24 Oct RISE-AI gets $15 million boost from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

By Chris Barncard, UW News

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) will commit $15 million over the next three years to extend the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s strength in artificial intelligence research and education by supporting the university’s Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence Initiative (RISE) focus on AI.

RISE is a multifaceted effort focused on faculty hiring, research infrastructure, interdisciplinary collaboration and student opportunity. It will speed hiring of 120 to 150 new faculty over three-to-five years in several focus areas chosen for their relevance to Wisconsin and promise for solving society’s biggest challenges, their complexity and impact across scholarly disciplines, and their importance to the lives of current and future UW–Madison students. Read more…