About
Overview
The Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X is a university wide research and education center for Artificial Intelligence. It has a focus on collaboration across disciplines.
The goal is to establish a world-class academic research and development (R&D) center at the 91社区 to conduct externally-funded research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and associated areas (X = healthcare, medicine, biology, cybersecurity, finance, business, manufacturing, transportation), using a transdisciplinary approach across neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science, and work with industry to transition them into products that benefit humanity in an ethical and responsible manner.
There are faculty from many departments/schools/programs associated with the center, including the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Integrated Biology, Genomics, Psychology, the School of Information Systems and Management, the College of Public Health, and the Morsani College of Medicine.
The Institute is co-directed by Prof. Sudeep Sarkar and Prof. Lawrence Hall.