Project Grant R44NR011129

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Project Grant award for $291,703 will contribute to the development of a comprehensive modeling and solution framework for generating annual rotation schedules for family medicine residents under the Clinic First model of training. The goal is to enhance residents' outpatient clinic experiences, better prepare them for primary care careers, and help address the nationwide shortage of primary care...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $345,421 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to develop specialized methods for designing annual rotation schedules that support the "Clinic First" educational model in family medicine residency programs. The key objectives are to create a decision-support framework that optimizes residents' clinic experiences and patient continuity, with the goal of better preparing...

This Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,999 in funding to California Polytechnic State University (through CAL Poly Corporation) for a two-year project period (July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2028). The project delivers research methodologies and analytical tools that integrate human mobility data with optimization models to improve healthcare facility planning. Key...

This Project Grant award of $180,473 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports collaborative research by Yale University to examine the economic impacts of wait times in healthcare delivery. The researchers are measuring waiting times for over a dozen medical procedures, including cataract surgeries, joint replacements, and cardiac bypass surgeries. They are analyzing insurance claims data to assess whether longer wait times...

This $174,371 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Chapman University towards developing a personalized framework for real-time patient length of stay modeling and prediction. The framework aims to advance data fusion and time-to-event modeling techniques to enable proactive, data-driven hospital discharge scheduling. By integrating advanced tensor fusion and statistical learning approaches, the framework seeks to facilitate personalized length of stay predictions in...

This $1.099 million Project Grant, awarded June 1, 2026, by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), supports research on precision circadian medicine for shift workers with shift work disorder (SWD). Led by Dr. Cheng at Michigan State University in collaboration with Henry Ford Health, the project will develop and scale digital health technologies and intervention frameworks to address the elevated health and...

Northwestern University received a $382,402 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. The project delivers rigorous analytical and behavioral models designed to optimize delay announcement systems in service environments, with primary application to emergency department (ED) patient waiting experiences. The...

This $275,997 National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation Project Grant supports the development of a nursing workforce optimization algorithm and software by 1442 S. Fallon Street, LLC of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Under the SBIR PHASE I award issued on May 15, 2021 and set to be completed by April 30, 2022, the vendor will create an algorithm and matching software tool to optimize nursing staff scheduling, assignments, and resource allocation within the Engineering...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) supports a $400,000 randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a "whole person navigation" intervention for adults with multiple chronic conditions. The intervention combines predictive modeling to identify high-risk patients with a navigation strategy to help guide them in accessing social services and overcoming...

This three-year, $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of novel methods to enable standards- and disclosure-based regulation of algorithmic work management software. The University of California, San Diego will work to make such software accountable to existing labor laws and address gaps in regulations to better protect workers. Specifically, the university will pursue three thrusts:...