This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,000.00 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to develop a plan for building and sustaining the "Human-Centered Action Research to Disrupt Trafficking (HART)" research center. The center will bring together a diverse team of researchers, human trafficking survivor-leaders, and other stakeholders to create a national-level action...
This $792,709 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop and evaluate an integrated theory of illicit decision-making within dynamic supply networks. The primary objective is to understand how individuals' choices to engage in legitimate versus illicit activities can impact the decisions of other actors in a supply network. The research team, comprised of experts in criminology, engineering, and information systems, will use...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $349,209 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project grant to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research. The 5-year project, titled "An Integrated Trustworthy AI Research and Education Framework for Modeling Human Behavior in Climate Disasters", aims to develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies to enhance the prediction and understanding of human behaviors before, during, and after weather and...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program provides $556,507 in funding to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2028. The award supports fundamental research to investigate human driving behavior and interactions among traffic participants, with the goal of enabling technological advances in autonomous and connected vehicles. The research will leverage an immersive virtual reality driving simulator to conduct...
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....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $557,806 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant to Lehigh University to conduct research on how the allocation of design tasks between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) agents impacts engineering design outcomes. The 5-year project seeks to develop a systematic approach for defining optimal roles for AI within hybrid human-AI design teams. It will use computational modeling and experiments with a video game platform to assess how...
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 $506,032 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program supports research at Iowa State University to develop novel parallelization frameworks for solving large-scale network optimization problems with combinatorial requirements. The project aims to advance understanding of network elements that can be modeled more effectively through parallel processing, leading to the design of cost-efficient and structurally robust networks. The research will expand the...
New York University will receive $605,765 in funding from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) through a three-year Project Grant award to advance research combating wildlife trafficking. The university will develop new algorithms and data discovery tools to automatically collect and analyze global data related to wildlife trafficking across multiple online platforms. Researchers will use analytical techniques including crime mapping, network analysis, and...