This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) focuses on developing a real-time crowd-sourced geospatial digital twin (GDT) for cyber-physical systems. The research aims to enhance the delivery of vital information, such as images, videos, and text, to smart mobile devices like smartphones and tablets in a timely and effective manner. The project will investigate approaches to ensure...
This $803,970 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure will support the development of a scalable real-time streaming analytics and machine learning framework for geoscience and hazards research. A collaboration between the University of Colorado, University of Oregon, Rutgers University, and UNAVCO will create a data framework to enable generalized real-time streaming analytics and machine learning using over 1,500 sensors from the EarthScope and...
This $257,914 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop a national cyberinfrastructure called the Human Dynamics and Resilience Infrastructure (HNDS-I) to advance disaster resilience research. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing four new integrated databases from sources like social media and cell-phone mobility data...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the NSF CISE (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) program (CFDA 47.070), provides $424,916 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (dba University of Nebraska) from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2027. The award supports collaborative research to investigate decision-making frameworks for open multiagent systems, where agents may enter/leave the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will support collaborative research to develop real-time topological data analysis capabilities for high-rate, nonlinear, and nonstationary dynamic systems. The $266,000 project, awarded on May 15, 2023 to the University of South Carolina, aims to integrate topological data analysis with machine learning to improve predictive modeling and...
This $499,861 National Science Foundation project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of real-time, scalable and secure collaborative intelligence capabilities at the edge. Wayne State University is the primary awardee and will work with sub-awardee University of Delaware to implement collaborative learning algorithms enabling distributed, privacy-preserving training across edge devices for multi-target tracking...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, totaling $978,924, will fund research from June 2022 to May 2026 at Harvard University. The award will support the development of theoretical foundations for trust-centered resilience in distributed coordination and optimization of multi-agent systems in the presence of adversaries. Researchers will establish analytical frameworks to efficiently leverage stochastic side information...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $299,861 to George Mason University to research and develop a novel framework for adapting mixed reality training scenarios to real-world scenes. The goal is to improve training and effectiveness for first responders by enabling realistic, interactive practice of emergency response tasks through human-AI collaboration...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Project Grant award of $197,535 to Northern Illinois University aims to understand how stress spreads among people evacuating a space during an emergency situation. The three-year project will involve experimental research using controlled environments to measure individuals' physiological stress, emotions, and movement behaviors in small and large groups. The experimental data will then inform the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083), provides $400,000 to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The funding supports research to develop an early warning framework for cyber threats targeting operational technology systems. The framework introduces intelligent interaction decoys that mimic the behavior of...