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Trustworthy Research, Technology Key to Artificial Intelligence Institute’s Success

In 2020, University of Oklahoma engineer Amy McGovern, Ph.D., applied for a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography. In May of that same year, she was notified that the University of Oklahoma was awarded the grant and that she would be named its director.

Trustworthy Research and Technology Key to AI Institute’s Success

Two and a half years after it was established, the AI2ES institute – led by Prof. Amy McGovern – has not only formed convergent teams of interdisciplinary researchers but is already making headway in five use-inspired applications: convective weather, winter weather, tropical cyclones, sub-seasonal to seasonal extreme weather and coastal oceanography.

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