Overview
- This week the University of North Texas confirmed a $20 million gift from Anuradha and Vikas Sinha to establish the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics.
- The gift creates six permanent endowments that will support college leadership, student scholarships, endowed professorships, entrepreneurship and incubation, advanced research, and emerging technologies.
- The new college will be organised into two academic divisions—Applied Intelligence and Informatics plus Information and Learning Applications—and will house the Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Institute to link AI and analytics work across campus.
- Vikas Sinha, a 2023 UNT PhD and a Broadcom vice president, and his wife framed the gift as preparing students to build, question, govern and apply AI responsibly while extending the couple’s earlier support for UNT’s data science department and innovation lab.
- UNT says the endowments and institute will help recruit faculty, boost interdisciplinary research and industry partnerships, and advance the university’s Look North: UNT 2030 plan to prepare students for an AI-shaped workforce.