The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) will join the Center for Digital Agriculture’s 2026 Conference on Generative AI in Agriculture, held March 9 at the iHotel and Illinois Conference Center. This year’s event highlights how large language models and other generative AI tools are reshaping agricultural research, productivity, and sustainability, with experts from academia and industry sharing emerging applications and challenges. As part of the conference, CAII will host… Read more: CAII to Showcase One of the First Significant Research Applications Built Entirely on the Illinois.chat Platform
All are welcome! We hope you can attend. The Frontiers in Nutritional Sciences hosts a seminars that are open to University of Illinois faculty and students, as well as the community. This seminar is organized around a research theme that is representative of the depth and breadth of research being conducted by faculty in DNS. High profile researchers from other parts of campus, other colleges and institutions are invited to… Read more: Dr. Volodymyr Kindratenko Speaks at Nutritional Sciences Seminar
Harnessing the Data Revolution Machine Learning Challenge It is time for the second annual NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) AI/ML Hackathon! After a very successful first year of the Physics Department HEP Group Public ML Challenge, which was focused on anomaly detection for gravitational wave physics, butterfly species, and climate events, we are back for another hackathon this year! Join us for new challenges, new prizes, and an even better… Read more: UIUC Hackathon for the NSF HDR ML Challenge
The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation is hosting a new hands‑on training series this Spring, “GPU Programming with Triton: From NumPy to Flash Attention.” This multi‑week workshop introduces participants to Triton, an open‑source language and compiler that makes it possible to write custom GPU kernels with a Pythonic feel. Triton bridges the gap between familiar NumPy‑style operations and the high‑performance kernels used in modern deep learning systems, including techniques like… Read more: Spring 2026 CAII Seminar: GPU Programming with Triton: From NumPy to Flash Attention
Grainger College of Engineering is offering a Seminar Course titled Biologically Plausible AI this Spring. Seminars on topics of current interest will be presented and the first introductory session will be held on Monday, January 26, 2026, at 4:30 pm in 0216 Siebel Center for CS . The instructors of the course (including CAII affiliates ChengXiang Zhai, Rhanor Gillette, and Ekaterina Gribkova, as well as Reiner Engelken, Yuji Zhang, Ke Yang, and Xiaocong Yang)… Read more: Biologically Plausible AI
Continuing our Lunch Seminar Series for Fall 2025, the Center is hosting Professor Abdussalam Alawini from the Seibel School of Computing and Data Science for a session on Agentic AI for Educators: Practical Teaching Strategies That Support Learning. His session will feature CAII’s Illinois.chat tool. Video of the session has been uploaded to our YouTube channel: Abdussalam Alawini is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and… Read more: CAII Hosts Lunch Seminar on AI for Educators and Illinois.chat on December 16, 2025
Supercomputing 2025 was the place where “HPC ignites” this week in Saint Louis, MO, and Rohan Marwaha helped light the fire with his presentation on “Frameworks for LLM Serving in HPC Environments”. This paper was authored by: Rohan Marwaha, Qinren Zhou, Kastan Day, Asmita Dabholkar and Volodymyr Kindratenko Rohan presented it during the Frontiers in Generative AI for HPC Science and Engineering: Foundations, Challenges, and Opportunities session. The topic discussion… Read more: CAII represented this week at Supercomputing 2025
Just announced: HPCWire Reveals Winners of the 22nd Annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards During SC25.Additional Article: https://ncsa.illinois.edu/2025/11/19/ncsa-receives-honors-in-2025-hpcwire-readers-and-editors-choice-awards/ “Each year, HPCwire readers and our editorial team select the technologies, use cases, companies, and leaders that have contributed to the fantastic growth of the HPC market and community,” said Alex Woodie, Managing Editor of HPCwire. “These remarkable submissions come from around the globe and represent the best people, projects, collaborations, and technology in the… Read more: Congratulations to NCSA and Illinois Researchers, and the Delta and DeltaAI teams for winning Awards at Super Computing ’25
The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has released a new educational resource aimed at demystifying deep learning frameworks: a hands-on tutorial series on MyTorch, presented by AI researcher and developer Priyam Mazumdar. MyTorch is a lightweight, educational deep learning library designed to help learners understand the inner workings of neural networks by building them from scratch. The tutorial series walks viewers through… Read more: NCSA’s Center for AI Innovation Launches MyTorch Tutorial Series
(Original Story By Michael Sweeney) CRISPR-Cas systems have revolutionized biology by allowing researchers to investigate how genes function. However, running CRISPR screens can exceed $10,000 per experiment and take months. Following a weekend of intense computation, the winners of this year’s Ashby Prize Hackathon made a step toward a smoother, less expensive process. The Ashby Prize Hackathon is an annual event sponsored by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) in the National Center… Read more: The Science Behind the 2025 Ashby Prize in Computational Science Hackathon Winners Streamlining CRISPR Screening with AI
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is proud to house the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation and through this collaboration, and the funding by the Ashby Foundation at the University of Illinois, we are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s competition. Rooted in NCSA’s mission to bring people, computing, and data together to benefit society, the Hackathon reflects the center’s vision of a future enlightened by research… Read more: CAII Announces the Winners of the 2025 Ashby Prize in Computational Science Hackathon
