Programs and Initiatives

Advancing Applied AI Through Faculty Innovation, Student Prototyping, and Collaborative Research Across the Business School

Empowering faculty, students, and researchers to advance responsible, real‑world AI through shared insights, hands‑on prototyping challenges, and cross‑disciplinary collaboration that drives meaningful business and academic impact.

How Scheller's AI work shows up in practice: programs that turn faculty research, student talent, and partner questions into hands-on projects, simulations, competitions, and published work.

Our Programs

The Center's programs are grouped by audience. Some are built around students learning AI by building it; some support faculty research and teaching; others give corporate partners structured ways to engage with the Center's work.

Applied AI Practicums

Semester-long projects where student teams scope and deliver AI solutions on real business problems with clear governance and evaluation criteria. Partners get usable deliverables; students build production-grade AI experience.

Audience: MBA and undergraduate teams · partner-aligned

AI Boardroom Simulations

Immersive role-plays where students act as C-suite executives navigating AI crises, including algorithmic discrimination lawsuits, model failures, and deepfake fraud. Builds judgment, not just technical skill.

Audience: MBA and graduate students

Agent Prototyping Challenge

Annual competition where student teams partner with a company to design and build working AI agent prototypes for a real operational or customer-facing problem. Real problems, real deliverables, real prize money.

Audience: Undergraduate and graduate teams · partner sponsorship

Founder-In-Residence

Active AI startup founders co-teach and co-build alongside Scheller students each semester. Direct pipeline from classroom to applied entrepreneurship.

Audience: All Scheller students

AI Fluency Podcast Series

Student-produced podcast featuring researchers, practitioners, and founders working at the frontier of applied AI. Builds the Scheller brand while training students in AI communication.

Audience: Students, alumni, and partners

Human-Machine Interplay Roundtable

An original research track studying how AI changes team performance, creativity, and organizational design. PhD students and motivated graduate students participate as co-researchers alongside faculty, designing studies and presenting findings.

Audience: Research-oriented graduate students · Research Corner

AI Faculty Roundtable

A standing forum where Scheller faculty, instructors, and PhD students share advances in AI scholarship, classroom experiments, and dissertation work in progress. Biannual prizes recognize standout contributions in applied AI practice, curricular innovation, and AI research.

Audience: Faculty, instructors, and PhD students · see affiliates

Human-Machine Interplay Roundtable

An original research track studying how AI changes team performance, creativity, and organizational design. Published findings shared with partners and the broader academic community.

Audience: Research faculty and PhD fellows · Research Corner

AI Literacy and Upskilling Institute

Executive and employee education on applied AI, open to partner companies and the broader Atlanta business community. Workforce-scale upskilling, not just degree programs. Platinum Advisory Board members receive a discount on Scheller's executive education AI courses.

Audience: Corporate partners, executives, and broader Atlanta business community

Reports Corner

Monthly competitive intelligence reports for corporate partners, covering competitive, industry, and cutting-edge research developments. Faculty-led, rigorous analysis, customized per partner company. Platinum partners receive monthly briefings; Gold partners receive biannual ones.

Audience: Platinum and Gold corporate partners · partnership tiers

Get Involved

Students, faculty, and corporate partners can plug into any of these programs. For partnership inquiries or to sponsor a practicum or prototyping challenge, get in touch.

Contact the Center

Programs and Initiatives

Advancing Applied AI Through Faculty Innovation, Student Prototyping, and Collaborative Research Across the Business School

How Scheller's AI work shows up in practice: programs that turn faculty research, student talent, and partner questions into hands-on projects, simulations, competitions, and published work.

Our Programs

For Students

Applied AI Practicums

AI Boardroom Simulations

Agent Prototyping Challenge

Founder-In-Residence

AI Fluency Podcast Series

Human-Machine Interplay Roundtable

For Faculty

AI Faculty Roundtable

Human-Machine Interplay Roundtable

For Partners

AI Literacy and Upskilling Institute

Reports Corner

Get Involved

Students, faculty, and corporate partners can plug into any of these programs. For partnership inquiries or to sponsor a practicum or prototyping challenge, get in touch.