Other Funding Opportunities
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Foresight Institute: AI Safety: Neuro/Security/Cryptography/Multipolar Approaches
Supports projects working to make progress on three areas we consider underexplored when it comes to AI Safety.
- Neurotechnology, Whole Brain Emulation and lo-fi Uploading for AI safety
- Security, Cryptography, and Auxiliary Approaches for Infosec and AI Security
- Safe and Beneficial Multipolar AI Scenarios
Deadline: Rolling for one year until budget of $1M is depleted
Application should take no more than 3 hours!
OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grants
Supports technical research towards ensuring superhuman AI systems are aligned and safe, through partnership with Eric Schmidt
Deadline: February 18, 2024
Award: $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers; $150K OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship ($75K in stipend and $75K in compute and research funding) for graduate students
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Japan Science and Technology Agency: Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (ASPIRE) Call for Proposals
Proposals are welcomed from Japan-based researchers intending to conduct collaborative research with researchers from other advanced countries and regions in science and technology.
- AI and information research for the realization of Society 5.0 based on the principles of human understanding and respect, diversity, and sustainability.
Deadline: August 17, 2024 (anticipated; recommended LOI by July 31)
Award: 30-100M Yen ($200K-700K) for durations up of three to five years
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ARPA-H: Open-Office Broad Agency Announcement
Supports research aiming to improve health outcomes across patient populations, communities, diseases, and health conditions. The BAA calls for proposals to outline breakthrough research and technological advancements.
- Health Science Futures - Expanding what’s technically possible
- Scalable Solutions - Reaching everyone quickly
- Proactive Health - Keeping people from being patients
- Resilient Systems - Building integrated healthcare systems
Deadline: Rolling, expires March 14, 2024
Award: Unspecified, budget must be align with the project scope
ARPA-H: SBIR Research and Development
Supports mall business concerns that possess the research and development (R&D) expertise to conduct innovative research that will contribute toward ARPA-H mission needs and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program objectives. Research topics:
- Inexpensive Plant-based Manufacturing of Viruses
- LymphoLab ProDiscover Kit
- Continuous Monitoring of Vascular Health Using Smart Biomimetic Implantables
- Personalized Medicine Platform for Predicting Response to Immunotherapy
- Saving Baby Hearts: Fully Autonomous Neonatal Echocardiography for the Diagnosis of Critical Congenital Heart Disease
- Improving Identity and Access Management with Clinical Context
Deadline: February 22, 2024 (anticipated, Solicitation 75N91024R00006 is anticipated to be made available on or about January 23, 2024)
Award: Unspecified, budget must be align with the project scope
DARPA: Building an Adaptive & Competitive Workforce
Supports adult learners in developing critical skills necessary for the current and future national security workforce. Proposed solutions should leverage artificial intelligence and advanced computational methods to help adults upskill and reskill in the complex subjects required for the continuously advancing 21st-century economy.
Deadline: February 26, 2024 (abstract)
Award: $50K (Catalyst), $150K (Growth), $300K (Transform)
Information Session on January 29, 2024 at 11am MT (Registration required.)
ARPA-H: Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & InteGrated Medical care (PARADIGM)
Supports development of a distributed care delivery model that can be easily adopted by health systems. This new model will deliver services typically associated with brick-and-mortar health care facilities; establish real-world settings for demonstrating and evaluating Care Delivery Platform (CDP)-based care; and demonstrate the financial sustainability of this care model. Projects should address one of the five technical areas:
- Decentralized Approach to Hospital-Level Care
- CDP Integration
- Medical Internet of Things (IoT) Platform
- Rugged & Miniaturized CT Scanner
- Intelligent Task Guidance
Deadline: February 27, 2024 (Abstract), April 26, 2024 (Proposal)
Award: Unspecified, budget must be align with the project scope
Proposer’s Day will be held (virtually and in-person) on February 15, 2024 in Phoenix Arizona. Register here!
Establishing Qualification Processes for Agile Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (EQUIP-A-Pharma)
Supports development of an informatics-based models to create a real-time digital regulatory approval framework for qualification of pharmaceuticals produced in an agile pharmaceutical manufacturing platform.
Deadline: February 28, 2024
Award: $500K
DOE Office of Science: Exploratory Research for Extreme Scale Science
Supports basic research to explore potentially high-impact approaches in scientific computing and extreme-scale science in one of five research topics:
- Harnessing Technology Innovations to Accelerate Science through Visualization
- Scalable Space-Time Memories for Large Discrete/Agent-Based Models
- Neuromorphic Computing extre
- Advanced Wireless
- Quantum Hardware Emulation
Deadline: February 29, 2024 (pre-application); May 2, 2024 (proposal) Internal LSO deadline is February 14!
