2026 MSU Energy Research Forum

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.

MSU researchers are invited to submit a brief white paper related to the Fall 2026 forum theme.  Selected white papers will be invited to give a short faculty lightning presentation during the October 19th Forum. 

For more information and to register for this event, please click HERE.