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The University of Utah Scientific Computing & Imaging (SCI) Institute is an internationally recognized research institute transforming science & society through applied computational & data science. Home of the One-U Responsible AI Initiative. sci.utah.edu
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November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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👋 Join us in welcoming Guang Tian, SCI's first faculty member from @utah.edu's Department of City & Metro Planning & an alum of that program. He blends advanced tech with urban design to promote communities that are healthier, better connected, & more sustainable. Get to know him: bit.ly/sci-tian
Guang Tian, SCI’s First Urban Planning Faculty Member, Envisions Utah as a National Model for Smart Growth - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
For Guang Tian, a new assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, getting stuck in traffic has a silver lining: it might inspire his next project....
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November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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🌟 This year's Utah AI Summit (hosted by @utahcommerce.bsky.social) features 2 @utah.edu speakers: Penny Atkins, our director of research & science, and Masood Parvania, director of the Utah Smart Energy Lab & professor of electrical & computer engineering. Learn more: aisummit.utah.gov
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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SCI faculty, staff, & students are heading to the #ieeevis conference in Vienna this weekend, & they’re bringing scarily good research 👻. They'll be celebrating 3 awards—best paper, honorable mention, & Test of Time—and contributing in lots of other ways: sci.utah.edu/vis-2025/

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SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Students, faculty and staff from the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah have long played a vital role in shaping IEEE VIS, the top conference for visualization ...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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🎙️🚴 The Cycling Over Sixty Podcast recently featured SCI co-founder Rob MacLeod, who discussed the sport's influence on his life & SCI's trajectory. Rob & founding director Chris Johnson used to brainstorm while riding up City Creek Canyon together: "Those were [SCI's] origins."
🎧 bit.ly/sci-bikes
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October 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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🧑‍🏫 @utah.edu is hiring 2 new tenure-track faculty members focused on the future of education empowered by AI. From designing AI-powered learning tools to expanding digital literacy & credentials, these professors will reimagine how we prepare for & succeed in an AI-driven world.
bit.ly/rai-ed-hires
Reimagining Education: Help Lead the Future of Teaching and Learning with AI at the University of Utah - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
October 16, 2025 The University of Utah One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative (One-U RAI) at the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute is hiring a...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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🔍 Join us for a Distinguished SCI Seminar from J. Nathan Kutz (University of Washington): "Shallow Recurrent Decoders for the Automated Discovery of Physical Models"

📅 Thursday, Oct. 23, 4–5 pm
📍 John A. Widtsoe Building (JWB 335)

Presented with the Dept. of Mathematics.

bit.ly/sci-kutz
October 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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New faculty member Rohan Basu Roy is on a mission to make high performance computing faster & more sustainable. He draws inspiration from heavy metal music & brings a bold philosophy to his work: computing at scale must evolve to meet environmental challenges. Q&A: sci.utah.edu/rohan-hpc/
New Faculty Member Rohan Basu Roy Wants to Make High Performance Computing Faster and Greener - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Rohan Basu Roy is on a mission to make high performance computing (HPC)—core to AI-powered scientific discovery—faster and more sustainable. He joined the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Instit...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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👋 SCI is proud to welcome Bill Miller as @utah.edu's senior director for research computing & data. With deep expertise in cyberinfrastructure, he's set to elevate Utah’s leadership in scientific innovation. Read about his vision for the U and his path from NASA to NSF: sci.utah.edu/bill-miller-...
Bill Miller Brings National Expertise to Advance Research Computing and Data at the U - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
After over a decade of shaping advanced cyberinfrastructure at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), William L. (Bill) Miller joined the University of Utah in September as the senior director fo...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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🌎 @utah.edu is hiring 2 new tenure-track faculty members at the intersection of AI, environmental science, & societal impact. They'll be part of a cluster of experts leading cutting-edge research to tackle challenges like pollution, extreme weather, & AI energy use.

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Join the University of Utah’s Bold, Transdisciplinary Effort to Model and Monitor a Changing Planet with AI - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
October 6, 2025 The University of Utah One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative (One-U RAI) at the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute is launching two...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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👥 Thank you to everyone who attended our One-U Responsible AI Initiative Symposium last week! Read a recap of what @utah.edu and state leaders said about the future of AI in Utah, and learn about life-changing work from our researchers: rai.utah.edu/symposium-20...
Second Annual Symposium Recap: Initiative Fuels State Leadership in Responsible AI - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
At its second annual Symposium on Friday, September 12, 2025, the University of Utah One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative (One-U RAI) showcased how it’s raising...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A major partnership between @utah.edu, NVIDIA, & HPE will accelerate AI-powered research across the state. “This builds on something that’s in the DNA of this university: innovation.”
— @parasharmanish.bsky.social, chief AI officer & SCI director

