AI Innovation Institute

SBU faculty embrace it as a collaborative tool to enhance learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) — the ability of a computer program or machine to learn, react and interact meaningfully — has been grabbing headlines for some time now, and for good reason. It is all around us, visible in ways we never imagined. With the use of AI, computer programs can write stories, create art and music, and converse with humans, but what it can’t do is think for itself — it only can understand information input by humans.

AI savants at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory join hands to exchange ideas and collaborate on research.

Stony Brook, NY, May 7, 2024 - On Tuesday, a group of renowned academic and industry researchers convened at Stony Brook University’s Charles Wang Center to discuss the latest AI research and collaborate on ongoing projects.

Stony Brook University researchers have found a way to create your dynamic 3D avatar using video clippings from your phone.

Have you ever wished you had a 3D avatar to talk to your friends in a fantasy world? Or that you could teach your kid to interact with elephants in virtual reality? Or that you had a digital double starring in your reels?

Bringing reality to fantastic worlds like The San-Ti’s planet from the novel, The Three-Body Problem, seems like a far cry. But we’re closer to creating these realities than we were only less than two decades ago, when Google introduced Street View in its Maps.

Gov. Kathy Hochul secured $400 million in public and private funds for Empire AI — a consortium of SUNY, CUNY, and private universities and foundations — to position New York State at the forefront of AI research and innovation.

Albany, NY, April 30, 2024 - On Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul highlighted the New York State’s initiatives to advance artificial intelligence, sharing her vision of making New York the next Silicon Valley.

“This is our Erie Canal moment,” Hochul said, “Whoever dominates the next era of AI, will dominate history, and indeed, the future.”

Professors Niranjan Balasubramanian, from the Institute for AI-Driven discovery and Innovation, and Michalis Polychronakis, from the Department of Computer Science, have each received Amazon Research Awards to further advance their fields of research.

Interdisciplinary research team using AI, engineering, and knowledge of disease complications to create “CART.”