Award: $300K-$1.1M
Office of Naval Research: Fundamental Research Towards Expeditionary Air Warfare & Weapons
Supports research relevant to the Expeditionary Forces, specifically Theoretical Foundations and Limitations of Predicting, Deceiving, and Disrupting Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Perception/Action Loops.
Deadline: March 1, 2024
Award: Up to $4.2M over five years ($330K for the first year, $910K/year for the next one to two years, $1M/year for another one to two years)
U.S. DOT Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Pre-Solicitation - Complete Streets Artificial Intelligence Initiative
Supports development of a suite of decision-support tools for transportation agencies that assists in the siting, design, and deployment of Complete Streets. Complete Streets are streets and networks that prioritize safety, comfort, and connectivity to destinations for all people who use the street network.
Deadline: March 1, 2024 (Pre-solicitation)
An informational webinar about the solicitation is tentatively scheduled for March 21, 2024, at 1:00 pm ET, more information will be available on the solicitation.
DOD Measurement & Signature Intelligence Research and Development Initiative
Supports the next generation of capabilities and platforms to advance the Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) enterprise. Research Areas of Interest include:
- Data-Enabling Technologies
- Automation and Machine Learning Technologies
- Modeling and Simulation Technologies
- Technologies that Increase Analytics, and
- Technologies that Advance Collection.
Deadline: March 1, 2024 (White paper opens), March 29, 2024
Award: 4-10 awards expected
DOE Office of Science: Data Reduction for Science
Supports exploration of potentially high-impact approaches in the development and use of data reduction techniques and algorithms to facilitate more efficient analysis and use of massive data sets produced by observations, experiments and simulation.
Deadline: March 19, 2024 (pre-application); May 7, 2024 (proposal)
Award: $400K/year
This is a Limited Submission Opportunity with an internal deadline of February 20, 2024.
CDC Epidemiologic and Economic Modeling for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Supports modeling of disease dynamics and advanced data analytics to inform and improve HIV, viral hepatitis, STC, TB, and adolescent health interventions and programs.
Deadline: March 29, 2024 (White Paper), April 8, 2024 (Proposal)
Award: $5M
DoD and AirForce: Geospatial Intelligence Processing and Exploitation (GeoPEX)
Supports research, development, integration, test and evaluation of technologies/techniques to provide geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in all its forms and from whatever source to ensure a solid foundation of knowledge for planning, decision, and action while creating tailored, customer-specific geospatial intelligence, analytic services, and solutions.
Deadline: September 30, 2024; recurring on September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2026
Award: $250K-$10M for durations up to two years
DARPA: Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction and Modeling (ASKEM)
Supports the demands of complex, modern-day systems, computational models and simulators have become the primary artifacts for encoding, propagating, and applying expert knowledge to real-world science and engineering problems.
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America’s Datahub Consortium Idea Bank invites input from stakeholders to inform future project solicitations on the topics of:
- Privacy Preserving Technologies (PPT)
- Data collection, access, linkage, and standards
- Statistical and other quantitative analyses
- Legal frameworks
- User Tools
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Artificial Intelligence
Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 2 aims to help utilities tackle data and cybersecurity challenges that advance grid resiliency. This prize connects utilities with interdisciplinary teams of software developers and data experts to transform digital systems and data analytics for utilities in the energy sector.
Phase 1 open until February 29, 2024, $1.85M in total prizes.
Advanced Computing Allocations to Advance AI Research and Education As part of the launch of the NAIRR Pilot, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) are collaborating to create an early opportunity for the research community to request access to a set of advanced computing resources for projects related to the focus of this call.
Open from January 24 to March 1, 2024.
NIH AI Data Readiness Challenge for the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) Assess the CRDC AI Data Readiness for a use case and build an AI/ML model and win up to $20K:
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- Select AI/ML use cases
- Preprocess CRDC data to an AI-ready format
- apply your AI/ML model to solve use case
- provide feedback
NIH and CGE Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge aims to revolutionize technology development of delivery systems for in vivo genome editing. This is a $6M competition to improve in vivo delivery technologies for genome editors in two Target Areas: 1. Programmable delivery systems, and 2. Non-viral delivery across the blood-brain barrier. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the Common Fund’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) program, is seeking Participants with ideas or early-stage solutions to join the Challenge with the chance to win up to $1,000,000 and have their solution independently tested and validated in large animal models through NIH-supported independent evaluation relevant to preclinical assessments of investigational products.
Phase 2 is open until January 10, 2025.
Questions? Contact data-science-hub@utah.edu!