The MSU Energy Research Forum is a lightweight, faculty-engaged research development event designed to connect faculty expertise, external partners, and emerging funding opportunities. The forum will focus on a selected energy research theme and will support interdisciplinary collaboration, proposal development, and engagement with industry, utilities, national laboratories, and government agencies.
Fall 2026 Theme: AI-Enabled Scientific Datasets for Energy Research
The Fall 2026 forum will focus on enhancing the value of existing scientific and engineering datasets for AI-enabled discovery, with particular emphasis on energy-related applications. Inspired by the NSF AI Datasets: Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery program, the forum will explore opportunities to improve, integrate, augment, harmonize, and curate existing datasets so they can support AI-based analysis, automated research workflows, and interdisciplinary scientific discovery. Relevant topics may include feature extraction, metadata generation, data integration, AI-ready data pipelines, dataset quality and integrity, governance, security, accessibility, and long-term community use.
Expected Outcomes
Following the forum, interested faculty, industry partners, and external participants will be encouraged to identify collaborative research opportunities, form interdisciplinary proposal teams, and coordinate future proposal development.
Questions and Collaborations
Dr. Seungdeog Choi, ambassador in MSU Energy Resilience and Innovation Hub
Email: s.choi@msstate.edu / Phone: +1-662-325-2176
Power Electronics and Energy System Laboratory (PEES Lab): https://sites.google.com/view/peeslab
Paul B. Jacob High Voltage Laboratory: https://sites.google.com/view/MSUHVL