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UAlbany Launches New AI & Society College, Research Center
A new college and associated research center will support the development of new discipline-specific, AI-focused majors, minors and microcredentials that build on the expansive existing programs in UAlbany’s nine schools and colleges.
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Q&A: AI Plus Institute Director Balakrishnan 'Prabha' Prabhakaran
Prabhakaran, an expert in human computer interaction, previously spent 25 years on the computer science faculty at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he also served as associate vice president for research centers and institutes and director of the Multimedia Systems Laboratory.
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Summit to Focus on AI and National Competitiveness
The University at Albany and the Special Competitive Studies Project will host a daylong AI and National Competitiveness Innovation Summit at ETEC on Friday, followed by an event specifically geared for students on Saturday
UAlbany Professor of Matheamtics Antun Milas, center, receives an award from the 2024 ICB Congress in Beijing. (Photo provided))
5 Questions with Professor of Mathematics Antun Milas
UAlbany Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Antun Milas examines issues such as representation theory and modular forms. At UAlbany, Milas teaches courses on number theory and cyrpotography. His most recent research project, “Higher Depth in Representation Theory, Number Theory, and Quantum Topology,” was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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New Tool Takes UAlbany Chip Research to the Atomic Level
The system is manufactured by U.K.-based Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology and is one of three new Oxford Instruments semiconductor fabrication tools coming to the CNSE lab located at the NY CREATES Albany NanoTech Complex.
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UAlbany Center for Biophotonic Technology and Artificial Intelligence Adds International Research Partner
University at Albany chemist Igor Lednev is adding another research partner to help develop laser-based technologies for forensics and medical diagnostics.  
Professor of Nanoscale Engineering Susan Sharfstein showcases a bio reactor in her lab at UAlbany. (Photo by Lori Van Buren/Times Union, used by permission)
CNSE Partnering with DeepSeq on Generative AI for Drug Research
University at Albany Professor of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Susan Sharfstein is partnering with the startup firm DeepSeq.AI on a new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to advance AI-driven drug discovery.
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UAlbany, IBM Announce New Artificial Intelligence Research Projects
The projects are the first five funded through the Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems (CEAIS), a $20 million UAlbany-IBM research collaboration announced last year by Gov. Kathy Hochul that included the installation of state-of-the-art prototype IBM AI hardware at UAlbany.