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NSF program IIS Special Projects (748400): 59 awards, $44.5M to 49 organizations

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59 NSF awards ($44.5M) under the program element IIS Special Projects (748400) to 49 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.

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Program element code: 748400
Directorate: Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Division: Mathematical Science Section

Awards

59 awards in the window.

Award	Agency	Institute or division	Fiscal year	Amount in window	Start	End	Principal investigator	Source
Expeditions: Mind in Vitro — Computing with Living Neurons	NSF	Center Scale & Testbeds	2022	$13,842,759	April 1, 2022	March 31, 2029	Mattia Gazzola	nsf.gov
Frameworks-Imaging-PHD: Empowering data reuse and reproducibility through microscopy-community-defined Persistent Hardware Descriptors	NSF	Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure	2025	$3,999,550	August 15, 2025	July 31, 2029	Caterina Strambio De Castillia	nsf.gov
BPC-A: Systemic Change for Broadening Participation in K12 CS Education Pathways, The CSforALL Alliance	NSF	Division of Computing and Communication Foundations	2022	$2,271,614	October 1, 2022	September 30, 2025	Alexis E Cobo	nsf.gov
NSF-BSF:EFRI BEGIN OI: Integrated human brain organoid systems for adaptive reservoir computing	NSF	ENG - Core Programs	2024	$1,999,997	September 1, 2024	August 31, 2028	Jianping Fu	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: An Open Data Infrastructure for Bodily Expressed Emotion Understanding	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2023	$1,848,335	April 15, 2023	March 31, 2027	James Z Wang	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: RI: Medium: Bootstrapping natural feedback for reinforcement learning	NSF	Computing & AI Foundations	2022	$1,440,000	September 1, 2022	June 30, 2027	Jacob Andreas	nsf.gov
MFAI: Any-Dimensional Equivariant Learning	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2025	$1,000,000	August 1, 2025	July 31, 2028	Mateo Diaz Diaz	nsf.gov
MFAI: Mathematical Foundations of Alignment in Generative Artificial Intelligence	NSF	Electrical, Communications, & Cyber Systems	2025	$1,000,000	October 1, 2025	September 30, 2028	Alejandro R Ribeiro	nsf.gov
AIMing: AI Theorem Proving Beyond Limited Data: Efficient Learning of Mathematicians' Ecosystem	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2025	$1,000,000	September 15, 2025	August 31, 2028	Azalia Mirhoseini	nsf.gov
NRI: Enhancing Autonomous Underwater Robot Perception for Aquatic Species Management	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2022	$945,291	January 1, 2023	December 31, 2027	Junaed Sattar	nsf.gov
AIMing: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Mechanized Mathematical Reasoning	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2025	$900,000	September 1, 2025	August 31, 2028	Sean Welleck	nsf.gov
CAIG: Investigating Tornadogenesis via Explainable Deep Learning	NSF	GEO - Core Programs	2024	$886,172	September 1, 2024	August 31, 2027	Nathan A Snook	nsf.gov
AIMing: Automated Theorem Proving for Advancing Mathematics	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2025	$799,977	September 1, 2025	August 31, 2028	Daniel J Fremont	nsf.gov
SCH: AI-Enhanced Risk Assessment for Mitigating Indoor Viral Transmission in Public Schools	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2024	$642,608	September 1, 2024	August 31, 2027	Yu Feng	nsf.gov
HCC: Small: 3DStylus: User-Guided Shape Manipulation using Neural Priors	NSF	Human Centered Computing & Education	2023	$628,306	April 1, 2023	March 31, 2027	Rana Hanocka	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: MFAI: Mathematical Frontiers of Generative AI	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2025	$600,000	September 1, 2025	August 31, 2028	Zaid Harchaoui	nsf.gov
III: Small: Purposeful Conversational Agents based on Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2022	$566,944	September 1, 2022	August 31, 2025	Rohini K Srihari	nsf.gov
RET Site: Research Experience for Teachers in Interdisciplinary AI	NSF	Human Centered Computing & Education	2022	$517,554	February 1, 2023	January 31, 2028	Garrison W Cottrell	nsf.gov
