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NSF program AI-Safety (248Y00): 32 awards, $21.4M to 26 organizations
32 NSF awards ($21.4M) under the program element AI-Safety (248Y00) to 26 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Program element code
- 248Y00
- Directorate
- Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- Division
- CSE - Core Programs
Awards
32 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLES: SPECSRL: Specification-guided Perception-enabled Conformal Safe Reinforcement Learning | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $1,550,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Rajeev Alur | nsf.gov |
| SLES: A Neurosymbolic Approach for Safe Multi-Agent Systems | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $1,500,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Jyotirmoy V Deshmukh | nsf.gov |
| SLES:Orchestrating Model, System, and Hardware for Safe Learning in Autonomous Vehicles | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $1,499,949 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Xi Peng | nsf.gov |
| SLES: Learning Safe Policy from Human Demonstrations to Support Robot-Assisted Aging-in-Place | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $1,499,417 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Momotaz Begum | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Guaranteed Tubes for Safe Learning across Autonomy Architectures | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $969,060 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Naira Hovakimyan | nsf.gov |
| SLES: Vision-Based Maximally-Symbolic Safety Supervisor with Graceful Degradation and Procedural Validation | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $800,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Jia Deng | nsf.gov |
| SLES: A Theoretical Lens on Generative AI Safety: Near and Long Term | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $800,000 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | Sitan Chen | nsf.gov |
| SLES: NetSafe: Towards a Computational Foundation of Safe Graph Neural Networks | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $800,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Hanghang Tong | nsf.gov |
| SLES: Certified Learning of Safety Certificates for Learning-Enabled Dynamic Systems | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $800,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Claire J Tomlin | nsf.gov |
| SLES: Monitoring, Improving, and Certifying Safe Foundation Models | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $800,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Han Zhao | nsf.gov |
| SLES: Whitebox Testing, Debugging, and Repairing for Multi-module Autonomous Vehicles in Near-Collision Traffic Scenarios | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $799,921 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Tianyi Zhang | nsf.gov |
| SLES: CRASH - Challenging Reinforcement-learning based Adversarial scenarios for Safety Hardening | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $799,803 | December 1, 2023 | November 30, 2027 | Madhur Behl | nsf.gov |
| SLES: Foundations of Safety-Aware Learning in the Wild | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $793,065 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Sharon Li | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Safe Distributional-Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Systems: Theories, Algorithms, and Experiments | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $750,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Wenlong Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: No Bad Surprises: Aligning Agent and Human Norms via Specification Refinements | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $750,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Sandhya Saisubramanian | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Verifying and Enforcing Safety Constraints in AI-based Sequential Generation | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $539,999 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Cho-Jui Hsieh | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Bridging offline design and online adaptation in safe learning-enabled systems | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $533,411 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Nikolai Matni | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Guaranteed Tubes for Safe Learning across Autonomy Architectures | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $500,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Xiaofeng Wang | nsf.gov |
| SLES: High-Confidence Guarantees for Safe Reward and Policy Learning Under Uncertainty | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $439,425 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Daniel S Brown | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Improving Safety by Synthesizing Interacting Model-based and Model-free Learning Approaches | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $400,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Kyriakos G Vamvoudakis | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Long-Term Safety for Human-AI Ecosystem | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $400,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Xueru Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Improving Safety by Synthesizing Interacting Model-based and Model-free Learning Approaches | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $399,965 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Andreas Malikopoulos | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Foundations of Qualitative and Quantitative Safety Assessment of Learning-enabled Systems | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2026 | $399,756 | October 1, 2025 | July 31, 2027 | Dung Tran | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Long-Term Safety for Human-AI Ecosystem | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $395,927 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Yang Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Safe Distributional-Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Systems: Theories, Algorithms, and Experiments | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $375,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Lei Ying | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Safe Distributional-Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Systems: Theories, Algorithms, and Experiments | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $375,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Xian Yu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: No Bad Surprises: Aligning Agent and Human Norms via Specification Refinements | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $375,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Shlomo Zilberstein | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: No Bad Surprises: Aligning Agent and Human Norms via Specification Refinements | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $375,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Joydeep Biswas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Foundations of Qualitative and Quantitative Safety Assessment of Learning-enabled Systems | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $270,913 | December 1, 2023 | November 30, 2027 | Weiming Xiang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Bridging offline design and online adaptation in safe learning-enabled systems | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $266,589 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Benjamin H Recht | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Verifying and Enforcing Safety Constraints in AI-based Sequential Generation | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $260,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Huan Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: SLES: Foundations of Qualitative and Quantitative Safety Assessment of Learning-enabled Systems | NSF | Division of Information & Intelligent Systems | 2023 | $169,285 | December 1, 2023 | February 28, 2026 | Dung Tran | nsf.gov |
Organizations
| Organization | Place | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL | 0 | $0 | 4 | $2.8 million |
| University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 0 | $0 | 2 | $2.1 million |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.5 million |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.5 million |
| University of New Hampshire | Durham, NH | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.5 million |
| University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 0 | $0 | 2 | $1.1 million |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 0 | $0 | 1 | $800,000 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $800,000 |
| Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | 0 | $0 | 1 | $799,921 |
| University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $799,803 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | 0 | $0 | 1 | $793,065 |
| Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 0 | $0 | 2 | $775,000 |
| Arizona State University | Scottsdale, AZ | 0 | $0 | 1 | $750,000 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | 0 | $0 | 1 | $750,000 |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $539,999 |
| University of South Carolina at Columbia | Columbia, SC | 0 | $0 | 1 | $500,000 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | 0 | $0 | 1 | $439,425 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $400,000 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | 0 | $0 | 1 | $399,965 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | 0 | $0 | 1 | $399,756 |
| University of California-Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $395,927 |
| University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | 0 | $0 | 1 | $375,000 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Amherst, MA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $375,000 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | 0 | $0 | 1 | $375,000 |
| Augusta University | Augusta, GA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $270,913 |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | 0 | $0 | 1 | $169,285 |
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 2 | $735,218 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 17 | $10,589,386 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 17 | $10,061,881 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.070 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.070 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.070 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) | 22-615 | NSF | 47.070 | February 16, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| Expeditions in Computing | 20-544 | NSF | 47.070 | March 31, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.070 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.070 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.070 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.070 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.070 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-CorpsTM Teams) Program | 25-549 | NSF | 47.070 | October 6, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI) | 14-579 | NSF | 47.070 | October 14, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here |
| Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities | 24-540 | NSF | 47.070 | $200,000 | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here | |
| Foundational Research in Robotics | PD-20-144Y | NSF | 47.070 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here | |
| Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science | PD-24-7414 | NSF | 47.070 | $600,000 | Same assistance listing 47.070 as 30 awards here | |
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.041 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 2 awards here |
| PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) | 20-558 | NSF | 47.041 | November 10, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 2 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.041 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 2 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 2 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.041 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 2 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.