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👋 Join us in welcoming Guang Tian, SCI's first faculty member from @utah.edu's Department of City & Metro Planning & an alum of that program. He blends advanced tech with urban design to promote communities that are healthier, better connected, & more sustainable. Get to know him: bit.ly/sci-tian

🌟 This year's Utah AI Summit (hosted by @utahcommerce.bsky.social) features 2 @utah.edu speakers: Penny Atkins, our director of research & science, and Masood Parvania, director of the Utah Smart Energy Lab & professor of electrical & computer engineering. Learn more: aisummit.utah.gov

SCI faculty, staff, & students are heading to the #ieeevis conference in Vienna this weekend, & they’re bringing scarily good research 👻. They'll be celebrating 3 awards—best paper, honorable mention, & Test of Time—and contributing in lots of other ways: sci.utah.edu/vis-2025/ @ieeevis.bsky.social

🎙️🚴 The Cycling Over Sixty Podcast recently featured SCI co-founder Rob MacLeod, who discussed the sport's influence on his life & SCI's trajectory. Rob & founding director Chris Johnson used to brainstorm while riding up City Creek Canyon together: "Those were [SCI's] origins." 🎧 bit.ly/sci-bikes

🧑‍🏫 @utah.edu is hiring 2 new tenure-track faculty members focused on the future of education empowered by AI. From designing AI-powered learning tools to expanding digital literacy & credentials, these professors will reimagine how we prepare for & succeed in an AI-driven world. bit.ly/rai-ed-hires

🔍 Join us for a Distinguished SCI Seminar from J. Nathan Kutz (University of Washington): "Shallow Recurrent Decoders for the Automated Discovery of Physical Models" 📅 Thursday, Oct. 23, 4–5 pm 📍 John A. Widtsoe Building (JWB 335) Presented with the Dept. of Mathematics. bit.ly/sci-kutz

New faculty member Rohan Basu Roy is on a mission to make high performance computing faster & more sustainable. He draws inspiration from heavy metal music & brings a bold philosophy to his work: computing at scale must evolve to meet environmental challenges. Q&A: sci.utah.edu/rohan-hpc/

👋 SCI is proud to welcome Bill Miller as @utah.edu's senior director for research computing & data. With deep expertise in cyberinfrastructure, he's set to elevate Utah’s leadership in scientific innovation. Read about his vision for the U and his path from NASA to NSF: sci.utah.edu/bill-miller-...

🌎 @utah.edu is hiring 2 new tenure-track faculty members at the intersection of AI, environmental science, & societal impact. They'll be part of a cluster of experts leading cutting-edge research to tackle challenges like pollution, extreme weather, & AI energy use. rai.utah.edu/environmenta...

👥 Thank you to everyone who attended our One-U Responsible AI Initiative Symposium last week! Read a recap of what @utah.edu and state leaders said about the future of AI in Utah, and learn about life-changing work from our researchers: rai.utah.edu/symposium-20...

A major partnership between @utah.edu, NVIDIA, & HPE will accelerate AI-powered research across the state. “This builds on something that’s in the DNA of this university: innovation.” — @parasharmanish.bsky.social, chief AI officer & SCI director More in @sltrib.com: www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

📢 Utah's Responsible AI Community Consortium is excited to unveil its AI Leadership Blueprint to help orgs of all sizes adapt to an AI-driven future: rai.utah.edu/ai-blueprint/ 📸 @ksl5tv.bsky.social interviewed blueprint co-authors Kevin Williams, Robin Huling, & @pennyatkinsphd.bsky.social today.

Join us & @marrinerinstitute.bsky.social on 9/18 as Maggie Penn (Emory, @russellsagefdn.bsky.social) explores how classification algorithms shape human behavior, why traditional fairness metrics fall short, & how a new framework accounts for behavior, individ. welfare, & transparency. bit.ly/raipenn

🎂 Happy big 7-0 to SCI co-founder Rob MacLeod! He's not slowing down: he still bikes to work most days, and #NIH just awarded his team a grant for a project titled “Sustainable Software Tools for Neuromodulation Prediction.” 🚴🧠

How is AI reshaping our information landscape—& what does it mean for democracy, science, & public trust? Join us Aug. 20 to hear from distinguished visitor @dietram.bsky.social on how industry & academia can work together to prepare society for AI's impacts. Details: rai.utah.edu/distinguishe...

