Call for AI Research Grant Proposals
The COB AI 360° Faculty AI Research Forum invites proposals to fund Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in business disciplines. The forum offers $2,000 per team for research proposals selected for funding. Applications are open to professors of all ranks across COB academic units. To participate, the following steps are required.

Research Proposals Teams
AI Integration Sponsor - Karlene Cousins
AI 360 Teaching Co-Chair - Edward Duran
AI 360 Teaching Co-Chair - Nancy Richmond
AI 360 Research Co-Chair - Min Chen
AI 360 Research Co-Chair - Qiang Kang
AI 360 Research Fellows who received awards to fund their research. Their research will be presented in the Fall at the AI 360 Research Symposium.
| Team # | AI Research Faculty Fellow |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pouyan Esmaeil Zadeh |
| 2 | Yan Chen |
| 2 | Xueping Liang |
| 2 | Arijit Sengupta |
| 3 | Jong Youl Lee |
| 3 | Anqi Wu |
| 4 | Paulo Gomes |
| 4 | Jayati Sinha |
| 4 | Miriam Weisman |
| 5 | Attila Hertelendy |
| 5 | Maria Campo |
| 6 | Hemang Subramanian |
| 7 | Arjun Kadian |
| 7 | Manjul Gupta |
| 8 | Chaitali Kapadia |
| 8 | Kisha Jones |
| 9 | Marc Weinstein |
| 9 | Stav Fainshmidt |
| 10 | Julia Chou |
| 11 | Michael (Minye) Tang |
| 11 | Kelly (Xiaochuan) Huang |
| 12 | Umair Usman |
| 13 | Krishnan Dandapani |
| 14 | Florent Rouxelin |
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