AI Meets the Cosmos: Astronomers’ Ambitious Plan to Tackle Astronomical Big Data

Artist’s concept of the Next Generation Very Large Array.

Credit: NSF/NSF NRAO/AUI/mtex

“The goals of the Cosmic AI Institute are to accelerate astronomical research — and democratize access to it — by developing new, AI powered tools to process the vast amounts of data next generation telescopes will create,” shares Brian Mason, an NSF NRAO scientist who is a part of the team. These include several NSF NRAO instruments, like the Next Generation Very Large Array, and upgrades to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, of which the NSF NRAO is a partner.

The NSF NRAO will be focusing on developing tools that dramatically increase the efficiency of processing radio astronomical datasets. This work will be done in collaboration with the Institute colleagues at the School of Computing at the University of Utah.

Read more at the NRAO website.