Build and test AI solutions
Identify opportunities, develop prototypes, and create custom AI applications around your workflows, users, and data.
↗Northeastern University
AI that advances discovery and serves people.
We bring together researchers, applied AI experts, educators, and industry partners to advance AI in health, life sciences, responsible AI, climate and sustainability, and real-world organizational practice.
Human-centered AI, strengthened by research and tested in the real world.
Research focus areas
Advancing AI where it can make a meaningful difference.
Our interdisciplinary teams develop new methods, investigate complex systems, and translate research into knowledge and tools that benefit people and society.
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AI + Health
Developing human-centered AI to improve health outcomes, care delivery, public health, and our understanding of complex health systems.
Explore AI + Health → 02AI + Life Sciences
Accelerating discovery across drug development, precision medicine, biological systems, and clinical research.
Explore AI + Life Sciences → 03Responsible AI
Advancing the methods, policies, and practices needed to develop and use AI responsibly.
Explore Responsible AI → 04 · AI4CaSAI for Climate and Sustainability
Applying AI to climate resilience, energy, infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable decision-making.
Explore AI4CaS →Work with us
Put Northeastern’s AI expertise to work.
Start with your organization’s challenge. We assemble the right combination of applied expertise, research, education, and responsible AI guidance.
Prepare your workforce
Give leaders and employees practical, role-relevant skills for adopting AI confidently and effectively.
↗Put responsible AI into practice
Assess risk, establish governance, and integrate responsible practices throughout the AI lifecycle.
↗Partner on research
Collaborate with Northeastern faculty and researchers on complex questions and emerging AI challenges.
↗Research and applied AI in action
Progress measured in knowledge and real-world impact.
A curated view of how research, education, and applied AI come together across Northeastern’s partnerships.
Applied AI
Making complex reporting easier to use
A self-service analytics solution designed around a property management organization’s real reporting workflows.
See applied AI in action →Workforce adoption
Building AI capability across an organization
Bangor Savings Bank connected AI strategy, workforce learning, and applied projects to strengthen adoption.
Explore partner outcomes →Research
Turning emerging research into practical knowledge
Interdisciplinary teams investigate how AI can advance health, science, sustainability, and responsible innovation.
Explore our research →
90+
faculty members across Northeastern University
University-wide expertise
The right people, assembled around the challenge.
Our network brings together faculty, researchers, applied AI professionals, engineers, educators, and emerging talent across disciplines and campuses.
Meet our faculty and experts →Join the conversation
Practical perspectives for a fast-moving field.
Connect with researchers, practitioners, and organizational leaders through live programs and on-demand conversations.
Featured event · October 1, 2026 · Boston
AI Ready or Risky?
An executive working session for C-level leaders pursuing an active AI initiative.
AI in Action
Watch on demand.
Explore conversations about AI adoption, workforce readiness, leadership, and the path from experimentation to impact.
Partner with Northeastern University
What could we accomplish together?
Connect with our researchers, applied AI experts, and educators to explore your organization’s goals and the right place to begin.
Start a conversation ↗Featured Event
The State of AI in Precision Health
AI is accelerating and transforming health and life sciences. At our 2024 conference, industry, research and policy leaders explored the impact of AI for drug discovery, personalized medicine, faster clinical trials, early disease detection, and more.
Explore the Highlights
