Project Grant 2548961
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Louisiana at Lafayette $299,927 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop memory-centric hardware architectures for energy-efficient artificial intelligence inference at the edge. The research addresses artificial intelligence deployment in resource-constrained devices including wearables, environmental sensors,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Louisiana at Lafayette $200,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop physics-enhanced artificial intelligence methods for radio map estimation and wireless network management. The project, running through September 30, 2029, integrates wireless propagation principles with machine learning to construct accurate radio...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Miami $600,000 on April 15, 2026, for research on AI-native semantic communication networks under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project develops a novel wireless semantic communication framework that shifts from conventional bit-accurate message reconstruction to a knowledge-driven paradigm where transmitters and receivers exploit shared understanding to anticipate...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Houston System $240,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop semantic communication systems that transmit only task-relevant information rather than reproducing all original data. The project establishes an integrated framework for analog, digital, and hybrid digital-analog communication using large pretrained artificial intelligence models as...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) awarded $299,748 to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on October 1, 2025, for a 24-month Computer Science for All (CSforAll) research-practice partnership project. The award supports the development and implementation of a comprehensive Pre-K through 12 (PreK-12) artificial intelligence (AI) literacy curriculum pathway across Louisiana school systems,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded $163,896 to Louisiana TECH University on April 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop an intelligent ground mobile robot that integrates visual and olfactory sensing for indoor odor, gas, and volatile organic compound source localization. The project will create a semantic-level multi-modal integration framework leveraging large language models to fuse...
- This Project Grant award for $200,000 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL). The project aims to develop novel techniques for interpretable and efficient signal processing and deep learning over graphs to analyze spatial-temporal data in AI-enabled Internet-of-Things (AIoT) systems. The key products and services to be delivered through this...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Tulane University $376,008 on June 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on fault localization techniques for deep learning models. The project addresses the gap between traditional software fault localization methods and their applicability to deep neural networks, which operate on fundamentally different computational...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $270,000 to the University of California Santa Cruz on September 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop analog and digital semantic communication frameworks using pretrained large artificial intelligence models. The project addresses data transmission efficiency in wireless applications including autonomous systems, augmented reality, and collaborative sensing by transmitting...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded North Carolina State University $103,965 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research on LLM-guided adaptive networking with edge intelligence for emergency response. The project develops an intelligent communication network that uses artificial intelligence to understand and predict changes in fire scenes and first responder...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Louisiana at Lafayette $475,000 on October 1, 2026, for collaborative research on AI-empowered semantic communications with energy efficiency and privacy preservation for IoT-enabled emergency response systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds development of a semantic communication framework that reduces communication overhead and improves energy efficiency in data transmissions from IoT sensors during emergency response and disaster management operations. Research activities include building an AI-native semantic communication framework with efficient representation embedding and data regeneration; designing methodologies to handle unseen emergency events and enhance energy efficiency for model training and updating; developing advanced neural network pruning methods for lightweight and computation-efficient semantic communications; and investigating privacy protection mechanisms for sensitive emergency data. The project also supports educational opportunities through summer tutorials, workshops, curriculum development, and research activities for students and young talent. Work is performed in Lafayette, Louisiana. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029. No subawards are planned.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $475.0k | 8/6/26 |