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Cancer research at the University of Utah should get much faster under new $50M A.I. partnership
The University of Utah wants to put another $50 million toward artificial intelligence to speed up cancer research and get possible cures to patients sooner.
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September 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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📢 Utah's Responsible AI Community Consortium is excited to unveil its AI Leadership Blueprint to help orgs of all sizes adapt to an AI-driven future: rai.utah.edu/ai-blueprint/

📸 @ksl5tv.bsky.social interviewed blueprint co-authors Kevin Williams, Robin Huling, & @pennyatkinsphd.bsky.social today.
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Join us & @marrinerinstitute.bsky.social on 9/18 as Maggie Penn (Emory, @russellsagefdn.bsky.social) explores how classification algorithms shape human behavior, why traditional fairness metrics fall short, & how a new framework accounts for behavior, individ. welfare, & transparency. bit.ly/raipenn
Guest Lecture by Maggie Penn—When Algorithms Shape Behavior: Rethinking Fairness in Classification
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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🎂 Happy big 7-0 to SCI co-founder Rob MacLeod! He's not slowing down: he still bikes to work most days, and #NIH just awarded his team a grant for a project titled “Sustainable Software Tools for Neuromodulation Prediction.” 🚴🧠
August 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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How is AI reshaping our information landscape—& what does it mean for democracy, science, & public trust? Join us Aug. 20 to hear from distinguished visitor @dietram.bsky.social on how industry & academia can work together to prepare society for AI's impacts.

Details: rai.utah.edu/distinguishe...
August 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Join us for our One-U Responsible AI Initiative Symposium on Sept. 12 to explore the future of responsible AI. Hear from state and national leaders and enjoy lightning talks from researchers using AI to improve healthcare, education, and the environment. RSVP by Aug. 31: rai.utah.edu/symposium-20...
One-U RAI Symposium 2025 - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
Please join us for the One-U Responsible AI Initiative Annual Symposium on Friday, Sept. 12, in the Douglas Ballroom of the University of Utah Guest...
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August 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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In a Deseret News op-ed, @parasharmanish.bsky.social—our director and @utah.edu's chief AI officer—explains how Utah can serve as a model for implementing America’s new AI Action Plan, announced by the White House on July 23.

Read why Utah is a leader in this space:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Utah's innovation ensures U.S. AI dominance
Utah's public-private partnerships set a new standard for AI innovation — and the nation is following suit.
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August 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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🔍 New #scicomm research from @freiling.bsky.social, a faculty fellow in SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative.
July 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Funding opportunity out of @ncstate.bsky.social—apply by July 30! Academic and industry researchers are invited to submit one or more research project ideas. ncsu-las.org/what-we-do/c...
July 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🧑‍💻 During our first One-U Responsible AI Initiative hackathon June 4–5, SCI rooms buzzed with discussions of data, algorithms, AI, atmospheric sciences, & more as students built tools to address air quality. Kudos to our winners & thanks to all participants & sponsors!
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Students Use AI to Solve Air Quality Challenges at Inaugural Hackathon - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
For two days in early June, conference rooms at the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute buzzed with discussions of data, algorithms,...
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June 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Kudos to SCI's Tamara Bidone, who is part of an international team of researchers awarded $8.5 million by the Leducq Foundation to develop treatments for peripheral artery disease—a common and potentially fatal condition where not enough blood flows to the limbs.
SCI’s Bidone Helps Lead $8.5M Leducq Network for Vascular Breakthroughs
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June 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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👏 Congrats to SCI Director @parasharmanish.bsky.social for receiving @acm.org's Distinguished Service Award!

Read more on SCI's site: bit.ly/sci-acm-para...
May 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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📣 SCI researchers built a new, more efficient tool for big-data analysis, and their work is featured on the May 2025 cover of "Algorithms," a peer-reviewed, open access journal.

Read more: www.sci.utah.edu/the-institut...
SCI Team Lands Cover of ‘Algorithms’ with New Method to Analyze Big Data
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May 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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📈 The University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing installed its single-biggest upgrade to AI cyberinfrastructure: a fleet of 10 powerful computer servers with 80 high-end NVIDIA GPUs, hardware critical for AI-driven research. This will support innovation across the state. @utah.edu
U Supercharges AI Computing Power with New GPUs - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
The University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing recently installed its single-biggest upgrade to AI cyberinfrastructure: a fleet of 10 powerful computer servers with...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM