Mission:
To accelerate AI‑driven innovation at Wichita State University and across the region by helping organizations apply advanced AI safely, effectively, and in alignment with national best practices.

Vision:
To create a model AI innovation center that supports WSU and regional partners in integrating AI confidently and responsibly, fueling long‑term economic and technological growth through applied research, solution development, and effective guidance.

Artificial Intelligence at Wichita State  AI-SECC Team  AI-SECC Projects and Activities

AI-SECC Projects and Activities

WuChat

  • WSU is actively developing processes, procedures, infrastructure, and expertise to enable generative AI to be used in a variety of use cases by faculty, staff, students, and researchers.
  • WuChat is an effort to develop and evaluate generative AI tools/agents built as a phased approach with each step building capability in collaboration with stakeholders across campus.
  • Different versions are being built for different use cases, intended users, and varying features and capabilities.

NIST AI Consortium membership

  • AI-SECC represents WSU and NIAR as an official member of the NIST AI Consortium
  • The NIST AI Consortium empowers the collaborative establishment of a new measurement science that will enable the identification of proven, scalable, and interoperable techniques and metrics to promote the development and use of AI.
  • AI-SECC members participate in collaborative discussions and planning sessions to help develop standards, benchmarks, and best practices for safe and trustworthy AI.

Brief overview of different services we can offer

  • Knowledge-powered chatbots
  • Agentic workflow automations
  • Cloud-based AI solutions
  • Fine tuning LLMs for domain-specific use case
  • AI integration consulting
  • Rapid prototyping for software/AI-based solutions (on-prem and cloud)