The ASU AI Cloud Innovation Center partners with government, education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations to solve their toughest challenges using generative AI and cloud technology.
The ASU Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Center, powered by AWS, expands the effective use of AI for public sector organizations on a global scale — including government agencies, education institutions, and nonprofits — to address their mission-related challenges and uncover new opportunities.
Organizations bring their domain expertise and real-world challenges. CIC student teams and staff apply Amazon's innovation process, AWS technology expertise, and rapid prototyping to deliver working solutions — typically in weeks, not months.
Part of a global network of AWS Public Sector Innovation Centers at leading universities — including Cal Poly, Vanderbilt, and institutions across Bahrain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and more — tackling challenges from smart cities to healthcare equity.
The CIC portfolio comprises 110 public repositories representing applied generative-AI engagements. The portfolio is overwhelmingly AWS-native: 60 repositories build on Amazon Bedrock, with supporting services including AWS CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, Amazon Kendra, Transcribe, and Rekognition. Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript dominate the codebase, reflecting a serverless-backend and modern-web-frontend delivery pattern. Every repository has been committed to within the last 12 months.
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WestCare Foundation
Trauma-informed, 24/7 AI assistant with GPS-based service recommendations for substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental health crisis support. Scalable across 17 states.
Ohio State University
AI-powered document remediation that reduces per-page accessibility cost from $3-4 (manual) to a fraction of a penny, aligning PDFs with WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards.
America's Blood Centers
Bilingual chatbot helping the public understand blood supply, donation eligibility, and advocacy with citation-backed responses and daily content refresh.
City of Phoenix
AI-powered municipal services chatbot enabling residents to access city information, report issues, and navigate services through natural language conversation.
Boys Town
Automated quality assurance pipeline that transcribes and scores crisis hotline calls against an 18-point rubric using AI, enabling comprehensive counselor evaluation at scale.
Conservation Research
AI-powered satellite image analysis for forest and land classification, supporting environmental monitoring and conservation decision-making.
Five recurring solution patterns emerge across the portfolio, built on a consistent AWS serverless foundation.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation chatbots using Bedrock Knowledge Bases, streaming responses, and citation-backed answers
Templates, CDK constructs, and reusable accelerators that lower the cost of each new customer engagement
Image analysis, video processing, and document intelligence using Rekognition, Textract, and custom ML models
Full-stack web applications with serverless backends, real-time dashboards, and analytics
Data pipelines, QuickSight dashboards, and ML-driven insights from structured and unstructured data
Working with the ASU CIC team was an incredible experience. They were professional, responsive, and genuinely passionate about our mission of uplifting the human spirit.
The student team delivered a thoughtful, high-quality solution that improves access to trusted information today and lays out the groundwork for future modernization.
These teams worked diligently to build an AI QA bot that will revolutionize our ability to assess the quality of counseling staff. The impact of this work will be immense.
This collaboration is helping make 175 years of YMCA institutional knowledge and history more accessible to Y staff, volunteers, and the communities we serve.
Cincinnati Museum Center had the privilege of collaborating with AWS and the ASU AI Cloud Innovation Center. This effort brings together emerging talent and cutting-edge technology.
Working with the Arizona State University AI Cloud Innovation Center powered by AWS has been an incredibly rewarding experience for Breastcancer.org.