Artificial Intelligence (AI), as a field, has experienced incredible growth this past decade and is transforming academic disciplines well beyond traditional computing, and more broadly is transforming enterprise and society. Nations are competing for dominance in AI, with heavy investments in developing AI technologies, and educating and training an AI-ready workforce.
Cornell is a recognized world leader in Artificial Intelligence through its faculty in the areas of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and core AI, among others. Cornell also has significant strengths across campus in other areas that can play a role in developing and shaping AI such as human-computer interaction, cognitive science, behavioral science, robotics, optimization, data science, computer architecture, engineering, policy, and ethics. Further, many application domains will be disrupted by AI including scientific discovery, medicine, business, climate, and agriculture. To help Cornell formulate its AI strategy for the next decade(s), the charge to the AI Initiative committee is:
The Charge
- Identify research areas in which Cornell can lead in the global AI landscape by investments in core AI, and by combining strengths in AI and other disciplines at Cornell.
- Propose models for AI education at Cornell at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
- Propose models for how Cornell’s AI Initiative should be structured to position Cornell for maximum external (and internal) impact.
- Propose models for external engagement and technology transfer with industry and through entrepreneurship.
Participating College Deans
- Kavita Bala, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, initiative’s lead dean
- Lynden Archer, Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
- Greg Morrisett, Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech
- Ray Jayawardhana, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Radical Collaboration
Director
- Thorsten Joachims, Departments of Computer Science and Information Science, Cornell Bowers CIS
Co-Directors
- Deborah Estrin, Department of Computer Science, Cornell Tech, Cornell Bowers CIS
- Jesse Goldberg, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Arts and Sciences
- Hadas Kress-Gazit, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Advisory Council
- Jayadev Acharya, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
- Michele Belot, Department of Economics, School of Industrial Labor Relations
- Mark Campbell, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
- Morten Christiansen, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
- Andy Clark, Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Computational Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Will Cong, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, SC Johnson College of Business
- Charles Danko, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Olivier Elemento, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Peter Frazier, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, College of Engineering
- Sue Fussell, Departments of Information Science and Communication, Cornell Bowers CIS and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Carla Gomes, Department of Computer Science and Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell Bowers CIS and SC Johnson College of Business
- Wendy Ju, Department of Information Science, Cornell Tech, Cornell Bowers CIS
- Eun-Ah Kim, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
- Jon Kleinberg, Departments of Computer Science and Information Science, Cornell Bowers CIS
- Sarah Kreps, Brooks School Tech Policy Institute, College of Arts and Sciences
- Saurabh Mehta, Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology
- Shaun Nichols, Sage School of Philosophy and Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
- Alexander “Sasha” Rush, Department of Computer Science, Cornell Tech, Cornell Bowers CIS
- Mert Sabuncu, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Cornell Tech
- Bart Selman, Department of Computer Science, Cornell Bowers CIS
- Huseyin Topaloglu, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, College of Engineering and Cornell Tech
- R Bruce van Dover, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
- Marten Wegkamp, Departments of Mathematics, and Statistics and Data Science, College of Arts and Sciences, and Cornell Bowers CIS
- Kilian Weinberger, Department of Computer Science, Cornell Bowers CIS
- Fengqi You, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Engineering