CAREER: Cameras and Algorithms that turn Rays Efficiently into Everyday Reconstructions	NSF	Computing & AI Foundations	2022	$495,023	June 1, 2022	May 31, 2027	James H Tompkin	nsf.gov
CAREER: Reading To Learn: Language-Guided Machine Learning	NSF	Computing & AI Foundations	2023	$465,353	January 15, 2023	December 31, 2027	Karthik R Narasimhan	nsf.gov
Representation Learning via Variational Mean Field Theory	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2024	$457,499	October 1, 2023	March 31, 2026	Rongjie Lai	nsf.gov
Conference: CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop	NSF	Computing & AI Foundations	2023	$449,999	March 1, 2023	February 28, 2027	Wenjing Lou	nsf.gov
CAREER: Structural and Accountable Behavior Understandings and Human-centered AI Designs with Naturalistic Micromobility Riding Data	NSF	Human Centered Computing & Education	2023	$446,311	May 1, 2023	April 30, 2028	Suining He	nsf.gov
FAI: A novel paradigm for fairness-aware deep learning models on data streams	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2022	$408,993	September 1, 2022	August 31, 2027	Feng Chen	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: SitS: Collaborative: Long Range Wirelessly Powered Multi-variable Sensor Network for Continuous Monitoring of the Soil Health	NSF	Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems	2022	$400,000	October 1, 2022	September 30, 2026	Charles W Van Neste	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: AIMing: Synergistic Advancement of AI and Mathematics	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2026	$400,000	January 1, 2026	December 31, 2028	Sergei Gukov	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: AIMing: Synergistic Advancement of AI and Mathematics	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2026	$400,000	January 1, 2026	December 31, 2028	Guido F Montufar Cuartas	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: NRI: Reducing Falling Risk in Robot-Assisted Retail Environments	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2022	$382,796	August 1, 2022	July 31, 2026	Yu Gu	nsf.gov
EAGER: Interpretable and Generalizable AI for Smart Manufacturing	NSF	Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation	2022	$306,840	August 15, 2022	July 31, 2025	Qi Zhao	nsf.gov
BPC-DP: Rice Emerging Scholars Program for Computer Science	NSF	Division of Computing and Communication Foundations	2023	$300,000	October 1, 2023	September 30, 2025	Risa B Myers	nsf.gov
BPC-DP: Developing a Framework and Community for IT Outreach	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2023	$300,000	October 1, 2023	September 30, 2026	Anca Doloc-Mihu	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: Syntactically-annotated corpora for endangered languages in areal contact	NSF	Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences	2023	$299,977	August 15, 2023	July 31, 2027	Francis M Tyers	nsf.gov
BPC-DP: CS Subfield Diversity: Developing the Research Basis to Inform Intervention Strategies	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2023	$299,181	October 1, 2023	September 30, 2027	Lucinda M Sanders	nsf.gov
BPC-DP: A Spatial Approach to Reduce Inequities in Early Access to CS Education	NSF	Division of Computing and Communication Foundations	2023	$298,450	January 1, 2024	December 31, 2025	Anu Bourgeois	nsf.gov
BPC-DP: Cultivating Academic Inclusion and Career Engagement to Increase the Persistence of Minoritized Students in Computing	NSF	Division of Computing and Communication Foundations	2022	$296,804	October 1, 2022	April 25, 2025	Lynette M Yarger	nsf.gov
BPC-DP: PeerSIST: Peer Support for IS Transfers	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2022	$294,726	October 1, 2022	September 30, 2026	Carolyn B Seaman	nsf.gov
Research Infrastructure: Support for a Workshop on Artificial Intelligence to Assist Mathematical Reasoning	NSF	Division Of Mathematical Sciences	2023	$249,540	March 15, 2023	February 28, 2025	Michelle K Schwalbe	nsf.gov
