• OIT partners with faculty to enhance teaching and learning through intentional technology integration. Our team provides expert guidance on course design, video production, and emerging tools like Generative AI to create engaging, media-rich experiences for students

  • Explores how communication practices, processes, and technologies impact people's professional, political, and social lives. Our department emphasizes rhetoric in public culture, critical media studies, health communication, organizational communication, and interpersonal communication. It approaches AI from critical-ethical and methodological standpoints.

  • The Northern Lights Collaborative develops evidence-based programs and resources in collaboration with educators and partners that support inclusive K-16 computing education.

  • Learning + Technologies Collaborative - The Learning + Technologies Collaborative (formally LT Media Lab) is a research and professional development center located in the Curriculum and Instruction Department at the University of Minnesota. Our work spans across PK-12 in and out of school educational environments, pre- and in-service teacher development, and evolving forms of literacy within technology.

  • Social Computing Research at the University of Minnesota - The GroupLens lab advances the theory and practice of social computing by building and understanding systems used by real people

  • The Minnesota NLP is a research group led by Dongyeop Kang (DK) in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Our group aims to develop human-centered language technologies.

Catchup on the Latest News at DSAI HUB

Meet the AI Hub’s new Director of Research: James C. Wilgenbusch

The University of Minnesota has long been a leader in computational research, high-performance computing, and interdisciplinary discovery. As artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly important driver of research and innovation, the AI Hub is expanding its leadership to strengthen collaboration and accelerate AI-enabled research across the University and beyond.

Getting a Head Start on AI in the Classroom: How the University of Minnesota AI Hub is Supporting PK–12 Education

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way we learn, work, and interact with the world around us. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into everyday life, schools face a critical question: How do we prepare students for a future shaped by technologies that are evolving faster than ever before?

At the University of Minnesota, the AI Hub is helping to answer that question.