Project Grant 2550849
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Washington a $1 million cooperative agreement on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop AI technologies for complex engineering system design, testing, manufacturing, and operation. The institute will create physics-aware machine learning and AI tools to accelerate aerospace and advanced manufacturing development by enabling...
- The University of Washington was awarded a three-year $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research into the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning, from modeling learning as a blank slate to using function approximation. The University will conduct investigator-initiated research advancing the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Washington $899,143 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for research in human-centered artificial intelligence for personal health informatics tools. The project advances AI methods and tools to support goal-directed planning, tracking, and reflection in health self-management. The research focuses on how human-centered...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Washington $345,822 on April 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to study neural population mechanisms of learning in the primary motor cortex. The research combines computational modeling with experimental data from monkeys performing brain-computer interface learning tasks to investigate how neurons change their coordinated firing...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Washington $360,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop robotic systems that adapt rapidly to failures and environmental changes without full retraining. The research addresses the brittleness of current learned robot controllers—a robot arm tuned to assemble one product cannot adjust when parts change shape, and a legged robot reliable on...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Washington received a $337,397 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, CFDA 47.070) to conduct research on adolescent interactions with generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The award, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028, will generate scientific knowledge and practical guidance on how teenagers...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Washington $600,000 on September 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop artificial intelligence methods that reduce hallucinations in large language models and improve their reliability, transparency, and uncertainty estimation for health information delivery. The project creates multilingual natural language processing...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded $299,526 to the University of Washington (award date: October 1, 2025; completion date: September 30, 2027) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop an Exploratory Research for Groups (EAGER) project on AI governance. The project will deliver computational systems and research outputs that translate...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Washington State University $326,994 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) on June 1, 2026. The project, titled "CAREER: Flow-Based Reconfiguration for Next-Generation Foundation Models," develops methods to reshape how large artificial intelligence models transmit and process information to improve reliability assessment and adaptation to new data. The...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded the University of Washington $187,587 on January 1, 2027, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support fundamental research on human-inspired cyber-physical security in human-robot interactions. The research develops models of human decision-making in adversarial contexts, methods for identifying robot vulnerabilities to physical attack, and control strategies that allow robots to resist...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Washington $600,000 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop artificial intelligence systems that adapt to new experiences and users by learning from implicit human feedback during deployment. The research addresses the problem that AI models trained on fixed datasets often fail on new data outside their training distribution. The project will develop reinforcement learning techniques that enable AI agents—deployed as chatbots, household robots, or similar interactive systems—to continuously improve by capturing three sources of implicit feedback: user interventions when the AI makes mistakes, interaction patterns that reveal user preferences and goals, and passive observation of how people pursue their own objectives in shared environments. By extracting these readily available signals without requiring users to alter their workflows, the work aims to shift AI systems from pre-trained and rigid to adaptive and human-like, creating human-in-the-loop training without additional human effort. The award funds research at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, with performance extending through June 30, 2029. The University of Washington Office of Sponsored Programs, the administrative gateway for the university's federal research portfolio, receives the award as prime recipient.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $600.0k | 7/20/26 |