People, organizations, and automated systems all need to base their decisions on information. But good information is often broadly distributed, expensive to obtain, and difficult to piece together. This project lays out the theoretical foundations for this problem and how to solve it. First, it will study how to evaluate quality, correctness, and economic value … Read more
Science has an unprecedented opportunity to explore astronomical and astrophysical phenomena through the complementary capabilities of multiple groundbreaking survey facilities. These include the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Reuben observatory, neutrino detectors like IceCube, and the gravitational wave detecting network formed by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and … Read more
This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Missouri – Columbia will investigate a variety of interesting and challenging problems that involve consumer networking applications and services that are of significance to the economy and quality of life in areas such as public safety, health care, nature conservation and education. The students … Read more
Animals routinely make decisions that affect whether they survive and reproduce, yet they frequently do not choose the best options. “Rational” decision making occurs when animals act to achieve the best result, while “irrational” decisions fail to do so. Which result is the “best” is often measured in terms of fitness. Scientists do not fully … Read more
This project will support abut six doctoral students enrolled in United States institutions to attend the 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) and participate in the ICMI 2026 Doctoral Consortium that will be held in October 2026. ICMI covers a range of topics around designing, developing, and evaluating multimodal interfaces and human-centered AI … Read more
The reliability of biomedical evidence is fundamental to the progress of science and the integrity of public health research. Problems such as unpublished results, switched outcomes, and unreported harms are widespread and well documented, but current training methods cannot address them systematically because they rely on time-intensive manual review. This project supports the national interest … Read more
During a ten-week summer session, undergraduate participants from institutions nationwide will engage in exciting and challenging projects in multiple engineering disciplines. Each participant will be matched with a research project in one of the many laboratories at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) working at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with robotics, sensing, and/or healthcare. These … Read more
Newly developed and established methods will be integrated to complete a comprehensive study of the genus Protium (in the plant family Burseraceae, which includes frankincense and myrrh), revising the taxonomy of all 183 currently published species and describing all 52 remaining unpublished species. Protium represents one of the most important tree genera in the Americas. … Read more
The eastern Aleutian subduction zone is a region that produces significant earthquakes and tsunamis with impacts both locally and throughout the Pacific ocean. This project will use data from ocean bottom and land instruments to study a region extending from the volcanic arc to seaward of the trench in the eastern Aleutians. The scientific results … Read more
Professor Robert Dunn and his group at the University of Kansas are funded to develop innovative, cost-effective approaches for rapidly analyzing complex mixtures. Since the analysis of complex mixtures is central to fields such as medical diagnostics and food analysis, the development of inexpensive approaches that improve performance and reduce analysis times can have a … Read more