Project Grant 2616058
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,518 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Maryland, College Park. This five-year grant, which began on September 1, 2023, will support research into "Manipulable Semantic Components in Data Visualization Design." The key focus of the project is to develop new interaction paradigms for data visualization design, enabling flexible manipulation of graphical...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $500,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop computational tools for evaluating data visualizations. The project will create image-computable models of human vision to assess visualization effectiveness, reducing reliance on costly user studies. The research team will extend existing models of texture...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $221,317 to the University of Nebraska (Board of Regents) on October 1, 2025, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop empirically-grounded frameworks and guidelines for designing and assessing statistical data graphics. The primary deliverable is a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to studying data...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania $400,807 on June 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop design patterns, interaction techniques, and authoring tools that make scientific notation, equations, and formal proofs more intelligible through digital interaction. The research team will design and evaluate interaction techniques—including...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Chicago $402,391 on June 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for research on responsible data visualization design. The project, titled "Seeing What Matters: Reframing Visualization as Data Disclosure," develops theory and software tools to help visualization authors balance ethical communication goals—including effective...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $200,000 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to advance algorithms powering graph-based vector databases that store and search vector embeddings generated by machine learning systems. The research aims to improve the speed, reliability, and computational efficiency of vector database algorithms,...
- The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2024 related to coding-theoretic methods in discrepancy and energy optimization, with applications. Specifically, the university will support investigator-initiated research in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and...
- 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 awarded Northwestern University a $532,579 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research to develop design guidelines for dynamic visualizations. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and...
- 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 Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $559,048 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop theoretical foundations, empirical guidelines, and software tools for designing and evaluating infographics in science communication. The project will create a grammar of infographics describing data components, visual components, mappings between them, and rhetorical devices, implemented as a declarative JavaScript toolkit for authoring infographics. Research activities include surveying, interviewing, and conducting longitudinal observations of professional designers to produce a taxonomy of design intentions and a model of infographic design workflows. The project will develop a measurement framework connecting different design intentions to evaluation methods, then integrate the grammar, intention taxonomy, and evaluation methods into a design toolkit to be tested through deployments with scientists and journalists. These outcomes will provide reusable infrastructure for infographic design and science communication. Work is performed at College Park, Maryland, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2030. The assistance type is a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $559.0k | 7/26/26 |