Project Grant DESC0026508
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), awarded May 1, 2026, with completion targeted for April 30, 2030. The project develops an automated pipeline to extract high-level specifications from large scientific codebases using a neuro-symbolic approach that combines Large...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $400,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049: Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) effective September 15, 2025, through September 14, 2026. The award supports fundamental research titled "Global Dynamics of SGD in Complex Loss Landscape: Toward Principled Deep Learning," to be conducted at the university's Evanston, Illinois campus. This project contributes to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received a $135,000 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. The award supports the GAINS project, which focuses on developing Generalizable, Analog, Izhikevich-based Neuromorphic Spintronics for Next-Generation Computing. Research will be conducted at the university's...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received a $825,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for May 31, 2027. The funded project, "Tailoring Quantum Phenomena in Atomically Thin Boron Materials via Confined Growth," represents basic research in materials science and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Chicago received a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2027. The award funds research on novel entanglement witnesses and their applications to complexity-reduced quantum simulation of many-body open quantum systems. This research advances fundamental understanding in quantum information systems and quantum...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $273,225 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), with an award date of September 1, 2025 and completion date of August 31, 2028. The grant supports the development of QC LAB, an accessible and flexible quantum-classical simulation software platform designed to model excited-state...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received a $741,059 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded July 15, 2026, with completion targeted for June 30, 2029. The award funds fundamental research investigating the behavior of superfluid helium-3 and surface effects in unconventional superconducting materials, with direct...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $549,997 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2028. The project, titled "Runtime Physics-Informed AI Agent for Next-Gen Efficient and Reliable Microelectronics," develops intelligent chip management solutions that integrate physics-informed machine learning techniques with energy-efficient artificial...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received a $580,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded August 1, 2026, with completion targeted for July 31, 2029. The research team will develop and apply phase-resolved second harmonic generation (SHG) optical methods to measure and track molecular-scale structural and electrostatic properties...
- Summary Northwestern University received a $685,012 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) awarded on September 1, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2027. The grant funds research on "Interfacial Spectromicroscopy of Water Oxidation at Earth Abundant Electrocatalysts," to be conducted at the university's Evanston, Illinois campus. This project contributes to the Office of Science's mission as the nation's largest federal...
Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division was awarded $599,999.80 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the project "CS2: Automatically Extracting High-Level Specifications from Large Scientific Codebases to Enhance Understandability and Correctness." The one-year project, initiated May 1, 2026 and concluding April 30, 2027, is being conducted at the university's Chicago, Illinois facility. This award represents one of the Department of Energy Office of Science's fundamental research investments, which comprises the nation's largest federal portfolio of basic research in the physical sciences. The funded research appears to focus on developing computational methods and tools to automatically extract and document high-level specifications from large-scale scientific software codebases, with the objective of improving code understandability and correctness verification. This initiative aligns with the Office of Science's emphasis on advanced scientific computing and computational science partnerships that support the nation's research infrastructure across its network of researchers and national laboratories.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $600.0k | 7/24/26 |