UH researchers have received $135k in federal funding to advance artificial intelligence (AI) in astronomy through the new National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) initiative. NAIRR is the United States’ vision for a shared national research infrastructure for AI, and the UH project will demonstrate the value of large-scale AI systems for accelerating scientific research in solar astronomy.
The project is a collaboration between ICS Professor Peter Sadowski, CS PhD student Nick Glaser, Professor Xudong Sun, and others at the UH Institute for Astronomy. The NAIRR project builds upon existing work by this team, which is developing AI models for analyzing data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on Maui. See the project page and the recent UH News article for more information.