Join us for our One-U Responsible AI Initiative Symposium on Sept. 12 to explore the future of responsible AI. Hear from state and national leaders and enjoy lightning talks from researchers using AI to improve healthcare, education, and the environment. RSVP by Aug. 31: rai.utah.edu/symposium-20...

In a Deseret News op-ed, @parasharmanish.bsky.social—our director and @utah.edu's chief AI officer—explains how Utah can serve as a model for implementing America’s new AI Action Plan, announced by the White House on July 23. Read why Utah is a leader in this space: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

🔍 New #scicomm research from @freiling.bsky.social, a faculty fellow in SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative.

Funding opportunity out of @ncstate.bsky.social—apply by July 30! Academic and industry researchers are invited to submit one or more research project ideas. ncsu-las.org/what-we-do/c...

🧑‍💻 During our first One-U Responsible AI Initiative hackathon June 4–5, SCI rooms buzzed with discussions of data, algorithms, AI, atmospheric sciences, & more as students built tools to address air quality. Kudos to our winners & thanks to all participants & sponsors! rai.utah.edu/air-quality-...

Kudos to SCI's Tamara Bidone, who is part of an international team of researchers awarded $8.5 million by the Leducq Foundation to develop treatments for peripheral artery disease—a common and potentially fatal condition where not enough blood flows to the limbs.

👏 Congrats to SCI Director @parasharmanish.bsky.social for receiving @acm.org's Distinguished Service Award! Read more on SCI's site: bit.ly/sci-acm-para...

📣 SCI researchers built a new, more efficient tool for big-data analysis, and their work is featured on the May 2025 cover of "Algorithms," a peer-reviewed, open access journal. Read more: www.sci.utah.edu/the-institut...

📈 The University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing installed its single-biggest upgrade to AI cyberinfrastructure: a fleet of 10 powerful computer servers with 80 high-end NVIDIA GPUs, hardware critical for AI-driven research. This will support innovation across the state. @utah.edu

SCI has a growing presence at @chi.acm.org, the top conference on human-computer interaction. Our #CHI2025 contributions: 4 papers, 1 of which won hon. mention (kudos to @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social), along with a course & a paper in the boundary-pushing alt.chi forum. www.sci.utah.edu/the-institut...

⏩ @pennyatkinsphd.bsky.social keeps SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative moving forward through her laser-focused work w/ folks across campus, industry, & gov. Hear her discuss RAI cyberinfrastructure progress & more at an @academicdatasci.bsky.social "listen & lunch" Thurs: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Last June, SCI's Akil Narayan accepted an inaugural @uofu-science.bsky.social fellowship to learn about college administration. Read a Q&A on what it's meant and how he sees administration as a way to "promote institutional growth that supports and uplifts students, staff, and faculty."

🚨 New: CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship for Early Career Scholars! $16.5K stipend, travel, field school, & pro dev for post-PhD computing researchers (US-based) with interdisciplinary focus. Apply by 4/30! 🔗 cra.jotform.com/250765548764... #AIResearchSupport #FellowshipOpportunity #CRA

📣 Announcing the cash prizes for A Breath of Fresh Air AI Hackathon: 🥇 $1,500 🥈 $1,000 🥉 $500 Sign up by April 15 to help improve air quality and public health—no coding experience needed. All are welcome, especially Utah college students! rai.utah.edu/hackathon/

Join us on Thursday, April 3, for a Distinguished SCI Seminar from Karen Willcox, director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at @utaustin.bsky.social. sci.utah.edu/the-institut...

[email protected] interviewed SCI director @parasharmanish.bsky.social about AI's energy needs—a topic that SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative hopes to address. One solution? Build AI & supporting tech that is more sustainable, from smarter algorithms to more efficient computing centers.

Amidst post-pandemic dips in children’s math and reading scores, @utah.edu One-U Responsible AI Initiative faculty fellow Chenglu Li and his collaborators are combating that trend with ALTER-Math—an AI-powered app they hope will double the rate of math learning. attheu.utah.edu/research/ai-...

