Feifei Li, an associate professor in the University of Utah School of Computing, received a $1.2M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) program.

Li’s award is part of the NSF’s $31M investment in the development of infrastructure and building of multi-institutional partnerships nationwide, designed to increase the number of U.S. data scientists while “augmenting the usefulness and ease of use of data.”