We are thrilled to announce that several outstanding students from the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) have been selected to receive the prestigious 2025 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award, recognizing their exceptional interdisciplinary research and innovative contributions. Graduate Fellowship Award Heather BroomeHeather has been awarded the 2025 Fiddler Innovation Graduate Student Fellowship for her exemplary work with the REU FoDoMMaT program. Her leadership in training REU students, advising on machine… Read more: CAII Students Honored with 2025 Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowship Awards
by: Stu Ellis – WCIA – reshared from: https://www.wcia.com/news/agriculture/from-the-farm-artificial-intelligence-farms-cropwizard/ WCIA Video Artificial intelligence is showing up everywhere — even in the fields. And the University of Illinois is ahead of the pack when it comes to applying AI technology to the farm. It began about five years ago with the creation of the Center for Digital Agriculture and quickly spread from there — linking agriculture to numerous digital technology specialists on… Read more: CAII in the News! From the Farm: Artificial Intelligence Farms: CropWizard
Exploring the Nexus of Technology, Behavior, and Personalized Nutrition The annual event will be held on October 27-29, 2025. It is kicked off by a public lecture and a Nutrition Across the Lifespan Resource Fair on Monday evening. On Tuesday, is the 5th annual Innovation Day with oral and poster presentations, an External Advisory Committee meeting, and networking opportunities. Dr. Volodymyr Kindratenko, Director for the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII), is speaking… Read more: CAII Director Speaking at 2025 Personalized Nutrition Innovation Day
The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) is hosting the Fall Into AI at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Throughout this Fall series faculty and staff will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops, guest talks, and conversations on how generative AI impacts the future of education and beyond. Make sure you subscribe to their newsletter to stay informed about all things generative AI. Click here to see this online
Starting Your Data Analysis with LLMs Getting to know a new data set is often a process of trial and error. LLMs have come a long way in their ability to assist in this process.Join Jason Armbruster, Associate Deputy Director of ACCESS Support at CU Boulder, for a session that will demonstrate an approach to exploring a new data set utilizing the coding and visualization capabilities of a few of… Read more: Free to the Public: Starting Your Data Analysis with LLMs
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is launching a new series of CCC Community Chats, designed to spark broad discussion on key issues in computing research. The first event, CCC Community Chat: Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research, will feature David Jensen (UMass Amherst), lead author of the CCC whitepaper Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research. Co-authors will also join for the live Q&A: This CCC Community Chat will explore six paradigm shifts that… Read more: CCC Community Chat: Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research
By Andrew Helregel What began as a student project in 2023 will now serve a whole university community. Illinois Chat, an official artificial intelligence (AI) software tool of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has launched for the Fall 2025 semester and is available for anyone on campus. In partnership with the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Illinois Computes, NCSA developed Illinois Chat to offer large language model (LLM) abilities to the… Read more: It’s Official: Illinois Chat Is Launched For Campus Community
Join us for an engaging lunchtime seminar hosted by the Center for AI Innovation at the University of Illinois, where Rohan Marwaha and colleagues will demonstrate how to use Cursor and other powerful AI command-line tools to boost productivity and innovation in your workflows. What You’ll Learn: When: October 21, 2025, 12:00pm (noon)Where: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Room 1030Zoom Link: https://go.ncsa.illinois.edu/NCSALunchtimeSeminarLunch Provided This session is designed for NCSA staff, Students, and Affiliates and will be repeated later in the fall for those who… Read more: NCSA Lunchtime Seminar: Exploring Cursor & AI CLI Tools
Have you checked out the ballot yet? We are proud to say that CAII has another affiliate, Prof. Seid Koric and his NCSA and University of Illinois colleagues and collaborators, were nominated for their projects in HPC in Energy, AI in HPC and HPC in Industry. 4. Best Use of HPC in Energy Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a deep learning operator, based on… Read more: CAII Affiliate has three projects on the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards Ballot!
Polls are now open for the 2025 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards. Polls will remain open for only two weeks, so don’t wait – cast your ballot today for work done by one of CAII and NCSA’s affiliates, Mark Neubauer and team! Mark and his team have submitted work done in collaboration with the University of Illinois and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) They are listed under “17. Top HPC-Enabled Scientific Achievement” Researchers from the University of… Read more: Center for Artificial Innovation Affiliate asks for votes at the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards!
Polls are now open for the 2025 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards. Nominations are in, and now it’s up to HPCwire readers to pick their favorites as the best and brightest innovators within the global HPC community are recognized. Polls will remain open for only two weeks, so don’t wait! Submit your picks and cast your ballot today! CAII has submitted in cooperation with our REU program at NCSA.We are listed under “22. Workforce Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Award”… Read more: Cast your ballot for the Center for Artificial Innovation – REU program at the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards!
