July 2026 • Nsdf-in-media

Taufer Leads Team Awarded $9M by NSF To Enable US Transition to AI-Driven Discovery

July 29th, 2026.
UTK News.

A project led by Michela Taufer, MathWorks Professor in the Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been awarded $9 million by the National Science Foundation. The project aims to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery by enabling researchers to securely discover, access, analyze and share scientific data across the nation’s research infrastructure…