The Office of Research is conducting a campus-wide competition for the following limited submission opportunity: National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes. Click the link below to visit the project page in InfoReady.
National Artificial Intelligence Foundation Competition
Should more than the allowable number of pre-applications (2) be received by the internal deadline, an independent faculty committee will review all materials and recommend to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research the most competitive proposals to represent UC Santa Cruz, using the review criteria in the program solicitation. If selected, PIs should be prepared to complete a full application pursuant to the sponsor’s guidelines.
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- Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
- Funding Organization’s Deadline: Friday, December 4, 2020
- Award Cycle: FY2020/21
- Discipline/Subject Area:
Theme 1: Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration
Theme 2: AI Institute for Advances in Optimization
Theme 3: AI and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Theme 4: Advances in AI and Computer and Network Systems
Theme 5: AI Institute in Dynamic Systems
Theme 6: AI-Augmented Learning
Theme 7: AI to Advance Biology
Theme 8: AI-Driven Innovation in Agriculture and the Food System - Funding Available: 160,000,000
- Description:
Program Title: National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes
Synopsis of Program:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced tremendously and today promises personalized healthcare; enhanced national security; improved transportation; and more effective education, to name just a few benefits. Increased computing power, the availability of large datasets and streaming data, and algorithmic advances in machine learning (ML) have made it possible for AI research and development to create new sectors of the economy and revitalize industries. Continued advancement, enabled by sustained federal investment and channeled toward issues of national importance, holds the potential for further economic impact and quality-of-life improvements.
The 2019 update to the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, informed by visioning activities in the scientific community as well as interaction with the public, identifies as its first strategic objective the need to make long-term investments in AI research in areas with the potential for long-term payoffs in AI. The President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology has published Recommendations for Strengthening American Leadership in Industries of the Future, including AI, and calls for new and sustained research in AI to drive science and technology progress. The National AI Research Institutes program enables longer-term research and U.S. leadership in AI through the creation of AI Research Institutes.
This program is a joint government effort between the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). New to the program this year are contributions from partners in U.S. industry who share in the government’s goal to advance national competitiveness through National AI Research Institutes. This year’s industry partners are Accenture, Amazon, Google, and Intel Corporation.
This program solicitation invites proposals for full institutes that have a principal focus in one or more of the following themes, detailed in the Program Description:
- Theme 1: Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration
- Theme 2: AI Institute for Advances in Optimization
- Theme 3: AI and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
- Theme 4: Advances in AI and Computer and Network Systems
- Theme 5: AI Institute in Dynamic Systems
- Theme 6: AI-Augmented Learning
- Theme 7: AI to Advance Biology
- Theme 8: AI-Driven Innovation in Agriculture and the Food System
Application Procedure
Please submit the following materials through UCSC Infoready by the internal deadline:
- Identifying information (see infoready4.comfor details)
- UCSC’s role in the proposal (lead organization, subawardee, etc.)
- Project description (upload)
- Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1 inch margins all around, 2 pages max
- Include the following sections (see 3a-c in proposal requirements)
- Overview and Rationale for Institute Approach
- Description of the Research Plan of the Institute
- Education and Workforce Development
- CV or NSF-style biosketch of principal Investigator (upload)