Image: The University of Georgia’s AI research community continues to gain national recognition, with faculty earning prestigious awards from Amazon, Google, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Prashant Doshi, Executive Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, received an NSF grant to advance research on how autonomous agents cooperate and compete in complex environments. His work applies insights from statistical mechanics, control theory, and management science to improve stability and efficiency in systems ranging from business organizations to cybersecurity networks. Dr. Roberto Perdisci, Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute of Cybersecurity and Privacy, was selected for an Amazon Research Award in the AI for Information Security category. The award will support ContextADBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Contextual Anomaly Detection, a project led in collaboration with PhD student Spencer King. Assistant Professor Ninghao Liu became UGA’s first Google Research Scholar Award recipient for his work on multimodal foundation models in healthcare, developing new methods for AI systems to generate and synthesize data to support physicians in diagnosis and patient care. In addition, Dr. Liu secured a three-year, $850,000 NSF grant to design adaptive learning systems with explainable generative AI, in collaboration with faculty from UGA’s College of Education. This project aims to both enhance personalized education and promote AI literacy among educators. Together, these awards highlight UGA’s growing national leadership in shaping the future of AI research, innovation, and education.
