October 2025

DSAI Events

AI and Higher Education Webinar with Danny Oppenheimer

When: Monday, October 6th, 12:00 PM CT

Where: Online (Zoom link after RSVP)

Join the DSAI for the AI and Education Webinar Series – Register Today !

The next session in the AI and Education Webinar Series. Carnegie Mellon professor Danny Oppenheimer will present Scaffolding AI Use in Educational Settings: A Case Study in Collaborative Learning.

This free, virtual event will explore how guided approaches can help students use AI productively, with evidence-based insights for assignment and curriculum design in AI-enabled classrooms.

DSAI-Hub Computer Vision Event with Honeywell Aerospace

On October 22 (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Northrop Lindahl Room), the DSAI-Hub will host a half-day workshop on computer vision with partners from Honeywell Aerospace. The event will feature lightning talks from UMN faculty, industry perspectives, and opportunities to explore collaboration. We’d like to hear from you—whether you’re interested in giving a short lightning talk (3–5 minutes) or simply attending and engaging in the discussion. Complete the interest form here

AI and Higher Ed Webinar with Dr. De Liu from Minnesota Carlson

When: Wednesday, Nov 12 | 12:00–1:00 PM

AI chatbots are reshaping education—but their impact on learning isn’t always positive. Standard tools can sometimes impede understanding, while carefully designed systems can dramatically enhance it.

Join University of Minnesota professor De Liu as he shares experimental findings on when chatbots hinder versus help, and introduces SmartPAL, a gamified AI learning assistant built to provide timely, personalized, and contextualized support.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore how generative AI can be designed to truly support student learning and instructor success. Register for this webinar.

AI Literacy in PK-20 Education: Theoretical, Practical and Policy Considerations

When: Tuesday, Dec 9 | 12:00–1:00 PM

AI integration in education isn’t just a higher ed concern, it must be addressed from early childhood through graduate school. Building AI literacy across the full PK–20 spectrum is essential to shaping effective research, practice, and policy.

Join Distinguished McKnight University Professor Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou as she explores frameworks for AI literacy and their implications for how we teach, learn, and prepare students in an AI-driven world.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading voice in educational psychology and AI. Register for this webinar.

Women in AI & Data Science (WiADS) Conference

When: November 3rd, 2025 at 09:00 AM

Where: McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota & Virtual

The Women in AI & Data Science (WiADS) Conference 2025 is coming!

On November 3, 2025, join us at the McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota, or online, for a day celebrating the voices of women, women-identifying, and non-binary professionals, academics, and students shaping the future of AI and data science. We’re seeking sponsors to help make this community event possible . Your support amplifies diverse voices and strengthens innovation in AI and data science. Registration is now open, with free virtual access available. For those attending in person, the day will feature live sessions, networking opportunities, and lunch provided on-site. Be part of a day dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and amplifying diverse voices in AI and data science—all are welcome.

Data Discovery Across Departments

MnTech Talent 2025: The Moment is Now

When: October 3rd, 2025

Where: Best Buy HQ

Minnesota has always been a place where bold ideas take root—and where talent rises to meet them. As a headquarters economy with a rich history in technology and innovation, we’ve thrived by adapting, leading, and building together.

Now, we face a defining moment. The rise of agentic AI isn’t just changing how we work—it’s redefining what it means to be a leader, employer, community partner, educator, and advocate. The choices we make today will shape Minnesota’s workforce for years to come.

On Friday, October 3 at Best Buy HQ, 250 tech-focused leaders from across industries will come together to highlight innovations, share best practices, and build community. Breakout sessions will explore the following core concentrations:

AI & the Evolving Workforce – How emerging technologies are reshaping work, skills, and opportunity—and what it means for your organization.
Expanding and Strengthening Talent Pipelines – Building inclusive pathways that prepare and connect more people to tech careers.
Retain, Develop, and Adapt – Creating strategies that grow talent from within and position teams to thrive through change.

With 9 breakout sessions, an executive panel, a keynote speaker, and dedicated networking and exhibitor engagement, this is where Minnesota’s top employers, educators, and innovators unite to meet the moment—and lead what’s next.

Vision-based Industrial Inspection (VISION'25)

When: October 19th, 2025 at 9:00–17:00 HAST (UTC−10:00)

Where: TBD @ ICCV 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii

The 3rd Workshop on Vision-based Industrial Inspection (VISION'25) will be held at ICCV 2025 on October 19th in Hawaii. Following the success of VISION'23 @ CVPR and VISION'24 @ ECCV, this workshop brings together researchers, industry leaders, and practitioners to explore the latest innovations in vision-based industrial inspection. Attendees can look forward to keynote talks, technical sessions, and excellent networking opportunities with experts in the field.

