The MSU Energy Research Forum is a lightweight, faculty-engaged research development event designed to connect faculty expertise, external partners and emerging funding opportunities. The forum will focus on a selected energy research theme and will support interdisciplinary collaboration, proposal development and engagement with industry, utilities, national laboratories and government agencies.

The forum will focus on enhancing the value of existing scientific and engineering datasets for AI-enabled discovery, with particular emphasis on energy-related applications.

Inspired by the NSF AI Datasets: Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery program, the forum will explore opportunities to improve, integrate, augment, harmonize and curate existing datasets so they can support AI-based analysis, automated research workflows and interdisciplinary  scientific discovery. Relevant topics may include feature extraction, metadata generation, data integration, AI-ready data pipelines, dataset quality and integrity, governance, security, accessibility, and long-term community use.

This year's theme is AI-Enabled Scientific Datasets for Energy Research.

Following the forum, interested faculty, industry partners and external participants will be encouraged to identify collaborative research opportunities, form interdisciplinary proposal teams and coordinate future proposal development.

Faculty and research professionals are invited to attend and submit a white paper to present a lightning talk.

For questions and collaborations, contact Seungdeog Choi, ambassador in MSU Energy Resilience and Innovation Hub, at s.choi@msstate.edu or 662-325-2176.

For more information, to submit a white paper or to register for the event, please click here.