Computer Application and Systems Integration (CASI), is a technology and business services company delivering robust solutions for multiple industries since 1993. CASI has been developing and licensing mission-critical solvers for solutions of linear systems for over a decade. These are widely used in the areas of Engineering Analysis and VLSI Simulation. These solvers are used by over 70,000 users worldwide.
The Carle Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Building, constructed in 2017, covers 52,000 square feet and is solely occupied by Carle Hospital. The building is home to over 50 physicians, physician assistants, athletic trainers, and physical therapists. It also includes diagnostic, athletic performance, and rehabilitation spaces.
The Capital One Illinois Digital Campus Lab is the company’s first university-based lab site, focusing on research and experimentation in data science. A variety of software development groups within Capital One provide research opportunities and innovative projects. Projects may involve development for web, tools, large scale data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, databases, open-source, cybersecurity, automation, or mobile apps, among others.
BP opened a center at Research Park to develop sustainable IT solutions. The center provides bp with access to the next generation of talent to explore digital solutions and technologies that enhance the modernization of IT services for bp.
bp is a global producer of oil and gas with operations in 70 countries. bp has a larger economic footprint in the U.S. than in any other nation, and it has invested more than $100 billion here since 2005. bp employs about 14,000 people across the U.S. and supports more than 111,000 additional jobs through all its business activities.
Bayer Crop Science Innovation Center uses the latest in digital tools and data to drive agricultural innovations, which increase efficiency and reduce the amount of water, land, and energy necessary to meet the world’s food fuel and fiber needs. These tools benefit farmers, consumers, and the planet. Bayer Crop Science seeks to deliver world-class innovation, set new standards in sustainability, and drive digital transformation. In 2016, Bayer acquired Monsanto. Currently, they operate as two separate legal entities, but they are working toward the integration of the two companies. In 2018, Monsanto opened a new innovation center at Research Park.
AXIS is a leading global specialty insurer and reinsurer, providing clients and distribution partners with a range of risk transfer products and services. AXIS was built to help our clients navigate the challenges of a volatile world. Our business strategy is the philosophy that we will win with our partners.
AXIS Insurance provides customized property, casualty, professional lines and other specialty coverage across the globe. On the other side, AXIS Re supplies risk transfer products to insurance companies comprising a variety of specialties from catastrophe to property to general liability.
At the AXIS Research Center, we introduce students from a variety of majors to a career trajectory they might not otherwise encounter in their course of study. ARC interns support ongoing data-handling processes and innovate new tools and workflows to enhance AXIS’s global operations.
HabiTerre is a farming financial risk modeling company. They help financial institutes, public agencies, and individual producers to quantify, manage, and reduce financial risks in the farming-related business. HabiTerre aims to monitor and model every crop field’s financial risks in the United States and worldwide. They have developed revolutionary approaches to rate historical and real-time financial risks for each crop field by integrating advancing technology in three domains, satellite/corp modeling, artificial intelligence, and agricultural finance modeling.
Ameren was created by the combination of three Illinois utilities (CIPSCO Incorporated, CILCO Inc. and Illinois Power Company) and Union Electric Company of St. Louis. The name comes from combining the words American and Energy. Employing more than 8,500 personnel, Ameren powers the quality of life for 2.4 million electric customers and more than 900,000 natural gas customers across a 64,000-square-mile area. The Ameren Innovation Center collaborates with students and faculty from the University of Illinois and other companies across multiple industries at the Research Park. Their goal is to foster an exploratory environment that focuses on innovations to help Ameren better meet the future needs of its customers. The innovation center works on solving relevant problems and developing instrumental tools for the company.
Ameren hires a wide range of interns year-round. The company looks at freshman to Ph.D. applicants for data analysis, application development, and operations roles. Additionally, Ameren has hired more than 20 different majors and encourages all majors to apply.
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AirScout enables producers to shift from reactive to proactive crop management, solving problems before they appear. AirScout’s patented aerial thermal imagery and AirScripts™ prescription-generating app put tools directly into the hands of farmers and agronomists, allowing them to identify problems before they can be detected with other imagery formats. Their precision ag technology gives farmers advanced warning of developing crop problems and allows for strategic scouting and action within hours.
AGCO is a global leader and manufacturer of agriculture equipment and technology. AGCO Corporation delivers agricultural solutions to farmers worldwide through a full line of tractors, combine harvesters, hay and forage equipment, seeding and tillage implements, grain storage and protein production systems. The AGCO Acceleration Center is specifically dedicated to advancing technology and innovation across AGCO’s family of brands. At the Acceleration Center, we focus on developing new-to-market solutions and advanced technologies to help farmers protect their harvest and their animals to feed a growing world population.
Interested in joining the AGCO Acceleration Center? Check out our open positions on the AGCO Careers Page and apply online.
In September 2022, ADM celebrated the grand opening of the new ADM Science and Technology Center at the University of Illinois Research Park. The facility quadruples ADM’s footprint and reflects a significant expansion of its capabilities.
In addition to its focus on process and financial modeling as well as business intelligence and business development, the new center’s portfolio will allow the addition of human nutrition research and development, wet chemistry, sensory science, data science, computational fluid dynamics, and customer interface and applications.