The seminar will be taught by Priyam Mazumdar, a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. One of NCSA’s core goals is to provide compute resources to researchers nationwide and the expertise and training necessary to fully utilize these resources. This seminar series is open to all, including graduate students, undergraduates, and particularly domain… Read more: Center for AI Innovation AI Training Seminar Series Fall 2025
This competition is co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal of the hackathon is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA. The competition will take place on October 25-26, 2025 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.… Read more: 2025 ASHBY PRIZE IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE Hackathon – Registration Extended!
Event Details Date: August 28, 2025Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (CDT) Illinois Time9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (CST) Mexico Time The objective of this symposium is to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences on the highly relevant topic of artificial intelligence, with a focus on addressing its multidisciplinary dimensions and real-world applications. Interested in attending? Go HERE for more information. To register now – click HERE. I-MMÁS represents a culture… Read more: Upcoming Artificial Intelligence Symposium Webinar
Grainger College of Engineering is offering a Seminar Course titled Biologically Plausible AI this Fall. Seminars on topics of current interest will be presented and the first introductory session will be held on Friday, August 29, 2025. Instructors of the course include CAII affiliates ChengXiang Zhai, Rhanor Gillette, and Ekaterina Gribkova, as well as Yuji Zhang, Ke Yang, and Xiaocong Yang. This Seminar course will discuss recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, many… Read more: Seminar Course “Biologically Plausible AI” Starting Soon
The AI in Cancer Surgery & Care Conference will take place September 4–5, 2025, at the University of Illinois College of Law. The event is co-sponsored by the Cancer Center at Illinois and will bring together leading experts from medicine, law, technology, and ethics. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the transformative role of AI in cancer diagnosis, treatment, and surgery, addressing not only groundbreaking medical and technical advancements, but also the ethical and legal… Read more: AI in Cancer Surgery & Care Conference
Instructure, the maker of Canvas LMS, announced the winners of its first-ever Academic Excellence Awards, recognizing exceptional educators and programs worldwide for remarkable achievements in teaching, learning and innovation. The awards spotlight individuals and teams who have demonstrated exceptional impact across three categories: Outstanding Course, Transformative Program and Innovative Tool. Winners of the Academic Excellence Awards are boldly reshaping the future of learning. Their work spans continents and disciplines, from AI-powered… Read more: CAII Illinois Chat wins First Place in Innovative Tool Award Category for Academic Excellence Awards
Jeff D’Alessio has created a feature series in The Illini Insider (a section of the local News Gazette) focusing on Artificial intelligence. Most people read or hear about AI every day and it’s only going to become more prevalent in the years to come, say those “in the know”. Whether that’s a welcome development or a worrisome one depends on the field, the form it takes and the forecaster. In… Read more: The future of AI: In the home, on the battlefield, in space, sports and beyond
Like to know more? These are ways to familiarize yourself before it becomes available this Fall. The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) along with campus partners from The University Library, Technology Services, NCSA, ATLAS and The Siebel Center for Design will host the Summer of AI at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Throughout this summer-long series faculty and staff will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops,… Read more: Illinois Chat – Soon to Be the Official AI Offering On Campus!
Sophia Witola Reyes, a student working with the Center for Artificial Intelligence and who was the 2024 REU FoDoMMaT fellow, is among 12 UIUC students who were selected as the Illinois’ 2025 Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows. Congratulations, Sophia, on this great achievement! Each year, Mayo Clinic invites around 180 undergraduates from across the nation to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). The program allows undergraduates to work at the… Read more: CAII Student Named Illinois’ 2025 Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
The Illinois Science Explorers (I-Sci) program, a public engagement initiative of the Center for Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recently partnered with the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). This collaboration yielded a curriculum segment called “Interacting with AI” which was shared with young learners at the Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club in Champaign on… Read more: I-Sci Explorers Inspire Young Minds with Hands-On AI at Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club
By Andrew Helregel The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications received $1 million in funding from NASA to support the Euclid space mission, which explores dark matter and dark energy throughout the universe. By developing and integrating an open-sourced deep learning framework to process images captured by Euclid, CAII and Principal Investigator Xin Liu aim to accurately and efficiently identify blended galaxies or… Read more: CAII Receives NASA Funding to Assist Euclid Space Mission
By NCSA News Staff Editor’s note: This announcement was originally published by author Julia Park in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. Dr. Seid Koric, a CAII affiliate, has been awarded the 2025 Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The competitive national award, established in 2011, recognizes career-long achievements that advance the boundaries of engineering research. Koric, a research professor in the Department… Read more: NCSA’s Seid Koric Earns National Engineering Honor
