Artificial Intelligence

All-in on AI.
At NCSA, In the next millennium, the biggest advances in human innovation may not be human at all.

From natural language processing to drug discovery, artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in our daily lives. That’s why we’ve created an entire center dedicated to this emerging field, centralizing research and synergizing efforts to explore its full potential.

Here, we empower and support advancements in AI by leveraging NCSA’s cutting-edge technology and expertise, and facilitating collaboration across multiple disciplines including agriculture, astrophysics, automotive, big data and infrastructure. And, it’s why we’re the choice for critical projects like mitigating the impact of COVID-19.

Questions about NCSA’s work in artificial intelligence?

Volodymyr Kindratenko
Director, Center for AI Innovation
kindrtnk@illinois.edu
217-265-0209

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Center for AI Innovation

Learn how the Center for AI Innovation is putting us at the forefront of a growing field, unifying cross-campus initiatives and creating a nexus for AI application and research.

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NCSA Spotlight

Aiman Soliman
Research Scientist

Aiman is a spatial data scientist who works with physical and social big data.

“The share of geospatial big data significantly increased because it is easy to record location and time information for every collected data. NCSA’s facilities and cross-disciplinary culture provides me with the means for utilizing big data to support the sustainable development of our community and industrial partners.”

Project Highlights

Illinois Chat

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.

FAIR4HEP

See how researchers are using high-energy physics to develop a FAIR framework that advances our understanding of AI.

AIFARMS

From autonomous farming to livestock optimization, artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in the life of the modern family farm. Learn how we’re shaping the future of farming with this important project, led by the Center for Digital Agriculture.

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