Project Grant 2544947
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $124,998 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to advance robotic manipulation capabilities in unstructured real-world environments. The research aims to enable robots to autonomously learn abstract representations of states and actions from sensory and execution data, enhancing their ability to plan and execute complex tasks. The project intends to...
- This $267,673 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to identify and exploit symmetries in cooperative artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. The project aims to develop a unified framework and interdependent methods that can formulate, identify, and exploit multi-agent symmetries to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of cooperative AI...
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute received a five-year, $708k Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support the development of new scientific instruments for classroom observation using a multi-modal machine learning approach. The goal is to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,187 two-year Project Grant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The grant supports research into optimization and sampling algorithms with provable generalization and runtime guarantees, and their applications to deep learning. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communication sciences through investigator-initiated...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $461,597 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to establish an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on applied artificial intelligence (AI) research. The project, running from April 2024 to March 2027, provides undergraduate students, particularly those underrepresented in STEM, the opportunity to participate in AI research...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $277,789 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to develop novel techniques and methods for adapting foundation models to multimodal sequential decision-making. The project aims to significantly increase the applicability of foundation models, which leverage complex neural networks trained on vast data, for a wide range of sequential decision-making...
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) received a three-year, $530,029 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant supports WPI's "MAKING SENSE: SIMULTANEOUS SENSOR CONFIGURATION AND OPTIMAL CONTROL FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS" project under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to develop new techniques for simultaneous sensor configuration and optimal control of autonomous...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070), will fund a collaborative research project between Oakland University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The $150,000 award, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2027, aims to increase awareness and promote broader adoption of the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot. The project will organize two 12-workshop series...
- This $598,744 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The grant aims to develop a hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) model that systematically integrates modern deep learning techniques with probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) to address key limitations of current deep learning...
- This $400,000 Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The grant is funding collaborative research by the University of Southern California (USC) to develop a scalable framework for high-assurance design of safety-critical and mission-critical cooperative autonomous agents, such as warehouse robots, delivery robots, drones, and self-driving...
This federal Project Grant award for $170,544 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The grant was awarded on August 15, 2025 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and is scheduled for completion by July 31, 2026. The objective of this research project is to develop innovative methods for commitment-based distributed cooperative planning and learning among autonomous agents. The research consists of two main thrusts: (1) redesigning an existing approach for commitment-based distributed cooperative planning with probabilistic commitments, and (2) developing a novel approach for distributed cooperative learning with emergent commitment parameterization. This research aims to significantly increase the applicability of commitment-based planning and learning in real-world, large-scale cooperative AI applications. The project also includes educational initiatives to engage undergraduate students, especially from underrepresented backgrounds, as well as high school students and junior researchers.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $170.5k | 8/20/25 |