Training Next Generation AI Users and Developers at NCSA

Abstract--This article focuses on training work carried out in artificial intelligence (AI) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign via a research experience for undergraduates (REU) program named FoDOMMaT. It also describes why we are interested in AI, and concludes by discussing what we've learned from running this program and its predecessor over six years. The National Research is an important part of the university's Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the work: "At Illinois, our focus on research shapes our University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is such an identity, permeates our classrooms and fuels our outreach. As a public, land-grant university, security, etc.) have been brought together for over we have the responsibility to create new knowledge 35 years to work on asking and solving some of the and new ideas and translate these into better ways of world's most challenging research questions. This is a preprint; Please cite the final paper: D. S. Most of NCSA's resources are research grants for specific Bottom-up successes can lead to changes Machine Learning Models and Tools. V. Kindratenko is in strategy, while strategic investments can support PI, D. S.