17 applications to the CHAIR themes call had come in when deadline for applying for the CHAIR-themes had passed. “We are really happy to see this great interest in CHAIR. It proves that people want to be part of the exciting times ahead”, says CHAIR director Daniel Gillblad.
The CHAIR themes are where Chalmers researchers will be able to get the possibility to organize strategic research themes within CHAIR, addressing key challenges within AI. Daniel Gillblad, CHAIR director is happily surprised to see that there were much more applications than was expected.
“We knew that the opportunity we offer is really beneficial for the AI research community, but 17 applications were more than we had expected. We now have a pleasant problem to choose and matchmake between lots of interesting proposals”, says Daniel Gillblad.
The proposals cover a wide range of research fields, and cover all of CHAIR’s research tracks; AI Foundations, AI Applications and AI for Science.
“We are working on finding the strategically best options for our themes. A few will remain like in the application and a few may be merged and become a collaboration between different applicants” says Daniel Gillblad.
This spring will be an exciting new beginning for AI research at Chalmers with lots of collaboration opportunities. Watch out for CHAIR themes’ activities such as webinars and workshops!