance computational imaging systems. The project will develop new mathematical tools to characterize and optimize the performance of computational imaging, which integrates optical hardware and computational algorithms to produce high-quality images from noisy measurements. The research seeks to unlock the full potential of...