Project Grant 2618897
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $308,919 Project Grant to Tulane University from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports research titled "MECHANISMS AND ALGORITHMS FOR IMPROVING PEER SELECTION" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and education, as well as...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,438 project grant to Northeastern University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: FROM DISTRIBUTED CRYPTOGRAPHY TO BLOCKCHAIN AND BACK." The grant was awarded on May 1, 2021 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Northeastern University will...
- Federal Grant Award Summary New Mexico State University received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This award funds research to address fundamental challenges in Layer 2 blockchain scaling solutions, specifically focusing on Payment Channel Networks (PCNs) and state channels...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Tulane University $376,008 on June 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on fault localization techniques for deep learning models. The project addresses the gap between traditional software fault localization methods and their applicability to deep neural networks, which operate on fundamentally different computational...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded The Trustees Of The Stevens Institute Of Technology $126,995 on October 1, 2025, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop methods for securing and improving the Ethereum peer-to-peer network through client diversity testing and privacy-preserving propagation models. The award funds three research tasks: development of an automated testing framework to detect...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,999 project grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: FROM DISTRIBUTED CRYPTOGRAPHY TO BLOCKCHAIN AND BACK." The award period is from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2025. The project supports investigator-initiated research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). This program aims to advance...
- This $250,004 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) to The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (Tulane University) will fund the development of a novel machine learning-based nanoinformatics framework. The key goals are to: 1) Automate the digitalization of nanostructures, 2) Enhance interpretability of deep learning predictive models, 3) Create a cross-modal deep hashing network for fast and accurate...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) project grant (CFDA 47.070) awarded $160,493 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct collaborative research at the intersection of distributed cryptography and blockchain technologies. The key objectives are: (1) developing a common framework and language to bridge the gap between cryptography and distributed computing research on emerging technologies like blockchain; (2) investigating the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Syracuse University a $498,624 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to develop cost optimization techniques for decentralized applications on blockchains. The university will design and evaluate approaches to reduce the monetary costs incurred by end-users of decentralized finance and other applications, such as bundling transaction requests and dynamically reorganizing data storage. A...
- This Project Grant award in the amount of $165,000, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to enhance eventual data consistency in large-scale, multidimensional scientific computing through the development of a lightweight in-memory distributed ledger system. The project, led by Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (dba Georgia Health Sciences), a non-profit research organization, will...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded The Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund (Tulane University) $500,000 on August 1, 2026, for a Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds collaborative research on blockchain sharding scalability through coordinated innovations in algorithms, system design, and hardware architecture. At the algorithmic layer, the project develops a graph neural network-based shard formation method that organizes shards according to user interaction patterns and network evolution trends, and introduces a layered trie structure based on an extended Merkle Patricia Trie to accelerate state synchronization and node lookups during shard reconfiguration. At the systems layer, the project designs transaction-buffering mechanisms to minimize cross-shard communication and develops adaptive hot-shard-splitting approaches. The research addresses core limitations in sharded blockchain systems including cross-shard communication delays, workload imbalance, high transaction verification overhead, and shard reconfiguration costs. The project also supports open-source research, workforce development, and research-driven education by engaging undergraduate, graduate, and K–12 students in blockchain and computing research activities. Performance spans from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029, with work performed in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $500.0k | 7/26/26 |