Research & Programming

Artificial Intelligence Impact Atlas (AIIA)

Overview

This project develops a novel methodological approach to empower business leaders, policymakers, and their constituents with easy-to-use tools to understand the impact of AI on the workforce and to help them prepare for the future.

The project team, including additional scientists and members of the Weldon Cooper Center, will

develop an AI-assisted modeling and analytical platform to represent and analyze the rapidly changing labor, economic, and technological landscape and study the impact on job displacement, augmentation, and more broadly, the cascading impact of these changes;
enhance the current user-friendly decision-support system;
engage end users and carry out user studies; and
publish policy documents detailing the progress.

Research Team

2026-27 AI & Democracy Grant Recipient

Madhav Marathe

Affiliations

Executive Director, Biocomplexity Institute
Distinguished Professor of Biocomplexity
Professor of Computer Science

Bio

Madhav Marathe is an endowed distinguished professor of biocomplexity, executive director of the Biocomplexity Institute, and a tenured professor of computer science at the University of Virginia. Marathe is a passionate advocate and practitioner of transdisciplinary team science. During his thirty year professional career, he has established and led many large transdisciplinary projects and groups. His areas of expertise include digital twins, network science, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, high-performance computing, computational epidemiology, biological and socially coupled systems, and data analytics.

His prior positions include professor of computer science and director of the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory within the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech and a team leader of research and computing in the Basic and Applied Simulation Science Group, Computer and Computational Sciences Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Association for Computing Machinery, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Marathe has published more than 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and workshops. Mentoring and training next-generation scientists has been his lifelong passion. He has mentored more than a dozen staff scientists, and (co)-advised more than thirty doctoral students, twenty MS students, and fifteen postdoctoral fellows.

Marathe and his team focus on developing the scientific foundations and the associated engineering principles to study large-scale biological, information, social, and technical (BIST) systems. His current interests span five broad themes: (i) methods to construct various BIST networks using partial and noisy data as well as procedural information; (ii) understanding the general form and structure of dynamical processes over BIST networks (e.g., key network/pathway properties and typical pathways that impact dynamics); (iii) algorithmic theory of optimization and control as it pertains to the dynamical processes, including methods to detect, enhance, arrest, and mitigate dynamics; (iv) general conceptual and algorithmic foundations to understand the co-evolution of the networks and dynamics; and (v) high-performance services-based computing solutions that can be delivered seamlessly to end users and policymakers.

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AI Impact Atlas

From One Year to 12 Hours: UVA Biocomplexity Institute Showcases Three Decades of Digital Twin Innovation

A new interactive dashboard demonstrates how researchers create synthetic populations, connect people through their daily activities, and use computational representations to investigate real-world challenges. The Biocomplexity Institute is exploring how societal digital twins can help researchers understand the potential effects of AI on employment and workforce transitions as part of a DTD Lab grant-funded project, the AI Impact Atlas.

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AI Impact Atlas

New Digital Technology for Democracy Grant to Support AI Impact Atlas

How might artificial intelligence reshape jobs and local economies? New support from UVA’s Digital Technology for Democracy Lab will help Biocomplexity Institute researchers expand the AI Impact Atlas, a decision-support platform designed to help communities prepare for a range of possible workforce futures.

biocomplexity.virginia.edu

DTD Lab Funds Five New Faculty Projects

The DTD Lab has awarded 2026-2027 grant funding to support five research projects across a variety of disciplines. These UVA faculty-led projects connect to the Lab’s mission of understanding the intersections of democracy and digital technology, including how rapidly evolving digital technologies and artificial intelligence can challenge but also fortify democratic institutions and practices.

Artificial Intelligence Impact Atlas (AIIA)

Overview

Research Team

Kemi Jona

Madhav Marathe

Anil Vullikanti

News

From One Year to 12 Hours: UVA Biocomplexity Institute Showcases Three Decades of Digital Twin Innovation

New Digital Technology for Democracy Grant to Support AI Impact Atlas

DTD Lab Funds Five New Faculty Projects

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