New AI Institute Led by University of Texas Researchers Will Accelerate Cosmic Discovery
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“By building next-generation AI tools, the institute will accelerate discoveries related to the most basic human question: ‘Where do we come from?’ The CosmicAI research will investigate the origins of the universe including the formation of galaxies, stars, planets and even the building blocks for life,” said Stella Offner, director of the new institute. Offner is an associate professor of astronomy in the College of Natural Sciences and co-director of the Center for Scientific Machine Learning at the Oden Institute.