Programs
Translating Research into Results
Current Programs
Student Capstones
Guided by IC² Institute mentors, upper-level UT students apply lessons learned in the classroom to a real-world challenge for a local client.
Faculty Research
Through periodic funding cycles, the Institute supports interdisciplinary faculty research that aligns with our mission. Current focus areas include AI in health care, human-centered AI, and human-AI teaming.
Visiting Scholars
Thirty years and running: The Visiting Scholars program offers professors and industry professionals the opportunity to research and publish in residence at the Institute.
Lab Meetings
Online “lab meetings” allow innovators from the UT campus and broader community to present their work to the IC² Institute and identify areas of common interest and potential collaboration.
Graduate Fellows
The Institute supports selected final-year doctoral candidates as they pursue groundbreaking research at the intersection of AI, health care, and workforce innovation.
Conferences and Workshops
IC² Institute conferences and workshops bring together community and thought leaders to meet today’s challenges in AI and health care.
Fifty years of thinking and doing.
Since its founding in 1977, the Institute has launched and incubated many programs that have driven research, innovation and entrepreneurship in Austin and beyond.
My research topic is challenging. I really appreciate any encouragement, any validation, that my topic is valuable – and IC² provided this. Of course, I appreciate the funding and the timeline, which is motivation for me to keep pushing ahead with my research.
– IC² Graduate Student Fellow
I think it’s in the very DNA of the University of Texas and where IC² came from – the idea of gathering different voices, different opinions, bringing them into a space together, and then hashing out how to go forward.