{"id":6,"date":"2026-02-10T22:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:14:19","slug":"ai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Innovation at Mudd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd2021-info-box info-box\" data-box-style=\"1\"><div class=\"info-box-heading-copy-wrapper\"><div class=\"info-box-heading-wrapper\"><h2 class=\"heading h2\">AI innovation starts with human responsibility<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"info-box-copy-wrapper\">\n<p>Harvey Mudd&#8217;s approach to artificial intelligence education and research is human-centered and interdisciplinary. We are exploring the technical frontiers of AI intertwined with its human, ethical and societal implications, while preparing students to collaborate with intelligent systems in complex, real-world contexts. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><ul class=\"button-list\" data-buttons=\"3\"><li><a class=\"mudd-more-button button-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/strategic-planning\/innovation-accelerator\/lab-for-ai\/\"><span>Innovation Accelerator Lab for AI<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"mudd-more-button button-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/courses-in-artificial-intelligence\/\"><span>Academic Courses<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"mudd-more-button button-3\" href=\"https:\/\/axl.hmc.edu\/conference.html\"><span>Upcoming Events<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase\"><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-heading-wrapper\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-heading h2\">AI News at Mudd<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-content-wrapper\" data-card-count=\"3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2026\/03\/16\/harvey-mudd-establishes-new-endowed-professorship-building-the-next-generation-of-human-centered-ai\/\" class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-img\" style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/02\/robot-and-student.jpg);\"><\/span><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-text\">Harvey Mudd Establishes New Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/a><\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-copy\">The College has launched a search for a newly endowed professorship in artificial intelligence, established with a gift from the Paul and Jenna Segal Family Foundation.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2025\/08\/30\/ogba-research-group-showcases-computational-innovation-at-mercury\/\" class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-img\" style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/02\/ogba-group.jpg);\"><\/span><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-text\">Ogba Research Group Showcases Computational Innovation at MERCURY<\/span><\/a><\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-copy\">Students displayed the chemistry research group\u2019s expansion into artificial intelligence demonstrating how modern algorithms can accelerate the discovery of new therapeutic drugs.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2025\/07\/30\/harvey-mudd-students-win-at-sairs-2025-hackathon\/\" class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-img\" style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/02\/CodetheChangePic-1.jpg);\"><\/span><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-text\">Harvey Mudd Students Win at SAIRS 2025 Hackathon<\/span><\/a><\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-copy\">Four Harvey Mudd College students earned top recognition at the 2025 SoCal AI Responsibility Summit (SAIRS), taking home awards in two major hackathon categories.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase style-1\"><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-heading-wrapper\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-heading h2\">AI Clinic Projects<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-content-wrapper\" data-card-count=\"3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2025\/discovering-explainable-patterns-in-textual-data\/\" class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-img\" style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/02\/ServiceNow-clinic.jpg);\"><\/span><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-text\">Discovering Explainable Patterns in Textual Data &#8211; ServiceNow<\/span><\/a><\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-copy\">The ServiceNow Clinic team developed a semi-automated pipeline for identifying and categorizing the causes of explainable patterns in customer service data, such as incorrect responses from virtual agents, LLM hallucinations, or mis-assigned cases. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2025\/improving-issue-trackers-with-ai-powered-analysis-to-uncover-related-reports\/\" class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-img\" style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/02\/AI-Microsoft.jpg);\"><\/span><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-text\">Improving Issue Trackers with AI-powered Analysis to Uncover Related Reports &#8211; Microsoft<\/span><\/a><\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-copy\">The Microsoft Clinic team created an AI-powered bug characterization system that identifies a bug&#8217;s core elements and finds the most similar bugs from a vast archive of other Microsoft bug reports. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2025\/ais-environmental-equation-balancing-innovation-with-sustainability\/\" class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-img\" style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/02\/ucs-clinic.jpg);\"><\/span><span class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-heading-text\">AI\u2019s Environmental Equation: Balancing Innovation with Sustainability &#8211; Union of Concerned Scientists<\/span><\/a><\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-card-copy\">The UCS Clinic team analyzed water and energy usage patterns in artificial intelligence (AI) systems at data center operations nationwide and created an informational tool for NGOs and the public. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-page-feature\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/02\/faculty-search-2ALT.jpg)\"><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-page-feature-inner\"><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-page-feature-content\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-mudd-page-feature-heading\">Faculty Search<\/h2>\n<p>Jenna and Paul Segal Endowed Professorship of Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"wp-block-mudd-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/harvey-mudd-establishes-new-endowed-professorship-in-artificial-intelligence\/\"><span>Position description<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd2021-info-box info-box\" data-box-style=\"1\"><div class=\"info-box-heading-copy-wrapper\"><div class=\"info-box-heading-wrapper\"><h2 class=\"heading h2\">Innovation Accelerator Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence\n\n\n\n<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"info-box-copy-wrapper\">\n<p>Advancing human-centered AI education at Harvey Mudd through hands-on prototyping, responsible development and interdisciplinary innovation.&nbsp;Current projects include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prototype-First Programming<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI Experimentation Lab (AXL)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imaginative Prototyping with Artificial Intelligence Lab (IPAI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><ul class=\"button-list\" data-buttons=\"1\"><li><a class=\"mudd-more-button button-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/strategic-planning\/innovation-accelerator\/lab-for-ai\/\"><span>Innovation Accelerator Laboratory for AI<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-single\"><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-single-image-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-single-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/02\/ResearchMedero15-068-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Student with faculty\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"\/><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-single-content-wrapper\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-single-heading\">Funding Opportunities<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-mudd-showcase-single-copy\">\n<p>The College seeks to provide opportunities to students from their first year through the fourth, so they can learn and grow and become leaders in AI. Planned activities include conferences, lectures, mentorships, prototype development and academic courses and that will provide education and hands-on learning. To learn more about ways to support Harvey Mudd College AI programs, please contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jennifer Eccles<br><\/strong>Vice President for Advancement<br><a href=\"tel:+19096077069\" class=\"phone\">909.607.7069<\/a><br><a href=\"mailto:j&#101;&#99;&#99;&#108;&#101;s&#64;&#104;&#109;&#99;.edu\">j&#101;&#99;c&#108;es&#64;&#104;m&#99;.&#101;&#100;&#117;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-primary.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}