Virtual Workshop 2026 - AI Meets CI - Day 2 - Lightning Talks

This round of Lightning Talks was hosted on Day 2 of the 2026 NSF CI Compass Virtual Workshop AI Meets CI. 

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  • Metadata for Trustworthy AI, Werner Sun, CHESS
  • Hurtwitz Labs, Bonnie Hurwitz, NC State Bioinformatics Research Center
  • NWP as a Service: Providing Pre-Trained AI Weather Forecasting Services for Researchers, Daniel Howard, HPC Consultant, NSF NCAR
  • Current and Future uses of AI to make Data FAIR in the Research Data Ecosystem, Jeannette Jackson, UM/Research Data Ecosystem
  • AmLight: Supporting Major Facilities and Shared-CI Resource Providers in the U.S., Latin America, and Africa, Julio Ibarra, AmLight, Florida International University
  • Early-Stage Exploration of AI Opportunities for Enhancing CXFEL Beamlines at ASU, Mark Holl, Chief Engineer, Sabine Botha, CXFEXL Data Analysis

The NSF CI Compass virtual workshop - AI Meets CI: Intelligent Infrastructure for Major & Midscale Facilities featured themes to host speakers, presentations, and discussions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and cyberinfrastructure (CI) within the data lifecycle in facilities, cloud computing, and about societal and human intersections with AI.

Originally hosted January 12, 13, and 14, 2026

Learn more about the workshop here