UW–Madison companions with Microsoft and TitletownTech to speed up AI-driven scientific discovery  – UW–Madison News – UW–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is partnering with Microsoft and TitletownTech on a brand new collaboration designed to speed up scientific discovery by means of synthetic intelligence.  

Powered by Microsoft’s new Discovery platform, the initiative connects UW–Madison’s analysis strengths with trade companions to advance innovation throughout life sciences, manufacturing, supplies science and different high-impact fields. 

The Wisconsin collaboration builds on UW–Madison’s long-standing management in utilized analysis and its dedication to driving progress that advantages Wisconsin communities and companies. With early entry to Microsoft’s Discovery platform, UW researchers will acquire highly effective instruments to mannequin advanced issues with better precision, lowering the time from thought to real-world impression. 

“By linking UW–Madison’s world-class research with Microsoft’s Discovery Platform and technology expertise, and TitletownTech’s strengths in creating innovation ecosystems, I am confident great things are possible,” says Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin. “This partnership reflects the incredible potential when academia, industry, and technology come together to build new bridges between discovery and impact, here in Wisconsin and beyond.”  

UW–Madison’s School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences will play a key position within the effort, which is considered one of solely two collaborations nationwide. A parallel initiative is underway with the New Jersey Artificial Intelligence Hub in partnership with Princeton University. 

“Partnering with Microsoft through the Discovery Platform opens up exciting new possibilities — not just for computing, but across the full spectrum of scientific inquiry,” says Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, director of CDIS.  “UW–Madison has deep expertise in artificial intelligence and data science, and a strong tradition of translational research, which makes us uniquely positioned for this kind of collaboration. Titletown Tech is also an extremely valuable partner in this effort, as they will bring researchers and industry together to accelerate its real-world impact.” 

Through the collaboration, UW–Madison researchers will work with Microsoft Discovery specialists and TitletownTech’s community of trade companions to discover functions of superior AI that may speed up analysis and translation. TitletownTech will oversee operations and enterprise engagement from its Madison location. 

“This collaboration is about shortening the distance between discovery and impact,” says TitletownTech Managing Partner Jill Enos. “Progress in both science and innovation depends on iteration and feedback, and by connecting UW–Madison’s research excellence with Microsoft’s Discovery platform and our ecosystem of industry partners, we’re creating a model where experimentation and market insight continuously inform one another.” 

“Wisconsin’s spirit of collaboration and innovation is at the heart of this partnership with TitletownTech, UW–Madison and Microsoft,” says Microsoft Executive Vice President Jason Zander. “By connecting leading industry and academic expertise with Microsoft Discovery, we can accelerate breakthroughs in materials science, manufacturing and life sciences, delivering solutions that matter for the region and beyond.” 

TitletownTech, a Wisconsin-based enterprise capital agency and innovation hub fashioned out of a partnership between the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft, will lead the Wisconsin collaboration, bringing collectively early companions and innovators engaged on challenges for a number of the state’s core industries, together with life sciences, biotechnology, healthcare, meals and agriculture, and manufacturing. 

The partnership extends UW–Madison’s custom of industry collaboration and utilized analysis, advancing work that strengthens Wisconsin’s financial system and improves lives throughout the state and past. It additionally displays the college’s funding and management in AI analysis. Through the RISE-AI initiative, UW is uniting researchers throughout disciplines to pursue accountable and transformative functions of synthetic intelligence.