Project Grant 2552261
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of Illinois $360,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop Performativity-Aware Intelligent Autonomous Systems (PIAS), a framework enabling autonomous vehicles to anticipate, monitor, and safely respond to behavior changes caused by their own actions. The project addresses a safety challenge inherent in real-world autonomous...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the University of South Carolina $240,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for research developing performativity-aware intelligent autonomous systems (PIAS). The project addresses a safety challenge in autonomous vehicle deployment: the phenomenon of performativity, in which autonomous systems' own decisions reshape their operating environment in...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded $563,946 to the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education, doing business as University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project addresses dynamic memory allocation in real-time safety-critical cyber-physical systems, developing allocation-aware scheduling algorithms that compute worst-case memory...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $219,000 to the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education, doing business as University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds a five-year CAREER project developing dependable methods for identifying, adapting, and integrating reusable software changes across long-lived software variants. Modern...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded $464,400 to the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education, operating as University of Nevada, Reno, on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site in edge intelligence. The REU Site will provide immersive research experiences to undergraduate students nationwide in edge...
- This $120,000 Project Grant was awarded on July 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The funding will support a collaborative research project focused on enhancing the safety and reliability of autonomous driving systems through the development of advanced detection and countermeasure techniques at the application, system, and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Arizona $625,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a semantic communications framework for low-latency and reliable cooperative perception in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks serving connected and autonomous vehicles. The award funds three research thrusts. The first develops machine perception-guided data...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $550,000 to the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education, operating as University of Nevada, Reno, on July 15, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop scientific foundations for safely integrating artificial intelligence into real-time control of power electronic systems that support modern electric grids. The project will create trustworthy AI-based control...
- This $272,238 Project Grant, awarded on July 15, 2024 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enhance the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. The project aims to identify vulnerabilities in the software and machine learning components of autonomous vehicle systems, and develop mitigation techniques to improve their overall resilience. The research will combine model-based and...
- This federal Project Grant award of $289,374 from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research and development for a "Connected Autonomous Driving as a Service" (CADAAS) system. The project, led by the University of Nebraska, aims to enhance autonomous vehicle performance and safety by integrating information from nearby vehicles and roadside infrastructure. Key technical objectives include designing new...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education (operating as University of Nevada, Reno) $300,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop Performativity-Aware Intelligent Autonomous Systems (PIAS), a framework enabling autonomous vehicles to anticipate, monitor, and safely respond to behavior changes caused by their own actions in dynamic driving environments. The research addresses a critical safety challenge: as autonomous vehicles interact with pedestrians and other drivers, their decisions reshape the driving environment in ways that can move the system away from its original training and validation conditions—a phenomenon termed performativity. Rather than relying on the conventional approach of collecting additional data, building new simulations, retraining models, and revalidating systems, PIAS enables autonomous vehicles to predict how the environment will respond to their decisions, plan actions safely within this evolving landscape, and learn stable behavioral models under changing operational policies. Work is performed in Reno, Nevada with a period of performance extending through July 31, 2029. The project advances knowledge in cyber-physical systems and intelligent autonomous technologies while supporting education and workforce development in autonomous systems.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 8/9/26 |