Project Grant 2546694
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028. The award funds collaborative research to develop Situated Practice Systems, an intelligent coaching tool designed to enhance regulation skills—including cognitive, metacognitive, motivational,...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $331,917 Project Grant award dated June 15, 2025, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds an eight-week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program hosted in Evanston, Illinois, through May 31, 2028. This initiative delivers comprehensive undergraduate...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $273,225 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), with an award date of September 1, 2025 and completion date of August 31, 2028. The grant supports the development of QC LAB, an accessible and flexible quantum-classical simulation software platform designed to model excited-state...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This collaborative, multilateral research initiative, titled "Ensemble Modeling of a Visual System Connectome," combines mathematical modeling, neuronal activity measurements, and synapse-resolution...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Northwestern University a $600,000 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research on automatic parallelization of medium-scale applications from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The university will work with other institutions to develop techniques for automatically parallelizing applications involving tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code, to make them efficiently...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $335,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), awarded on October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2028. This collaborative research initiative delivers an integrated suite of research products and methodological advances centered on understanding how parent-child language and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $228,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct collaborative research on the relationship between information structure and syntax across different languages. The award, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, will produce cognitive research data and scientific findings...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $549,997 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2028. The project, titled "Runtime Physics-Informed AI Agent for Next-Gen Efficient and Reliable Microelectronics," develops intelligent chip management solutions that integrate physics-informed machine learning techniques with energy-efficient artificial...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $3.0 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2029. This NSF Trailblazer initiative supports fundamental research investigating non-electrical mechanisms of neuronal excitation to advance brain-computer interface (BCI) and neuroengineering technologies. The primary research deliverable involves the development of biocompatible, synthetic...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The grant supports Collaborative Research on Computational Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (CRCNS) to investigate the biological mechanisms underlying learning efficiency advantages...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), effective May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2030. The grant supports research to develop and deliver an automated specification extraction pipeline designed to enhance the understandability and correctness verification of large scientific codebases. The project leverages a neuro-symbolic approach integrating large language models (LLMs) with formal methods to generate succinct, executable specifications that summarize core functionality and enable machine-checkable validation through concolic property testing. The primary deliverable of this research is an extraction pipeline with integrated guardrails that produces high-level specifications capable of supporting automated correctness validation while reducing reliance on labor-intensive approaches such as code reviews and unit testing. By generating executable specifications that remain concise enough to prevent elusive bugs in low-level implementation details, the project enables seamless code porting and refactoring with reduced risk of introducing errors. This work directly addresses the challenge of maintaining confidence in and improving understandability of scientific codebases developed over decades by multiple contributors, thereby advancing the broader CISE program objective of supporting foundational research in computing and information science and engineering.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $200.0k | 4/19/26 |