The New Science of Digital Transformation

The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute is a research consortium dedicated to accelerating the benefits of artificial intelligence for business, government, and society.

The institute engages the world’s leading scientists to conduct research and train practitioners in the Science of Digital Transformation, which operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, internet of things, big data analytics, organizational behavior, public policy, and ethics.

Established in March 2020, the C3.ai DTI consortium consists of C3 AI, Microsoft Corporation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Princeton University, Stanford University, and University of Chicago. The Institute is jointly managed and hosted by University of California, Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Berkeley, KTH MoU expands opportunities
A new five-year agreement brings two leading American and Swedish universities together even closer to address some of the most pressing technological challenges facing the U.S. and Europe. University of California, Berkeley and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden met in Berkeley on May 10 to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that calls […]
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Do We Trust A.I. to Make the Right Decisions?
May 3, 2023 Chicago Booth Review: C3.ai DTI COVID-19 researcher Sendhil Mullainathan, professor at the University of Chicago and faculty director of Chicago Booth’s Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence, appears among a panel of experts discussing human discretion, bias, and AI on this UChicago podcast. Says Mullainathan, “When we think about whether AI will promote […]
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Internet Equity Starts With Quality Data
April 12, 2023 C3.ai DTI cybersecurity PI Nick Feamster, Neubauer Professor of Computer Science, Data Science Institute Research Director, and Network Operations and Internet Security Lab Director at the University of Chicago, is featured on the Light Reading podcast, discussing the Internet Equity Initiative he launched last spring to address the digital divide. Listen here.
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Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future
Berkeley Lab: C3.ai DTI COVIDScholar PI and UC Berkeley Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Gerbrand Cedar is the principal investigator at the Berkeley Lab’s groundbreaking A-Lab, a new kind of automated lab that uses robots guided by artificial intelligence. The system at A-Lab is designed as a “closed-loop,” where decision-making is handled without human […]
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When Will Cars be Fully Self-Driving?
Wall Street Journal: The technology isn’t anywhere near where it needs to be to replace human drivers, says this WSJ report. Three experts weigh in on what the future holds for autonomous vehicles, including C3.ai DTI cybersecurity PI Alexandre M. Bayen, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and at the University of California, […]
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Remodeling lung transplant system with data and AI
MIT Sloan School of Management News: C3.ai DTI COVIDAnalytics PI and MIT Sloan Professor Dimitris Bertsimas is now helping redesign the national lung transplant allocation system using data analytics and artificial intelligence. As of March 9, 2023, all donated lungs across the US are allocated based on a new policy, developed with the assistance of […]
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Spring 2023 C3.ai DTI Newsletter
C3.ai DTI’s quarterly newsletter covers news of the institute’s Principal Investigators and digital transformation research around the consortium. You can sign up to receive the newsletter here. The spring edition covers this news: MIT’s David Gifford’s “Ultimate” COVID vaccine designed to combat current and future variants UChicago’s Ben Zhao’s “Glaze” – a program designed to […]
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‘Forever’ Chemicals? Not Necessarily
UIUC News: C3.ai DTI researchers Xiao Su and Diwakar Shukla, engineering professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, collaborated on a study that verifies that electrochemistry – rather than filtration and harmful solvents – can remove short-chain PFAS from the environment and municipal water supplies. Read more here.
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San Francisco’s Post-Pandemic Future
KQED-FM: Forum interviews C3.ai DTI 2020 COVID Housing Precarity PI and UC Berkeley professor emerita of city and regional planning Karen Chapple, who now directs the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, as one of four experts featured on this deep-dive discussion of downtown San Francisco’s post-pandemic future. Demand for Office Space has […]

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