PARTNER: Neuro-Inspired AI for the Edge at UTSA (NAIAD)

该项目是德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校（UTSA）和利用下一代网络的边缘计算AI研究所（ATHENA）之间的扩展AI合作伙伴关系。在这个项目中，一个为少数民族服务的机构与一个人工智能研究所进行了新的合作，重点是扩大UTSA已经建立的研究和教育项目，并在开发人工智能方面追求共同的、互补的目标，同时考虑到社会的使用，以及开发下一代人工智能教育和劳动力人才。合作研究的重点是受大脑工作方式启发的人工智能研究，并利用它来创建强大的计算模型，并设计用于日常设备嵌入式使用的人工智能系统。该项目还将建立社区和新的人工智能卓越中心，这些活动以前没有得到很好的发展。尽管人工智能系统最近取得了显著进展，但它们通常非常耗电。该项目研究了人工智能系统中神经启发机制的结合，以及它们提高边缘人工智能解决方案的能源效率和鲁棒性的潜力。这项合作是德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校MATRIX AI联盟和美国国家科学基金会ATHENA AI研究所的研究人员之间的多学科合作伙伴关系。这一新的伙伴关系将进行合作研究，通过创建从神经机制中汲取灵感的新型人工智能模型，推进边缘的核心人工智能能力，并将设计神经形态计算系统，提供专门针对边缘计算部署的功能、鲁棒性和能效。该项目还包括沉浸式研究计划，旨在加强UTSA和ATHENA的人工智能能力，并进一步传播到更广泛的专业社区，以支持为包容性的未来人工智能劳动力做出贡献。该项目部分由美国国家科学基金会的路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目资助，该项目隶属于STEM卓越平等部。”该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is an ExpandAI Partnership between the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) and the AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next-generation Networks (ATHENA). In this project, a minority-serving institution leads a new collaboration with an AI Institute focused on scaling up already-established research and education programs at UTSA and to pursue shared, complementary goals around developing AI with use for society in mind and for developing the next generation of AI education and workforce talent. The collaborative research focuses on the AI research that is inspired by how the brain works, and to use that to create robust computational models and design AI systems for embedded use in everyday devices. The project will also build community and new centers of excellence in AI where such activities were not previously well developed. Despite the remarkable recent progress in AI systems, they are typically power-hungry. This project investigates the incorporation of neuro-inspired mechanisms in AI system and their potential to improve the energy efficiency and robustness of AI solutions for the edge. This collaboration is a multidisciplinary partnership between researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s MATRIX AI Consortium and the NSF AI Institute ATHENA. This new partnership will conduct collaborative research that advances core AI capabilities for the edge by creating novel AI models that draw inspiration from neural mechanisms and will design neuromorphic computing systems that offer functionality, robustness, and energy efficiency specifically targeting deployment in edge computing. The project also features immersive research programming designed to strengthen AI competencies in UTSA and ATHENA and further disseminated to the broader professional community to support contribute to an inclusive future AI workforce. The project is partially funded by NSF’s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program within the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM.”This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.