By Andrew Helregel The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, in collaboration with the Personalized Nutrition Initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is developing a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze an individual’s nutritional intake and organizes it into a holistic perspective for better health outcomes. Director of CAII Vlad Kindratenko is leading the effort to provide the Personalized… Read more: NCSA, CAII Get Personal With Your Health
Take a listen to this 30-minute Supercomputing in Europe podcast with NCSA’s Director of Industry and CAII Leadership Team Member Brendan McGinty discussing high-performance computing for industrial needs and connecting academic research with high-end corporate goals. Brendan chatted with Apostolos Vasileiadis of EuroCC National Competence Centre Sweden (ENCCS) during the EuroHPC Summit 2025 in Krakow, Poland in March. “The recent EuroHPC Summit hosted by EuroHPC Joint Undertaking leadership and organizing… Read more: NCSA’s Director of Industry Brendan McGinty discusses HPC for industrial needs and connecting academic research with high-end corporate goals
Last year the Pew Research Center conducted their 2024 Artificial Intelligence Survey. For this effort they surveyed AI experts to help inform leaders, decision-makers and the general public about the promises and challenges of AI. They just announced that the report with the survey’s findings was recently published. The results are quite interesting. A link to the report is here. The report, “How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View… Read more: Pew Research Center 2024 Artificial Intelligence Survey Published
By Megan Meave Johnson Each year, the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) hosts a number of student researchers providing them with hands-on experience on real world research projects involving AI/ML. This year alone, CAII worked with 17 graduate students and 14 undergraduate students, pairing them with teams and mentors that would give them a one-of-a-kind research experience. Each year, the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) hosts a number… Read more: Students flipping the script and teaching Computers
CAII Shares CDA announcement of new AG Focused Q&A System built on UIUC.chat CAII is excited to share collaborative work between the Center for AI Innovation and the Center for Digital Ag at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Our joint project, CropWizard (based on CAII’s UIUC.chat), is an AI-driven question-answering system supporting farmers, agronomists, industry, and the broader agriculture community. Recent advances in Generative AI capabilities for natural language… Read more: U. of I. Center for Digital Ag Announces New Generative AI Benchmarking Consortium – AI AgriBench
This story was co-reported by Teresa Carr for Undark and Margaret Manto for NOTUS. Senate Republicans flagged thousands of grants as “woke DEI” research. But what does that really mean? When he realized that Senate Republicans were characterizing his federally funded research project as one of many they considered ideological and of questionable scientific value, Darren Lipomi, chair of the chemical engineering department at the University of Rochester, was incensed.… Read more: In War Against DEI in Science, Researchers See Collateral Damage
By Andrew Helregel The National Center for Supercomputing Applications received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to renew its annual Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, the Future of Discovery: Training Students to Build and Apply Open Source Machine Learning Models and Tools (FoDOMMaT). Housed in NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII), the 10-week on-site experience brings about 10 undergraduate students each year from a variety of… Read more: NCSA Awarded Funding to Continue AI-focused NSF REU Program
Are you ready to use cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure (CI) tools to elevate your scientific work? If you are, join CI Pathways (NSF award 2417789) and embark on a transformative journey to empower researchers like you! CI Pathways is a cohort-based training program offering learners a guided approach to using CI to enhance their research. You will learn alongside peers and receive expert guidance from seasoned mentors. Participants will have opportunities to build relationships… Read more: CI Pathways – Spring 2025
NCSA’s Center for AI Innovation (CAII) in collaboration with NCSA’s Delta/DeltaAI team are offering a Practical Machine Learning Training Seminar Series during the Spring 2025 semester. The seminar will be taught by Priyam Mazumdar, a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. One of NCSA’s core goals is to provide compute resources to researchers… Read more: Practical Machine Learning Training Seminar Series Spring 2025
This is our 3rd newsletter in our two-year existence, but we have 1,700 git commits and 600 PRs across our frontend and backend. This newsletter contains ‘high alpha’ insight into the best uses of LLMs that we’re pushing into production. And last month we silently launched Guided Learning (Aka Tutor Mode), a whole-new Analysis page and Claude support. That post is well worth a read. For more details see the UIUC.Chat News.
By Megan Meave Johnson Last July the UIC Department of Medicine announced a new maternal research center called The Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence which focuses on building and training an interdisciplinary research team, as well as partnering with communities to combat maternal mortality and create an equitable healthcare experience for everyone, regardless of background. Funded by an $11 million six-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),… Read more: CAII Affiliate and Collaborator are Making Maternity Safer
Practical Deep Learning Training Seminar Series If you were unable to participate in last Fall’s training seminar series, the class materials and videos are now available online.
