Project Grant 2551891
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The Pennsylvania State University $292,743 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop artificial intelligence systems that understand physical scenes through structural abstraction rather than dense pixel-by-pixel reconstruction. The project advances AI's capacity for common-sense physical reasoning by extracting semantically rich...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Louisville $331,717 on June 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to investigate how non-AI experts generate workarounds when encountering imperfect artificial intelligence tools and to identify competencies essential for AI literacy. The research combines mixed-methods studies and controlled experiments across four tasks. The first...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Virginia $839,037 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to advance research in cyber-physical-cognitive systems for human-robot teaming. The project establishes scientific foundations for robots that can reason about human partners' goals, beliefs, and expectations, enabling proactive assistance and safe collaboration even when...
- 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 Undergraduate Education awarded the University of Louisville $295,233 on January 1, 2027, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to identify essential competencies for AI-assisted programming in foundational engineering courses. Over two years through December 31, 2028, the project will develop a framework of updated learning objectives for programming instruction in an era of widespread AI integration. The recipient will characterize current...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Chicago $360,549 on June 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop artificial intelligence technologies that enable intuitive creation and modification of three-dimensional mesh models. The project establishes computational foundations for AI systems operating directly on meshes, the dominant geometric representation in...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 to Temple University to enhance computer vision capabilities through shape configuration learning. The 3-year project aims to develop new deep learning techniques that allow computers to better recognize and comprehend objects as interconnected shapes, rather than just individual parts. This includes improving attention mechanisms to focus on relevant...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the Regents of the University of Michigan $367,296 on May 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop generative artificial intelligence systems that simulate four-dimensional environments while respecting physical constraints. The research addresses a critical gap in current AI video-generation and physics-simulation models, which typically...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Pennsylvania $376,493 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to investigate language as an interface to multimodal artificial intelligence architectures rather than as the foundation of intelligence itself. The project, running through September 30, 2028, tests an early-stage architectural hypothesis in which language is...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Kentucky Research Foundation $420,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop mathematical and computational tools for modeling directed group interactions in complex systems. The project creates a unified framework for signal processing, structure learning, and neural network modeling on directed hypergraphs,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Louisville $481,101 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop artificial intelligence systems that understand physical scenes through structural abstraction rather than dense pixel-by-pixel reconstruction. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: RI: Structural Skeletons for Robust Scene Understanding," will create AI agents capable of common-sense reasoning about physical stability, causes and effects, and geometric relationships by learning simplified structural skeletons—maps of core geometric shapes—from single-view images. The team will develop a pipeline to extract semantically rich structural skeletons from noisy monocular images by fitting geometric primitives, beginning with planes and cylinders. This approach aims to enable more robust and efficient autonomous systems, including industrial robots and assistive devices for elderly individuals and people with disabilities, while improving augmented and virtual reality rendering on mobile devices. Performance runs through July 31, 2030, with work centered in Louisville, Kentucky. The award supports an interdisciplinary partnership between the University of Louisville and Penn State University, with workforce development through graduate and undergraduate student training and integration of research findings into university courses.
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