Air quality research often requires AI tools to process massive amounts of data. "While bias in AI algorithms is well-known, the study exemplifies another ethical issue for big-data users—the chance that the datasets themselves are inherently biased." bit.ly/uofuairdata

Great writeup from @uofuhumanities.bsky.social on the work of @freiling.bsky.social, one of our inaugural One-U Responsible AI Initiative fellows. humanities.utah.edu/news/a-wicke...

👏 An exciting new partnership between Utah & @nvidiaaidev.bsky.social will help universities (incl. @utah.edu), community colleges, & adult education programs across the state develop students’ & workers’ skills in generative AI. Read on for a quote from our director, @parasharmanish.bsky.social.

🌬️ If you care about Wasatch Front air quality and have ideas on how to improve it, sign up for A Breath of Fresh Air AI Hackathon by March 31. No coding experience necessary! rai.utah.edu/hackathon/

If you're among the 1,750+ people at the Society for Industrial & Applied Math Conf. on Computational Science & Engineering next week, panels will feature familiar faces: SCI Director @parasharmanish.bsky.social, SCI Assoc. Director Orly Alter, & computing adjunct faculty Glenn Ricart #SIAMCSE25

The U College of Education will host distinguished speaker @hchadlane.bsky.social on March 3. By combining established principles with practical exploration & ongoing research, Lane believes we can chart a course for AI in education that benefits learners & supports educators. 🙌 bit.ly/coe-lane

Kudos to SCI affiliate faculty member Dan Reed on co-writing this @science.org piece. It calls on the U.S. to match other global players & develop a strategy to advance high-performance computing, which is facing unprecedented demand due to the rise of generative AI. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🍎 Chenglu Li, one of our inaugural One-U Responsible AI faculty fellows, is speaking at the Data Science & AI Lecture Series at 1:30 pm this Friday, Feb. 21. He's doing some amazing work to help middle schoolers learn math. Head to WEB L112 or watch on Zoom: datascience.utah.edu/seminar

Mark your calendars for this Feb. 27 discussion with Don Norman, a renowned expert in user-centered design and beyond. He's among the most cited researchers in the world. 🔥 Norman will be hosted by Vineet Pandey, one of the inaugural faculty fellows in SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative.

🙌 Congrats to SCI Director @parasharmanish.bsky.social on his new role as inaugural Chief AI Officer for @utah.edu. attheu.utah.edu/science-tech...

Read about Utah's #responsibleAI community consortium, why it matters, and how you can join us in this Deseret News opinion piece by SCI director @parasharmanish.bsky.social. www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

SCI Director @parasharmanish.bsky.social recently appeared on the podcast "AI, Government, & the Future." In this clip, he says 1 part of #responsibleAI entails boosting awareness of AI's limitations, e.g., don't "take an output of ChatGPT & trust it blindly." Watch on YouTube: bit.ly/aigovparashar

What is #responsibleAI and how do you achieve it? Join us in one week, on Feb. 11, to hear from the One-U Responsible AI Initiative's inaugural distinguished visitor, UCSD professor David Danks. Details: rai.utah.edu/david-danks/

Join us in one week (Feb. 6) for a Distinguished SCI seminar from Jack Dongarra—the 2021 recipient of the Turing Award, computer science's highest honor.

Mark your calendars for these upcoming events tied to SCI and its One-U Responsible AI Initiative! Visit rai.utah.edu/events for details. @parasharmanish.bsky.social @katakeith.bsky.social @anamarasovic.bsky.social @freiling.bsky.social

📆 Jan. 24 virtual event relevant to SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative: this webinar will feature @utah.edu professor Zac Imel discussing AI innovations in mental health. Zach Boyd, director of Utah's Office of AI Policy, will follow with a policy discussion.

💡 SCI director @parasharmanish.bsky.social & affiliate faculty member Dan Reed co-wrote 2 newly released @cra-hq.bsky.social Quadrennial Papers, which explore key challenges & opportunities shaping computing research. These recommendations are shared with policymakers & more. cra.org/cra-quadrenn...