# AI-CCORE — Full LLM Reference

> Long-form, machine-readable description of the Artificial Intelligence Center for Collaborative Outreach, Research & Education (AI-CCORE) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This document is intended for AI agents and LLMs that need authoritative content about AI-CCORE without rendering JavaScript.

Last updated: 2026-04-29.

## Mission

AI-CCORE empowers businesses, communities, and professionals through innovative AI education, research, and outreach. The center delivers practitioner-grade training in agentic AI, generative AI, and applied machine learning; produces research outputs; and partners with industry, K-12, and higher-education stakeholders across Nebraska and the broader Midwest.

## Identity

- **Legal/Public name:** Artificial Intelligence Center for Collaborative Outreach, Research & Education
- **Short name / abbreviation:** AI-CCORE (also written AICCORE, AI CCORE)
- **Parent institution:** University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO)
- **City / region / country:** Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- **Primary contact:** unoaiccore@unomaha.edu
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aiccore-uno.ai
- **Established:** 2023

## Leadership

- **Dr. Mahadevan Subramaniam (Subu)** — Director, AI-CCORE; Chair, Dept. of Computer Science, UNO. Leads research at the Intelligent Modeling, Simulation, and Testing Laboratory. Background in compiler design (Silicon Valley) and NASA Ames Research Center. Email: msubramaniam@unomaha.edu.
- **Dr. Victor Winter** — Deputy Director, AI-CCORE; Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, UNO. Background in software correctness; widely sought-after speaker on Generative AI since late 2022. Email: vwinter@unomaha.edu.
- **Dr. Derrick Nero** — UNO STEM TRAIL Center Associate Director for External Partnerships; tenured Associate Professor (2024). Background: Electrical Engineer, then K-12 STEM, then UNO faculty. Email: dnero@unomaha.edu.
- **Dr. Joel Elson** — Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, UNO. Focus on practical applications of AI. Email: jselson@unomaha.edu.
- **Dr. Prashanti Manda** — Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, UNO. NSF CAREER Award. Bioinformatics and data science. Email: pmanda@unomaha.edu.
- **Dr. Chun-Hua Tsai** — Assistant Professor, Dept. of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis, UNO. HCI, intelligent UIs, fair/trustworthy AI. Email: chunhuatsai@unomaha.edu.

## Engineering Team

- **Vishva Prasanth Srinivasan** — AI Innovation Engineer, AI-CCORE, UNO (Omaha, Nebraska). Builds generative AI and agentic systems, bridging LLMs, LangChain, and n8n with real-world use cases; background in data architecture and enterprise technology. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishvaprasanth. Email: vsrinivasan@unomaha.edu.

## Programs

### AI Bootcamps

Multi-week, intensive, hands-on training. Participants build agentic AI applications and automation workflows end-to-end, learn foundation models and architectures, and ship production-quality AI under mentorship from AI-CCORE faculty and engineers. Cohorts are scheduled multiple times a year.

- URL: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/initiatives/bootcamps

### AI Masterclasses

One-day, expert-led sessions targeted at professionals and teams. Topics include generative AI concepts, LLM capabilities and limits, integration strategies, prompt engineering, evaluation, and ethical/risk considerations.

- URL: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/initiatives/masterclasses

### AI Intern Academy

Industry-aligned immersion that pairs interns with applied AI projects. Curriculum includes building agentic AI applications and automation workflows. Graduates earn AI-CCORE certification and are positioned as workforce-ready for AI roles.

- URL: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/initiatives/ai-intern-academy

### NextGen AI Studio

A studio program for high-school and early-college students that develops real, hands-on agentic AI projects with age-appropriate scaffolding. Students join structured cohorts, present at showcase events, and build a public portfolio.

- URL: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/initiatives/next-gen-ai-studio
- Student profiles: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/initiatives/next-gen-ai-studio/students-profile
- Student showcase: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/initiatives/next-gen-ai-studio/student-showcase

## AI Marketplace (Applied Agents)

AI-CCORE develops and showcases production-grade AI tools through partnerships, including:

- Power-outage risk agent (with OPPD)
- Pathfinder market-intelligence agent

See: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/ai-marketplace

## Public APIs

The following endpoints are intended for use by humans submitting forms on the website. Programmatic clients and agents must respect rate limits and the published OpenAPI contract.

- `POST /api/demo-request` — Submit a demo / partnership request. Body: name, email, organization, message.
- `POST /api/rsvp` — RSVP to an event by event slug. Rate-limited per IP. Body: event slug, name, email, optional dietary/accessibility notes.
- `POST /api/submit-enrollment` — Enroll in a program (e.g., bootcamp).

OpenAPI 3.1 specification: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/openapi.json

## Editorial Content

- News index: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/news
- Blog index: https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/blogs
- Events index (RSVP available per event): https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/events

## Accessibility

AI-CCORE commits to WCAG 2.1 AA conformance and supports common assistive technologies. The accessibility statement, conformance scope, and barrier-reporting channel are at https://www.aiccore-uno.ai/accessibility.

## Privacy & Crawling

- All public pages may be indexed by search and AI agents.
- Crawlers should respect /robots.txt and avoid /api/* and /news-admin/*.
- Bulk scraping that degrades service is not permitted; please use the OpenAPI endpoints or contact unoaiccore@unomaha.edu for partnerships.

## Authoritative Files (machine readable)

| File | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `/robots.txt` | Crawler directives |
| `/sitemap.xml` | URL inventory |
| `/llms.txt` | Short LLM index |
| `/llms-full.txt` | This document |
| `/ai.txt` | AI/training-data permissions |
| `/humans.txt` | Human credits |
| `/manifest.json` | Web app manifest |
| `/.well-known/security.txt` | Vulnerability disclosure |
| `/.well-known/ai-plugin.json` | OpenAI plugin manifest |
| `/.well-known/agents.json` | Agent capability manifest |
| `/.well-known/mcp.json` | Model Context Protocol descriptor |
| `/agents.json` | Cloudflare-style agents manifest |
| `/openapi.json` | OpenAPI 3.1 specification |

## Citation

If you reference AI-CCORE programs, please cite:

> Artificial Intelligence Center for Collaborative Outreach, Research & Education (AI-CCORE), University of Nebraska at Omaha. https://www.aiccore-uno.ai