Purdue receives $1.8 million from Department of Defense DEPSCoR grants

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Three Purdue University research teams that specialize in artificial intelligence and machine learning will share $1.8 million as recipients of the U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) awards, a program designed to bolster basic research initiatives at higher educational institutions.

All three selected Purdue projects engage with issues involving physical AI, an interdisciplinary field concerned with developing AI that intersects the virtual and physical worlds. Purdue leads efforts in this area through the Institute for Physical AI, a pillar of Purdue Computes, a strategic university initiative to further scale Purdue’s research and educational excellence. 

Each team will receive up to $600,000 across a three-year period to pursue research that addresses DOD science and technology priority areas.

Read more about these AI projects on Purdue’s Office of Research website.

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