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A Metacognitive Calibration Intervention Powered by Fair and Private Machine Learning

Time frame
2022-2025
Investigators
Dong Wang, Nigel Bosch
Total funding to date
$842,500.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Students in college are often expected to do a considerable amount of studying and learning outside of class hours, especially in online courses, which requires a high degree of self-regulation and metacognitive knowledge to study effectively. However, there are few opportunities for specifically learning self-regulation and metacognitive skills, especially early on in courses while there is…

fingers on keyboard

Advancing STEM Online Learning by Augmenting Accessibility with Interactive Companionship

Time frame
2021-2025
Investigator
Yun Huang
Total funding to date
$526,006.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Full title: Collaborative Research: Advancing STEM Online Learning by Augmenting Accessibility with Interactive Companionship

Videos are a popular option for online learning, and captions are essential for accessibility. Two types of captions exist: typical closed captions and explanatory captions. Closed captions…

interactive companionship

AI Institute Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience Management and Sustainability (AIFARMS)

Time frame
2020-2025
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$479,983.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

This project brings together researchers in AI and agriculture, combining their expertise to promote advances in agriculture through AI. AIFARMS mission is to use core AI research areas such as computer vision, machine learning, data science, soft object manipulation, and intuitive human-robot interaction to address major challenges in agriculture:

  • Sustainable intensification…
AI farms

An AudioTactile Data System for Blind or Low Vision Faculty, Staff, Postdocs, and Graduate Students in Chemistry, Math, Computer and Information Sciences

Time frame
2024-Present
Investigator
JooYoung Seo
Total funding to date
$459,000.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Researchers at NewHaptics Corporation and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are developing and testing software and hardware tools for faculty, staff, postdoctoral research fellows, and graduate students who are blind or have low vision, and who are working in college and university Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science and Engineering and Information Sciences employment…

NewHaptics braille device

Augmenting Health Self-Regulation across the Cancer Survivorship Continuum by Digital Phenotyping

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigator
Jessie Chin
Total funding to date
$30,000.00
Funding agency
Campus Research Board

Breast cancer (BC) is a chronic illness. BC survivors often deal with the lifelong needs of self-management, such as controlling the symptoms, taking diet or nutrition plans, or adopting a physical activity program across their cancer survivorship continuum. Our team is eager to develop a novel technique to predict the intentions of lifestyle behavior by tracking ones' information behavior and…

head with questions

Automated Indexing for Publication Types and Study Design

Time frame
2023-2026
Investigators
Neil Smalheiser, Jodi Schneider, Halil Kilicoglu
Total funding to date
$947,925.00
Funding agency
National Institutes of Health

This project aims improve upon a tool clinicians, researchers, and systematic reviewers use to retrieve biomedical articles from bibliographic databases. Associate Professors Halil Kilicoglu and Jodi Schneider will work with Affiliate Professor Neil Smalheiser, professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago, on the project, which has received funding from the National Institutes…

doctor typing on a laptop

BD Hubs: Collaborative Proposal: Midwest: Midwest Big Data Hub: Building Communities to Harness the Data Revolution

Time frame
2019-Present
Investigator
Catherine Blake
Total funding to date
$2,883,274.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

The Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH) is a network of regional institutions created to facilitate collection, management, and use of complex information, creating active partnerships of experts and resources to address issues relevant to life in the Midwest.

MBDH aims to help member organizations working in Big Data coordinate…

Midwest Big Data Hub

CAREER: III: Modeling the Heterogeneity of Heterogeneity: Algorithms, Theories and Applications

Time frame
2019-2025
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$415,836.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Nowadays, as an intrinsic property of big data, data heterogeneity can be seen in a variety of real world applications, ranging from security to manufacturing, from healthcare to crowdsourcing. Many high-impact data mining applications exhibit the co-existence of multiple types of heterogeneity, such as different classification tasks, different data sources, and different labeling oracles.…

modeling heterogeneity

CAREER: Using Network Analysis to Assess Confidence in Research Synthesis

Time frame
2021-2026
Investigator
Jodi Schneider
Total funding to date
$599,963.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Policy in areas such as conservation, energy, healthcare, and sustainable development is informed by a variety of factors, including the best available science. Determining the best available science requires synthesizing multiple scientific results to gauge both the level of scientific consensus and the reliability of the research. However, on some policy-relevant topics, syntheses continue…

network of dots

Community Research Cooperative: Methodologies for Research Justice

Time frame
2020-Present
Investigators
Anita Say Chan, Rachel M. Magee
Total funding to date
$42,500.00
Funding agency
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois Office of the Chancellor

The Community Research Cooperative: Methodologies for Research Justice research cluster brings together an interdisciplinary and intergenerational group of scholars from the U of I to address and explore theories and methods in community-engaged research for research justice. This cluster aims to bridge the campus-community divide by creating an inclusive network that includes leading…

community research