Project Grant 2612533

The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York $330,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish a collaborative cybertraining curriculum for agentic cyberinfrastructure-enabled manufacturing.

The project delivers an eight-module curriculum training 54 graduate and undergraduate students nationwide to design, deploy, and govern artificial intelligence agents within cyber-physical manufacturing environments. The training combines theoretical instruction with hands-on learning using a cyber-physical testbed, with trainees integrating large language models, vision-language models, and edge robotics to master the perceive-reason-act loop. The curriculum advances through generative design and covers the full agentic manufacturing lifecycle, addressing the current limitation where manufacturing cyberinfrastructure relies heavily on human intervention to analyze complex data and execute experiments.

The University at Buffalo and the University of Georgia lead the collaborative effort. Performance occurs in Buffalo, New York, with work running through August 31, 2029. The project serves the national interest by accelerating fundamental scientific innovation, enhancing national manufacturing competitiveness, and developing a skilled STEM workforce prepared to lead the transition to autonomous, intelligent manufacturing systems under Industry 4.0 paradigms.