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ISDS Professors Land Rare National Science Foundation Grant
By Keith Morelli

TAMPA (June 4, 2020) -- An artificial intelligence-based software designed to help PhD students formulate their paths through the rigorous academic programs and subsequent careers is being designed by a group of Թϱfaculty and alumni, including three from the Muma College of Business’ Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department.
The idea struck gold last month when the National Science Foundation awarded $225,000 to the proposal, “EdVision: AI Powered Academic Guidance for PhD Programs.” This funding will help get the design off the ground, said Kaushik Dutta, faculty chair of the ISDS department.
“This is big news,” Dutta said. “There are not many faculty members across the USF System who have received this NSF STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer program) grant to pursue their entrepreneurial efforts. The success rate (for landing the grant) for such proposals from the state of Florida is onl