Project Grant 2542166
- Federal Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $344,911 CAREER grant to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) on April 1, 2026, for a five-year project (through March 31, 2031) addressing adversarial threats to machine learning (ML) systems. Under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, this award funds research to develop unified interpretability and attribution frameworks that...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Rochester Institute of Technology a CAREER grant totaling $645,959 under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to enhance situated cognition in product design and manufacturing education through visual experiential learning. The five-year project, initiated October 1, 2025 and concluding September 30, 2030, will investigate how students acquire and construct knowledge within applied...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $173,777 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2027. This research initiative, titled "CRII: RI: Uncertainty-Aware Visual Representation-Learning via Multicalibration," aims to develop novel...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $558,713 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective February 1, 2026 through January 31, 2031. This project grant supports fundamental research investigating unsteady inertial flow dynamics in confined domains, specifically examining how human body...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant of $545,650 to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2031. This award supports research and educational initiatives focused on modeling trust dynamics in human-artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration during early-stage engineering design....
- Federal Grant Award Summary Cornell University received a $670,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) CAREER grant awarded April 1, 2026, with completion targeted for March 31, 2031. This five-year project, performed in Ithaca, New York, aims to develop mathematical frameworks and computational tools for building robust artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of maintaining reliability under real-world conditions including data distribution shifts and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $161,827 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CISE program, CFDA 47.070) effective January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2027. This collaborative research initiative, conducted in partnership with Syracuse University and University of Rochester, adapts and implements the Accessible Learning Labs (ALL)—a suite of experiential educational computing...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $200,000 Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA 47.041) awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2027. The project develops a bilevel optimization framework to model and study uncertainties in snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) systems that integrate optical hardware encoders with...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $117,019 Project Grant award dated August 15, 2025, from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award, designated as a Computer Research Infrastructure Initiative (CRII) grant, supports research into data-effective and cost-efficient security attack detection systems. The project addresses...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Wayne State University received a $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2030. This CAREER award funds fundamental research into trustworthy sequential decision-making systems, specifically addressing the integration of privacy, robustness, and fairness within reinforcement learning (RL)...
Rochester Institute of Technology received a $560,000 NSF CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2031. This project, titled "ADAPTTRUST: Adaptable, Trustworthy and Uncertainty-Aware Learning in Intelligent Sensing Technologies," delivers advanced machine learning systems and theoretical frameworks designed to enable continuous learning from evolving data without catastrophic forgetting of prior knowledge. The research produces fundamental algorithms, uncertainty quantification methods, Bayesian optimization techniques, and modular neural architectures that collectively support stable, scalable lifelong learning in dynamic environments without requiring storage of historical data. The award directly addresses critical national priorities in trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) by developing machine learning technologies applicable to healthcare monitoring, environmental sensing, and autonomous systems. Beyond the core technical deliverables, the project integrates educational and workforce development components spanning K-12 through graduate levels to strengthen the STEM pipeline and advance economic competitiveness through adaptive intelligent technologies. Research outputs will support resilient sensing capabilities relevant to national defense and infrastructure resilience, with performance of research occurring at RIT's Rochester, New York facility.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $560.0k | 3/17/26 |