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Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture powers 15 innovative new projects
June 26, 2025
The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) has announced the recipients of its 2025 Research Innovation Fund (RIF) faculty and student grants supporting new, cross-disciplinary research projects designed to improve global food systems through digital innovation.
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Fei Wang Named Senior Faculty Fellow in Clinical AI at Cornell Tech
June 24, 2025
Cornell Tech has announced the appointment of Fei Wang, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, as the new Senior Faculty Fellow in Clinical AI. The newly established role will strengthen Cornell Tech’s leadership in digital health and artificial intelligence, while also expanding interdisciplinary collaboration between Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine.
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Faculty-Led Startup Is Using AI to Reimagine Software Reliability
June 20, 2025
Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence.
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‘Summit’ on LLMs rallies leading AI experts
June 10, 2025
Hosted by Cornell’s Global AI Initiative as part of the Thought Summit program organized by the Cornell Center for Data Science for Enterprise & Society, Thought Summit: LLMs and Society is the second of several summits slated this fiscal year at Cornell.
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Linking pay to performance boosts AI use in decision-making
June 2, 2025
Contrary to highly cited research from more than 30 years ago, an incentivized pay structure will lead to greater reliance on AI in decision-making than flat, fixed compensation, according to a study co-led by a Cornell researcher.
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Bowers faculty outline priorities for federal funding in AI
June 2, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping economic systems, geopolitics, and society—and its transformative influence is set to deepen in the years ahead. The United States’ leadership in AI follows a similar blueprint to previous technological revolutions—such as semiconductors and the Internet—where federal investments played a catalytic role.
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New ‘Thought Summit’ series welcomes proposals on data science and AI
May 22, 2025
Cornell faculty are invited to submit proposals for Thought Summits, a new forum designed to catalyze interdisciplinary research in data science and artificial intelligence (AI) and to position Cornell as a national leader in these rapidly evolving fields. Proposals will be accepted through June 16.
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Thought Summits on Data Science & Artificial Intelligence – Call for proposals
May 20, 2025
CALL FOR PROPOSALS – Apply by June 16, 2025
“Thought Summits” are a Cornell forum aimed at identifying and developing inter- and intra- institutional collaborations in the novel areas of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. We envision a Thought Summit as a fully-funded 3-5 day symposium hosted at Cornell’s main campus, where a core of Cornell faculty can interact with about 20 external experts and leaders from academia, government, industry, and/or non-profit organizations.
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Smarter, faster AI models explored for molecular, materials discovery
May 19, 2025
Cornell researchers are demonstrating how artificial intelligence – particularly deep learning and generative modeling – can accelerate the design of new molecules and materials, and even function as an autonomous research assistant.