Project Grant DESC0026326
- This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $135,000 to Northwestern University to conduct research on "GAINS: GENERALIZABLE, ANALOG, IZHIKEVICH-BASED NEUROMORPHIC SPINTRONICS FOR NEXT-GENERATION COMPUTING." The award period is from Sep 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2026. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program funds fundamental scientific research across disciplines, including advanced...
- This $875,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research conducted by Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The research project, titled "Designing Dynamic Function for Nonequilibrium Dissipative Chemistry," aims to advance scientific understanding of complex chemical and physical systems that operate outside of equilibrium. The award period runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026....
- This five-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000 to Northwestern University for research titled "CAREER: PRINCIPLED DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR SOCIETAL SYSTEMS" from February 2021 through January 2026. The funding supports the development of deep reinforcement learning techniques to address complex problems impacting society. As the Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength...
- This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $685,012.00 to Northwestern University to conduct research on "Interfacial Spectromicroscopy of Water Oxidation at Earth Abundant Electrocatalysts". The award period runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. The research aims to advance scientific understanding of water oxidation processes at earth-abundant electrocatalysts, which is key to...
- This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $825,000.00 in funding to Northwestern University to support research on "TAILORING QUANTUM PHENOMENA IN ATOMICALLY THIN BORON MATERIALS VIACONFINED GROWTH." The project period runs from September 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026. As a leading private research institution, Northwestern University will leverage its expertise in advanced scientific research...
- This $400,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to The Ohio State University. The grant supports collaborative research to develop a principled and unified mathematical framework for deep learning on low-dimensional data structures. The key objectives are to: 1) Design "white-box" deep neural networks optimized for information gain and representation...
- This $400,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a principled and unified mathematical framework for deep learning on low-dimensional data structures. The project aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice of deep learning by designing "white-box" deep neural networks using unrolled optimization schemes to maximize information gain in...
- This $338,645 federal Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Northwestern University. The grant aims to improve regulation skills in college students by developing "Situated Practice Systems", an intelligent coaching tool that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide tailored feedback and practice opportunities to students and their coaches. The tool will (1) computationally encode...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $147,947, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Loyola University of Chicago. The award period runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The objective of this project is to develop techniques to improve the energy efficiency of software for data centers, which currently consume approximately 2% of the U.S. energy use. The key products and services to be delivered include: A framework for automated...
- The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to George Washington University (GWU) to support the "ENGAGE: ENERGY-EFFICIENT NOVEL ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURES FOR GRAPH LEARNING" project. The award, which runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025, will fund fundamental scientific research on advanced energy-efficient algorithms and architectures for graph learning applications....
This $400,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Northwestern University for the project "GLOBAL DYNAMICS OF SGD IN COMPLEX LOSS LANDSCAPE: TOWARD PRINCIPLED DEEP LEARNING". The award period is from September 15, 2025 to September 14, 2026. The grant supports fundamental scientific research to advance the understanding of complex loss landscapes and stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in deep learning systems. The work will be conducted by researchers at Northwestern University, a leading private research institution specializing in interdisciplinary scientific investigations for federal agencies. This grant represents the Department of Energy's investment in cutting-edge research that has the potential to drive innovation in scientific computing and optimization techniques with broad applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $400.0k | 9/21/25 |