AI Built
Here.
Student‑Powered · Enterprise‑Grade · Texas Bold
The UT.AI Studio deploys student specialists to design and deliver real AI solutions across UT Austin's 51,000-student campus — and beyond.
Where do you fit?
Three Ways to Engage
Whether you're a student ready to build, a campus leader with a problem to solve, or an organization looking to shape the future of AI talent — there's a place for you here.
For Students
Become a Studio Specialist
Work on real AI projects for real clients. Build skills in machine learning, data engineering, and AI deployment — powered by Dell HPC infrastructure and mentored by enterprise technologists.
Apply NowFor Campus Units
Request an AI Project
Have a process to automate, data to unlock, or a service to reimagine? Studio Specialists work alongside your team to design, build, and deliver AI solutions tailored to your unit's needs.
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Partner with the Studio
Join a founding partnership with the nation's premier student AI organization. Shape curriculum, access top talent, and position your brand at the intersection of AI and higher education.
Learn MoreAbout the Studio
A Dell-HPC Powered,
Student-Led AI Organization
The UT.AI Studio is not a class, a lab, or a skunkworks project. It is an operating organization — deploying trained student specialists to build and deliver AI solutions across UT Austin's colleges, VP units, and partner institutions.
Built on Dell Technologies' high-performance computing infrastructure, Studio specialists gain hands-on experience with enterprise-grade AI tooling while creating measurable impact on campus.
scaling to 100/year
targeted for placement
'26
now recruiting
over first 2 years
Sample Engagements
AI That Moves the Needle
Real projects. Real outcomes. Illustrative of the work Studio specialists deliver across campus.
Dell Medical School
Clinical Documentation Assistant
AI-powered note summarization and structured data extraction for clinical workflows.
Office of the Provost
AI Advising Assistant
24/7 degree planning and course selection guidance for students across all colleges.
Office of the CFO
Procurement Intelligence
Contract analysis and vendor recommendation engine to optimize institutional spend.
Facilities Services
Predictive Maintenance
IoT sensor analysis to predict equipment failures before they occur across campus.
Office of Research
Grant Compliance Classifier
Automated review of proposal requirements and compliance documentation at submission.
The Technology Layer
Enterprise AI Services
The Studio runs on the AI services infrastructure that Enterprise Technology provides campus-wide — the tools, platforms, and governance that make responsible AI deployment possible at scale.
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Get Paid to Build
Real AI.
Studio Specialists are paid employees — not interns, not volunteers. You'll work on consequential projects, train on enterprise-grade Dell infrastructure, and graduate with a portfolio that stands apart.
Studio Fellowship Program
Embed AI Talent
in Your Organization
A Studio Fellowship places 4–5 trained AI specialists directly inside your center, department, or organization for a semester. You bring the problems. We bring the talent, the models, the technology, and the engineering. Your $25K sponsorship subsidizes their employment and funds the Studio.
The Exchange
Your Organization Brings
Studio Brings
Example Fellow Cohort
What a Fellowship Might Tackle
Fellowship Sponsorship
Annual · Per Cohort
What Your Organization Receives
How It Works
Sponsor & Scope
Your center or organization commits a $25K fellowship sponsorship. We work with you to define 4–6 project areas where AI can have the most impact — research synthesis, operations, communications, financial analytics, or whatever's most pressing.
Fellows Embed
We match and place 4–5 trained Studio Specialists into your environment for the semester. They attend your meetings, understand your context, and work alongside your team — not in a lab somewhere on campus. An ET AI Engineer provides technical oversight throughout.
Deliver & Showcase
Fellows deliver working AI solutions, documentation, and handoff materials. Every fellowship closes with an end-of-semester showcase event and a co-branded case study. All IP belongs to your organization. All tools are yours to keep and continue building on.
From the Newsroom
AI at UT Austin
ET Newsroom
In the AI Era, the Competitive Advantage Is Still Human
New research from IDEO makes the case that AI-era growth depends on human strengths — creativity, insight, growth mindset, psychological safety, and a culture of change. Here's how ET is building those capabilities at UT Austin, and why point five is the one we all have to own.
ET Newsroom
Responsible AI for Education 2026: A Campus Convening on April 21
The second annual Responsible AI for Education convening brings students, faculty, staff, and experts together on April 21 at the Texas Union for panels, workshops, and a keynote conversation between Cole Camplese and James P. Frazee of San Diego State University.
Microsoft 365
Free Microsoft Copilot Training Available to UT Community Every Tuesday in April
Four free, instructor-led Copilot training sessions run every Tuesday in April from 3–4 p.m. CST, covering everything from Copilot Chat fundamentals to building AI agents in SharePoint — open to all UT Austin faculty and staff.
Artificial Intelligence
UT Forms AI Advisory Committee to Shape a Responsible Future for Artificial Intelligence on Campus
Enterprise Technology's Mario Guerra is coordinating UT Austin's new AI Advisory Committee — a 15-member body of faculty, students, and university officials tasked with governing how AI tools are deployed, evaluated, and kept trustworthy for the entire campus community.
Artificial Intelligence
The Speed Is the Story: OpenClaw, NemoClaw, and What Agent Governance Actually Means
OpenClaw went from a one-hour side project to enterprise infrastructure in eight weeks. What NVIDIA's NemoClaw announcement at GTC tells us about where AI agents are headed — and the governance questions higher education needs to start asking now.
Artificial Intelligence
Eight Weeks from Side Project to Enterprise Security Problem: What OpenClaw and NemoClaw Mean for IT
OpenClaw went from one developer's weekend project to NVIDIA's GTC keynote in eight weeks. That pace is the point — and it raises a governance question that higher education IT hasn't fully answered yet.