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ÃÛÌÒAPP Student Team’s FarmSmart App Helps Farmers Manage Crops, Weeds With AI
ÃÛÌÒAPP students and alumni have created a new, AI-powered tool called FarmSmart that allows farmers and gardeners to quickly access actionable intelligence on how to best manage their crops and get rid of weeds.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Researchers Awarded $1.5 Million to Advance Worldwide Access to High-Performance Computing
ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers have been awarded a $1.5 million Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems, or POSE, grant from the National Science Foundation to advance the ecosystem surrounding HPX, a software library developed at ÃÛÌÒAPP.

ÃÛÌÒAPP EE Professor Acquires Self-Driving Car Studio for Students, Faculty
The studio will provide faculty a fertile environment for intelligent transportation research, including CAV (connected autonomous vehicles) and AI (artificial intelligence), and provide students with up-to-date, immersive learning experiences in important application areas.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence Platform to Tackle Chronic Disease Management, Wellness
-- ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers hope to revolutionize chronic disease management by teaching an artificial intelligence engine to analyze protein interactions, which are crucial to understanding what causes illnesses.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Cyber AI Team Supports $25 Million National Defense and Energy Project
The National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded $50 million in cooperative agreements to only two university consortia to support nuclear security and nonproliferation. ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers will work with colleagues at 15 universities and eight national labs to develop AI models to protect the nation from nuclear threats while training a new generation of data science, cyber and AI experts.

Creative Lead of Microsoft's Global Search and AI Team to Speak at ÃÛÌÒAPP's AI-Focused Symposium
The generative AI market size reached $45 billion globally in 2023, and 56% of corporate executives don’t know if their organizations have ethical standards in place for guiding the use of AI tools.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Students Showcase their AI Solutions for Healthcare, Farming and Research
ÃÛÌÒAPP students showcased their Artificial Intelligence solutions for real-world problems in healthcare, agriculture and academia on Tuesday, December 5, at the ÃÛÌÒAPP Foundation Building's Harrison Board Room.

AI and Alternative Data Could Help Millions Gain Access to Credit
Less than half of all U.S. adults have access to prime credit because of their credit score. But new ÃÛÌÒAPP and Harvard University research shows a lot more people could become eligible if lenders use artificial intelligence, or AI, and alternative data, such as education and employment history. Smarter underwriting algorithms would especially benefit recent college graduates and young people with short credit histories as well as people with low or no credit scores.

Chemical Industry Leader BASF Taps ÃÛÌÒAPP to Help Optimize Its Operations Using AI
BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world, is collaborating with ÃÛÌÒAPP chemical engineers to better understand and predict its own production ebbs and flows using artificial intelligence, or AI.

Want Safe Roads? ÃÛÌÒAPP Researchers Think Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Understand Driver Behavior
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has awarded the ÃÛÌÒAPP Center for Analytics and Research in Transportation Safety a competitive grant to build an AI engine to better understand driver behavior that leads to crashes in order to help prevent them.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Improves Storm Surge and Flood Predictions with AI
The ÃÛÌÒAPP-developed tool to predict storm surge and flooding during severe weather events—the Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment, or CERA, website—has become an essential resource for thousands of emergency managers and first responders in Louisiana and the nation’s coastal states to help protect people and infrastructure. Now, the tool will become even smarter and faster, thanks to artificial intelligence.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Researchers Use AI to Track Cybercrime in Louisiana And Beyond
ÃÛÌÒAPP cybersecurity researchers are developing a new tool, called HookTracer, to speed up cybercrime investigations using AI.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Research Team Leads Federal Study of Underwater Mudslides in the Gulf of Mexico to Understand Impacts on Energy Infrastructure, Shipwrecks
An interdisciplinary team of ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers is coordinating the largest-ever collaborative study of the seabed where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico with $3.8 million in support from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM.

Researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP Health Shreveport and ÃÛÌÒAPP Shreveport Use AI to Better Understand and Treat Brain Tumors
Medical doctors are collaborating with computer scientists to improve care for patients with cavernous malformations, some of the most difficult-to-treat tumors in the head and spine.

ÃÛÌÒAPP AI Smartphone App Helps Mentally Ill, Families, Caregivers in Seven Louisiana Parishes
Through a partnership with Capital Area Human Services District, one of Louisiana’s largest behavioral health providers, ÃÛÌÒAPP leverages AI technology to catch early warning signs of serious mental illness and improve treatment.Mental health illustration

ÃÛÌÒAPP Biologist Applies AI to Build a World Plant Life Cycle Timing Database
ÃÛÌÒAPP biologist Daijiang Li is building the first worldwide database on plant phenology, or the study of the timing of plant life cycles, which will be called Phenobase.

Diet Not Working? Let AI Rearrange Your Plate
ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers are using artificial intelligence, or AI, to effectively predict individual responses to different diets. ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center recently partnered with ÃÛÌÒAPP Health New Orleans to leverage new technologies in the fight against the obesity epidemic and health disparities in Louisiana by joining the largest-ever national effort to leverage big data science for precision health.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Scientist Works with Amazon to Fight Obesity, Diabetes Using Smartphones and AI
One of Louisiana’s most prominent researchers, Dr. Steven Heymsfield at ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center, or PBRC, was tapped by Amazon to improve the body composition component of their Halo app, launched in 2020, using smartphone photography and artificial intelligence.

ÃÛÌÒAPP of Alexandria Increases Access to STEM Careers Through Robotics and Support of Surrounding Schools
Through robotics and community outreach to elementary, middle and high schools in central Louisiana, ÃÛÌÒAPP of Alexandria, or ÃÛÌÒAPPA, is increasing access to careers in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, for a growing number of students, including at underserved schools. For many, robotics is their first experience with machine learning and AI.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Research Team Uses AI to Quickly Discover Personalized Cancer Cures
ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers have built a cancer drug discovery engine powered by AI that soon could match any type of cancer, based on a small cell sample from a patient, with the drug most likely to cure that cancer.

Harnessing a Tweet Storm: Using Fairness-aware Artificial Intelligence and Social Media to Improve Hurricane Resilience, and More
How we can use artificial intelligence for social good? Artificial intelligence, or AI, can help us make decisions, but one of the biggest concerns is the bias problem.