BPC-DP IvyWorks Expansion	NSF	Division of Computing and Communication Foundations	2022	$238,327	September 1, 2022	April 25, 2025	Olufunmilola Olorunda	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: MFAI: Mathematical Frontiers of Generative AI	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2025	$200,000	September 1, 2025	August 31, 2028	Jelena Diakonikolas	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: MFAI: Mathematical Frontiers of Generative AI	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2025	$200,000	September 1, 2025	August 31, 2028	Sean Welleck	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: AIMing: Synergistic Advancement of AI and Mathematics	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2026	$199,973	January 1, 2026	December 31, 2028	Mark C Hughes	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: A Unifying Deep Learning Framework Using Cell Complex Neural Networks	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2023	$195,264	April 1, 2023	November 30, 2026	Mustafa Hajij	nsf.gov
EAGER: Curating and representing mental health data to support therapists in personalized care	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2022	$188,498	October 1, 2022	December 31, 2025	Elena Agapie	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: Towards a Privacy-Preserving Framework for Research on Private, Encrypted Social Networks	NSF	Division Of Computer and Network Systems	2023	$162,371	October 1, 2023	May 28, 2025	Mohammad Amin Rahimian	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: EAGER: RI: Causal Decision-Making	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2022	$150,000	September 1, 2022	August 31, 2024	Elias Bareinboim	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: SCALE MoDL: Adaptivity of Deep Neural Networks	NSF	Mathematical Science Section	2025	$147,448	October 1, 2024	September 30, 2026	Yu-Xiang Wang	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: Syntactically-annotated corpora for endangered languages in areal contact	NSF	Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences	2023	$139,306	August 15, 2023	July 31, 2027	Robert Henderson	nsf.gov
CCRI: Planning-C: A Framework for Development of Robots and IoT for Precision Agriculture	NSF	Division Of Computer and Network Systems	2022	$116,000	August 15, 2022	July 31, 2024	Mohammad Khalid Jawed	nsf.gov
Workshops on Smart Manufacturing with Open and Scaled Data Sharing in Semiconductor and Microelectronics Manufacturing; Virtual and In-Person; Washington, DC; October/November 2023	NSF	Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation	2023	$100,000	August 15, 2023	June 30, 2025	James Davis	nsf.gov
Conference: US-Southeast Asia Regional Workshop on Responsible Artificial Intelligence	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2024	$99,941	August 1, 2024	July 31, 2025	Junsong Yuan	nsf.gov
Conference: Logistic and Participant Support for the National Science Foundation and Science Foundation Ireland's Trans-Atlantic Challenges Workshop	NSF	Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI)	2024	$99,598	September 1, 2024	August 31, 2025	Tara A Loomis	nsf.gov
Building Collaborations: A Workshop Facilitating US-India Bilateral Research Collaborations	NSF	Division Of Computer and Network Systems	2022	$77,956	April 15, 2022	March 31, 2023	Vipin Chaudhary	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: EAGER: RI: Causal Decision-Making	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2022	$75,000	September 1, 2022	August 31, 2023	Jin Tian	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: EAGER: RI: Causal Decision-Making	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2022	$75,000	September 1, 2022	August 31, 2023	Judea Pearl	nsf.gov
Collaborative Research: Conference: NSF/TIH PI Meeting and Workshop for Indo-US Research Collaboration	NSF	Division Of Computer and Network Systems	2023	$62,467	June 1, 2023	November 30, 2023	Richard M Voyles	nsf.gov
Travel: DEF CON31 AI Village Travel	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2023	$49,896	August 15, 2023	January 31, 2024	Austin Carson	nsf.gov
Travel: Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) 2024 Student Forum Travel Grant	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2024	$25,000	August 15, 2024	July 31, 2025	David C Anastasiu	nsf.gov
Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for the 2024 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (IEEE BSN)	NSF	Division of Information & Intelligent Systems	2024	$20,000	July 15, 2024	June 30, 2025	Nabil Alshurafa	nsf.gov
NRI: Hierarchical Representation Learning for Robot Assistants	NSF	CSE - Core Programs	2024	$11,435	October 1, 2023	January 31, 2027	Shuran Song	nsf.gov

