Dietrich Joins in NSF-Funded AI Research Institute

Dietrich College joined the School of Computer Science in fundamental and cutting-edge research in a government-led push to bring about life-changing advances through artificial intelligence.

The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $220 million investment in 11 new Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers will participate in two of the new institutes.

Each institute will receive $20 million over five years. More than a third of that funding, about $7 to $8 million from each institute, will support research efforts at CMU that will involve dozens of SCS faculty, students and staff. Researchers from the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Tepper School of Business will also be involved.

The CMU team consists of about a dozen faculty members spanning RI, CSD, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Dietrich and Tepper. The team includes Henny Admoni, who researches nonverbal human-robot interaction; Jodi Forlizzi and her work in human-AI interaction; Aaron Steinfeld, who works on assistive technology; Dave Touretzky and his work in teaching AI to K-12 students; Alex London, a professor of ethics and philosophy in Dietrich; and Tepper's Anita Woolley, who studies human-AI teaming and collaboration. 

Read more about the new institutes