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NCSA Launches DeltaAI 

DeltaAI will enable the nation’s scientists and researchers to address the world’s most challenging problems.

Illinois Computes Providing Researchers with Jupyter Notebooks

The campus-funded program is making accessible and nimble computing available to Illinois researchers free of charge.

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NCSA Shapes Students’ Computing Dreams

Former NCSA student researchers win the Cozad New Venture Challenge for their innovative software solution designed to help democratize artificial intelligence computing resources.
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NCSA Awards 2025 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

Carle Illinois College of Medicine student Mahima Goel won a $10,000 award for developing a scalp-cooling system to prevent hair loss in cancer patients.
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NCSA Director Bill Gropp Honored with Prestigious ACM Award

The Association for Computing Machinery recognized Gropp for his work on MPICH, a high-performance and portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface.
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Using AI to Help Find Missing Persons

Researchers from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, use NCSA’s Delta to help train and build an AI application for use in the field during search and rescue missions.
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CAII Receives NASA Funding to Assist Euclid Space Mission

NASA awarded the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation $1 million to support the exploration of dark matter and dark energy.
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NCSA Welcomes Chris Keeley to the Center Stage!

Get to know some of our amazing staff in our profile series.
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Sharing Science With the Community

NCSA participated in this year’s Engineering Open House, showing the power of scientific research to visitors of all ages.
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NCSA, CAII Get Personal With Your Health

The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation is developing a mobile app that analyzes complex nutritional data to help with individual health planning.
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NCSA’s Seid Koric Earns National Engineering Honor

Seid Koric was awarded the 2025 Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Using AI to Monitor Inaccessible Locations of Nuclear Energy Systems

NCSA and Illinois Computes collaborated in research aiming to improve the monitoring systems of nuclear energy production.
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Mapping the Earth’s Crops

University of Illinois researchers use machine learning to help with food security.
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NCSA Research Offers New Diagnostic Tool For Anxiety, Major Depressive Disorder

A study by NCSA and UICOMP scientists was published in the Journal of Acoustical Society of America.
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Reaching for the Stars

NCSA’s visualization tours offer a behind-the-scenes experience for community and campus groups alike.
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NCSA’s Daniel S. Katz Honored by HPCwire

HPCwire speaks with Chief Scientist Dan Katz, one of 12 professionals recognized in their annual People to Watch series.
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Students Teaching Computers

Students in the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation get hands-on experience with AI research.
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NCSA Director Bill Gropp on U.S. Research Ecosystem

The Download: A Thought Leadership Series.
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NCSA Welcomes Pengyin Shan to the Center Stage!

Get to know some of our amazing staff in our profile series.
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Safer Infrastructure Through AI

A research team at the University of Illinois uses Delta to evaluate corrosion in bridges, pipelines and other essential infrastructure.
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NCSA Awarded Funding to Continue AI-focused NSF REU Program

NCSA renews FoDOMMaT opportunity for undergraduate students to learn about and apply artificial intelligence.
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The Ties That Find

Illinois Computes and NCSA help a University of Illinois professor of anthropology connect families in U.S. and Africa.
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Chan Authors New Book Linking Eugenics, Big Tech

Anita Say Chan, who directs the Community Data Clinic at NCSA, published a new book diving into the connections between eugenics and Big Tech.
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NCSA Awards 17 Students Fiddler Innovation Fellowships

Students in NCSA programs were recognized for their outstanding work and contributions to computational research in a variety of fields.
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Mentorship that Matters

NCSA mentors go above and beyond teaching – they share a passion for the work and help instill that in others.
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Making Maternity Safer

NCSA experts assist the newly launched University of Illinois Chicago center with solving maternal health disparity problems.
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NCSA, NFI University Partners in Geospatial Research 

Newly accredited programs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will offer students enhanced geospatial education and resources.
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Encouraging the Next Generation of Researchers

NCSA helps bring STEAM-Tacular event to local elementary school, inspiring future scientists.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Human Gut 

NCSA researchers used Illinois Computes to better understand the complexities of the human digestive system.

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