President’s Annual Report on NSF Award
Monday, December 18, 2006
Computer scientists receive $900K NSF grant to study brain function and human learning
A $900,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant—the largest instrumentation grant ever awarded to UH by NSF—will foster collaboration between computer science and medicine and develop technologies that may help in the noninvasive diagnosis and treatment of a variety of diseases.
With a primary focus of merging noninvasive imaging technologies with computational resources, the grant seeks to extend knowledge of how humans learn, study brain function and behavior, detect cognitive impairment, provide continuous noninvasive monitoring of human physiology, analyze facial expressions, and improve biometrics-based security.
Each scientist in the group brings a different area of expertise and a separate laboratory—the grant will unify these labs, extend the range of each technology, and add computation and visualization resources.