Credit: The University of Texas at El Paso.
The University of Texas at El Paso has launched the AI Institute for Community-Engaged Research (AI-ICER), an interdisciplinary think tank designed to leverage artificial intelligence technologies to address pressing regional and national challenges. The institute’s leadership includes (from left to right): Salamah Salamah, Ph.D., UTEP associate vice president for scientific computing and artificial intelligence; Thenral Mangadu, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., associate vice president for interdisciplinary research; Ann Gates, Ph.D., senior advisor to the provost for strategic STEM initiatives; Amar Gupta, Ph.D., research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Natalia Villanueva Rosales, Ph.D., UTEP associate professor of computer science; and Olac Fuentes, Ph.D., professor of computer science.