Forest Agostinelli has earned one of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious honors for early career faculty: a five-year, nearly $500,00 CAREER Award to develop artificial intelligence that can find solutions when researchers know what they need but don’t know how to get there.

The computer science and engineering assistant professor and AI Institute researcher is developing new AI methods that could eventually help address problems ranging from teaching robots to perform complex tasks to identifying molecules with properties needed for new medicines. Read the full story here.