Research
Cutting-Edge AI Research
On pace to be classified as an R1 research institution in 2025, UNC Charlotte regards artificial intelligence both as an exciting and rapidly growing research area and a tool with exceptional possibilities for deepening our impact when applied in ethical and societally relevant ways.
Now and moving forward, UNC Charlotte aims to:
- Foster a culture of AI research and innovation
- Appraise AI’s societal impact with keen attention to ethical use
- Embrace opportunities for operational efficiency in research administration
Coming Soon
In fall 2024, a research advisory committee of faculty and staff will be launched to provide guidance for AI in the research context.
AI Research at UNC Charlotte:
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A Center for Leadership Science interdisciplinary research team is receiving a $692,881 federal grant to discover new ways to enhance leader and…
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A project co-led by Dr. Mona Azarbayjani, associate professor of architecture, and Dr. Hamed Tabkhi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,…
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Srijan Das and Xiang Zhang, two first-year faculty researchers in the College of Computing and Informatics, have received funding from the…
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Women researchers who manage, interpret and apply big data
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A team at UNC Charlotte’s Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) and Tuple, a Charlotte-based genomics consulting firm,…
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In Hollywood, powerful evil artificial intelligences take over governments, destroy planets and predict our every move. In real life, the…