Project Grant 2516558
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $180,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to enable precise spatial awareness and real-time sensor data communication using millimeter-wave (mmWave) backscatter technology. The key objectives of this 3-year project, running from December 2025 to November 2028, are to: 1) Design and fabricate novel backscatter tags that overcome...
- This Project Grant award for $400,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports a research project titled "NETS: SMALL: NEAR-FIELD ISAC: EXPLOITING XL ARRAYS FOR TARGETED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION". The project focuses on developing technologies for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems operating at high-frequency bands like millimeter-wave and terahertz. Key challenges addressed include...
- This $800,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Rutgers, The State University in New Brunswick, NJ. The goal is to develop affordable, accurate, and near-real-time spectrum situational awareness and protection capabilities using backscatter radio fabric technology. Specifically, the project will: Develop a framework for multidimensional spectrum situational awareness using a backscatter fabric to...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $375,000 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of opportunistic millimeter-wave receivers and associated algorithms from 2023 to 2025. The University of Southern California will use the funding to create transceiver hardware and array-based receivers that can adaptively operate within the 18-54 GHz spectrum through machine learning techniques. The receivers will identify available...
- This $1,200,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Illinois to establish millimeter wave (mmWave) radar as a first-class perception and control tool for small autonomous robots and drones. The project aims to develop new radar-based localization, mapping, and semantic scene understanding capabilities that can operate on the limited onboard compute of small robots...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Trustees of Princeton University. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: NETS: MEDIUM: Resilient Multi-User Mobile Sub-THz Networks Using Near-Field Wavefronts," aims to explore near-field propagation properties of wireless signals above 100 GHz to enable blockage-resilient, high-speed, multi-user communications. The...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), is funding a collaborative research effort to develop a modeling framework that integrates limited radio measurements with spatial priors derived from environmental sensing. The $200,000 award, effective from Sep 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2028, will support research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to investigate how geometric and visual information...
- This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) supports a collaborative research project between Florida International University (FIU), Auburn University, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and the International Institute of Information Technology Naya Raipur. The project aims to develop deep learning-based localization and sensing capabilities for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" to develop fundamental technologies that advance the ability for scalable ocean sensing. The goal of this 3-year project is to design, build, and evaluate a low-power, long-range underwater backscatter communication network. The proposed research seeks to overcome the range limitations of...
- This $230,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a wireless framework for untethered extended reality (XR) applications. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year grant include: Novel millimeter-wave (mmWave) sensing methods to detect full-body movements of multiple XR users, leveraging complex-valued channel state information and radio maps. A collaborative reinforcement learning...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) will support research on enabling precise spatial awareness and real-time sensor data communication using millimeter-wave (mmWave) backscatter technology. The $300,000 award, with a performance period from December 2025 to November 2028, will enable the principal investigator, the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, to develop novel backscatter tags that achieve submillimeter position accuracy and sub-degree orientation tracking. The project will also incorporate ultra-low power designs that directly encode analog sensor data into backscatter signals and develop an add-on receiver module for radars to enable data streaming for digital sensors. This research aims to address limitations of existing solutions and create a unified system that delivers high-precision tracking and efficient communication for emerging multi-agent applications such as robot swarms, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality. The project has broad potential impact on fields like smart environments, healthcare, robotics, and emergency response.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 12/12/25 |