Project Grant 2624053
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Purdue University $120,500 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish technical foundations for trustworthy agentic science in materials research. The project, titled "AGENTIC FAIR: Context, Skills, and Benchmarks for Trustworthy, Reproducible Materials Research," will develop three coupled technical elements to address fragmentation...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded The University of Chicago $117,999 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish technical foundations for trustworthy agentic science in materials research. The project, titled "AGENTIC FAIR: Context, Skills, and Benchmarks for Trustworthy, Reproducible Materials Research," addresses fragmentation in AI-enabled materials workflows by...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded The Research Foundation for the State University of New York $120,500 on October 1, 2026, for disciplinary improvements in agentic materials research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project will establish technical foundations for trustworthy agentic science in materials research by developing three coupled elements: machine-actionable context specifications that...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded The Johns Hopkins University $120,500 on October 1, 2026, for the collaborative research project "Agentic Fair: Context, Skills, and Benchmarks for Trustworthy, Reproducible Materials Research" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project establishes technical foundations for trustworthy agentic science in materials research through three coupled elements:...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Duke University $420,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop theoretical and algorithmic frameworks for off-dynamics reinforcement learning—methods that enable intelligent systems to learn in simulated or indirect environments and transfer that knowledge reliably to real-world deployment scenarios with different transition...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the College of William and Mary $500,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop next-generation metadata management infrastructure for AI-ready scientific data discovery at national scale. The recipient will assess data discovery practices and requirements across diverse scientific communities, identify metadata and semantic information needed...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the University of Massachusetts Lowell $499,490 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to plan a federated, AI-ready cyberinfrastructure serving advanced microscopy, imaging, materials, biology, and environmental sciences domains. The project will investigate feasibility, community acceptance, and design requirements for a national data system that enables...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded Cornell University a $4 million cooperative agreement on October 1, 2025, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance artificial intelligence-driven materials discovery through the AI Materials Institute (AI-MI). The award funds development of the AI Materials Science Ecosystem (AIMS-EC), an open, cloud-based platform coupling a science-ready large-language model with multimodal data...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Duke University $500,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to develop automated evaluation and monitoring methods for augmented reality guidance in pervasive AR and human-robot collaboration applications. The project will create foundations for detecting and preventing five categories of AR guidance failures: poor legibility, inaccurate spatial...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the University of Oklahoma $300,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a FAIR-aligned, ontology-driven cyberinfrastructure for multi-scale materials discovery and design. The project will build an open and extensible framework integrating heterogeneous datasets, simulation platforms, and domain knowledge to enable automated materials discovery...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Duke University $120,498 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to establish technical foundations for trustworthy agentic science in materials research. The award funds three integrated research elements: machine-actionable context specifications that capture entities, provenance, life-cycle stages, governance constraints, and repository expectations needed for reliable automated action on materials data and models; a curated library of reusable agentic skills as bounded, testable modules for recurring FAIR and research-data-management operations including metadata extraction, schema crosswalk, provenance capture, FAIR packaging, and quality assessment; and benchmark suites and scoring protocols that evaluate whether agentic systems can perform realistic materials-research tasks with consistency, reproducibility, robustness, and scientific fidelity. The project addresses fragmentation and inconsistent representation of scientific context in current AI-enabled workflows that limits their trustworthiness, reproducibility, and reusability across instruments, laboratories, and organizations. Performance runs through September 30, 2029, with work performed in Durham, North Carolina.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $120.5k | 7/28/26 |