Artificial Intelligence Research Associate (AIRA)

Dr. Jiangying Zhou The Artificial Intelligence Research Associate (AIRA) program is part of a broad DARPA initiative to develop and apply “Third Wave” AI technologies that are robust to sparse data and adversarial spoofing, and that incorporate domain-relevant knowledge through generative contextual and explanatory model

To facilitate use of AI in the scientific process, AIRA will challenge the research community to address two main objectives: 1) explore and develop new AI architectures and approaches to facilitate the discovery of physical laws and models governing complex physical phenomena; 2) explore new approaches to assess where data are too sparse, noisy, or are otherwise inadequate to build predictive models; to generate testable hypotheses; to identify high-value experiments that could alleviate the problems of data shortfalls; and to quantify the confidence of predictions outside of the training space. More