Exploring New Frontiers in AI with Funding, Collaboration, and Innovation.

The TrAC Seed Grant Program fuels collaboration and innovation in Translational AI. Launched in 2022, it has supported multiple research projects, each exploring unique aspects of AI’s real-world applications. With its growing success, TrAC expanded the program in 2023, welcoming contributions from industry partners. This initiative fosters a dynamic research ecosystem where academia and industry collaborate to drive cutting-edge AI advancements.

✅ Supports early-stage, experimental research
✅ Encourages interdisciplinary collaboration
✅ Provides up to $20,000 in funding
✅ Helps researchers validate ideas before federal funding

Data-driven discovery of physical systems and optimal control neural algorithms

PI : Hailiang Liu

Co-PI : Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
            Hui Hu

Term : Spring 2023

Award : $20,000

Computational force spectroscopy for prediction of protein-protein interactions

PI : Anwesha Sarkar 

Co-PI : Adarsh Krishnamurthy
            Ratul Chowdhury

Term : Spring 2023

Award : $20,000

Machine learning for predicting phenotypic distribution based on group-level omics data

PI : Guiping Hu

Co-PI : Juan P. Steibe

Term : Spring 2023

Award : $20,000

Label-Free Confirmation of Melanoma Cells via Machine Learning on Trajectory Data

PI : Anuj Sharma 

Co-PI : Robbyn Anand

Term : Spring 2023

Award : $20,000

Uncertainty Quantification in Physics-based Machine Learning Models

PI : Cody Fleming

Co-PI : Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
            Adarsh Krishnamurthy

Term : Spring 2023

Award : $20,000

Bacterial Genome Annotation with Phylogenetic Profiling and Autoencoders

PI : Iddo Friedberg

Co-PI : Julie Dickerson
            Yana Bromberg

Term : Spring 2022

Award : $20,000

Feedback Learning for Machine Perception with System-Level Objectives

PI : Tichakorn Wonpiromsarn

Co-PI : Soumik Sarkar

Term : Spring 2022

Award : $20,000

Machine Learning for Efficient Ansatz in Variational Quantum Algorithms

PI : Aditya Ramamoorthy

Co-PI : Thomas Ladecola

Term : Spring 2022

Award : $20,000

Data-driven optimal control for parametric dynamical systems

PI : Hailiang Liu

Co-PI : Baskar Ganapathysubramania

Term : Spring 2022

Award : $20,000

A Glance at Our Seed Grant Awardees: