Stories
What the AI community at Mississippi State is building, learning, and sharing.
Built to Scale: How MSU Athletics Kept Refining an AI-Powered Stats System Until It Worked for Every Sport
MSU Athletics Communications used AI to help automate a stats system that now turns a full slate of player data around in minutes instead of hours, and the team is expanding it to cover every sport in the department.
Two ITS developers built an AI agent that answers IT service ticket questions in the university’s own tone.
Tyson Mills and Quan Chung spent July at an AWS bootcamp, and they are using what they learned there to improve a Copilot agent that helps ITS staff respond to service tickets.
A tool built in an LLM positioned 50 modules of content across a graduate curriculum.
Dr. Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, an assistant professor of wildlife disease ecology and One Health in the Forest and Wildlife Research Center (FWRC), is building a curriculum analysis tool in Claude to take on the mechanical parts of curriculum design.
Student-led GUARD event opens academic year with campus conversations on AI
As Mississippi State began a new academic year, students were already helping shape the university’s conversation about artificial intelligence (AI).
A feature film that normally takes two years will be finished in about one.
Marty Lang, an assistant professor in the new Creative Media Production concentration, used ChatGPT, Copilot, and an AI pre-production tool to adapt a script, plan a 12-day shoot, and give students a full feature film to work on in the concentration’s first semester.
Matching funding calls to faculty, made easier
Ashley Sumner, a Contract and Grant Specialist in the Dean of Engineering's office, has trained a Claude skill to match funding calls to the right faculty researchers.
A week of fund reconciliation across 200 funds now takes two days.
Carol Ray, a business coordinator in Industrial and Systems Engineering, has spent the past several months finding out how AI can make a difference in her workday.
MSU students are building their own perspective on AI policy.
The MSU Student Association has launched an AI Task Force, with students leading the development of a student voice in MSU's AI governance work. First meeting: May 7. What the SGA model gets right about how governance actually works.
A simulation that took 3 weeks can be done now in 3 days.
John Ball, a researcher in automotive autonomy, used AI to compress a class-simulation coding task from 2-3 weeks of off and on work to 3 days of periodic work. What this means, and what it tells us about where AI actually fits in research.
More than 650 people at Mississippi State are now talking about AI in the Community of Practice.
What started as a small group in Microsoft Teams channel in November 2025 now has more than 650 MSU faculty, staff, and administrators comparing notes — on what they're trying. The conversation has become something more useful than tips.
Three MSU professors built the AI tutors for their classes.
At an AI Ambassador meeting in March, faculty from Finance, Educational Psychology, and Chemical Engineering each described building a Socratic AI tutor for their students.