Scientific Advisory Board
Scientific Excellence
Our board of distinguished scientific researchers and professionals offer invaluable guidance to AI2 in our pursuit of impactful research in AI.
David ForsythFulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fellow of IEEE and ACM
Eric HorvitzTechnical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, Fellow of AAAI and AAAS, AAAI President (2007-09)
Mirella LapataProfessor at University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, BCS Karen Sparck Jones Award 2009, SIGDAT President 2018
Tom MitchellE. Fredkin University Professor at Carnegie Mellon, Fellow of AAAI and AAAS, AAAI Distinguished Service Award 2007
Aude OlivaDirector of Strategic Industry Engagement, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; MIT Director of MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; Senior Research Scientist, MIT
Dan RothProfessor at the University of Pennsylvania, Fellow of AACS, ACM, AAAI, & ACL, John McCarthy Award (IJCAI) 2017
Our Founder
Paul G. Allen launched the Allen Institute for AI in 2014 to explore critical questions in the field of AI. His philanthropy allows us to push the boundaries of fundamental AI research and to find high-impact ways to deploy these new technologies for the benefit of humanity.
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