This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant of $540,163 awarded to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) supports research to develop quantitative tools and methods for incorporating resilience into the early stages of engineering system design. The project aims to investigate characteristics of biological ecosystems to guide system designers towards better system response and recovery, including in the face of targeted or...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research project led by Emory University to develop an interactive artificial intelligence (AI) teammate system for upskilling mental health workers. The $548,297 award aims to understand how AI can be effectively and ethically integrated into mental health work to address the shortage of skilled workers and improve access to research-supported treatment protocols. The...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $258,054 will fund research on the stigma of mental health conditions and help-seeking attitudes among engineering undergraduates and early professionals. Awarded under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's 47.041 Engineering program, the three-year grant beginning May 1, 2022 supports a longitudinal mixed-methods study led by researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The study will use annual surveys and qualitative...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, provides $687,382 in funding to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct research and education focused on developing the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) for engineering design. The key goals of this 5-year project are to: 1) create deep generative modeling frameworks that learn from the entire evolutionary trajectory of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Program award under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) provides $525,009 to the University of Southern California (USC) to support research that aims to develop and analyze stochastic models of service interactions at the micro-level, rather than relying on traditional system-level queuing theory models. The project seeks to capture the unique contributions from both customers and service agents that comprise each service interaction, with the goal of...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of algorithms for real-time dynamic risk identification and monitoring of streaming data, particularly in the domains of electronic medical records, mobile health, and supply chain. The key objectives are to create a unified framework for dynamic risk detection that can be incorporated into...
This $674,582 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program supports research to develop a framework for translating raw sensor data into functional analytical models that accurately represent the as-built behavior of civil structures. The project, conducted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), aims to address key challenges in applying data-driven methods to structural engineering practice....
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $187,223 will fund research to develop trauma-informed frameworks of care in engineering graduate programs. The awardee, the University of Nevada, Reno under the Nevada System of Higher Education, will conduct a two-phase collaborative research project to address the growing mental health crisis among graduate students. In Phase 1, the researchers will survey and interview engineering graduate program directors to characterize their roles...
This $275,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Edna Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Oxford, MA. The grant supports the development of an AI-powered tool to proactively monitor the mental health and wellness of student-athletes, particularly those from underserved communities such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The primary objective is to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) project, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, aims to support research on integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into spatial planning methodologies and processes. The $250,000 award, granted on August 15, 2025, will enable the University of Florida to develop novel algorithms and datasets for using generative deep learning (GenAI) approaches to balance multiple...