Project Grant D21AP10192

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) provides $103,689 to the Italian research institute CNR-Issmc to conduct research on probing and sensing astrocyte-neuron communication through gold nanoclusters. The project will run from October 2024 to October 2027 and aims to advance neural network research and the development of novel materials for technological applications....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to New York University (NYU) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop an advanced software tool that automates the design and optimization of electromagnetic (EM) systems, with a focus on improving the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices. The $1,164,641 award, effective from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will create a software pipeline that combines geometry...

This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of analytic and numerical methods for emerging tomography techniques at North Carolina State University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Specifically, the awardee will address mathematical problems arising from multi-energy computed tomography (MECT) and Compton camera imaging (CCI) to advance these promising medical imaging methods. For...

This three-year, $1,199,824 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), will support the development of a "RADIORTML" platform at Northeastern University. RADIORTML aims to demonstrate the feasibility of automatically optimizing radio frequency integrated circuits in real-time through machine learning techniques implemented directly on...

This $7,898,849 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) to The Mitre Corporation supports the "SII-NRDZ: MITRE NRDZ-AS-A-SERVICE FIELD DEPLOYMENT" project. The project aims to advance dynamic spectrum sharing techniques through long-duration field experiments and the development of reusable software solutions. Mitre is collaborating with Northeastern University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate provides $289,839 to The Trustees of Columbia University in New York, New York for a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ:SPECTRUM SHARING VIA CONSUMPTION MODELS AND TELEMETRY - PROTOTYPING AND FIELD TESTING IN AN URBAN FCC INNOVATION ZONE." The project period runs from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award supports the development...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) provides $1,344,298 to The General Hospital Corporation (doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital) to develop deep learning-based algorithms to optimize the image quality of mobile photon-counting CT scanners for use in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit. The key...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant award, funded under the NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program, supports the acquisition of an advanced CPU/GPU cluster at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The $524,172 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will be used to expand research capabilities in quantum information and quantum materials science at CSUN. The new computational cluster will enable...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $719,758 provides funding from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025 to develop a spintronic spectrum analyzer and limiter based on tunable magnetic tunnel junction arrays. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award supports research at Northwestern University to address the challenge of radio frequency interference exacerbated by growing internet-connected devices. The project aims to develop a spintronic spectrum analyzer...

This $600,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support specialized experiments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to search for axion dark matter and Majorana neutrinos. The key technical goals are to develop robust quantum-enhanced superconducting readout systems and advanced algorithms, including AI and machine learning techniques, to reduce noise for the DMRADIO and CUPID...