NVIDIA has awarded Dr. Peng He from the CAIRE Research Lab at WSU as Co-Principal Investigator, along with Principal Investigator Dr. Parteek Kumar from WSU School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, an NVIDIA Academic Grant Program award to support their research in educational AI frameworks.
Dr. Parteek Kumar, Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Dr. Peng He, Assistant Professor
College of Education, Sport, and Human Sciences
The grant provides the research team with 32,000 A100 GPU-hours via NVIDIA’s cloud platform acquisition Brev. This unlocks access to a dedicated high-performance node equipped with eight NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs to accelerate their large-scale AI training.
Parteek and Peng together will focus on developing their awarded project, “A Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts Framework for NVIDIA DLI & University Classrooms.” This project explores advanced AI architectures capable of simultaneously processing various types of educational settings to deeply enhance the higher education teaching and learning environments.
The project aims to build a comprehensive pipeline utilizing a Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MMoE) architecture. This approach allows the AI system to dynamically route specific educational tasks, significantly optimizing both computational efficiency and analytical accuracy for real-world university applications and NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI).