Project Grant 2542856
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the University of Illinois $896,601 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish AI assurance infrastructure and workforce development for trustworthy artificial intelligence in scientific research. The award funds three coordinated deliverables. First, standardized documentation of model cards and dataset datasheets for GPU allocations on national...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $356,787 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds research and educational activities developing self-regulating artificial intelligence agents capable of monitoring their reasoning, drawing on past experience to evaluate and explain decisions, and adapting their internal understanding based on corrective...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $999,999 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop novel techniques enabling large language models to succeed at complex mathematical and coding tasks while addressing inference efficiency concerns. The project focuses on diffusion-based LLMs that achieve global token awareness by modeling joint token...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $530,625 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop multimodal generative artificial intelligence models for autonomous biomolecular design and accelerated discovery. The research will create a unified, self-improving AI framework that integrates molecular sequence and three-dimensional structure co-design with...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded $462,092 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County on June 1, 2026, for collaborative research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project develops curricula and industry-academic partnerships to align undergraduate computer science education with evolving workforce demands in software engineering, particularly as AI-based tools reshape programming...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Illinois $134,000 on April 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop and deploy artificial intelligence curricular resources for Advanced Placement Computer Science A (APCSA) courses. The project will create AI educational materials addressing two core knowledge areas: how AI works and how to use AI to write code. The University...
- The University of Illinois was awarded a $292,237 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program on February 1, 2025. The award will fund a 5-year project to develop novel techniques and frameworks that enable non-computer science researchers to effectively leverage the computing power of modern hardware with massive parallelism for training advanced AI models for scientific discovery. Key objectives include creating...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings awarded the University of Illinois $414,556 on August 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to co-design, implement, and research artificial intelligence learning experiences with high school computing teachers. The project will conduct two iterative two-year qualitative studies to understand AI literacy development across teacher professional development sessions, co-design...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Chicago $360,549 on June 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop artificial intelligence technologies that enable intuitive creation and modification of three-dimensional mesh models. The project establishes computational foundations for AI systems operating directly on meshes, the dominant geometric representation in...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Chicago $342,196 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop adaptive experimental design methods that enable learning systems to jointly model data and actively select which experiments to conduct. The project integrates data representation and experiment selection into a unified framework where the strategy for choosing...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $660,307 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop data attribution and curation tools for training large AI systems. The project advances methods that estimate how individual training examples influence the behavior of large language models, recommendation systems, and other production-scale AI. The work addresses three technical gaps in current attribution approaches: developing frameworks for non-stationary training data where future data depends on an evolving model; designing attribution methods for complex objectives and neural architectures; and scaling these methods to web-scale systems. The project will create open-source software, conference tutorials, course modules, and research opportunities for graduate, undergraduate, and pre-college students to expand access to data-centered AI research and training. Performance occurs at Urbana, Illinois. The period of performance runs from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2031.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $660.3k | 7/20/26 |