The AI Innovation Institute (AI3) at Stony Brook University invites candidates for a large cohort of research assistant professors with generous startup packages that include full support and research funding for two years and tapered thereafter. Internally supported by the Presidential Innovation and Excellence Fund derived from a recent $500M Simons Foundation donation to Stony Brook University, AI3 is a new
university-wide institute that aims to drive both innovative research in the core of AI as well as the diffusion of AI across nearly every industrial, societal, and scholarly sector. AI3 includes more than 70 faculty members with interests ranging from novel algorithms, architectures, and mathematical / ethical foundations to applications in art, biological sciences, business, climate sciences, health sciences,
humanities, journalism, libraries, music, materials discovery, physical sciences, and social sciences. Stony Brook University has a bucolic setting conducive to curiosity-driven research while embedded in the New York City and New England regions that catalyzes industrial and societal engagement. AI3 research faculty will be encouraged to drive their own research programs in the service of significant
scholarly and societal impact. As a member of the prestigious AAU, co-manager of famedBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), flagship university of the State of New York, and having global research facilities from Korea to Kenya, Stony Brook University provides deep connections for meaningful AI and domain collaborations. As a key participant in Empire AI (a $565M+ investment in AI infrastructure), AI3
researchers will have access to significant shared compute resources. Duties Beyond groundbreaking research that transforms current AI paradigms and changes the world, research assistant professorswill have modest service duties around missions of AI3 such as public engagement. Teaching opportunities both on-campus and for professional edu
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