Introducing the
UT Austin-Amazon Science Hub
The five-year partnership hopes to leverage the collective strengths of both organizations and create an innovative environment for participants from local, regional, national, and international communities to accelerate the advancement of science and jointly solve challenges of societal and real-world impact.
The UT Austin-Amazon Science Hub has three collaborative pillars:
Ph.D. Fellowships
Call for Ph.D. Fellowships
Research (Grants and Sponsored Projects)
Call for Research Proposals
Community Events
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Initial Research Focus Areas:
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News and Events
Amazon Teams Up With UT To Establish New Science Hub
Thank you for joining us on the Forty Acres to celebrate the launch of this partnership.
Science Hub Symposium on Cloud Computing
Science Hub Symposium on AI & Foundation Models
Advisory Board
Responsibility for the strategic direction and governance of the Hub is handled by an Advisory Board composed of representatives from UT and Amazon.
Luis Sentis (Interim Director)
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and UT-Amazon Science Hub Interim Director
Sentis leads the Human Centered Robotics Laboratory, a laboratory focusing on control, task and motion planning, human factors, and experimentation with robots, exoskeletons and autonomous systems. He is also a recipient of the NASA Elite Team Award.
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Sujay Sanghavi (Associate Director)
Science Hub associate director; associate professor, Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sanghavi joined Texas ECE in July 2009. His research interests lie at the intersection of two central challenges in modern systems: large-scale networking and high-dimensional data analysis, with a focus on algorithm design and evaluation. He received the NSF CAREER award in January 2010.
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Matt Lease (Board)
Professor, School of Information
Lease is the founder and leader of UT Austin's Good Systems program, an eight-year, university-wide challenge to design responsible AI technologies.
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Adam Klivans (Board)
Professor, Computer Science Department at the College of Natural Sciences
Klivans leads the new National Science Foundation AI Institute for Foundations.
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Beth Hood (Member)
Science Hub Alliance Manager; Executive Director of Industry and Research Relations at the Cockrell School
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