CAII Featured in the Daily Illini By Clyde John, Contributing Writer • January 27, 2025 In a collaboration between Houston Christian University and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University, researchers aim to revolutionize the field of artificial intelligence. The partnership, driven by the NCSA’s Center for AI Innovation, seeks to overcome the limitations of current AI models and pave the way for more robust and scalable solutions.… Read more: Revolutionizing AI: NCSA, HCU forge partnership
Grainger College of Engineering is offering a Seminar Course titled Biologically Plausible AI this Spring. Seminars on topics of current interest will be presented and the first introductory session is being held on Monday, January 27, 2025. Instructors of the course include CAII affiliates ChengXiang Zhai, Rhanor Gillette, and Ekaterina Gribkova, as well as Yuji Zhang and Ke Yang. This Seminar course will discuss recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, many of which… Read more: Seminar Course Titled “Biologically Plausible AI” Starting Soon
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is happy to announce registration is OPEN for our 10-week on-site summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program called The Future of Discovery: Training Students to Build and Apply Open Source Machine Learning Models and Tools (FoDOMMaT). The program is housed in the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation and administered by Olena Kindratenko, senior research coordinator at… Read more: Registration now Open for Summer 2025 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Written by Bruce Adams CS professors at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science are undertaking research projects to apply AI to instruction, building on the Illinois Grainger Engineering tradition of innovative engineering education. Many are partnering with Grainger College of Engineering and campus colleagues to expand the relevance of their research beyond computer science instruction – including the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation. Photo Credit: Grainger College of… Read more: CS researchers are applying AI to instruction
Dr. Volodymyr Kindratenko, Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence, recently participated in an event sponsored by SmithGroup’s Science & Technology and Climate Change specialists along with other AI experts, researchers and energy authorities to explore revolutionizing research environments, influencing energy consumption and driving the need for innovative energy generation solutions, all while supporting global decarbonization efforts. At this conference they discussed the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence and how… Read more: Navigating the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence & Energy in Research-Driven Environments
Our First Seminar is a Success! At the beginning of the Fall Semester we announced the availability of a new training seminar on Practical Deep Learning through the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation. There were 10 sessions – 1 per week from September through November. Our goal was to provide resources to students from any background who had interest and potential for learning about this technology. This was a very… Read more: Practical Deep Learning Seminar 2024 Class Earns Badges
Caps off to all the students who have worked with us this semester! The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Innovation would like to say Congratulations to our both our graduating students and thesis candidates in Fall of 2024! All their work and commitment has paid off and they have finally reached this major milestone in their lives. We believe they have what it takes to make a positive impact in… Read more: CAII Congratulates Several students on their successes this semester
From the instructors of the seminar course CS 591 BAI, Biologically Plausible Artificial Intelligence (AI) (https://publish.illinois.edu/cs591-bai/): We are excited to invite everyone who is interested in the convergence of AI and neuroscience to join us in-person for our last seminar of the semester, on Friday, Dec. 6, at 3:30 pm in 1304 Siebel Center. Creator and Copyright: jmimages During the seminar our agenda includes some special announcements, snacks, and presentations: Also,… Read more: Upcoming Seminar: Biologically Plausible AI
By: Bruce Adams Siebel School of Computing and Data Science professor Abdussalam Alawini is the principal investigator for a new initiative under the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering Strategic Instructional Innovations Program (SIIP). SIIP is a competitive awards program designed to support innovation in education, similar to the research model at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – “an engaged community, collaborative projects, faculty-led innovation, rigorous evaluation, and a scholarly approach to pedagogical methods.”… Read more: CAII Director, Volodymyr Kindratenko, is co-investigator on project receiving SIIP award to integrate AI into engineering education
by: Molly Sweeney The University of Illinois is the new home to an artificial intelligence-based research computing system. DeltaAI is an advanced AI resource that will aid the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ existing system, Delta. DeltaAI will help accelerate AI machine learning and computing application. The U of I said this could help scientists and researchers address complex problems more efficiently. “The demand for computing and data resources for… Read more: U of I launches $30 million advanced AI system
This is part of a series of virtual visits with NCSA thought leaders on current topics impacting the field of high-performance computing. NCSA Director Bill Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’ A lot of the news covering artificial intelligence stems from the efforts being made in the commercial sector. Whether it’s well-known chatbots and large language models like ChatGPT or legacy tech companies like Google and Microsoft investing heavily in… Read more: Different Approaches to AI in Academic, Commercial Communities
The Center for AI Innovation is excited to announce that the UIUC Chat / Illinois Chat service has been chosen by the Office of the CIO for a Pilot Program to help steer its growth toward the future. A select group of individuals have been chosen to explore Illinois Chat as the fastest and easiest way to train an AI assistant or chatbot. As part of this limited pilot they… Read more: UIUC Chat now Offered in the Illinois Chat Pilot Program
Research Park Events September 2024 Event Event Type Conference/Workshop Sponsor Research Park Location EnterpriseWorks Atrium, 60 Hazelwood Drive Date Sep 13, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 pm Contact Brad Miller E-Mail brad@puzzlelabs.ai Join the AI User Group on Friday, September 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. All Research Park events are free; however, registration is required to ensure that we have adequate seating and food for all participants: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1635161783 … Read more: Data + AI User Group
By NCSA News Staff Note: This article by Maggie Knutte was first published by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Urbana-Champaign. CAII is happy to share this article from our Center Affiliate Professor Xin Liu. Professor Xin Liu leads the research group Astro-AI referenced in this article. About five years ago, graduate students at the University of Illinois embarked on a project for their ASTRO… Read more: Astronomers Use AI to More Clearly Observe Space
The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA is providing a practical ML training seminar series this semester. The instructor will be Priyam Mazumdar, Priyam is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC and is a Researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Center for AI Innovation. He is also a Research & Development Intern at Sandia National Labs in Deep Learning for Neuromorphic Computing. The… Read more: Practical Machine Learning Training Seminar Series this Fall 2024
8/27/2024 Bruce Adams – Siebel School of Computing and Data Science At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Interest in machine learning among students is growing, but the current opportunities to join labs and research groups are becoming increasingly limited.” That’s how Ron Arel describes the impetus behind Lapis Labs, a Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at The Grainger College of Engineering student-led academic research group created to help promote… Read more: Illinois CS students lead their own research at Lapis Labs
The AI Center would like to share information on a new, Seminar-Styled Course offered this semester by one of our CAII Affiliates. Grainger College of Engineering is offering a Seminar Course titled Biologically Plausible AI this Fall. Seminars on topics of current interest will be presented and the first session is being held this Friday, August 30, 2024. Instructors of the course include Chengxiang Zhai, Ekaterina Gribkova, and Rhanor Gillette,… Read more: New Seminar Course Kicks Off this Friday, August 30, 2024
Alyssa Patrick – Jul 30, 2024 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming smarter and more powerful each day. The technology is creeping into everyday life, changing the way we work, play and communicate. WAND News visited the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) , housed at NCSA. “Its improving at a very significant speed. This is really amazing to see how much has… Read more: CAII Featured in Local WAND News – Interview with Director Dr. Volodymyr Kindratenko
Illinois Summer Research Program Alliance (ISRPA) is hosting a STEM Career Exploration and Symposium tomorrow, July 26, at the Illini Union at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. See the Press Release for this Event. Below is a lest of presentations and presenters from the Center along with the name of the primary project they are associated on: Click HERE for the symposium schedule.
