AI Initiative Campus Event

Event Overview

Please join us to learn more about the vision for the UChicago AI Initiative, including presentations on pedagogical innovation supported by the AI and Education Working Group, along with brief overviews from each of ten inaugural AI research areas. These research areas, grouped by four themes, play a critical role in establishing UChicago’s distinctive contributions to AI research. Learn more about the areas here (CNet required). A panel discussion from Initiative leadership concludes the program. Boxed lunches will be provided at the start of the event.

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Speakers

Paul Alivisatos, President of the University of Chicago; John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, of Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and the College

Katherine Baicker, Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Distinguished Service Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy

Kevin Corlette, George and Elizabeth Yovovich Professor of Mathematics, Director of the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation

Sara Dallavalle, Assistant Instructional Professor in Italian, Romance Languages and Literatures

Fulya Ersoy, Assistant Instructional Professor of Economics and the College

James A. Evans, Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology, Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Margaret Gardel, Horace B. Horton Professor, Physics, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, James Franck Institute, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics

Timothy P. Harrison, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology; Director, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa (ISAC)

Pedram Hassanzadeh, Associate Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)

Henry Hoffmann, Liew Family Chair of Computer Science

William H. J. Hubbard, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, Deputy Dean, Law School

Anders Humlum, Assistant Professor of Economics; Fujimori/Mou Faculty Scholar at Chicago Booth

Patrick Jagoda, William Rainey Harper Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, the College, Obstetrics & Gynecology; Chair, Cinema and Media Studies; Faculty Director, Media Arts and Design

Chris Kennedy, William H. Colvin Distinguished Service Professor; Chair, Department of Linguistics; Faculty Director, Undergraduate Major in Cognitive Science

Julia Koschinsky, Executive Director and Senior Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science

Mina Lee, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

Nicole Marwell, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Faculty Director, SSL Program

Dan Nicolae, Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Statistics, Human Genetics, Medicine, and the College Section of Genetic Medicine; Faculty Co-Director, Data Science Institute; Interim Chair, Department of Statistics

Emily Lynn Osborn, Deputy Dean, Office of Research and Teaching Innovations (ORTI), The College; Associate Professor of African History, African Studies, and the College; Chair of the AI and Education Working Group

Rama Ranganathan, Joseph Regenstein Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and the College

Veronika Ročková, Bruce Lindsay Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Wallman Society of Fellows, Booth School of Business

Jason Salavon, Associate Professor of Visual Arts

Rick Stevens, Professor of Computer Science; Associate Laboratory Director, Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne

Abigail Vieregg, Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the College; Enrico Fermi Institute; David N. Schramm Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics

Rebecca Willett, Worah Family Professor in the Wallman Society of Fellows, Department of Statistics, Computer Science, and the College; Faculty Director of AI, Data Science Institute

Tomer Yehoshua-Sandak, Assistant Instructional Professor in Economics and the College

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