Profiles NCSA Student Spotlight: Fiddler Fellow Ariana Barreau Learn more about her journey and what inspired her to co-found ProteCKD and AxisMED in this Q&A. June 30, 2021
Profiles NCSA Students Pushing Innovation Program Celebrates Success Amid COVID-19 This spring, NCSA’s SPIN program went completely virtual. Despite the circumstances, the program completed a successful virtual session and recognized notable projects, interns and mentors for the 2020-21 academic year. June 15, 2021
Profiles NCSA Gravity Group Prepares Students for Their Futures Seven NCSA Gravity Group interns share bright post-graduation plans. May 18, 2021
Announcements NCSA Awards Scholarship to Winner of Social Hack 2021 Essay Contest NCSA’s eDream Institute partners with Design for America to award a scholarship to a UIUC undergrad for an essay on human-centered design thinking. May 13, 2021
Announcements NCSA Announces 2021 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Recipient Ariana Barreau receives NCSA’s eDream Institute’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award at the Illinois Innovation Prize virtual ceremony on April 15, 2021. April 19, 2021
Announcements NCSA Groups Sweep Original Undergraduate Research Award Again at EOH 2021 NCSA’s Student Cluster Competition, Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, and Students Pushing INnovation teams win first, second and third place at this year’s Engineering Open House. April 14, 2021
Research NCSA Researchers Identify Biomarkers to Accelerate Liver Toxicity Testing in New Products More rapid and accurate testing methods could lead to safer products on the market. December 18, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Wins DOE INCITE Award for Physics-Inspired AI Project An NCSA-led team receives 145,000 node hours on Summit to create AI tools that enable data-driven discovery in multi-messenger astrophysics. November 16, 2020
Announcements NCSA Awards 16 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students and Faculty Interdisciplinary research projects that create innovative solutions for real-world challenges rewarded during the virtual award ceremony. November 11, 2020
Announcements NCSA Houses New DOE-funded Center Led by Illinois Aerospace Engineering DOE awards $16.5M to NCSA and AE to develop Center for Exascale-Enabled Scramjet Design at UIUC. October 1, 2020
Research Deep Learning Model Opens Doors for Innovation in Complex Materials Design A diverse NCSA research team, which includes an Illinois MechSE undergraduate, uses AI and HPC to train a model capable of deploying metamaterial design with topology optimization on laptops that produce accurate and rapid results. September 29, 2020
Announcements NCSA and U of I Announce New Center for Astrophysical Surveys NCSA and Illinois’ new Center for AstroPhysical Surveys aims to advance survey science and increase our understanding of the Universe. September 8, 2020
Announcements NCSA Supports IGB’s New NSF-funded Molecule Maker Lab Institute to Accelerate AI Research NCSA’s Software Associate Director Kenton McHenry collaborates and shares expertise with MMLI team to advance molecular science. September 4, 2020
Announcements NSF and NIFA Awards CDA $20M to Develop New AIFARMS Institute UIUC Center for Digital Agriculture wins $20M award from National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program to accelerate AI research and agricultural Innovation through new AIFARMS Institute. August 26, 2020
Profiles Sustaining Diversity and Inclusion Throughout a Summer of Social Distancing NCSA’s REU-INCLUSION fellowship and SPIN internship programs were held virtually this summer and continued to promote collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. August 25, 2020
Funding DOE Awards $2.2M to Project at the Intersection of AI and High-Energy Physics Led by NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation Illinois’ CAII leads a team of experts from UMN, MIT and UC San Diego for DOE-funded FAIR Framework for Physics-Inspired Artificial Intelligence in High Energy Physics project. August 11, 2020