{"id":1903,"date":"2026-03-25T23:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:21:02","slug":"2026-nvida-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/2026\/03\/25\/2026-nvida-award\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU Insider Features CAIRE\u2019s Peng He and Collaborator as Recipients of NVIDIA Academic Grant to Support AI for Teaching and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The WSU Insider<\/a> recently highlighted a significant milestone for our research team. Dr. Peng He from the CAIRE Research Lab at WSU,\u00a0as Co-Principal Investigator, along with\u00a0Principal Investigator\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Parteek Kumar\u00a0from WSU\u00a0School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, have been awarded the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program award<\/strong> to advance the future of educational AI frameworks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dr. Parteek Kumar, Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n

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Dr. Peng He, Assistant Professor
College of Education, Sport, and Human Sciences <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The grant provides the research team with 32,000 A100 GPU-hours via NVIDIA\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NVIDIA has awarded Dr. Peng He from the CAIRE Research Lab at WSU (Co-PI) and Dr. Parteek Kumar (PI) an Academic Grant of 32,000 A100 GPU-hours to advance educational AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44196,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/caire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}