Project Grant 2547883
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) Project Grant, with the official CFDA number 47.041, was awarded to the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University Research and Sponsored Programs Division for $197,516 on June 1, 2024. The award will fund research to develop innovative algorithms enabling multiple agents to communicate and collaborate effectively in solving complex network optimization problems, with a focus on optimizing the nation's evolving...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Southern Methodist University a $576,797 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from January 2023 through December 2025. The university will develop faster and more scalable algorithms for solving large, complex routing problems in transportation networks and designing resilient telecommunications networks. They will leverage a new paradigm for mathematical modeling of network flow that significantly reduces variables and...
- This Project Grant award for $500,000, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research with the primary objective of establishing an approach for Design for Product Evolution (DFPE). The research aims to integrate dynamic models of individual customer decision-making and population-level social network influences to enable concurrent design of marketing campaigns and agile product development strategies. The computational methods developed...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Purdue University a $499,334 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The award period is from March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. Under this award, Purdue University will conduct research to develop fast algorithms for solving linear programming, traveling salesman, and connectivity problems in computing and information science....
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $346,983 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut (UConn) under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop scalable deterministic global optimization (DGO) algorithms and open-source software. The project aims to enable the solution of higher complexity models involving nonlinear equations by exploiting parallel computing architectures like graphical processing units (GPUs). The research will generate methods for automatically...
- This $506,494 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will support research at Purdue University developing novel methods for data-driven engineering of service systems. The research aims to leverage large operational data sets and machine learning technologies to facilitate model identification for complex stochastic network models representing service industries. Methods will be extended for model calibration in random and nonstationary environments....
- This $249,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel communication-efficient hierarchical distributed optimization framework that integrates optimization, communication, and machine learning. The core innovation is to sample and learn models of networked agents' behaviors, then use these models to predict agents' responses and enable informed decision-making while minimizing unnecessary...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $409,927 and awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop novel algorithmic solutions to advance the optimal scheduling of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power distribution grids. The project, being conducted by Purdue University, seeks to address challenges in real-time DER orchestration by identifying critical data streams and integrating machine learning models into grid scheduling....
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a research project titled "CQIS: Constrained Optimization on a Variational Quantum Computer: Problem Modeling, Algorithmic Design, and Performance Analysis." The $200,000 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will be performed by Purdue University. The project aims to develop a systematic framework for solving constrained optimization problems using...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $433,114 Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to develop practical distributed algorithms for optimal resource allocation in intelligent systems. The 3-year project from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028 aims to advance the theory and practice of distributed submodular maximization under partition matroid constraints, addressing limitations in current centralized optimization methods....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $428,680 provides funding to Purdue University to conduct research on developing novel parallelization frameworks for solving large-scale network optimization problems with combinatorial requirements. The key objectives are to create a graph-based parallelization approach that exploits the structure of decision diagrams to enable more scalable and efficient optimization of complex network problems, such as those encountered in train scheduling, information infrastructure, and telecommunication network design. The research aims to enhance the scalability of optimization methods by leveraging recent advances in multi-core and cluster computing. Additionally, the award includes an educational plan to engage the next generation of students in STEM fields through the development and dissemination of new gaming tools aligned with optimization concepts. The project period runs from August 15, 2025 to December 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $428.7k | 9/5/25 |