Grainger VIP Impact Report

GRAINGER FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

KASSEM FAWAZ Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Research I have spent some of the fund dollars to buy NVIDIA A6000 GPUs to enable development and testing with large language models (LLMs). My group has been looking at application of LLMs in the privacy domain, such as speeding up the analysis of privacy policies. These LLMs require GPUs with a large memory footprint, and the Grainger funds enabled acquiring such GPUs.

DOMINIC GROSS Assistant Professor

I am planning to use the Grainger funds to partially support international conference travel for my students. Flagship conferences of my academic community are often held outside of the U.S., and my current federal grants do not support international travel. Moreover, I am planning to use the funds to purchase supporting equipment for experimental validation of control algorithms for grid-connected power electronics and renewables.

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