Deadline: December 04, 2020
“NSF Solicitation 20-604 continues and expands a multi-agency effort to establish institute-scale AI research with the potential for long-term payoffs in AI. NSF invites proposals for full institutes that have a principal focus in one or more of the following themes:
• Theme 1: Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration
• Theme 2: AI Institute for Advances in Optimization
• Theme 3: AI and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
• Theme 4: Advances in AI and Computer and Network Systems
• Theme 5: AI Institute in Dynamic Systems
• Theme 6: AI-Augmented Learning
• Theme 7: AI to Advance Biology
• Theme 8: AI-Driven Innovation in Agriculture and the Food System”
Proposal Details Available: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20604/nsf20604.htm
“I would particularly like to draw your attention to the new Theme 3 on “AI and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure.” Advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) has become an essential component of modern scientific discovery. A next-generation advanced CI that is tightly integrated with artificial intelligence technologies can transform the way science is performed and accelerate the ability to address grand challenges across science and engineering research. Advanced CI is also a key enabler for AI research and practice. Translational research activities at an Institute for AI and Advanced CI will seek the acceleration and transformation of AI research and practice enabled by advanced CI, and the integration of AI technologies toward a smarter, robust, and more effective CI ecosystem.
“For more information on this solicitation as well as the “AI and Advanced CI” theme, please visit the above link to the solicitation, the program page, https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505686, and the associated FAQs, https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20021/nsf20021.jsp.
“Any general questions about the solicitation should be sent to AIInstitutesProgram@nsf.gov.OAC-related questions on this solicitation and Theme 3 should be directed to contact the cognizant OAC Program Director, Tevfik Kosar, tkosar@nsf.gov.”