Project Grant W911NF261A227

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE, CFDA 47.070) Project Grant awarded to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey provides $599,986 from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to develop an alternative distributed radio frequency (RF) sensing paradigm that can "look around corners" using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). The project aims to advance fundamental theory and practical methods...

This $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping...

This $600,000 Project Grant, awarded August 1, 2025, by the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), supports research and development of weak 3D camera systems at the University of Wisconsin–Madison through July 31, 2028. The project will deliver advanced vision systems designed to capture simplified geometric representations of environments sufficient for fast...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate ($400,000) supports the development of smart radio environments using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to improve millimeter-wave communications. Specifically, the University of Utah will create a modular radio hardware prototype capable of precise phase control at millimeter-wave frequencies. They will also develop advanced signal processing algorithms for practical reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $418,127 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The funding will support research investigating how people visually guide movement to satisfy goals over multiple time horizons through complex navigation tasks. Researchers will study human steering and gaze strategies using a custom virtual...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $1,646,782 in funding to Trustees of Boston University over 5 years to develop a brain-inspired algorithm for complex scene analysis. The key products and services being delivered include: The research integrates three interdisciplinary threads to develop this algorithm: Using brain imaging and machine learning to decode...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded Arizona State University $213,831 under a Project Grant to develop a new type of Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (HRIS) technology. The HRIS will be designed to sense incident waves, deduce information about user and transmitter directions, and reconfigure its reflection patterns accordingly. This will enable the implementation of a smart and autonomous wireless propagation environment that can redirect signals, mitigate...

Syracuse University was awarded a $235,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041) to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. Under this award, Syracuse University will conduct research titled "Seeing the Unseen: Passive RF Sensing via Learning" to develop techniques...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $100,333 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop smart surfaces capable of adaptively modifying wireless channels. The goal is to unlock the full potential of wireless networks by manipulating the propagation environment to achieve greater spatial multiplexing and coverage for massive numbers of devices and exponential growth in data...