Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence

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The Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) focuses on use-driven AI research, training an AI-ready workforce, and building 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, such as 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.

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 AI4HealthOutcomes Webinar Series

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Join us  on the third friday of the month for the AI4HealthOutcomes Webinar Series. This forum brings together AI researchers, data scientists, and public health professionals to explore AI applications in healthcare delivery and population health – with emphasis on implementation strategies, model validation, and data integration challenges. The webinar is on the third Friday of the month at 2:30 pm CT. 

The goal of the series is to foster collaboration, spark innovation, and gather feedback from an interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners.

The seminar series is open to researchers, faculty, industry, doctors, healthcare professionals, and students!

 

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September 21st, 2026

UL Lafayette has been awarded $2.1 million to address rural healthcare needs.

The University’s Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at UL Lafayette (CAAI)– along with its Louisiana Center... Read More ➝
September 21st, 2026

AHeAD Leadership Presents at State AI Symposium

On August 12-13, 2026, Dr. Raju Gottumukkala and Dr. Aron Culotta presented at the Louisiana Department of Health... Read More ➝
September 11th, 2026

StateChain Summit ’26 is coming to UL Lafayette!

On September 30 and October 1, the LITE Center will welcome state and local government leaders, policymakers,... Read More ➝