AI Tennessee
A project led by Michela Taufer, MathWorks Professor in the Tickle College of Engineering, has been awarded $9 million by the National Science Foundation. The project aims to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery by enabling any researcher, regardless of their high-performance computing resources, to securely discover, access, analyze and share scientific data across the nation’s research infrastructure.
UT has won $20 million from the NSF to establish ATHENA (Advanced Testbed for High-throughput Experimentation in Nano- and Atomic Science), one of twenty US research hubs that will form a national network of AI-powered laboratories to accelerate scientific discovery.
A team of students from Alcoa Intermediate School won this year’s Presidential AI Challenge for “Homework Helper,” an AI tool designed to reduce homework-related anxiety by offering support in time management and problem-solving.
With support from the AI Tennessee initiative and UT faculty, a team of elementary students from Alcoa Intermediate School in Alcoa, Tennessee, will compete in the national finals of the Presidential AI Challenge. Their success brings a classroom-driven vision for artificial intelligence in education to the national stage.
UT is launching the Knoxville Quantum Accelerator (K-Quantum) to strengthen the region’s leadership in quantum technologies and translate quantum innovation into tangible economic benefits for companies and communities across Tennessee.
Theoretical Nuclear Physics professor Thomas Papenbrock is studying atomic nuclei using advanced theory and computation to better understand how matter behaves at its most basic level.
