Project Grant 2553891
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $419,700 on May 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop learning-augmented algorithms that combine the reliability of traditional algorithms with the adaptability of machine learning. The project investigates algorithms with predictions—methods that use machine-learned forecasts to improve...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $400,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop methods for efficient multilingual large language model development through cross-lingual alignment transfer. The project develops technologies to reduce redundancy in multilingual AI model adaptation by reimagining multilingual model...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $383,998 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct research on semantic code understanding by large language models for software maintenance. The project systematically studies and improves artificial intelligence models' understanding of code in realistic software maintenance settings. The...
- This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations provides $499,821 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) from October 2021 through September 2024. The funding supports research to develop hybrid natural language processing and formal techniques for synthesizing assertions and identifying ambiguities from English text. The work...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $320,000 Project Grant awarded October 1, 2025, through the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). This collaborative research initiative addresses critical data challenges in machine learning (ML)-based security classifiers by developing generative artificial...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $449,812 on August 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop AI-enabled modeling, sensing, digital twins, and autonomous control systems for large-area additive manufacturing using laser wire directed energy deposition. The project establishes a cyber-physical systems framework for real-time prediction...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $121,650 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), effective October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2028. The grant funds the design, development, and sustainment of FLTest, an interdisciplinary testbed that automates privacy and robustness evaluations for federated...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $325,054 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop controllable video synthesis frameworks that give users director-like control over visual content, motion, and camera dynamics in artificially generated video. The research addresses limitations in current text-to-video generation...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) $790,509 on October 1, 2026, to develop artificial intelligence-based systems that support instructors managing collaborative learning in large introductory programming courses. The project addresses the challenge of scaling peer instruction—in which students work in groups to solve programming problems, discuss strategies, debug...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Virginia Commonwealth University $593,556 on July 15, 2026, for a Project Grant under Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070). The award funds development of a contrastive dual-head transformer neural network architecture designed to model multiple sequence populations in protein bioinformatics. The recipient will design, implement, and validate this novel architecture and apply...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $421,351 on August 1, 2026, to develop methods for efficient multilingual large language model development through cross-lingual alignment transfer under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project addresses computational redundancy in multilingual AI development by reimagining the process as cumulative and community-driven rather than isolated per-language efforts. Virginia Tech will develop reusable capability updates that persist across successive model versions, eliminating the need to recreate adaptations when new base models release. The work includes a modular adaptation framework enabling lightweight, language-specific modules to be developed independently and shared without retraining backbone models, and investigation of shared latent representations that allow capabilities learned in one language or model setting to transfer to others. The project will release an open library of reusable components to support the research community's distributed collaboration. Performance of work occurs in Blacksburg, Virginia, over the period August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2029. The award is classified as a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $421.4k | 7/23/26 |