2026 LinkedIn grant recipients to drive innovation in GenAI, LLMs

A group of scholars from the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science are receiving grants from the strategic partnership between the college and LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, to drive innovation in areas like generative artificial intelligence (AI), AI architecture, and large language models (LLM).

This is the fifth and final year of the partnership, which was launched in 2022 with a multimillion-dollar grant from LinkedIn that established a research connection between Cornell Bowers' leading AI scholars and LinkedIn's scientists and engineers.

Fostering exploration and learnings across academia and business, the partnership was the first of its kind for both Cornell Bowers and LinkedIn, supporting a total of 40 pioneers from the college - 20 faculty members and 20 doctoral students, along with other university co-researchers - who furthered discoveries in areas like agentic AI, algorithmic fairness, privacy, computing efficiency, and more. The partnership supported research breakthroughs that led to safer clinical trials, more efficient prediction algorithms, and controllable, updatable AI systems, among other discoveries.

Read the full story on the Cornell Bowers website.

Louis DiPietro is a writer for the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.