SkAI Partners and Collaborators
The SkAI Institute has a robust network of partners and collaborators from across the Chicagoland area, throughout the state of Illinois, and across the United States. For more information about the different advisory boards and partner institutions, see below.
Institutional Board
Erin Adams
Vice Provost for Research,
The University of Chicago
Susan Martinis
Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Eric Perreault
Vice President for Research,
Northwestern University
External Advisory Board
Federica Bianco
Associate Professor, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
Andy Connolly
Professor, Department of Astronomy; Associate Vice Provost for Data Science, University of Washington
Angus Forbes
Member of the Strategic Researcher Engagement Team, NVIDIA
Dan Foreman-Mackey
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
Tara Javidi
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
J. Nathan Kutz
Professor, Departments of Applied Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Chris Lintott
Professor, Department of Physics, Oxford University
Roummel Marcia
Chair and Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced
MSI Satellite Advisory Board
Emily Leiner
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Amy Yeboah Quarkume
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Howard University
Travis Rector
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage
Mohammad Abdus Salam
Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Chicago State University
Other Collaborators
Keith Bechtol (UW–Madison)
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Bradford Benson (UC)
Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Francesca Casadio (The Art Institute of Chicago)
Vice President and Executive Director, Conservation and Science
Nigel Cave (GlobalFoundries)
Technical Lead, Digital Solutions
Kyle Cranmer (UW–Madison)
Professor, Department of Physics
Thomas Crawford (UC)
Research Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kelli Easterly (Chicago Public Schools)
Executive Director, STEM
Juan Estrada (Fermilab)
Scientist
Guillermo Fernandez Moroni (Fermilab)
Astrophysicist
Emily Ferrin (NU)
Director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Fernanda Foertter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Senior HPC Engineer, Scalable Biomedical Modeling Group
Tom Gibbs (NVIDIA)
Developer Relations Manager
Patrick Hammie (UIUC)
Professor and Chair, Studio Arts
Cliff Johnson (NU)
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
David Junkin (Cadence Design Systems)
Program Management Director—Academic Partnerships
Harley Katz (UC)
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Karen Livescu (TTIC)
Professor, Speech and Language Processing, and Machine Learning
Moritz Münchmeyer (UW– Madison)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Eric Oberla (UC)
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mike Papka (ANL)
Senior Scientist
Giacomo Pedretti (Hewlett Packard Labs)
Senior Research Scientist
Cassandra Salgado (NU)
Director, Academy for Chicago Public Schools
Greg Shakhnarovich (TTIC)
Professor, Computational Vision and Machine Learning
Elizabeth Sutton (UIUC)
Director, Spurlock Museum
Darsan Swaroop Bellie (NU)
Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Founder, Star Eyes Initiative
Valerie Taylor (ANL)
Director of Mathematics and Computer Science
Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)
Scientist
Jim Will (SkyWater Technology)
Senior Director of Aerospace & Defense Business
Partner Institutions
Lead Institutions
Northwestern University
The University of Chicago
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Partner Institutions
University of Illinois Chicago
Adler Planetarium
Argonne National Laboratory
Fermilab
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
University of Wisconsin–Madison
SkAI Satellite Network Institutions
Chicago State University
DePaul University
Harold Washington College
Harry S. Truman College
Howard University
Illinois Institute of Technology
Kennedy-King College
Malcolm X College
Northeastern Illinois University
Olive-Harvey College
Parkland College
Richard J. Daley College
University of Alaska Anchorage
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Wilbur Wright College
The SkAI Institute is one of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes funded by the US National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation.
Information on National AI Institutes is available at aiinstitutes.org.
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