UFHEC creates High Technology and Artificial Intelligence Center

Santo Domingo.- The Universidad Federico Henríquez y Carvajal (UFHEC) announced the opening of the Center for High Technology and Artificial Intelligence (CATIA), an initiative that seeks to develop solutions that respond to social challenges in education, health, environment, public management, agriculture, urban mobility and industry. The national rector of UFHEC, Alberto Ramírez, pointed out that CATIA will house specialized laboratories in AI development, robotics, immersive virtual reality applied to health, as well as a server room and climate-controlled data center, designed for high-performance research and inter-institutional projects. Ramírez pointed out that “the CATIA will allow to articulate efforts with the public and private sectors and international organizations, promoting the training of highly specialized talent and the generation of technological solutions applied to the main challenges of the Dominican Republic”. He explained that the center contemplates priority lines of work such as AI-assisted medical diagnosis, educational analytics, environmental monitoring, sustainable agriculture, smart cities, and predictive models of climate risk.

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He indicated that the center will serve as a practice and research space for the master's degree in Artificial Intelligence Applied to Education and Research of UFHEC. He pointed out that the center will operate under an academic governance model that integrates researchers, teachers, students, and representatives from the productive sector, promoting projects of high social relevance and the training of specialized talent for the industries of the future. He highlighted that with this center, UFHEC continues to implement its commitment to innovation, applied research, and the sustainable development of the country, integrating scientific knowledge with the real needs of society. This initiative is part of a program of actions carried out by the academy to continue betting on the vanguard and digital transformation in Dominican higher education and to play a role as an ally in the construction of solutions that positively impact the present and future of the Dominican Republic.