Chris Malachowsky – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:33:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png Chris Malachowsky – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 Three ECE Faculty Members Awarded New Malachowsky Professorships (UF ECE) https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/2026-malachowsky-professorships/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:33:59 +0000 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/?p=21289 The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering awarded three faculty members with endowed professorships this month thanks to Nvidia co-founder and University of Florida engineering graduate Chris Malachowsky.

Professor Alina Zare, Ph.D., director of UF’s Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Research Institute, was named the inaugural Malachowsky Family Endowed Professor. The role will enhance her research and mentorships.

 

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]]> The Fourth-Gen Model of UF’s HiPerGator, Available to Users in June, Is Built To Reshape AI Education and Research https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/the-fourth-generation-model-of-ufs-hipergator/ Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/the-fourth-generation-model-of-ufs-hipergator/ The University of Florida is set to introduce the long-awaited, upgraded, fourth-generation version of the supercomputer HiPerGator. Half of the system with the new technology — the first of its kind in higher education — will be open to campus users in early-access mode in June; the full system will go into production by Fall 2025, further propelling UF’s national leadership in AI education. 

The milestone will come six months after the UF Board of Trustees approved investing in the machine, which will accelerate projects in areas from environmental research to medicine and bring the most cutting-edge generative AI capabilities to UF research. With the latest model, UF is on target to be the first university in U.S. higher education with an NVIDIA DGX B200 SuperPOD supercomputer, powered by NVIDIA’s Blackwell graphics processing units, or GPUs.

Read more about The Fourth-Gen Model of UF’s HiPerGator, Available to Users in June, Is Built To Reshape AI Education and Research. ]]> University of Florida To Acquire One of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/hipergator-upgrade/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/hipergator-upgrade/ The University of Florida Board of Trustees approved investing $24 million to acquire a more advanced version of UF’s HiPerGator supercomputer. This acquisition will make UF one of the first higher education institutions in the nation to own such a machine, which includes a type of technology that is not even on the market yet.

NVIDIA — co-founded by UF alumnus Chris Malachowsky — is expected to deliver the machine to the Gainesville campus during the first half of next year. HiPerGator, the AI supercomputer, was brought to UF in 2021 as the fastest of its kind in higher education at the time (and it still is today). 

Read more about University of Florida To Acquire One of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers. ]]> How Will $1 Million in Artificial Intelligence Research Impact Florida Industry? https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/1-million-for-university-of-florida-artificial-intelligence/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/1-million-for-university-of-florida-artificial-intelligence/ The University of Florida announced a $1 million investment into artificial intelligence. Twenty faculty teams will study wide-ranging uses on data analysis in a range of fields from agriculture to education.

The research will make use of a $60 million gift from NVIDIA and co-founder Chris Malachowsky, a UF alumnus. The funding has been used to increase computing capabilities at the Gainesville school.

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