Research in AI
UCF has made research in AI a strategic priority, and is investing appropriately, with additional faculty hiring in this area. In addition to several hires in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, recent hires for AI research have been made in the College of Community Innovation and Education, the College of Medicine, the Barry S. Miller College of Business, and the College of Sciences.
There is a strong and long-standing history of research in AI. UCF professor Mubarak Shah runs Aii, the original Artificial Intelligence Initiative on campus. Dr. Shah also directs the Center for Research in Computer Vision. Both ventures work with dozens of faculty from many disciplines.
Research About AI
One of the goals of the “AI for All” initiative is that faculty from disparate fields start to contemplate performing research on AI from their own disciplinary perspectives. To that end, we will use both this webpage and our newsletter to shine a spotlight on AI research, in the hopes that others can become inspired.
If you’re looking to partner with someone on an AI-related research project, email ai@ucf.edu to get started with finding potential partners. We will include your “advertisement” in a future newsletter mailing.
Researcher Access to Frontier Models
UCF does not offer blanket access to most frontier models. UCF IT does have a local GPU node which can run open-source, smaller moels like Gemma at no cost.
Frontier models offered in UCF’s walled garden are limited; advanced GPT models are likely available at the cost of usage, but many companies do not have a data-restriction agreement in place with UCF, and so those companies (Anthropic, xAI, Perplexity) are not available within our walled garden. Email ai@ucf.edu if you’d like to learn details about paying for cloud-based frontier models.
Support Letters
The “AI for All” initiative is happy to provide letters of support for grant applications that align with our mission, goals, and objectives. Contact ai@ucf.edu for more information.