Machine Learning Lab Research Symposium 2024

"It is an incredible time to be an AI researcher. Problems that we could only dream about solving a few years back are getting cracked as AI models fold proteins, accelerate medical imaging, help us write code, or solve Math Olympiad problems.

Universities have long played a key role in educating AI researchers, inventing the algorithms used in modern AI models and supporting the peer-review ecosystem that disseminates and evaluates this research. However, as compute and data are becoming bottleneck resources, it is not clear how universities can remain on the forefront of the generative AI revolution. At UT Austin, we are leading the way with creating open models, the largest public datasets, and a massive GPU cluster to drive innovation in our four focus areas: biosciences, health care, computer vision and NLP.

We are grateful to the UT Austin Cockrell School of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences for supporting the new Texas Center for Generative AI, and to Dell Medical School, the School of Information and McCombs School of Business for supporting our research. We are excited to invite researchers from Academia and Industry to work with us to uncover what possibilities the future holds." 

– Alex Dimakis, Director