The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $163,351 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). This 5-year project, titled "CAREER: ENHANCING SOFTWARE TESTING AND DEBUGGING FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING", aims to develop novel techniques to efficiently and effectively detect and remove defects in the software powering autonomous driving vehicles. The research will focus on areas such as automatically generating driving scenarios to reveal errors, accurately considering context and traffic laws, evaluating collision avoidability, and leveraging machine learning to predict collision avoidance. The project also plans to create educational modules on autonomous driving system testing and debugging for graduate, undergraduate, and high school students, as well as programs to broaden participation in computing for underrepresented community college students. The award reflects NSF's mission to support fundamental research and education that advances scientific discovery and technological innovation.
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