Project Grant 2516559
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $360,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop frequency-comb-enabled intelligent sensing technology for millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuits. Over a three-year period from September 2022 to August 2025, the university will design and test a novel radar device capable of performing broadband coherent detection and sensing from 600 GHz to the terahertz frequency...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) in the amount of $210,000 provides funding to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028. The award supports the development of an innovative radio frequency (RF) signal propagation modeling framework to advance next-generation wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi 7 and 6G cellular networks. The research aims to generate high-fidelity synthetic RF...
- 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 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 $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund research at Duke University to develop new approaches for enabling predictable wireless communication and radar sensing for 6G wireless technology. The key research thrusts include: 1) designing modulation schemes to simplify prediction of the wireless input-output relationship, 2) developing signal processing filters in the...
- 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...
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 environmental interference and achieve sub-millimeter position accuracy and sub-degree orientation tracking; and 2) 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 the critical need for unified solutions that can simultaneously deliver high-precision spatial tracking and efficient communication in emerging multi-agent systems like robot swarms, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $180.0k | 12/12/25 |