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.
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
For Students
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
For Faculty
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
For Partners
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