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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.

The latest developments on University at Albany faculty and staff who are receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.

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.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stopped by ETEC to encourage students to apply for the Department of Defense Cyber Service Academy scholarship program.

Thanks to funding through the John J. Sullivan Professional Development Award, doctoral students Maria Belen Paredes-Espinosa, Shadi Omranpour, Ezra Pasikatan and Jeelka Solanki have been able to take part in prestigious conferences that further their research and scholarship.

UAlbany's second annual Research and Entrepreneurship Week brought together scholars from throughout New York and beyond to put the spotlight on the explosive growth of artificial intelligence in the Capital Region, along with highlighting the substantial scholarly work of UAlbany researchers and inventors.

The news is a major boost for the Capital Region’s high-technology sector and the industry-university partnerships that have helped fuel it for three decades.

UAlbany College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering (CNSE) students Kevin Reyes, William Grice and Jadyn Lee joined with sixty students from around the world to learn directly from leading specialists about the evolution of the semiconductor and photonics industries at the Eindhoven Semicon Summer School in August in Eindhoven, Netherlands.