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On October 16, the UC Davis College of Engineering and our AI Center in Engineering hosted the AI Innovation Showcase and Prem Jain Symposium, welcoming more than 100 industry partners, alumni, faculty and students.
The event highlighted cutting-edge AI research happening at UC Davis, fostered collaboration between academia and industry, and introduced our new industry consortium — a hub for partnership and innovation in AI. To learn more, contact the center’s acting director, Raissa D’Souza.
View highlights from the showcase below,
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Diane Bryant, Alfred Chuang and Prem Jain highlighted the crucial role of higher education in advancing AI and UC Davis’ position as a leader in AI education and innovation.
Our engineering faculty showcased their latest cutting-edge AI research.
- Chen-Nee Chuah: AI for Health Innovations in Clinical & Home Care
- Sam King: Using ML Safely for Distributed Healthcare
- Yubei Chen: In Search of the Second Law of Learning
- Vinod Narayanan: Sustainable High-Compute-Density Modular Datacenters
- Aditya Thakur: Editing with Intent: Customizing and Repairing AI Models Using Any Constraints
- Vladimir Filkov: Innovating with AI Technology
Four student-led startups pitched their technologies alongside the AI Student Collective.
- VitalCue: AI-Powered Continuity of Care from Behavioral and Kinetic Data
- mlpal: One-stop Agentic AI Infrastructure for Enterprise
- Health eTile: Transforming Clinical Trials and Research with Continuous Health Monitoring
- Inquisito: AI Agents for End-to-End Regulatory Compliance in Life Sciences
- AI Student Collective: Accessibility. Literacy. Diversity.
The session concluded with remarks from George Baxter, chief innovation and economic development officer for UC Davis, who emphasized the importance of industry partnerships in fostering innovation and collaboration.
Industry and academic leaders explored AI energy consumption and data centers, integrating AI and robotics, translating research from the lab to commercial solutions, and more.
- Diane Bryant, Former Chairman and CEO, NovaSignal
- Alim Giga, Investor, Race Capital
- Ammar Hanafi, Co-founder and General Partner, Moment Ventures
- Michael Hurlston, President and CEO, Lumentum
- Saif Islam, Professor and ECE Dept Chair, UC Davis
This event was generously sponsored by Race Capital with support from the UC Davis College of Engineering.