Aims and Scope:

The VISION workshop provides a platform for exchanging cutting-edge research and addressing emerging practical challenges in vision-based industrial inspection. Through keynote talks, technical presentations, and challenge competitions, the workshop aims to:

Bring together researchers from interdisciplinary communities related to computer vision-based inspection.
Connect academic researchers with industry practitioners to align recent research advances with current industrial needs.

Current Organizing Committee:

Shancong Mou, Zirui Liu and Wan Wang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Juan Du (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Hao Yan (Arizona State University)
Gokberk Cinbis (Middle East Technical University)

International Institute for Biosensing Lecture Series: Ethics of Robotics in Healthcare with Special Consideration for Women

When: November 10th, 2025 at 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Where: Walter Library

Professor Catherine McCarty, Associate Dean for Research at the Medical School, Duluth campus, University of Minnesota. Professor McCarty started her research career as the Head of the Epidemiology Research Unit at the University of Melbourne. During her eight years in this position, she led population-based studies of vision impairment in Australia, India, and Hong Kong. Upon returning to the US, Professor McCarty was the Principal Investigator for the Marshfield Clinic Personalized Medicine Research Project and conducted research in the areas of genetic epidemiology, pharmacogenetics, and community engagement related to biobanking. Professor McCarty currently conducts mixed-methods research in bioethics and rural health.

Learn more and Register

Learning Resources

OIT Training Series: Generative AI & Gemini

Attend the OIT hosted training series for Gemini and Generative AI.

NotebookLM - Knowledge Management & Responsible Data Upload, Friday 9/5, 11am, register for the event here
Effective Prompting in Gemini, Friday 9/26, 11am, register for the event here
Gems and Deep Research in Gemini, Friday, 10/3, 11am, register for the event here
Every day productivity - Make your life easier with AI assistance (for administration), Friday, 10/24, 1pm, register for the event here

Explore GenAI+U: A Student Learning Experience

You’ve probably already come across generative AI (GenAI) in your daily life—whether through tools like Grammarly, Otter.ai, or even ChatGPT. Opinions on GenAI range from skepticism to enthusiasm, and that’s okay.

The GenAI+U learning experience isn’t about telling you how to use AI—it’s about helping you become an effective, ethical, and responsible user. With short 30-minute lessons, real-world examples, and interactive case studies, you’ll build critical skills to thoughtfully engage with AI in academics and everyday life.

Start exploring GenAI+U

Funding Opportunities and Deadline

If you're interested in exploring these or other data science opportunities, whether it's finding the right team, preparing your submission, or partnering with industry on federal and state funding initiatives, please reach out—we’re here to help!

NVIDIA Academic Research Grant Opportunity – NVIDIA is requesting proposals from academic researchers in the areas of Generative AI: Training and Model Development, Generative AI: Alignment and Inference, or Robotics and Edge AI. Cloud computing or hardware resources are available to awarded projects. Rolling deadline
Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) – NSF: The NSF Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), in partnership with the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), seeks to address grand challenge problems in the geosciences through innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) methods. AI is defined here as any computer analysis where the results are algorithmically refined without human intervention. See the solicitation for three priority goals. The full proposal deadline is February 4, 2026.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs – NIST: To support activities that develop, expand, strengthen, or sustain NIST partnership programs and/or support the conduct of research or a recipient's portion of collaborative research in a variety of areas including, but not limited to: Metrology; Standards; Nanotechnology; Artificial Intelligence; Advanced Communications; Advanced Manufacturing. Deadline: Rolling
Fundamental AI Research – Army Contracting Command Rock Island: The Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) is seeking artificial intelligence research and development whitepapers and proposals in support of new technologies and translational research-based approaches that support the identification, alignment, and exploitation of basic, applied, and advanced research. The army is interested in Autonomous platforms, AI/ML decision support fundamental research, Human-AI integration, novel visualization and synthetic environment approaches to enable improved training, distributed AI, and foundational AI and data algorithms. Deadline: Rolling

Open Positions, Assistantships, and Internships

New Openings

Internships

NVIDIA 2026 Internships: PhD Autonomous Vehicles Research – NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges no one else can solve. Our work in AI and digital twins is transforming the world's largest industries and profoundly impacting society — from gaming to robotics, self-driving cars to life-saving healthcare, climate change to virtual worlds where we can all connect and create.
Honeywell Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Interns – Honeywell Aerospace is seeking 10 interns next summer for our AI intern program. We are seeking Bachelors and Masters students who have some experience in AI/ML to help build out a new AI engineering organization we have started. Due to export control restrictions we can only accept US citizens, Green Card holders or permanent residents. Please also reach out directly with your resume by sending it to [email protected].

