{"id":956760,"date":"2026-07-24T18:51:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/956760\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:51:52","slug":"uta-wins-doe-genesis-mission-award-for-ai-safety-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/956760\/","title":{"rendered":"UTA Wins DOE Genesis Mission Award for AI Safety Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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University of Texas at Arlington researcher Habeeb Olufowobi is leading a new U.S. Department of Energy project to ensure the security and trust of artificial intelligence systems used in scientific work. [Photo: University of Texas at Arlington]<\/p>\n

A University of Texas at Arlington researcher will lead a new, federally funded effort to keep AI systems honest and secure in some of the nation\u2019s most sensitive scientific work.<\/p>\n

Habeeb Olufowobi, a faculty member in UTA\u2019s computer science and engineering department, will head the project, the school announced<\/a>. The U.S. Department of Energy is putting $750,000 toward the work.<\/p>\n

Adding a layer of trust<\/strong><\/p>\n

The project is titled \u201cReal-Time Trust and Resilience for AI-Driven EPICS Scientific Workflows.\u201d It centers on the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System, or EPICS, an open-source software platform used at many DOE facilities, such as particle accelerators.<\/p>\n

Those facilities increasingly use AI models to help interpret data, and those models have to be reliable.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Olufowobi\u2019s team comes in. It is a multidisciplinary group that includes collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Colorado\u2013Colorado Springs, Washington State University and Metro State University, along with two UTA graduate students. Together, they will build a \u201ctrust layer\u201d to monitor the AI models\u2019 behavior and block any suspicious AI outputs before they have an impact on operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cArtificial intelligence is transforming how scientific discoveries are made, but researchers must be able to trust the recommendations these systems produce,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cOur goal is to develop practical technologies that help scientists confidently use AI in some of the world\u2019s most advanced research facilities without compromising the integrity of experiments or the reliability of scientific results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of a national effort<\/strong><\/p>\n

Olufowobi\u2019s project is one of 278 projects across the country that will be part of the Trump administration\u2019s Genesis Mission<\/a>. The project starts Sept. 1 and is set to run through May 31.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project addresses a national priority by helping ensure that AI can be deployed safely and reliably in some of the world\u2019s most advanced scientific facilities,\u201d Hong Jiang, chair of UTA\u2019s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Genesis is an initiative led by the Department of Energy aimed at using AI to advance scientific research. It \u201cwill build an integrated AI platform to harness federal scientific datasets \u2014 the world\u2019s largest collection of such datasets, developed over decades of federal investments \u2014 to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs,\u201d according to an executive order <\/a>signed by President Trump in November.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for Genesis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Phase 1 of Genesis includes awards of between $500,000 and $750,000. Its projects \u201cidentify promising pathways toward transformative scientific capabilities and establish a foundation for future investment and scale\u201d over a nine-month period. Projects selected for phase 2 will then receive additional larger awards and run for three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe extraordinary response to this Genesis Mission application process demonstrates that America\u2019s scientific community is ready to reimagine how discovery happens,\u201d DOE Under Secretary for Science Dario Gil said in a release<\/a> announcing the Genesis Mission projects. \u201cThrough the Genesis Mission, we are bringing together the nation\u2019s leading researchers, institutions, and technology partners to build the next generation of scientific capability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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