Intelligent Computer Systems Research Institute (AI Institute) · Founded 1986 by David Bendel Hertz
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The human side of artificial intelligence in organizations.
Mission
The Institute studies what the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence means for people, organizations, and society.
University of Miami Business School · Coral Gables, Florida
How artificial intelligence augments, displaces, or reshapes human work is a management question. How organizations govern it responsibly is a leadership question. How the next generation is prepared to work alongside it is a question of values. Business schools are built for questions of that kind. The Institute brings the school's research strength in technology and organizations to bear on them.
Position
The Institute takes a sociotechnical and design-oriented view of artificial intelligence in organizations, applied to adoption, transformation, governance, and impact. Its commitments are augmentation over automation, agency over abdication, and human judgment at the center.
It is not a computer science lab. It is a business school institute, and it has been working at this intersection for forty years.
Three pillars.One institute.
What the Institute is →Research that leads
Five research areas, each with a named faculty lead, from scaling intelligence in organizations to the ethics of systems and human interaction. Doctoral students and undergraduate researchers work inside them, and their work is published under their own names.
Research and areas of focus → 02 — ProgramsTeaching in the age of AI
Executive education for boards and senior leaders, doctoral and graduate programs, and undergraduate experiential learning that puts students inside real organizational problems with artificial intelligence in hand.
Programs and teaching → 03 — IndustryEngagement with depth
Long-term partnerships rather than one-off engagements. Resources flow in, research and applied insight flow out. An Industry Advisory Board of senior leaders, chaired by Hari Kumar, keeps the agenda grounded in the questions organizations are actually confronting.
Partnership model →Next · February 5–6, 2027
Miami Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Innovation
Two days in Coral Gables. One day for industry, one for the academic community, and the Institute's Industry Advisory Board meets alongside it. Registration opens in the fall.
Why it matters
The conference is the Institute's most visible output and the anchor of the industry pillar. It puts the researchers who study artificial intelligence in organizations in the same room as the executives deciding what to do about it, for two days, once a year.
Sponsorship and speaking opportunities are open now.
Students who publish.Companies who sponsor.
All research projects →The Institute's undergraduate research program pairs business students with faculty on real research questions in artificial intelligence, and the students carry the work through to publication under their own names. Companies sponsor the projects.
A sponsor brings a question worth answering and the data or context to answer it. The Institute brings a faculty lead, a student research team, and a semester of structured work. What comes out is research the sponsor can act on and the field can read, not a consulting deliverable that disappears into a drawer.
| № | Term | Track | Area | Title | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-02 | Sp26 | AI Fellows | Machine learning / signal processing | Non-Stationary Spectral Decomposition Network: Adaptive Spectral Emission Heads and Frequency Modulation | IEEE ORSS 2026 · IEEE Xplore |
| 26-01 | Sp26 | AI Fellows | Model safety / alignment | Auditing Abliteration: Normalization Placement, Edit Budget, and Transfer in Single-Direction Refusal Removal | IEEE ORSS 2026 · IEEE Xplore |
| 27-01 | Sp27 | Sponsored | Open to sponsors | Company-sponsored research project, Spring 2027 | Accepting proposals |
Teaching · Experiential learning
The Digital-First Lab.
Undergraduate teaching at the Institute's intersection runs through the Miami Digital-First Lab, a student experiential learning lab at the University of Miami Business School directed by Alex Korogodsky. Student teams work with outside organizations and ship working AI systems, dashboards, and product prototypes, free to the partner.
The Lab runs its own structured method: a needs assessment before a team is assembled, a semester of faculty-supervised delivery, and a real handoff after the final presentation. Nine projects have shipped since 2023, across financial services, digital health, live events, sports performance, aerospace, and environmental technology.
What the Institute does.
- 01Conducts and publishes research on artificial intelligence in business and management
- 02Connects that research to practice through long-term partnerships with industry
- 03Provides education in artificial intelligence for corporate boards, executives, and business leaders
- 04Supports doctoral students and early-career faculty working on artificial intelligence and organizations
- 05Advises businesses, government bodies, and non-profit organizations on the adoption and governance of intelligent systems
- 06Hosts an annual conference, a speaker series, and workshops open to the wider community
Bring us a questionworth answering.
Organizations partner with the Institute to sponsor research, join the Industry Advisory Board, support the conference, or put their leadership team through executive education. Every one of those conversations starts the same way, with a question the organization is genuinely confronting.