Dr. Sarah Dreier joins grant-funded project to advance AI research

Departmental News

Posted:  Aug 27, 2025 - 12:00am

As Artificial Intelligence continues to grow at a rapid pace, so will the research behind it at The University of New Mexico. Political Science Assistant Professor Sarah Dreier has been awarded as one of several experts across the country picked to work on a substantial grant-funded project on AI.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA awarded a combined $152 million to the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), spanning the next five years. This funding also includes four academic institutions as sub-awardees: the University of Washington, the University of Hawaii at Hilo, the University of New Hampshire, and The University of New Mexico.

As co-PI, Prof. Dreier will co-lead the data curation piece of the initiative. Building a multimodal language model begins with the construction of a large collection of unannotated data, including text and data from other modalities like images and code.

Congrats Dr. Dreier!

You can read the full UNM Newsroom article here: Grant Funded Project for AI Research