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COMBINI (connecting Complementary Medicine and Biological kNowledge to support Integrative Health)

Time frame
2024-2029
Investigator
Halil Kilicoglu
Total funding to date
$3,261,972.00
Funding agency
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health

COMBINI (connecting Complementary Medicine and Biological kNowledge to support Integrative Health) is a collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, and Mayo Clinic in Florida. Illinois serves as the primary site.

The goal of the project is to develop informatics resources and scientific…

health medical project

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

Computational Methods, Resources, and Tools to Assess Transparency and Rigor of Randomized Clinical Trials

Time frame
2022-2025
Investigator
Halil Kilicoglu
Total funding to date
$1,328,502.00
Funding agency
National Institutes of Health

Randomized clinical trials are valuable in determining the effectiveness of health treatments. But problems with design, execution or reporting of the trial process can lead to unreliable findings, excessive costs, and, potentially, harm for patients. Associate Professor Halil Kilicoglu is leading a  team of computer/information scientists and clinical research methodologists in…

medicine

Crowd-Assisted Human-AI Teaming with Explanations

Time frame
2024-Present
Investigator
Dong Wang
Total funding to date
$599,999.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

This project investigates the problem of information integrity, that is, identifying faulty or ungrounded information online. It focuses on a specific domain, that of information produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and processes both text and image data. While significant efforts in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have addressed information integrity in this type of…

crowd of people

Deception Awareness and Resilience Training (DART)

Time frame
2022-2025
Investigator
Anita Nikolich
Total funding to date
$200,000.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

As one of the most vexing problems of the century, we are witnessing the escalating speed, scale, and level of sophistication of online deception (spear phishing and catfishing scams, personal information hunting schemes, fake content, impersonation, and disinformation on social media) that have severe consequences (ransomware attack, financial loss, and breach of private information). The…

DART on monitor and apps

DeepCrowd: A Crowd-assisted Deep Learning-based Disaster Scene Assessment System with Active Human-AI Interactions

Time frame
2021-2025
Investigator
Dong Wang
Total funding to date
$499,786.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Full title: CHS: Small: DeepCrowd: A Crowd-assisted Deep Learning-based Disaster Scene Assessment System with Active Human-AI Interactions

This project addresses the application of AI to disaster scene assessment (DSA). AI currently has limited success with DSA; this project…

DeepCrowd

Developing Multiple Types of Phase-specific Self-efficacy e-Intervention (TOP-SEE) to Enhance Self-management for People with Multiple Sclerosis

Time frame
2024-2027
Investigator
Jessie Chin
Total funding to date
$199,927.00
Funding agency
National Institutes of Health

There are 2.5 million people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) worldwide. Since there is no cure for multiple sclerosis, PwMS needs to practice self-management activities, such as physical activities, diets, emotion regulation, on a daily basis. Self-efficacy, the belief about ones’ capabilities to implement behavior needed to reach a goal, is the longitudinal determinant of health and well-…

neurons

Donna Haraway is our "Friend": Reconfiguring Friendship Bracelets and Bibliography

Time frame
2016-Present

This project uses the friendship bracelet as a way to "re-weave" the academic canon. Friendship bracelets are handmade macramé bracelets of embroidery thread, intended to be worn as a sign of lasting friendship. In this collaboration with Julia Pollack (MS '12), bracelets have been woven with bibliographical references to important work of women in the field of knowledge-production.

Exploring Algorithmic Fairness and Potential Bias in K-12 Mathematics Adaptive Learning

Time frame
2020-2025
Investigator
Nigel Bosch
Total funding to date
$987,015.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Students in middle school and high school often use adaptive learning software as part of their math education experience. Adaptive learning software works by automatically measuring how much students have learned about the topic, as well as their learning process and experiences, and then adjusting the instruction accordingly. This project will investigate potential ways in which adaptive…

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FABRIC Operations - Accelerating Innovation and Research

Time frame
2023-2027
Investigator
Anita Nikolich
Total funding to date
$1,240,000.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

The FABRIC project ensures scientific reproducibility of complex cyberinfrastructure experiments. It enables infrastructure programmability and interconnectivity and fosters experimentation with distributed systems at unprecedented scales. Its impact spans diverse domains, such as high-energy physics, astrophysics, cybersecurity, and scientific…

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