Digital twin NZ US collaboration awarded $4.5m funding

October 3, 2025
By
mediateam@auckland.ac.nz

Auckland Bioengineering Institute researchers will work with the Oden Institute, University of Texas, to develop physics-informed AI computational modelling.

The Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology, the Hon Dr Shane Reti has announced $4.5m from the Catalyst Fund to support the New Zealand United States Digital Twin Research programme.

The project brings together New Zealand’s world-leading Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) and the University of Texas’s Oden Institute, which specialises in AI, advanced simulations, and digital twins across a range of scientific, engineering and medical applications. By combining expertise, tools, and data from both countries, the collaboration will accelerate discoveries and give New Zealand access to cutting-edge science.

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