UI College of Engineering leverages AI research expertise across campus

Across the University of Iowa campus, researchers are using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data to tackle pressing issues related to healthcare, space exploration, and public health, including the COVID-19 pandemic. For more than 30 years, this research has been made possible through expertise as well as logistical and financial support from the UI College of Engineering. "Our ability to collaborate across disciplines, departments, and colleges demonstrates that the cutting-edge research done in our College of Engineering is tremendously important to the work of our entire campus," said Harriet Nembhard, dean of the College of Engineering. "These partnerships exist in ways one might expect such as in medical imaging in the UI Carver College of Medicine and injury prevention in the College of Public Health but we also support work in the Tippie College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Education." In all, the Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence, funded by the Office of the Provost, Colleges of Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Business, and Education, as well as several UI departments and research centers leads 27 active projects across campus, many of which involve engineering researchers.