Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence

The Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) is dedicated to pursuing use-driven AI research, training an AI-ready workforce, and creating a platform to accelerate innovation to support the local economy. The center serves as a hub where AI researchers, domain experts from diverse disciplines, industry specialists, and community stakeholders come together to address real-world challenges.

CAAI drives economic growth by fostering an ecosystem for innovation. It brings together computational infrastructure, AI expertise, diverse domain knowledge, industry and government partnerships, and workforce development programs to stimulate the emergence of new AI-powered businesses and startups. UL Lafayette plans to create a secure AI sandbox at the LITE Center to enable students, faculty, and local industry partners to experiment with open large language models like Meta’s Llama 3 locally. These local models mitigate security and privacy risks by ensuring that the data entered is not used to train public models.

AI Centers & Collaborations

AI4HealthOutcomes Symposium Series 2025

 

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October 16th, 2025

UL Lafayette to establish research center focused on implementing AI in health care

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Discuss AI + Healthcare with AHeAD on November 5

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