CLTAI2 Our Impact
CHARLOTTE AI INSTITUTE (CLTAI2)
Catalyzing Artificial Intelligence Research & Innovation Today for a Better Tomorrow

CLTAI² is where UNC Charlotte turns AI research into measurable outcomes. By bringing together faculty, students, and partners from across the university, the institute helps move ideas from the lab into practice, supporting breakthroughs that strengthen our region, expand opportunity for learners, and advance responsible uses of AI in the world around us.
Highlights of Our Impact
Charlotte Biometrics Pioneer Fights Identity Crime With AI Hacker Know-How

UNC Charlotte’s biometrics pioneer is on the case. Stephanie Schuckers, Bank of America Distinguished Professor in Computing and Informatics and co-director of the UNC Charlotte Artificial Intelligence Institute.
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UNC Charlotte researchers use AI to map out world’s largest cultivated bacteria-killing virus

Through cutting-edge methods and advanced artificial intelligence analysis, UNC Charlotte researchers leading a multidisciplinary team across four universities have successfully
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Ushering in a ‘Smart’ Future Responsibly

An entrepreneur who gained notoriety during a UNC Charlotte pitch competition continues to innovate with a company designed to reduce the distance between people and information through AI.
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Smart and secure Future Computing

Undergraduate students are engaging in collaborative experiential cybersecurity and AI research. Read more about their work and the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.
New DNA Repair Research May Influence Cancer Clinical Trials ‘For Years To Come’

The findings could prove vital to future clinical trials, enabling scientists to possibly test whether therapeutic targeting of naturally occurring but overactive APE1 could improve cancer survival rates.
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AI Meets Immunology: Reimagining Personalized Medicine

UNC Charlotte researchers develop Artificial Intelligence-Cell (AI-Cell) to design precision interventions, which could precisely tailor therapies to a patient.
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Using AI to evaluate and grow leaders’ skills, boost team performance

On a practical level, Banks hopes that the platform will solve the survey problem that in part inspired the team’s research, and he is optimistic that their tool will help reduce bias and subjectivity in leadership assessments, an important step in the larger effort to achieve equality in the workplace.
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Driven to Innovate

Jablokov and the leaders of Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics believe technology, particularly AI, helps democratize access to information. CCI’s vision of “a world with equity in computing and humanity in technology” provides the fuel…
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