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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a Carnegie R1 Research Institution and ranks in the top 12% of the nation for biomedical and medical research funding. In 2012, the NSFCenter for Visual and Decision Informatics, which focused on big data visualization, became Louisiana’s first NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center.

AHeAD is a proposed Industry University Research Center that will bring together interdisciplinary experts in various topics related to AI, ML, clinical and public health decision support, and implementation science.

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University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  • Top 3% of universities nationwide to hold Carnegie's R1 classification
  • Top 10 universities in industry-funded research
  • Top 12% in the nation for biomedical and medical research funding

 

Department of Computer Science / Center for Advanced Computer Studies 

  • The nation’s first Master’s degree in Computer Science in 1962
  • Alpha Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1961
  • CACS – Top CS Graduate programs in the US
  • 8 NSF Career awards

 

Center for Visual and Decision Informatics

  • 1st NSF Center in the State of Louisiana (2012-2022)
  • 1st NSF Industry/University Center focused on big data analytics and visualization
  • Was the largest NSF Center in the CISE directorate with 4 universities in Phase-2 (4 universities)

 

For more information, contact Dr. Gottumukkala, AHeAD Director