Project Grant 2552235
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Pennsylvania $334,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to study metastable failures in large distributed computer systems. The research develops a unified framework addressing self-sustaining failure cycles where system degradation persists even after the original triggering problem is resolved. The first thrust establishes...
- This $212,345 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to mitigate the risks of metastable failures in large, distributed software systems. The project, titled "CAREER: MITIGATING THE RISKS OF METASTABLE FAILURES IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS," aims to study patterns of metastable failures, design more failure-resistant systems, and eliminate feedback loops to help engineers...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Purdue University $306,221 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop causality-driven mitigation of cascading failures in distributed cloud systems. The project addresses positive feedback loops—self-reinforcing chain reactions that propagate failures across cloud infrastructure and knock services offline at scale. The work comprises four...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $367,994 to Stony Brook University on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop an adaptive ecosystem for distributed transaction processing in untrustworthy environments. The research addresses three technical thrusts. Thrust 1 develops an adaptive Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus protocol using reinforcement learning to adjust rapidly to...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Cornell University $500,000 on July 15, 2026, for collaborative research on quantum inference with Pauli measurements, focusing on fundamental limits and algorithms under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports investigator-initiated research in computing and information science and engineering. Performance occurs at Cornell's Ithaca, New York campus...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded Cornell University $303,663 on July 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop theory and methods for causal discovery in empirical sciences and machine learning. The project, a five-year effort ending June 30, 2031, will establish rigorous approaches to reasoning about uncertainty in estimated causal structure and enable practitioners to apply causal discovery methods reliably...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded New York University $600,000 on March 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for a U.S.–Ireland research and development partnership developing integrated modeling, analysis, and control frameworks to enhance resilience and safety in industrial control systems under cyber and physical threats. The project, performed in New York, New York, addresses how attacks...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Cornell University received a $597,125 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), effective July 15, 2025 through June 30, 2028. The award supports fundamental research in randomness extraction—the study of algorithms that generate high-quality random bits from defective or imperfect natural sources of...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Cornell University $413,823 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on generative AI's impact on online communities. The project studies how generative AI adoption affects content creation, community participation, governance practices, content evaluation, and outcomes across multiple widely-used online...
- Cornell University was awarded a three-year, $399,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research collaborations to hybridize trusted execution environments and secure multiparty computation. Specifically, the university researchers will work to advance the development of research cyberinfrastructure that enables and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Cornell University $666,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a unified framework for understanding and addressing metastable failures in large-scale distributed systems. The research establishes formal models and empirical foundations explaining how feedback loops among system components create self-sustaining cycles of persistent degradation. The project designs detection and mitigation primitives, including visualization techniques, reduced system representations, formal logic, and verification methods for rigorous reasoning about metastability. A third thrust extracts predictive models from logs and telemetry to identify vulnerable states, generate triggering conditions, and validate the approach on realistic workloads. The work delivers open-source tools, datasets, and benchmarks accessible to researchers and practitioners, strengthening the reliability of digital infrastructure supporting cloud computing, online commerce, financial services, and social platforms by enabling earlier detection and prevention of prolonged outages and service disruptions. Performance occurs at Cornell's Ithaca, New York campus through July 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $666.0k | 7/29/26 |