NSF invests in bio-inspired and bioengineered systems for artificial intelligence, infrastructure and health

NSF announces an investment of $30 million to support new interdisciplinary, fundamental research projects for the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation, or EFRI, program. Awardees will work on projects that involve engineering brain-inspired systems and creating safe and sustainable engineered living systems. Each $2 million, four-year award integrates research with ethical, legal, and social considerations and with broadening participation activities.

Projects from EPSCoR jurisdictions include:

• EFRI Brain-Inspired Dynamics for Engineering Energy-Efficient Circuits and Artificial Intelligence: Unsupervised Continual Learning With Hierarchical Timescales and Plasticity Mechanisms, WEST VIRGINIA University
  
• EFRI Engineered Living Systems: Biofilm-Functionalized and -Maintained, Living Infrastructure Systems, MONTANA State University