Two of our projects received support from the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program:

NVIDIA generously awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison the following resources:

  1. 20,000 A100 GPU-Hours on Saturn Cloud (valued at $25,800 USD) for our project SafetyGPT: Domain-Specific Multi-Modal LLM for Transport Safety and Management
  2. Two RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs (valued at $18,000 USD) for our project EdgeTwin: An Edge AI-Enabled Digital Twin for Intelligent Traffic Management

These resources, with a combined value of $43,800 USD, will support our ongoing research on specialized AI models for transportation safety and intelligent traffic management.

Two NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs received for the EdgeTwin project

The two RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs received for the EdgeTwin project.

Front view of two NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs before installation

The GPUs before installation in our research workstation.

NVIDIA GPU hardware being configured in a research workstation

Setting up the NVIDIA GPU hardware for our research workstation.

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program award notice for the EdgeTwin project

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program award notice for the EdgeTwin project.

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program award notice for the SafetyGPT project

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program award notice for the SafetyGPT project.

We extend our sincere gratitude to NVIDIA for their generous support and look forward to sharing the research outcomes these grants will help us achieve!