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A Metacognitive Calibration Intervention Powered by Fair and Private Machine Learning

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigators
Dong Wang, Nigel Bosch
Total funding to date
$850,000.00
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…

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Advancing STEM Online Learning by Augmenting Accessibility with Interactive Companionship

Time frame
2021-2024
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

AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organizations)

Time frame
2021-2023
Investigator
Glen Layne-Worthey
Total funding to date
$49,820.00
Funding agency
National Endowment for the Humanities

Many digital archival collections are limited due to factors such as privacy concerns and copyright. AEOLIAN combines innovative AI methods and the knowledge of scholars from multiple cultural institutions to address the accessibility of these collections, ultimately making them more accessible. Additionally, the project aims to foster collaboration amongst scholars and practitioners from…

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

Time frame
2020-2022
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$7,909.00
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

Alliance for Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) Research on Evolving Intelligent Goal-driven Networks (REIGN)

Time frame
2017-Present
Investigator
Jana Diesner
Total funding to date
$407,365.00
Funding agency
Army Research Lab

Will distributed computing revolutionize peace?
In the future, military operations will rely less on human soldiers and more on interconnected technology, leveraging advancements in unmanned systems and machine intelligence in order to achieve superior defense capabilities. The Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) will connect soldiers with smart technology in armor, radios, weapons,…

Soldier

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

Assessing the Impact of Media Polarization on Public Health Emergencies

Time frame
2020-Present
Investigator
Jodi Schneider
Total funding to date
$10,000.00
Funding agency
Cline Center for Advanced Social Research

Media plays a big role in how citizens evaluate public health emergencies. This project seeks to understand how public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis are reported. In order to assess the polarization and politicization of U.S. news coverage, we are comparing news by political leaning (left, center, right) as segmented by AllSides media bias ratings. We…

newspaper words

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…

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Automated Indexing for Publication Types and Study Design

Time frame
2023-Present
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…

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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