Organizations

Organization	Place	NIH amount	NSF awards	NSF amount
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Urbana, IL	$0	1	$13.8 million
Univ of Massachusetts Med SCH Worcester	Worcester, MA	$0	1	$4 million
The New York City Foundation for Computer Science Education	Honesdale, PA	$0	1	$2.3 million
Pennsylvania State Univ University Park	University Park, PA	$0	2	$2.1 million
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, MI	$0	1	$2 million
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	$0	1	$1.4 million
University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, MN	$0	2	$1.3 million
Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA	$0	2	$1.1 million
Stanford University	Stanford, CA	$0	2	$1 million
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	$0	1	$1 million
University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	$0	1	$1 million
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus	Norman, OK	$0	1	$886,172
University of California-Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz, CA	$0	1	$799,977
University of California Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	$0	4	$691,000
SUNY at Buffalo	Amherst, NY	$0	2	$666,885
University of California, San Diego	La Jolla, CA	$0	2	$665,002
Oklahoma State University	Stillwater, OK	$0	1	$642,608
University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	$0	1	$628,306
University of Washington	Seattle, WA	$0	1	$600,000
Purdue University	West Lafayette, IN	$0	2	$519,966
Brown University	Providence, RI	$0	1	$495,023
Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	$0	1	$465,353
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Blacksburg, VA	$0	1	$449,999
University of Connecticut	Storrs, CT	$0	1	$446,311
University of Texas at Dallas	Richardson, TX	$0	1	$408,993
Tennessee Technological University	Cookeville, TN	$0	1	$400,000
California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, CA	$0	1	$400,000
West Virginia University Research Corporation	Morgantown, WV	$0	1	$382,796
William Marsh Rice University	Houston, TX	$0	1	$300,000
Georgia Gwinnett College	Lawrenceville, GA	$0	1	$300,000
Indiana University	Bloomington, IN	$0	1	$299,977
University of Colorado at Boulder	Boulder, CO	$0	1	$299,181
Georgia State University	Atlanta, GA	$0	1	$298,450
University of Maryland Baltimore County	Baltimore, MD	$0	1	$294,726
National Academy of Sciences	Washington, DC	$0	1	$249,540
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana	Indianapolis, IN	$0	1	$238,327
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI	$0	1	$200,000
Brigham Young University	Provo, UT	$0	1	$199,973
University of San Francisco	San Francisco, CA	$0	1	$195,264
University of California-Irvine	Irvine, CA	$0	1	$188,498
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	$0	1	$162,371
Columbia University	New York, NY	$0	1	$150,000
University of Arizona	Tucson, AZ	$0	1	$139,306
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance	Hadley, MA	$0	1	$99,598
Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland, OH	$0	1	$77,956
Iowa State University	Ames, IA	$0	1	$75,000
Seedai INC	Washington, DC	$0	1	$49,896
Santa Clara University	Santa Clara, CA	$0	1	$25,000
Northwestern University at Chicago	Chicago, IL	$0	1	$20,000

Funding by fiscal year

Fiscal year	NIH amount	NSF awards	NSF amount
2026	$0	4	$5,646,732
2025	$0	16	$14,158,305
2024	$0	13	$3,637,266
2023	$0	24	$10,839,621
2022	$0	21	$9,391,944

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 37 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 37 awards here
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1	24-598	NSF	47.070	February 8, 2027	$20 million	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 37 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 37 awards here
Expeditions in Computing	20-544	NSF	47.070	March 31, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 37 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 37 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 37 awards here
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)	22-586	NSF	47.070	July 28, 2027	Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 37 awards here
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)	23-601	NSF	47.070	August 18, 2027	$500,000	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 37 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 37 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 37 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 37 awards here
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities	24-540	NSF	47.070		$200,000	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 37 awards here
Foundational Research in Robotics	PD-20-144Y	NSF	47.070		Not listed	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 37 awards here
Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science	PD-24-7414	NSF	47.070		$600,000	Same assistance listing 47.070 as 37 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 13 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 13 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 13 awards here
GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR)	24-527	NSF	47.041	February 8, 2027	$3.6 million	Same assistance listing 47.041 as 13 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 13 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.