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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.

Learn about the Projects

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

Explore the Seed Grants

From the Provost's Office and AI Innovation Institute