National AI Research Resource Pilot Awards Access to Stony Brook Researchers

A project led by professor Niranjan Balasubramanian of Stony Brook University’s Department of Computer Science (CS) was one of 35 to be awarded access to advanced computing resources by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) through the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot.

On May 6, Stony Brook University doctoral researcher Harsh Trivedi represented CS at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launch event to celebrate the first allocation of the NAIRR Pilot. Researchers presented overviews of their projects, highlighting the critical work supported by the NAIRR Pilot.

The NAIRR initiative aims to democratize access to AI research tools across the United States. The selected projects span critical areas such as deepfake detection, AI safety and medical diagnoses.

Balasubramanian’s approved project, “Developing Reliable Agents for Automating Complex Digital Tasks,” aims to develop Large Language Model (LLM) agents for automating complex digital tasks via interactive coding and API calls. The project builds on his lab’s past work, called AppWorld, which is an execution environment of simulated real-world apps (e.g., Amazon, Spotify) operable via APIs, and an associated benchmark of day-to-day tasks posed on these apps.

Read more at the Department of Computer Science website.