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What Arizona is discovering in AI, chips, robotics and more

New papers from Arizona's universities and research institutes, in one place. See who is doing the work, which companies they work with, and read it yourself.

In the last 12 months, Arizona researchers published 1,666 papers in AI, chips, robotics, quantum computing and AI in health across 11 Arizona research organizations. 105 companies co-wrote papers with them (143 papers had a company co-author).

Where the work is happening

  • Artificial intelligence: 920 papers in 12 months. Machine learning, language models, computer vision and how to make AI safe and explainable. Busiest topics: Topic Modeling, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data.
  • Robotics and autonomy: 183 papers in 12 months. Robots, drones, self-driving vehicles, prosthetics and machines that learn to move. Busiest topics: Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics, Social Robot Interaction and HRI.
  • Chips and semiconductors: 188 papers in 12 months. Chip design, materials, packaging, manufacturing and the hardware that runs AI. Busiest topics: Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, 3D IC and TSV technologies, VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques.
  • Quantum computing: 105 papers in 12 months. Quantum computers, the algorithms that run on them and quantum-safe encryption. Busiest topics: Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Quantum Information and Cryptography.
  • AI in health and medicine: 270 papers in 12 months. AI that reads medical images, predicts disease and helps doctors and patients. Busiest topics: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Machine Learning in Healthcare, AI in cancer detection.

Arizona organizations

Papers in the last 12 months. A paper with authors at two organizations counts for both.

  • Arizona State University: 949 (93 with a company)
  • University of Arizona: 537 (45 with a company)
  • Mayo Clinic in Arizona: 110 (3 with a company)
  • Northern Arizona University: 71 (1 with a company)
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott: 15
  • Barrow Neurological Institute: 14 (1 with a company)
  • Planetary Science Institute: 5 (2 with a company)
  • Banner Health: 3 (1 with a company)
  • Phoenix Children's: 3
  • Critical Path Institute: 2
  • Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen): 2

Companies working with Arizona researchers

105 companies had at least one co-author on an Arizona paper in the last 12 months. A company appears when OpenAlex lists it as an author's affiliation; its author may work outside Arizona.

  • Amazon: 9 papers
  • LinkedIn: 6 papers
  • Mitre: 6 papers
  • Nvidia: 6 papers
  • Intel: 5 papers
  • Microsoft: 5 papers
  • Morgan Stanley: 5 papers
  • Meta: 4 papers
  • Google: 3 papers
  • IBM: 3 papers
  • NEC: 3 papers
  • RTX: 3 papers

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Where these numbers come from

Papers come from OpenAlex, a free, open index of the world's research run by the nonprofit OurResearch, refreshed weekly. A paper counts when at least one author lists one of these Arizona organizations: Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Barrow Neurological Institute, Banner Health, Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Planetary Science Institute, Critical Path Institute, Lowell Observatory, Phoenix Children's. Fields follow OpenAlex's own topics for each paper; AI in health covers papers whose main subject is medicine or health care and that also use AI. Each paper links to its original source.