Congratulations to AI Seed Grant Winners
February 21, 2025
13 Proposals Awarded AI Seed Grants
Of nearly 50 applications, these 13 projects will:
- Expand Stony Brook's interdisciplinary work in AI
- Support technical integration of AI into research projects, and
- Continue to integrate AI into teaching and service
These projects, worth more than $500,000, were funded by the Office of the Provost with support from the Office for Research and Innovation, and the AI Innovation Institute.
Interdisciplinary Projects
A Pragmatic Approach to AI for Digital Media Integrity: Combating Complex Misinformation through Fallacies and Propaganda
- Ritwik Banerjee, research assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS)
- Ruobing Li, associate professor, School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ)
Molecular Foundations for Sustainability: Data Analytics for Sustainable Cellulose Scaffolding Modifications to Remediate Diverse Water Contamination Challenges
- Benjamin Hsiao, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)
- Niranjan Balasubramanian, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, CEAS
- I.V. Ramakrishnan, professor and associate dean for research, Department of Computer Science, CEAS
Novel Clinical Applications of Deep Image Prior-based CT Image Reconstruction
- Xin Qian, clinical assistant professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Renaissance School of Medicine (RSoM)
- Tiezhi Zhang, professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, RSoM
- Ziyu Shu, senior postdoctoral associate, Department of Radiation Oncology, RSoM
- Zhaozheng Yin, SUNY Empire Innovation associate professor, Department of Computer Science, CEAS
Achieving Common Ground through Language and Vision in Mixed-Initiative Human-Machine Communication
- Owen Rambow, professor, Department of Linguistics, CAS
- Susan Brennan, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, CAS
- Gregory Zelinsky, professor, Department of Psychology, CAS
An AI-Driven Clinical Decision Support Tool for the Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Apostolos Tassiopoulos, professor and chair, Department of Surgery, RSoM
- Prateek Prasanna, assistant professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, RSoM and CEAS
- Mary Saltz, clinical associate professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, RSoM and CEAS
- Janos Hajagos, research assistant professor and chief of data analytics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, RSoM and CEAS
- Tahsin Kurc, research associate professor and vice chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, RSoM and CEAS
Technical Integration Projects
Using AI to Investigate National Literatures: Italy, France, Spain 1733 - 1794
- Giuseppe Gazzola, associate professor, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, CAS
- AI consultant: Jayesh Rathi, computer science graduate student
Learning Design Rules to Personalize Precision CRISPR Gene Therapies with Interpretable AI
- Eric Josephs, SUNY Empire Innovation associate professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, CEAS
- AI consultant: Deboparna Banerjee, computer science graduate student
Machine Learning for the Analysis of Single-Cell Multiomics Data
- David McKinnon, professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, CAS
- Barbara Rosati, research assistant professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, RSoM
- Joshua Dubnau, professor, Department of Anesthesiology, RSoM
- Grigori Enikolopov, professor, Department of Anesthesiology, RSoM
- Chi-Kuo Hu, assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS
- AI consultant: Deboparna Banerjee, computer science graduate student
Developing Machine Learning Approaches to Classify Internal Waves
- Jack McSweeney, assistant professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS)
- AI consultant: Vismay Vora, computer science graduate student
AI-Assisted Analysis of Materials in Recycling Streams
- Ruwen Qin, associate professor and graduate program director, Department of Civil Engineering, CEAS
- AI consultant: Vismay Vora, computer science graduate student
Introducing the AI Techniques in Assessing Future Changes of Extreme Precipitation and Associated Flood Risks
- Kevin Reed, associate provost for climate and sustainability programming and professor, SoMAS
- Tangnyu Song, postdoctoral researcher, SoMAS
- Ishrat Dollan, postdoctoral researcher, SoMAS
- AI consultant: Jayesh Rathi, computer science graduate student
AI in Teaching and Service
IAE2^3: AI Ecologies
- Joseph Lemelin, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, CAS
- Katherine Johnston, assistant professor, Department of English, CAS
- Aruna Balasubramanian, associate professor, Department of Computer Science, CEAS
- Matthew Salzano, IDEA Fellow, SoCJ
Fostering Writing-to-Learn Skills through Critical AI Literacy: A Faculty Development and Student Support Program
- Shyam Sharma, associate professor and graduate program director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, CAS
- Rose Tirotta-Esposito, director, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
- Christine Fena, undergraduate success librarian, Stony Brook Libraries
From the Provost's Office and AI Innovation Institute