← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
University Of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$1,626,800,972
Total funding
2,596
Grants
Funding over time
peak $143.4M · FY2005–26$200M$150M$100M$50M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$1,624,275,141 · 2591
DOE$2,525,831 · 5
By mechanism
—$1,626,800,972 · 2596
Investigators at University Of California-San Diego
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
Not enough data
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Not enough data
All-Time
Most funded here, all years
Not enough data
Largest grants
SCI: Delivering Cyberinfrastructure: From Vision to Reality$65,316,072
· FY2005 · CSE
Mid-scale RI-2: Grid-Connected Testing Infrastructure for Networked Control of Distributed Energy Resources$41,946,864
· FY2020 · ENG
Category I: CloudBank 2: Accelerating Science and Engineering Research in the Commercial Cloud$37,023,408
· FY2025 · CSE
The TeraGrid: Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century Science and Engineering$36,365,500
· FY2001 · CSE
Gateways to Discovery: Cyberinfrastructure for the Long Tail of Science$27,313,476
· FY2013 · CSE
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$25,590,994
· FY2020 · EDU
Flash Gordon: A Data Intensive Computer$21,448,912
· FY2009 · CSE
AI Institute for Learning-Enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS)$20,114,004
· FY2021 · CSE
NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment$20,006,200
· FY2018 · MPS
CCI Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment$20,000,000
· FY2013 · MPS
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$18,365,966
· FY2016 · EDU
S2I2: Impl: The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) for the Democratization and Acceleration of Science$18,030,000
· FY2016 · CSE
UC San Diego MRSEC: an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center$17,775,000
· FY2020 · MPS
Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: Upgrade of the Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table to Six Degrees of Freedom$16,859,716
· FY2018 · ENG
The Temporal Dynamics of Learning$15,938,236
· FY2006 · SBE
ITR: The OptIPuter$13,500,000
· FY2002 · CSE
Category II: A Prototype National Research Platform$13,174,829
· FY2021 · CSE
Category II: Exploring Neural Network Processors for AI in Science and Engineering$12,249,999
· FY2020 · CSE
Category II: Democratizing the Accelerator Ecosystem for Science and Discovery$12,249,999
· FY2024 · CSE
CloudBank: Managed Services to Simplify Cloud Access for Computer Science Research and Education$11,458,644
· FY2019 · CSE