The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2023, supports research to develop dynamic neural network architectures that can efficiently enable multimodal perception, including vision, audio, and language processing. The research aims to address...
This $250,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant, awarded to the University of California, Irvine on June 1, 2025, aims to transform the way artificial intelligence (AI) transfers learned knowledge from simulated environments to real-world applications. The project will develop a novel neuro-symbolic framework that combines advanced hyperdimensional mathematics with deterministic finite automata and knowledge graphs to...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a 5-year, $165,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The goal of this project is to develop algorithms, software, and systems that can automatically generate high-quality labeled data to mitigate the lack of labeled training data in specialized domains such as healthcare, legislation, and environmental sciences. The proposed approaches...
The National Science Foundation awarded $800,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, San Diego from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The project grant funding will support the development of lifelong learning algorithms using hyperdimensional computing, a brain-inspired framework for distributed computing. Specifically, the awardee will advance algorithms for similarity search, density estimation,...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $455,058 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The 4-year project, which started on July 1, 2024, focuses on developing techniques for a mathematical understanding of deep learning and its application to a variety of neural network models and data sets. The key objectives are to: 1) compare different networks and understand...
This $600,000 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will support research to develop a new Bayesian diffusion model framework for advanced visual perception and cognition systems. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will serve as the primary awardee, with the goal of revisiting the analysis-by-synthesis methodology by integrating generative priors into the learning and inference...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $175,000 to the University of California, Merced to advance trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The project develops novel computational methods that integrate large language models with structured knowledge graphs, enabling AI systems to provide more reliable and factually accurate responses, particularly in high-stakes domains like...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $596,797 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The project aims to develop automated frameworks for interpreting neural networks and designing robust, human-understandable neural network models. Key objectives include: (1) automating interpretations that describe the internal functioning of deep...
This $250,000 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The project aims to develop generative artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks to aid scientific reasoning and accelerate sustainable development. Specifically, the grant will fund the creation of new generative AI architectures, objectives, and techniques to efficiently...
This $875,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The project aims to develop new techniques for aligning large language models (LLMs) with formal specifications in order to generate high-quality computer code that provably matches user intent. Specifically, the project will: (1) develop grammar-aligned decoding...