The center, established in 2019 to work with industry partners to apply advanced research in AI and machine learning to solve practical problems, will be located in the Richardson Innovation Quarter. In machine learning, computers analyze large amounts of data in order to learn to recognize patterns. Other team members included Farhad Shakerin MS’16, PhD’20, now a senior software engineer at Microsoft Corp.; Abhijit Balaji, a computer science graduate student; and computer science doctoral students Yibo Hu MS’17 and Changbin Li. Dr. Anurag Nagar, assistant professor of instruction, and Ashutosh Senapati, a master’s student in computer science, conducted the training. “Vistra’s innovative Moss Landing battery energy storage facility will play a critical role in supporting California’s energy grid,” DeGroot said.