A backbone of modern innovation, artificial intelligence (AI) and data science are central to advancing research, education, and translational impact in nearly every field of inquiry. Offering powerful methods for modeling, prediction, and decision-making, these disciplines allow us to extract insights from complex, high-dimensional data to fuel new discoveries and transformative solutions to tackle global grand challenges.
The Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI) is a vibrant community of experts dedicated to advancing responsible, high-impact, world-class research and education in data science and AI. We are harnessing Northwestern’s unparalleled interdisciplinary culture and uniting the strengths of the University’s top schools to build dynamic partnerships around and beyond campus.
We invite faculty, educators, students, and industry leaders to join us in leveraging AI to address societal needs. Together, we’ll unlock new ways to teach, learn, and discover.
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Sivakumar’s FORGE team developed ChildVoice, an audio speech model that separates children’s voices from adult examiners in speech assessment recordings, giving researchers the clean data they need to build earlier screening tools for speech disorders.
AI is making cyberattacks cheaper, faster, and more sophisticated. Recent reports of autonomous agents compromising Hugging Face show how quickly misaligned systems can create real-world risk. But ideally those same tools could help defenders find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. Professor V.S. Subrahmanian joined host Jess Love on the "Life, Automated" podcast to examine the impact of that escalating race on everything from phishing scams and insecure apps to the systems that underpin the electric grid and other critical infrastructure.
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