“Our partnership with the University of Illinois has been a win for ADM, the university and its students, as well as the industries in which ADM operates, and we are so excited about this new facility and the future of our collaboration,” said Todd Werpy, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Science Officer at ADM. “University of Illinois students and visiting scientists have helped ADM tackle big challenges and have developed business cases for important research projects. For the university and its students, the new facility will provide hands-on experiences working on real projects that are making an impact not just on ADM, but also on the world.
“The expansion strengthens our relationship with the university, leading to more value for ADM, more opportunities for students, and more innovation to unlock the power of nature in order to enrich the quality of life.”
The ADM Science and Technology Center will create opportunities for students across campus including chemical engineering, chemistry, information science, computer science, food science and human nutrition, technology management, agricultural and consumer economics, animal science and business programs just to name a few.
ABOUT ADM: Archer Daniels Midland Company is one of the largest agricultural processors in the world. Serving as a vital link between farmers and consumers, they take crops and process them to make food ingredients, animal feed ingredients, renewable fuels, and naturally derived alternatives to industrial chemicals. Since everything at ADM begins with agriculture, they have built long-lasting partnerships with the farming community. Farmers are essential to the overall economy, and that’s why ADM creates thousands of products from their crops. Found in 1902 and incorporated in 1923, ADM is headquartered in Decatur, Illinois, and operates processing and manufacturing facilities across the United States and worldwide. Through their extensive global distribution facilities and capabilities, ADM makes a significant contribution to the world’s economy and quality of life.
AbbVie is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company’s mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people, and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world’s most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries. The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science.
Abbott Laboratories at Research park primarily researches human nutrition products from pregnancy to elder care and pharmaceutical manufacturing quality. Abbott’s nutritional products ingredients like prebiotics, which aid in the healthy development of the immune system and Glucerna, which aids in helping lower blood sugar levels for people with type 2 diabetes.
Cargill’s mission is to nourish the world safely, responsibly, and sustainably. As the world constantly changes, Cargill is constantly searching for fresh, new innovations. Cargill connects farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. Cargill combines 154 years of experience with new technologies and insights to serve as a trusted partner for food, agriculture, financial and industrial customers in more than 125 countries. Side-by-side, Cargill is building a stronger, sustainable future for agriculture.
John Deere is a world leader in providing advanced products and services. They are committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land. John Deere continues to innovate through artificial intelligence, automation, and connectivity to help farmers sustainably feed our growing world. The John Deere Technology Innovation Center opened at Research Park in 2008 and has continued to focus on delivering customer-centered solutions from the corn production system through Focused Research and Accelerated Incubation. From Engineering to Information Technology, John Deere’s team is dedicated to driving technology in an environment of collaboration and innovation.
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Brunswick is an industry leader in the marine space who focus on lifestyle products like recreational boats, marine engines, active recreation, and activated workplace products. The Brunswick I-Jet Lab (Illini – Joint Explorations in Technology) works closely with Brunswick’s corporate to further accelerate Brunswick’s progress in modernizing the recreational boating experience. I-Jet Lab creates prototypes for mobile apps, websites, and products that improve customer experience. With over 175 years of experience, the Company has grown to become a world leader in each of its product categories.
In 2021, the Brunswick I-Jet Lab tripled in sized and moved to a new facility at 1907 S. Fourth Street, to accelerate support of the company’s ACES (Autonomy, Connectivity and Electrification) strategy and vision to use technology and design to enhance the recreational boating experience.
The D.Next research and innovation lab is focused on the distribution portion of the value chain that provides our homes, workplaces, and municipalities with the pipes, valves, ducting, and fixtures we rely upon to supply clean water, filtered air, energy and sanitation in our homes and communities. Using human-centered design, rapid ideation, primary & secondary research, and prototyping, D.Next teams may explore the roles, practices, perceptions, trends, and technologies that power today’s supply chain as well as develop solutions to re-architect or retire operating models or to transform interactions from transactional to experiential. The American Supply Association is the national industry trade association representing distributors and their manufacturers serving the plumbing-heating-cooling-piping(PHCP) & pipe-valve-fitting(PVF) channel.
Nationally ranked startup accelerator gener8tor and venture capital fund Serra Ventures partnered to bring programming for agtech startups to Champaign. Under the banner of the Illinois AgTech Accelerator, the programs are offered under gener8tor’s gBETA and gener8tor accelerator models.
gBETA AgTech is a free, seven-week accelerator program for early-stage companies designed to help startups gain early customer traction and improve business models.
The Illinois AgTech Accelerator recruits best-in-breed agtech startups worldwide to Champaign for an intensive, 12-week accelerator. Five selected startups for gener8tor AgTech spend three months focused on connecting with mentors, customers, corporate partners, and investors. Each startup receives a cash investment, office space, and access to gener8tor’s global network of mentors and investors.
https://www.gener8tor.com/illinois-agtech-accelerator
Ensaras, Inc. works at the intersection of wastewater treatment and analytics to provide novel insights and solutions for the wastewater sector. We work with wastewater dischargers to evaluate their treatment options and make informed and data-driven selections. We optimize treatment processes and reduce energy consumption at wastewater treatment plants using advanced analytics. We develop smart sensors embedded with in-device intelligence to help organizations meet their wastewater objectives.
At Ensaras, we have the skills, experience, passion, and commitment to address a variety of wastewater challenges with state-of-the-art analytical tools. Our team of experts in wastewater treatment, process engineering, resource recovery, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are excited to be making the next generation of wastewater solutions a reality!