This year’s IEEE World Congress on Services was held July 7 thru 13 in Shenzehn, China. Two students from Grainger College of Engineering-ECE who are working with CAII and the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute presented during the Technical Program. Yuan (Jeff) Ma presented on UniNet: Accelerating the Container Network Data Plane in IaaS Clouds. Scott Smith presented on OS4C: An Open-Source SR-IOV System for SmartNIC-based Cloud Platforms. CAII is proud… Read more: Two CAII Students Present at IEEE CLOUD 2024
Pete Wilkins The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has established itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI), driving transformative advancements across industries and paving the way for a future where AI redefines what is possible. From groundbreaking research initiatives to pivotal partnerships with industry giants, the university’s commitment to AI innovation is reshaping the landscape of technology and education. As we stand on the precipice of an… Read more: Forbes names University of Illinois the Midwest’s AI Powerhouse
by Diana Yates | Life Sciences Editor, U. of I. News Bureau By giving artificial intelligence simple associative learning rules based on the brain circuits that allow a sea slug to forage — and augmenting it with better episodic memory, like that of an octopus — scientists have built an AI that can navigate new environments, seek rewards, map landmarks and overcome obstacles. Professor Rhanor Gillette and Ekaterina GribkovaResearchers use lessons… Read more: From ‘CyberSlug’ to ‘CyberOctopus’: New AI explores, remembers, seeks novelty, overcomes obstacles
Credit: HPCWire: Link – NCSA Article The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) was recently awarded $4.9 million of supplemental funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for Delta and an additional $4.9 million for DeltaAI to expand the potential capabilities of the soon-to-launch system by nearly 50 percent. NCSA originally received nearly $25 million from NSF in 2023 to deploy and operate DeltaAI, an advanced computing and data… Read more: NSF Awards Additional $9.8M for Delta, DeltaAI
Successful AWS Workshop on 5/1/2024 In a culmination of shared insights and collaborative learning, the recent workshop on Amazon Bedrock concluded with resounding success. Hosted by CAII and NCSA on May 1, the event brought together a diverse group of participants eager to delve into the intricacies of AWS Bedrock. We would like to thank all attendees for their active participation and contributions. We are pleased to provide access to… Read more: Bedrock Workshop Concludes, Resources Available for Participants
This competition was co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and co-sponsored by the NCSA Industry program. The main goal of the hackathon was to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA. This competition and the awards given would not be… Read more: 2024 Hackathon Winners Announced!
