The CM4AI Skills and Workforce group will develop an infrastructure to support flexible educational offerings and modalities to be customizable to the needs of a research community. By collaborating with end users and Bridge2AI members, our group will 1) foster skill development for existing researchers and practitioners, 2) attract new individuals to this emerging field, and 3) develop a strong AI/ML-biomedical research workforce. We will accomplish this through the identification and removal of the barriers to workforce development, creating cross-training materials and activities that span AI/ML, biomedical, and behavioral research communities, and leveraging our collective experience in workforce development for scientific and computational skills. We will utilize and expand our existing programs to further support outreach, recruitment, and retention to foster the development of a skilled research community.
