AI @ UVA News collects announcements, research stories, awards, opportunities, and updates related to AI across the University of Virginia. To suggest an item, email ainews@virginia.edu.
May 2026
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UVA AI updates: research computing podcast, Mona Sloane book launch, free GenAI tool, summer workshops, Catalyst deadline, grants, and events.
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Bryan Christ received the inaugural Distinguished Dissertation Award from UVA School of Data Science for AI research advancing math education.
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Doctoral student Soumee Guha uses the type of artificial intelligence that creates new images from training data to help build better AI medical imaging assistance.
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UVA students Armaan Chakrabarti and Collin Togher won the Entrepreneurship Cup for developing Cambrient AI, an AI-powered email security tool.
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UVA researcher uses explainable AI to improve seasonal precipitation forecasting and better understand climate patterns driving droughts and floods.
April 2026
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Listen now | Topic: AI is making fake images easier to produce, but the bigger challenge is protecting trust and judgment in a world where seeing is no longer believing.
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Listen now | Topic: AI is making fake images easier to produce, but the bigger challenge is protecting trust and judgment in a world where seeing is no longer believing.
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Capital One and the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science today announced a transformative $4.5 million partnership to establish the Capital One AI Research Neighborhood and…
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Associate Professor Xi Yang and Ph.D. researcher Henry Yeung used AI and satellite data to map nearly six million dead trees along the U.S. Atlantic coast — work featured in Science for its groundbrea…
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The Pitt highlights AI in emergency care. We explore its benefits, risks, and impact on patient data and trust with professor Tom Hartvigsen.
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UVA data scientist Chirag Agarwal named Baugh Family Fellow for AI safety research on monitoring reasoning in large language models and advancing trustworthy AI.