The University of Georgia’s Artificial Intelligence research community received national recognition as faculty members led projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Google, and Amazon. Dr. Prashant Doshi, Dr. Roberto Perdisci, and Assistant Professor Ninghao Liu each secured awards that target foundational methods and applied systems in Artificial Intelligence, with specific aims in multiagent systems, information security, and healthcare and education. Total combined funding is not stated.
Dr. Prashant Doshi, executive director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, was awarded an NSF grant to advance research on how autonomous agents cooperate and compete in complex environments. His project applies insights from statistical mechanics, control theory, and management science to improve stability and efficiency in systems ranging from business organizations to cybersecurity networks. The article does not state the dollar amount of Doshi’s grant.
Dr. Roberto Perdisci, Patty and D.R. Grimes distinguished professor of computer science and director of the Institute of Cybersecurity and Privacy, received an Amazon Research Award in the Artificial Intelligence for Information Security category. The award will support ContextADBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Contextual Anomaly Detection. The project is led in collaboration with PhD student Spencer King. The Amazon award amount is not stated in the article.
Assistant Professor Ninghao Liu became UGA’s first Google Research Scholar Award recipient for work on multimodal foundation models in healthcare, developing methods for Artificial Intelligence systems to generate and synthesize data to support physicians in diagnosis and patient care. In addition, Dr. Liu secured a three-year NSF grant to design adaptive learning systems with explainable generative Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with faculty from the College of Education. The NSF grant amount is not stated. Together, these awards underscore UGA’s growing leadership in shaping research, innovation, and education in Artificial Intelligence.