This is where NCSA takes the opportunity to showcase the research conducted by students at NCSA and UIUC. This conference also presents an opportunity to network with NCSA researchers, faculty affiliates and industry partners. NCSA students and UIUC students whose research is closely aligned with NCSA research areas of interest give lightning talks, present posters and/or organize a workshop sessions. The Center is pleased to have 7 students who gave… Read more: CAII students presented at the 2nd NCSA Student Research Symposium
Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center (TRANS-IPIC) hosts 1st Annual Workshop at the Big Ten Conference Center in Rosemont, IL. Wentao Yao spoke at TRANS-IPIC’s workshop on April 22, 2024 on “Design and Implementation of Digital Twin Models for Continuous Monitoring and Performance Prediction of Precast Concrete Bridges”. The goals of this project are to design and validate a digital twin model of a precast concrete bridge structure to serve as… Read more: CAII’s Wentao Yao Presents at TRANS-IPIC Workshop
Learning how to build generative AI Applications with Foundation Models in Bedrock Time is getting close!Check your calendar for May 1 – CAII is hosting AWS at NCSA for a Workshop on ‘Bedrock’ The Center would like to invite NCSA staff and NCSA-related students to a Workshop on Amazon Bedrock: Where: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Room 1040 Date: May 1, 2024Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Type of Event:… Read more: CAII Welcomes AWS to NCSA to Present a Workshop on ‘Bedrock’
More details about UIUC.chat winning 2nd place! EOH visitors are shown the UIUC chatbot. The Center for AI Innovation (CAII) showcased their work on the UIUC.chat platform, a project SPIN student Maxwell Lindsey has contributed to. This chatbot gives users a more customizable AI chat experience. The exhibit showed how the chatbot was loaded with specific agriculture information to create a resource for identifying crop diseases. CAII won second place… Read more: EOH 2024 at NCSA
Healthy Aging of Brain and Mind with AI Shirui Luo, a Research Software Engineer at NCSA and part of the Leadership Team with CAII, will be speaking at the AI + Health Summit. in Chicago on April 15, 2024. Shirui will be speaking about CAII’s MRI Brain Atlas Project For more information click here: https://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/76/1975013076.html
The 16th JLESC Workshop gathers leading researchers in high-performance computing from the JLESC partners INRIA, the University of Illinois, Argonne National Laboratory, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, RIKEN Center for Computational Science and the University of Tennessee to explore the most recent and critical issues in advancing the field of HPC from petascale to the extreme scale era Kastan, a Research Software Engineer at NCSA and part of CAII… Read more: Kastan Day Speaks at 16th JLESC Workshop in Kobe Japan
Congratulations to CAII’s team from https://www.uiuc.chat/ for winning 2nd Place in Outstanding Undergraduate Research at the 2024 U of I Engineering Open House! Way to go team!
Vignesh Srinivasakumar Wins Storyteller Award for his presentation on Computer Science, “AI Teaches AI to Teach” The Graduate College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Research Live! competition.Now in its ninth year, Research Live! is a fun, fast-paced competition that celebrates graduate student research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Twelve finalists shared their passions in three minutes or less at the Campus Instructional Facility Atrium on Tuesday,… Read more: 2024 Research Live! Winners Announced
This competition is co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal of the hackathon is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA. The competition will take place on April 20-21 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications with… Read more: 2024 ASHBY PRIZE IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE Hackathon
CAII Graduate Student, Vignesh Srinivasakumar, will be speaking on CAII related research! Join NCSA and CAII for this special live event where Illinois graduate students share their research in three minutes or less! The 2024 Research Live! Finalist Showcase will include screenings of the finalists’ presentations, live voting for the People’s Choice Award, and an announcement of the winners. The event will be held on Tuesday, April 2, at 5:00 pm… Read more: Research Live! Finalist Showcase
Lapis Labs: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign based Student-led Artificial Intelligence research organization Lapis Labs has been working on innovative solutions to some of the most pressing questions about AI: What happens when a model has built potentially hazardous knowledge into its primary knowledge base – and how do you get rid of that information while preserving the rest of the working model. This work has resulted in a new proxy… Read more: Check Out Lapis Labs and their New Article in Time Magazine
NCSAEngage features new work completed on UIUC.chat The Engagement Directorate at NCSA hosts regular Lightning Talks to spotlight the diverse and impactful projects within our community, fostering collaboration, innovation, and knowledge-sharing. These talks aim to elevate awareness, facilitate meaningful connections, and inspire continuous innovation across NCSA. These lightning talks spotlight a snapshot of cutting-edge work, and provide networking opportunities and a dynamic platform for professional development and community building. On… Read more: Featured Presentation on UIUC.Chat
Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences Spring Research Symposium Four students from the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovations presented at The AICE Spring Research Symposium which was held on March 5 in Chicago, Illinois. The AICE Experiences Symposium brought together thought leaders from academia and industry to foster collaborations and build a community for research, education, and infrastructure to accelerate AI for interactive conversational experiences. The symposium showcased… Read more: CAII Students Present at AICE meeting
By Andrew Helregel The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is once again hosting a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), this summer on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). This year’s program will run from May 20 through July 26. Students can apply for the 10-week, paid research opportunity through NCSA’s REU webpage. Applications are due March 17 and… Read more: Applications Open for NCSA’s Summer REU Program
By Andrew Helregel The National Center for Supercomputing Applications was recently announced as a founding member of the Trillion Parameter Consortium, a global gathering of scientists from federal laboratories, research institutes, academia and industry to address the challenges of building large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems and advancing trustworthy and reliable AI for scientific discovery. NCSA is proud to be a founding member of the Trillion Parameter Consortium. Expanding the use… Read more: NCSA Helps Found Trillion Parameter Consortium
