Associate Director Doshi received UGA's 2025 Entrepreneur of the Year award and IAI fellow Kannan named a Distinguished Research Professor. Doshi is transforming his AI research into real-world applications through his work on human-robot collaboration and inverse reinforcement learning. His research has broad implications across industries, including agriculture, where he is developing AI-driven collaborative robots (cobots) to streamline produce processing operations. To bring this technology to market, Doshi co-founded InversAI, a company focused on commercializing AI-powered automation. As UGA builds out it's Innovation District, IAI is committed to promoting the translation of AI research on campus into successful startups.