Jannatun Naiem (foreground), a master’s degree student in electrical engineering at Alfred University, and Chandan Kumar, assistant professor of computer science in the university’s Inamori School of Engineering, collect data from a battery sensor which will be run on Ranial Systems Inc.’s AI models for machine learning. Kumar is principal investigator on a New Energy New York (NENY)-funded research collaboration between Alfred University and clean-tech startup Ranial.