Research
Grants and Projects

This list is a sampling of grants received by faculty members in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences.

A Foundation AI Model to Infer the Physics of Transients, SkyAI

Recipient: N. Samia (PI), Gautham Narayan (PI), D. Apley (Co-PI) (one student supported), A. Miller (Co-PI), M. Krafczyk (Co-PI)
Sponsor: 
NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky

A Complex Challenge: Social Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Recipient: Simge Kucukyavuz
Sponsor: 
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University

Generalized Submodular Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Computation

Recipient: Simge Kucukyavuz
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research

Collaborative Research: Inference on Expensive, Grey-Box Simulation Models

Recipient: Barry L. Nelson & Dan Apley
Sponsor: 
National Science Foundation

New Directions in Community Detection

Recipient: Julia Gaudio & Aravindan Vijayaraghavan (Northwestern CS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

CAREER: Discovering Hidden Structure in Networks: Algorithms and Barriers

Recipient: Julia Gaudio
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

TEAMSTaR: Tool for Evaluating And Mitigating Space Team Risk. Award number: 80NSSC21K0925

Recipient: Noshir Contractor
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The Next Normal for Teaming: Transitioning Out of COVID-19. Award Number: 2052366

Recipient: Noshir Contractor
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

ADVENT: Advancing Diverse Viable Effective Networked Teams. Award Number: 2341432

Recipient: Noshir Contractor
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

WECAN: Wellbeing Enhancement through Crowd-sourced Assessment of Neighborhood-infrastructure. Award Number: 2332339

Recipient: Noshir Contractor
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

TEAMS: Teamwork-Enhancing Adaptive Machine Synergies. Award Number: W911NF-23-2-0217-P00002

Recipient: Noshir Contractor
Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

Deciphering the Structural Signatures of High-Performing Human-AI Teams.

Recipient: Noshir Contractor
Sponsor: Microsoft Research