This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award, totaling $299,392, aims to build a collaborative mechanism for academia, industry, and the public sector to co-design research and development (R&D) directions for data systems and artificial intelligence (AI) to address scientific and societal challenges. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will bring together data science and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $295,536 to NJ Edge.net Inc., a non-profit organization in Newark, New Jersey, to enhance access to advanced artificial intelligence (AI) resources and foster collaborations. The project aims to empower campus champions and research computing facilitators at academic institutions, including under-resourced and minority-serving...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $6,999,294 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Texas at Austin for the CHISHIKI.AI initiative. This 5-year project aims to build a sustainable, diverse, and integrated community of computational infrastructure (CI) professionals working at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and civil/environmental engineering (CEE). The project will foster collaboration between...
This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (47.076) program aims to promote AI readiness and democratize AI technologies for a broad spectrum of advanced cyberinfrastructure users and researchers. The key products and services provided under this 4-year award, which began on September 1, 2023, include: Developing a comprehensive suite of experiential learning modules, including flexible micro-modules and immersive extended reality experiences, to...
This $896,755 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of efficient processes and governance structures for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program. The award builds on lessons learned from the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, applying successful public-private partnership models to enhance resource allocation, proposal review, and...
This $250,000 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks to accelerate scientific discovery and modeling in key domains like climate and energy. The project aims to create AI systems that can efficiently learn from and analyze large-scale scientific data to identify patterns, simulate natural phenomena,...
This Project Grant award, totaling $298,882, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The University of Wyoming, in collaboration with the Computing Research Association, Loyola University of Chicago, and the College of Charleston, will use the funding to engage faculty at research-emerging institutions with small-to-medium computing programs. The goal is to increase their artificial intelligence...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) for $100,000 will fund a collaborative research project to organize four workshops from 2024-2026 aimed at training aspiring principal investigators (PIs) from minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in the Southern and Southeastern U.S. states. The goal is to prepare these participants to submit proposals to the CISE MSI program in 2025 and 2026. The workshops will focus...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) aims to increase awareness and promote broader adoption of the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot. The grant, awarded to Oakland University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will fund a series of two 12-workshop programs over two years. These workshops will provide hands-on training for emerging researchers to...
This $292,237 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) project grant will support research to empower non-computer science researchers to more effectively utilize modern hardware with massive parallelism to train advanced AI models for scientific discovery. The key components of the project are: 1) Developing novel memory-efficient and hardware-friendly computational kernels to capture high-order, long-range interactions in scientific data,...