Enabling AI innovation via data and model sharing: An overview of the NSF Convergence Accelerator Track D

This article provides a brief overview of 18 projects funded in Track D—Data and Model Sharing to Enable AI Innovation—of the 2020 Cohort National Science Foundation's (NSF) Convergence Accelerator (CA) program. The NSF CA is focused on transitioning research practice for societal impact. described here were one year phase I program, beginning September 2020. Their focus delivering tools, technologies, techniques assist sharing data as well data-driven models enable innovation. A broad range domain areas covered by efforts, spanning across healthcare medicine, climate change disaster, civil/built infrastructure. are addressing open sensitive/private data. In 2021, six eighteen selected II noted this article.