Job Openings

Knexus – At Knexus, we are at the forefront of AI development for the government, with a mission to revolutionize how the government serves its citizens. As a pioneer in the field, we've spent nearly two decades pushing the boundaries of what is possible with artificial intelligence. Our work has a direct, mission-driven impact, and we believe that our innovative ideas help us stay ahead of the curve. Multiple openings, Junior AI Software Engineer, AI Software Engineer, Embedded AI Solutions Engineer.
Amazon Applied Scientist (Contract) Artificial General Intelligence – The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in deep learning, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems.

Faculty & Postdoc Positions

Lehigh University – Tenured Faculty Positions - Multiple openings in systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and human centered computing.
University of Washington Postdoc & Program Manager Positions in AI and Biomedicine – Professor Su-In Lee’s AIMS Lab is seeking multiple postdoctoral researchers and a program manager to contribute to multiple funded, high-profile projects. Successful candidates can start immediately.
University of Bristol Lecturer in Statistical Science and AI – The School of Mathematics is seeking to appoint a Lecturer (analogous to Assistant Professor) in Statistical Science and AI, to be interpreted as including Statistics, and mathematical, statistical and computational aspects of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Technical Communication: Science Communication – The School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of Technical Communication with an emphasis on science communication. Applications are especially welcome from candidates with scholarly interests or expertise in one or more of the following areas: Rhetoric of science and technology; medical rhetorics; user experience (UX); rhetorics of code; visual rhetoric; translation/localization; grant writing; privacy and surveillance; environmental communication; cultural rhetorics.
University of Washington Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, in Informatics – The research area of interest for this position is Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. This includes but is not limited to topics such as human-AI collaboration; computational social science; and AI governance, policy, and cybersecurity.
University of Michigan Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Survey Research Center – Housed at the Institute for Social Research, one of the world's largest social science research organizations, the Survey Research Center is a community of faculty, staff and students that serves the public interest by conducting research integrated with state-of-the-art data collection and analysis, developing social and behavioral research methods, and training leaders in survey and data science. The postdoctoral fellow will be a central collaborator in a beginning project titled "Improving Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Population-Based Research Data Capacity for All through Nationally Representative Hybrid Sampling."
University of Zürich Assistant Professorship (Tenure-Track) in Responsible AI – The Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics of the University of Zurich invites applications for an Assistant Professorship Tenure-Track in Responsible AI starting at the earliest in (spring) 2026. Candidates shall hold a Ph.D. degree in computer science or a related field and have an excellent record of achievement in the following areas: Frameworks and Methods for Responsible AI, Technical Foundations of Trustworthy AI.
University of Southern California Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate – The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in the Psychology Department. The Everyday Respect research project (https://dornsife.usc.edu/everydayrespect/) is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join our NSF-funded interdisciplinary project focused on analyzing police body-worn camera (BWC) footage using cutting-edge AI. This groundbreaking research, conducted in collaboration with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and community partners, aims to transform police training, policy, and community relations by developing novel tools for understanding police-civilian interactions.

Still Open

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, AI & Society – The new AIS department was created with the goal of creating AI systems that are designed to be built by society, for society. We seek to upend the dominant approach where AI systems are built with accuracy as the primary metric and then “fine tuned” for societal considerations. A successful candidate is expected to contribute to our initial attempts to make this vision a reality. To that end, we are looking for candidates who can operate effectively in a team environment with a diverse community of students and faculty, and who share and want to help shape our vision for a new department in the field of AI and Society.
Postdoctoral Fellow: AI and Child Development, Harvard Graduate School of Education – The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join Dr. Ying Xu’s research group in conducting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI, Child Development, and Education. This is a two-year, in-person position based in Cambridge, MA, with the possibility of renewal pending funding availability.
Postdoc Positions, Computational Quantum Science Lab (EPFL) – The Computational Quantum Science Lab researches, develops, and promotes a broad range of advanced computational techniques to study quantum phenomena. In addition to numerical approaches based on classical computers, novel algorithms to simulate quantum processes and suitable for near-term quantum devices are also being developed. Applications are reviewed at the beginning of October.
Assistant Professor of Communication in Social Media and Strategic Communication, CalPoly – Full-time, academic-year, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in social media strategy and analytics. We especially welcome candidates whose work intersects with one or more of the following areas: crisis and risk communication, health communication, and human-machine communication (particularly Artificial Intelligence).

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