C3ai.DTI COVID-19: C3ai.DTI COVID-19 Call for Proposals |
Website | https://c3dti.ai/research/applying-ai-to-mitigate-the-covid-19-pandemic/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=c3aidticovid19 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 1, 2020 |
Submission deadline | May 1, 2020 |
The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI) is soliciting proposals for Research Awards that catalyze cooperative research activities and advances in machine learning and other AI subdisciplines, analytics, statistical analysis, and advanced computing research aimed at (1) the current acute challenges with COVID-19 and (2) the methods for containing and addressing pandemics more generally for longer-term preparedness, including for future pathogens and SARS-like viruses. In response to the acute challenges the world is facing with the COVID-19 pandemic, we call for proposals on understanding and mitigating the spread of COVID-19, improving the ability of the public health and medical establishment to respond, and minimizing the impact of this disease on society. These projects could be stand-alone or could leverage existing funded efforts that are already addressing COVID-19 and other pandemics. However, the interests of C3.ai DTI are in the use of AI/ML, data analytics, cloud computing, and change management to mitigate the course and impact of the disease. The C3.ai DTI also has an interest at the intersection of technology and policy, related to digital transformation.
The PI on the proposal must be at one of the consortium universities: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, University of Chicago, Carnegie-Melon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Co-PIs can be at any institution.
Proposals can request research awards of $100,000, $250,000 or $500,000 for a period of one (1) year. Awards will also include unlimited free access to the C3 AI Suite hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud including between 225,000 and 1.15 million CPU/GPU hours of compute capacity depending upon grant requirements.
See the official call for proposals at https://c3dti.ai/research/applying-ai-to-mitigate-the-covid-19-pandemic/ for additional information.
Submission Guidelines
Proposals should use the template provided in EasyChair.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be directed to Shankar Sastry (Co-director, UC Berkeley, sastry@eecs.berkeley.edu) or R. Srikant (Co-director, UIUC, rsrikant@illinois.edu).
Sponsors
The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI) was recently established by C3.ai, Microsoft, the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, MIT, and Princeton University. The goal of the Institute is to catalyze cooperative research activities to accelerate advances in research, combining machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), management science, ethics, and public policy to transform and enhance the quality of life in societal systems at large.
C3.ai DTI will develop the new and emerging field of Digital Transformation Science by leveraging the personnel and laboratory and research facilities at UC Berkeley, UIUC, and consortium institutions, to form dynamic teams of the best researchers in the world to interact with faculty and students to advance IoT and AI techniques for industrial, commercial, and public sector applications. This rich ecosystem will help address some of the most complex issues inherent in a massive societal Digital Transformation and to develop the underpinnings of a new Science of Digital Transformation.