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DISCRETIONARY ACTION DUE: 5/1/2020
April 1, 2020
TO: Research and Development Staff
FROM: Stephen Streiffer, Interim Deputy Laboratory Director for Science,
Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences, and Director
of the Advanced Photon Source
SUBJECT: C3.ai DTI Call for Proposals for COVID-19 Research
I encourage interested researchers to consider responding to the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI) first call for proposals on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the Institute is interested in the use of artificial intelligence
(AI), data analytics, cloud computing, and change management to mitigate the course and impact of the disease. Argonne employees holding joint appointments with
UChicago CASE are eligible to submit proposals.
Topics for research awards may include but are not limited to the following topics:
- Applying machine learning/artificial intelligence methods to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Genome-specific COVID-19 medical protocols, including precision medicine of host responses
- Biomedical informatics methods for drug design and repurposing
- Design and sharing of clinical trials for collecting and analyzing data on medications, therapies, and interventions
- Modeling, simulation, prediction of COVID-19 propagation and efficacy of interventions
- Logistics and optimization analysis for design of public health strategies and interventions
- Rigorous approaches to designing sampling and testing strategies
- Data analytics for COVID-19 research harnessing private and sensitive data, including the role of edge computing/IoT for gathering data
- Improving societal resilience in response to the spread of COVID-19 pandemic
- Broader efforts in biomedicine, infectious disease modeling, response logistics and optimization, public health efforts, tools, and methodologies around the containment of rising infectious
diseases, and response to pandemics so as to be better prepared for future infectious diseases.
The institute will distribute up to $5.8 million in awards ranging from $100,000 to $500,000 each for one year from this first call. In addition to cash awards, C3.ai DTI recipients will have access to significant cloud computing, supercomputing, data access,
and AI software resources and technical support through Microsoft and C3.ai.
C3.ai, Microsoft, University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusett Institute of Technology, and Princeton University recently established C3.ai DTI. Its
founding mission is to encourage collaborative research in areas that support the transformation and enhancement of the quality of life in societal systems at large.
The proposal deadline is May 1, 2020, and awards will be announced by early June. However, proposals submitted by April 15 will be reviewed for potential early award notification.
Eligibility and submission questions should be directed to Larry Hill at
lhill@uchicago.edu. More information is at
C3.ai DTI.
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