Project Grant 2551198
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Wisconsin - Madison $249,999 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop graph-centric multi-agent systems powered by large language models. The project develops new graph-based methods for designing, executing, and adapting multi-agent artificial intelligence systems in which multiple agents communicate and collaborate...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Wisconsin - Madison $346,590 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop artificial intelligence-driven methods for proactive traffic management in edge networks. The project addresses the challenge of heterogeneous workloads competing for limited resources on edge devices, where AI-enabled applications must coexist with...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Wisconsin - Madison $451,577 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop approximate Bayesian inference methods for diffusion posteriors in generative artificial intelligence. The project addresses a gap in current generative models used for scientific applications: while these models can produce realistic outputs, they...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $569,138, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The award supports the development of new methods for actively testing autonomous decision-making systems that utilize reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. The key objectives are to derive optimal policies for evaluating RL-based autonomous systems, create novel adaptive sampling algorithms to improve policy...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison $334,942 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a unified theory of information-computation tradeoffs for statistical tasks. The research establishes lower bounds in restricted computational models including low-degree polynomials, statistical queries, polynomial threshold functions, and the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $793,065 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Wisconsin System for the project "SLES: Foundations of Safety-Aware Learning in the Wild." The project aims to develop novel machine learning algorithms and theoretical guarantees that can reliably detect and handle out-of-distribution data encountered by AI models deployed in dynamic, unpredictable environments. This...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $356,787 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds research and educational activities developing self-regulating artificial intelligence agents capable of monitoring their reasoning, drawing on past experience to evaluate and explain decisions, and adapting their internal understanding based on corrective...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison $352,098 on January 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop methods ensuring deep-learning models for computational imaging remain robust and accurate when data conditions shift between training and test environments. The research addresses a critical gap in current computational imaging systems, which...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded University of Wisconsin–Madison $570,000 on April 1, 2026, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop data-driven control theory for complex systems. The project creates mathematical tools and methods that enable control design directly from time-series measurement data without requiring precise system models. This addresses applications in autonomous vehicles, intelligent robots,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison $250,000 on July 1, 2026, for statistical research on reliable estimation, prediction, and causal inference with AI-generated synthetic datasets under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project develops statistical foundations and a unified theory for integrating multiple heterogeneous AI-generated synthetic datasets into scientific analysis while...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Wisconsin - Madison $774,847 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop offline policy evaluation methods that predict AI agent performance before deployment. The project addresses the need to evaluate autonomous system decision-making in high-stakes domains—autonomous driving, intelligent assistants, and software engineering—without running untested agents in production. The recipient will develop techniques that use historical decision data to forecast how new, untested agents would perform in a given domain, thereby increasing confidence in AI-based decision-making and preventing costly errors. The methods will focus on scaling offline policy evaluation across large-scale, complex domains by using abstraction frameworks to ignore irrelevant differences between past and new decision-making policies, allowing current methods to handle scale better than they do today. The work includes training graduate and undergraduate students. Performance runs from July 15, 2026, through June 30, 2030, at Madison, Wisconsin.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $774.8k | 7/20/26 |