The College of Engineering is among Michigan State University’s top producers of research discoveries and commercialization that help build a diversified economy and generate jobs for Michigan and the Midwest. Three new National Science Foundation, or NSF, grants will add $1.16 million in research funding to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Highlights of the grants follow:

•     Associate Professor Sijia Liu, lead PI on an NSF Medium Grant, will use $268,000 in funding to make artificial intelligence systems safer and more reliable. The research focuses on “teaching” large language models to forget harmful or misleading information, known as LLM unlearning, much like a skilled surgeon removing a tumor while preserving healthy tissue.
•    Professor Pang-Ning Tan will share $600,000 in research funding with Lifeng Luo, professor and director of MSU’s Environmental Science and Policy Program, for a three-year project “Enhancing Adversarial Robustness of Geospatio-Temporal Models.”
•    Making graph data more compact, cleaner, and better aligned is the goal of a four-year $300,000 research project by CSE faculty members Assistant Professor Hui Liu and MSU Foundation Professor Jiliang Tang. The project will enable more efficient, accurate, and robust AI systems across healthcare, finance, and national security.