This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems provides $378,100 to Dartmouth College from July 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant supports research titled "CAREER: TRANSFORMING NEURAL INTERFACES USING STRETCHABLE, TRANSPARENT, MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOMESH MICROELECTRODES" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, Dartmouth College will develop new stretchable and transparent nanomesh...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research by Trustees of Dartmouth College to develop a novel "Monolithic 3D Neuroelectronics" system. The $364,082 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will investigate a flexible electronic design and systems research approach to establish a new 3D neural probe paradigm. The goal is to create a powerful tool for neuroscience...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award, with CFDA Number 47.070, provides $175,000 to the University of Memphis to develop a hybrid EEG-fNIRS neuroimaging headband for neurofeedback. The project aims to create a user-friendly, electronic textile-based headband that can simultaneously monitor critical neural biomarkers, combining the temporal precision of EEG with the spatial accuracy of fNIRS. The headband will also...
This $503,930 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to develop a wearable sensor network scheme with distributed and interconnected computing capabilities for advanced health monitoring and analysis. The project aims to address challenges in wearable technologies, such as limited computational power, battery capacity, data privacy, and user interface design. The research plan involves...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $166,289 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a novel single-ear biosensing system for continuous facial and eye movement tracking and 3D facial reconstruction. The research aims to enable camera-free facial landmark detection and 3D facial animation through cross-modal transfer learning between visual and biosignal data. Key project objectives include designing low-power...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $284,581 CAREER grant (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) to the University of Pittsburgh to develop low-cost human sensing systems using repurposed earphones. The project aims to: (i) create ultra-low-cost vital sign monitoring systems for underserved regions using abandoned earphones, (ii) design novel "earable" sensing algorithms and applications, and (iii) build an open-source earable sensing...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $283,596 to the University of California, Irvine to develop conformable, expandable neural interface devices that can monitor brain activity as animals transition to performing complex cognitive behaviors. The goal is to identify neurophysiological signatures of emerging cognition and improve understanding of how brain circuits form to support...
This NSF Engineering program Project Grant award to Brown University, totaling $383,560, will support the development of a large-scale wireless network of microchip sensors for monitoring physiological signals and brain activity. The overarching goal is to create an "all-in-one" approach to build a wireless network of thousands of sub-millimeter size sensors that can efficiently transmit and decode sparse event-driven signals, taking inspiration from the brain's neural activity. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), totaling $600,000, supports the development of hardware and software for sustainable and efficient wearable edge intelligence. The project aims to address fundamental accessibility and sustainability challenges of wearable health monitoring devices and artificial intelligence services for underserved communities. Key research focuses include extending the...
This Project Grant award of $399,042 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research at Dartmouth College investigating audiovisual attention mechanisms in the human brain. The research aims to examine how spatial location serves as a basis for integrating visual and auditory signals to form a coherent perceptual experience. Key activities include assessing the temporal dynamics of cross-modal attention, exploring...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with CFDA number 47.070, provides $220,148 to Trustees of Dartmouth College to develop novel "earable systems" that can unobtrusively sense and stimulate physiological signals like brain activity, facial muscle movements, and eye movements. The goal is to create minimally visible wearable devices that can continuously monitor and interact with the human head for healthcare and brain-computer interface applications. Key research activities include developing signal propagation models, algorithms, and hardware for sensing head-based signals, as well as closed-loop brain stimulation techniques. The project also includes an integrated education and outreach program to translate the research for underserved students and provide interdisciplinary training for future engineering and healthcare professionals. This award reflects NSF's mission to advance scientific discovery and technological innovation, and no subawards are planned.