C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Announces COVID-19 Awards

URBANA, Ill. and BERKELEY, Calif., June 23, 2020 – C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI awards for artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. C3.ai DTI, jointly managed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley, and in partnership with Microsoft Corp., invited researchers in March to take on the challenge of abating COVID-19 and advancing AI-based science and technologies for mitigating future pandemics. After a rigorous peer review process, C3.ai DTI selected 26 research proposals that address COVID-19 across the disciplines of medicine, urban planning, public policy, and computer science, several of which focus on the study of the disease's impact on racial, economic, and healthcare disparities. A total of $5.4 million in cash will be awarded to the following research projects.