Published July 04, 2025
By : Staff Writer
The NVIDIA Academic Grant Program has announced a call for research proposals aimed at advancing work in three areas: Generative AI Training and Model Development, Generative AI Alignment and Inferencing, and Robotics and Edge AI.
Research proposals must be submitted by September 30.
The areas of interest include foundation models for scientific domains and techniques for training, scaling, and customizing models, such as distillation, multi-modality, and modularity. Additionally, methods for enhancing and operating models, including explainability, reliability, and inference efficiency, are included, as well as multi-model systems and retrieval-augmented generation.
The focus on robotics encompasses autonomous vehicles, 5G/6G technology, intelligent environments, and federated learning.
Each area of interest includes eligibility information, available compute resources (including DGX Spark, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, Jetson Orin Nano, Jetson AGX Orin, and A100 GPU hours), and submission instructions, which require a specific proposal template.
This year's conference will take place from October 23 to 25, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland, utilizing the Digital Twin Experience (DTX) platform.
The event will continue to focus on empowerment in AI, exploring its impacts across various sectors.
A recent sub-theme from a past event was "The AI Renaissance: Empowering and Transforming the Future."
The conference aims to recognize and promote significant contributions in STEM fields, particularly in AI, while examining the opportunities presented by AI in areas such as energy, infrastructure, healthcare, and finance.
Attendees can expect interactive workshops, seminars, and keynote speeches designed to educate them about the transformative effects of AI.
Some experts have noted that AI can function as an informational filter, potentially introducing bias, distortion, censorship, and sponsored interests to raw information.
This can alter public understanding and expose society to new risks.
In a video on workforce development by Career Communications Group shared on Vimeo, CEO Tyrone Taborn emphasized the importance of asking the right questions.
He pointed out that what individuals input into the system directly influences the outcomes they receive.
While humans can interrogate data during training, AI tends to 'hallucinate' or fill in knowledge gaps through data interpolation when no information is available.
This can lead to the proliferation of insufficient data and incorrect answers within the system.
Taborn advised considering individuals as a whole and leveraging expert knowledge to find solutions, rather than relying solely on AI as a quick research tool.
For 30 years, the WOC STEM Conference has fostered an environment that cultivates growth, innovation, and global competitiveness, serving as a gathering place for STEM changemakers.
Registration is now open for the 30th Annual WOC Conference, taking place from October 23 to 25 in Baltimore, Maryland.