By Megan Meave Johnson University of Illinois alumni often say there is something akin to a gravity well in Urbana-Champaign. In many places on campus, you’ll find UIUC alumni employed, returning to the memories and atmosphere of accomplishment that these grounds are steeped in. NCSA’s newest faculty affiliate, Kelvin Droegemeier, is no stranger to this pull. Droegemeier earned his master’s degree in atmospheric sciences from UIUC in 1982. He followed… Read more: Esteemed Alumnus Returns to NCSA
Amazon-Illinois Center on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Conversational Experiences also names first cohort of academic fellows. Earlier this year, Amazon and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) announced the launch of the Amazon-Illinois Center on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Conversational Experiences (AICE). The center, housed within the Grainger College of Engineering, supports UIUC researchers and students in their development of novel approaches to conversational-AI systems. Amazon and UIUC are happy… Read more: Amazon and UIUC announce inaugural slate of funded research projects
By NCSA News Staff Editor’s note: This is part of a series of virtual visits with NCSA thought leaders on current topics impacting the field of high-performance computing. We’re in an exciting time of AI advancement and NCSA is poised to lead the way. With faster and more powerful computing than ever before, it’s now easier to experiment with creative and innovative ideas. This presents windows to unforeseen possibilities and… Read more: NCSA Director Bill Gropp on the ‘Future of AI’
By Megan Meave Johnson REU FoDoMMaT students, mentors and program administrators standing in front of NCSA’s plaque celebrating the creation of Mosaic. Photo credit: Priyam Mazumdar, REU graduate research mentor At NCSA, important research is being done every day. Everything from working towards better cancer treatments to studying supernovae is included in NCSA’s portfolio of research projects. But NCSA doesn’t stop there. The Center also wants to help train and… Read more: Undergraduate Researchers in Action
Would you like a dedicated TA for classes? Check this out! The CAII team at NCSA is building an AI-powered chatbot capable of rapidly ingesting college course materials, such as professor’s lectures, videos, textbook, and becoming an effective Artificial Intelligence (AI) teaching assistant (TA) that can answer factual questions, explain course materials, and even help with homework problems, while providing links to the primary sources, within the context of the… Read more: CAII Team Builds an AI-Powered Teaching Assistance Chatbot
Studying novel research in personalized federated learning by discovering effective parameters for fine-tuning and federated averaging at training time, surpassing existing FL baselines 09/21/2023: Followup Update: Delta Powers Student Research: Student researchers take advantage of resources through ACCESS. The Federated Learning and Analytics in Practice: Algorithms, Systems, Applications, and Opportunities Workshop at ICML 2023 was recently held Honolulu, HI on July 23-July29, 2023. Student members of uiuc.ai, Rishub Tamirisa, John… Read more: AI@UIUC Undergraduate Students receive Grant and Scholarship at FL-ICML
New challenges to make AI and machine learning (ML) live up to their promise Seid Koric, the technical associate director of NCSA’s Research Consulting directorate and research associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering (MechSE) at the University of Illinois, is leading a team of researchers at NCSA and The Grainger College of Engineering that stands at the forefront of AI and ML advances. With collaborators from… Read more: NCSA Leverages DeepONet, Transforming ML Models in Structural Mechanics
Alyssa Patrick May 3, 2023 – WAND News Artificial intelligence seems to be popping up everywhere. For SnapChat users, a new My AI feature allows people to chat, send pictures and get questions answered. “We are really in the beginning of something huge that is going to happen over the course of the next few years,” Volodymyr Kindratenko, Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, told WAND News. Kindratenko… Read more: Director from CAII warns SnapChat users about AI feature, but predicts bright future for the tech
By Andrew Helregel Original Article: HERE Thanks to an initial seed grant from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the goals of mapping the human brain with artificial intelligence and advancing diagnosis and treatment methods are one step closer to fruition. National Center for Supercomputing Applications faculty affiliates Zhi-Pei Liang and Bradley P. Sutton and Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation Director Volodomyr Kindratenko are three of six co-principal… Read more: NCSA Affiliates (Including CAII) Receive Funding For AI-Powered Brain Mapping
Caps off to all the graduates who have worked with us this year! The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Innovation would like to say Congratulations to our graduating students of May 2023! After years of dedication, perseverance, and commitment, these students have finally reached this major milestone in their lives. We believe that you have what it takes to make a positive impact in the world, and as you step… Read more: CAII Congratulates Several Graduates this Spring
National Center for Supercomputing Applications faculty affiliates Zhi-Pei Liang and Bradley P. Sutton and Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation Director Volodomyr Kindratenko are three of six co-principal investigators on the team whose vision is to pair AI and advanced brain mapping technologies to elevate clinicians’ capability to diagnose, monitor and treat debilitating neural diseases. Ours is the first attempt in the world to develop next-generation AI-enabled brain mapping technologies capable… Read more: NCSA Affiliates Receive Funding For AI-Powered Brain Mapping
NCSA and Center for AI Innovation affiliate, Rhanor Gillette, helps answer the question of which came first, movement or legs. This new study finds parallels between the brain architecture that drives locomotion in sea slugs and that of more complex segmented creatures. It suggests that brain circuits for locomotion evolved long before appendages and skeletons. Read more here: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1996912036
Event celebrated STEAM success throughout the state and discussed how we can secure a better future through advocacy and investment Presented by the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition, Illinois DOIT, UBHE, ISBE, and Illinois Innovation Network Volodymyr Kindratenko participated as a member of the “Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Potential” panel during “Innovation Day” on April 20th at the SIU School of Medicine. The event celebrated April as Illinois Innovation and… Read more: Director of CAII Participates in Panel on AI at Illinois Innovation Day 2023