Health Sciences and Medical Innovation Hub

Pitt IT, in partnership with Dell technologies, is creating the IT infrastructure to establish Pittsburgh as the epicenter for computationally enabled health sciences. The Health Sciences and Medical Innovation Hub is a transformative collaboration of the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, and Dell to accelerate the translation of research into tangible benefits for humankind. The Hub uses technology to advance research on health initiatives that will contribute to Dell’s moonshot goal of positively impacting 1 billion people by 2030. Initial projects include research to combat breast cancer and support for the Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet).

Strategic Alignment

• IT 10-Year Horizon Alignment: Transform the Healthcare Industry
• Plan for Pitt Alignment: It’s Possible at Pitt

AI Tech Community Lab

The University of Pittsburgh’s expertise in health sciences and medical innovation intersects with NVIDIA corporation’s interest in enabling technological transformation using AI. As a result, NVIDIA selected Pittsburgh as the location of its first AI Tech Community lab in the United States. The lab is being created in partnership with CMU and with the support of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Pitt’s lab will focus on health sciences computation, including applications of AI in clinical medicine and biomanufacturing.

Strategic Alignment

• IT 10-Year Horizon Alignment: Champion the City and the Commonwealth
• Plan for Pitt Alignment: Be Welcoming and Engaged

AI Enablement Team

Pitt IT’s new AI Enablement team works with the University community to create opportunities to use AI to increase effectiveness, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs. They are currently exploring three primary areas:

• PittGPT: Private GPT tools to deliver secure and private generative AI solutions for campus
• Pitt AI Chat: AI chatbots that will be able to answer user questions and assist in finding information contained within University websites and knowledge bases
• Pitt AI Connect: A secure solution that allows the University IT community to use cloud-based, AI-centric APIs for software development at a reasonable cost

Strategic Alignment

• IT 10-Year Horizon Alignment: Revolutionize the Student Experience
• Plan for Pitt Alignment: Promote Accountability and Trust

Cloud Innovation Center, Powered by AWS

The University of Pittsburgh and AWS will soon launch a new Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), an innovative partnership between the University and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Powered by AWS, our CIC is the first of its kind in the Eastern U.S. and only the third in the nation. Our transformative partnership with AWS combines Pitt’s leadership in the health sciences and athletics with AWS's powerful machine learning and AI services to enable student interns to solve real-world, data-focused challenges. Our CIC interns will also benefit from AWS's world class training and resources.

Strategic Alignment

• IT 10-Year Horizon Alignment: Revolutionize the Student Experience
• Plan for Pitt Alignment: Cultivate Student Success