Project Grant 2615771
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Auburn University $208,605 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop human-centered automated video surveillance technologies using vision-language models. The project will create a framework for more accurate, understandable, and trustworthy automated video surveillance systems that reduce operator burden in safety-critical settings...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Auburn University $482,441 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a human-centered theoretical framework for augmented reality interfaces. The project will synthesize knowledge from industry, academia, and policy to create validated design guidelines for AR displays that prioritize user safety and usability. Auburn University will...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Alabama $600,000 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a theoretical framework that bridges natural language and formal planning for autonomous systems. The project addresses the challenge of enabling autonomous systems to interpret high-level human instructions and generate safe action sequences without low-level...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers awarded Auburn University $200,000 on September 1, 2026, for a research initiation project exploring how generative AI impacts problem formulation in systems engineering education. The project investigates the effects of generative AI use on how engineering students learn to formulate problems—a foundational capability underpinning professional engineering practice. Problem formulation tasks including requirements...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded Auburn University $299,978 on July 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and evaluate a modular curriculum framework for cybersecurity and artificial intelligence education. Auburn will design, prototype, and evaluate instructional materials addressing AI-native cyber threat environments and agentic AI concepts within cybersecurity instruction. The project scope includes developing reusable...
- Auburn University was awarded a $349,846 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research efforts to address the memory bottleneck problem impacting deep learning hardware through co-optimization of on-chip and off-chip memory system design with AI/DL hardware architecture. Key activities include utilizing emerging magnetic random access memory, chiplet, and packaging...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Cornell University $222,569 on October 1, 2025, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop machine perception systems that form cross-modal associations between vision, touch, and sound to learn material properties and microgeometry of physical objects. The award funds research across four thrusts: capturing 3D multimodal representations by registering...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $360,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for self-supervised video representation learning for machine perception. The project develops a self-supervised framework for video representation learning that separates efficient perception modules from generative world models to extract compact...
- 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...
- Auburn University was awarded a $383,835 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 collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM: DATA AUGMENTATION AND ADAPTIVE LEARNING FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS SPECTRUM SYSTEMS" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The research aims to advance the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Auburn University $561,467 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a principle-driven framework for active embodied vision enabling intelligent agents to discover object functional affordances through autonomous radiance manifold exploration. The research will develop a persistent three-dimensional scene model integrating geometry, appearance, semantic information, and functional object properties as an agent observes scenes from multiple viewpoints. The project will create methods for detecting incomplete or ambiguous functional evidence and selecting physically feasible sensing actions that improve functional understanding. Deliverables include more reliable object retrieval and robotic manipulation capabilities in partially observed environments, alongside educational contributions through student research opportunities, course modules on active perception and embodied artificial intelligence, open benchmarks, shared software, and community-building activities. Performance occurs at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029. This is a Project Grant, the standard assistance type for investigator-initiated research under the CISE program directorate.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $561.5k | 7/20/26 |