Project Grant 2602881
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $999,999 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop novel techniques enabling large language models to succeed at complex mathematical and coding tasks while addressing inference efficiency concerns. The project focuses on diffusion-based LLMs that achieve global token awareness by modeling joint token...
- 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 Illinois $660,307 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop data attribution and curation tools for training large AI systems. The project advances methods that estimate how individual training examples influence the behavior of large language models, recommendation systems, and other production-scale AI. The work...
- 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 Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $530,625 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop multimodal generative artificial intelligence models for autonomous biomolecular design and accelerated discovery. The research will create a unified, self-improving AI framework that integrates molecular sequence and three-dimensional structure co-design with...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Northwestern University $250,000 on August 1, 2026, for research developing graph-centric multi-agent systems powered by large language models under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research develops new graph-based methods for designing, executing, and adapting multi-agent systems in which multiple AI agents communicate and collaborate to solve complex...
- This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop a holistic benchmarking infrastructure for evaluating large language models used in software engineering. The key activities include: Conducting surveys and interviews with the software engineering and machine learning research communities to gather requirements and understand barriers in evaluating large language models for code....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Chicago $342,196 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop adaptive experimental design methods that enable learning systems to jointly model data and actively select which experiments to conduct. The project integrates data representation and experiment selection into a unified framework where the strategy for choosing...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded $462,092 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County on June 1, 2026, for collaborative research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project develops curricula and industry-academic partnerships to align undergraduate computer science education with evolving workforce demands in software engineering, particularly as AI-based tools reshape programming...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $533,995 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University). The 4-year grant, spanning from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, aims to improve the performance, robustness, generalizability, and efficiency of deep learning models for critical software assurance tasks such as bug detection, debugging, test input...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $530,000 to the University of Illinois on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop continuously evolving software engineering agents powered by large language models. The project addresses limitations in current LLM-based software agents used to identify and resolve bugs by developing novel strategies that enable these models to autonomously improve their own training data synthesis, agent scaffold design, and trajectory exploration. The work spans three research thrusts: continuously evolving model training to generate synthetic software issues and improve issue-resolution capabilities through self-play loops; continuously evolving agent design to build live software agents that refine their own scaffold implementation at runtime for maximal bug resolution; and continuously evolving trajectory exploration to enhance agent reasoning and action planning. The research aims to produce LLMs and agents capable of autonomously solving real-world software issues, advance state-of-the-art coding and reasoning capabilities, and integrate findings into software engineering curricula. Performance occurs in Urbana, Illinois, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $530.0k | 7/30/26 |