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Faculty to Study Sustainability in New Artificial Intelligence Center
from 2021-2022 Annual Report | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
A team from Georgia Tech has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund the NSF Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT). AI4OPT will focus on bringing together the fields of artificial intelligence and mathematical optimization to achieve research breakthroughs in automated decision making that could not be attained separately.
The team is driven by use cases in several areas of significant societal impact: energy systems and the use of massive, distributed renewable resources and demand response programs; green supply chains to support the growth of e-commerce; resilience and sustainability, particularly in how to develop local food production; and circuit design and control for accelerating the development of new computing systems that can solve these evermore challenging problems.
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The resilience and sustainability thrust is led by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Yongsheng Chen. Chen is joined by fellow Environmental Engineering Professor John Crittenden and five other researchers from Georgia Tech and the University of Southern California.
The resilience and sustainability team is working to address challenges facing our food system, including projected nutrient cost and scarcity and the wide-spread eutrophication of water supplies.
