Image from the Hubble Telescope of newly formed stars and spiral galaxies

SkAI Partners and Collaborators

The NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (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

 Erin Adams

  Vice Provost for Research,
  The University of Chicago
  Link

 

Susan Martinis

 Susan Martinis

  Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation,
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Link

 

 Eric Perreault

 Eric Perreault

  Vice President for Research,
  Northwestern University
  Link

External Advisory Board

 

Federica Bianco

 Federica Bianco

  Associate Professor, Departments of Physics and        Astronomy, University of Delaware
  Link

 

Andy Connolly

 Andy Connolly

  Professor, Department of Astronomy; Associate          Vice Provost for Data Science, University of                  Washington
  Link

 

Angus Forbes

 Angus Forbes

  Member of the Strategic Researcher Engagement      Team, NVIDIA; Associate Professor, Department of    Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University
  Link

 

 Dan Foreman-Mackey

 Dan Foreman-Mackey

  Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
  Link

 

Tara Javidi

 Tara Javidi

  Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer      Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  Link

 

J. Nathan Kutz

  J. Nathan Kutz

  Professor, Departments of Applied Mathematics        and Electrical & Computer Engineering, University      of Washington
  Link

 

Chris Lintott

 Chris Lintott

  Professor, Department of Physics, Oxford                    University
  Link

 

Roummel Marcia

 Roummel Marcia

  Chair and Professor, Department of Applied                Mathematics, University of California, Merced
  Link

 

MSI Satellite Advisory Board

Emily Leiner

 Emily Leiner

  Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Illinois    Institute of Technology
  Link

 

Amy Yeboah Quarkume

 Amy Yeboah Quarkume

  Associate Professor, Department of Environmental    Studies, Howard University
  Link

 

Travis Rector

 Travis Rector

  Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy,      University of Alaska Anchorage
  Link

 

 Mohammad Abdus Salam

 Mohammad Abdus Salam

  Professor and Chair, Department of Computer            Science, Chicago State University
  Link

 

Other Collaborators

 

Keith Bechtol

 Keith Bechtol (UW–Madison)

  Associate Professor, Department of Physics
  Link

 

Bradford Benson

 Bradford Benson (UC)

  Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy          and Astrophysics
  Link

 

Francesca Casadio

 Francesca Casadio (The Art   Institute of Chicago)

  Vice President and Executive Director,                          Conservation and Science
  Link

 

Nigel Cave

 Nigel Cave (GlobalFoundries)

  Technical Lead, Digital Solutions
  Link

 

Kyle Cranmer

 Kyle Cranmer (UW–Madison)

  Professor, Department of Physics
  Link

 

Thomas Crawford

 Thomas Crawford (UC)

  Research Professor, Department of Astronomy and    Astrophysics
  Link

 

Kelli Easterly

 Kelli Easterly (Chicago Public   Schools)

  Executive Director, STEM
  Link

 

Juan Estrada

 Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

  Scientist
  Link

 

Guillermo Fernandez Moroni

 Guillermo Fernandez Moroni   (Fermilab)

  Astrophysicist
  Link

 

Emily Ferrin

 Emily Ferrin (NU)

  Director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
  Link

 

Joshua Frieman

 Joshua Frieman (UC)

  Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy            and Astrophysics
  Link

 

Tom Gibbs

 Tom Gibbs (NVIDIA)

  Developer Relations Manager
  Link

 

Patrick Hammie

 Patrick Hammie (UIUC)

  Professor and Chair, Studio Arts
  Link

 

Cliff Johnson

 Cliff Johnson (NU)

  Research Assistant Professor, Center for                      Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in              Astrophysics (CIERA)
  Link

 

David Junkin

 David Junkin (Cadence Design   Systems)

  Program Management Director—Academic                  Partnerships
  Link

 

Harley Katz

 Harley Katz (UC)

  Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and    Astrophysics
  Link

 

Karen Livescu

 Karen Livescu (TTIC)

  Professor, Speech and Language Processing, and        Machine Learning
  Link

 

Moritz Münchmeyer

 Moritz Münchmeyer (UW–   Madison)

  Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
  Link

 

 

Eric Oberla

 Eric Oberla (UC)

  Research Assistant Professor, Department of              Astronomy and Astrophysics
  Link

 

Mike Papka

 Mike Papka (ANL)

  Senior Scientist; Deputy Associate Laboratory              Director, Computing, Environment, and Life                Sciences (CELS); Division Director, Argonne                  Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
  Link

 

Giacomo Pedretti

 Giacomo Pedretti (Hewlett           Packard Labs)

  Senior Research Scientist
  Link

 

Cassandra Salgado

 Cassandra Salgado (NU)

  Director, Academy for Chicago Public Schools
  Link

 

 

Greg Shakhnarovich

 Greg Shakhnarovich (TTIC)

  Professor, Computational Vision and Machine            Learning
  Link

 

Elizabeth Sutton

 Elizabeth Sutton (UIUC)

  Director, Spurlock Museum
  Link

 

Darsan Swaroop Bellie

 Darsan Swaroop Bellie (NU)

  Graduate Student, Department of Physics and            Astronomy; Founder, Star Eyes Initiative
  Link

 

Valerie Taylor

 Valerie Taylor (ANL)

  Director of Mathematics and Computer Science
  Link

 

Javier Tiffenberg

 Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)

  Scientist
  Link

 

Industry Partners

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. logo

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

 

 

GlobalFoundries, Inc. logo

GlobalFoundries, Inc.

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. logo

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

 

 

NVIDIA Corp. logo

NVIDIA Corp.

 

 

SkyWater Technology logo

SkyWater Technology

 

 

Synopsys, Inc. logo

Synopsys, Inc.

 

 

Voltron Data, Inc. logo

Voltron Data, Inc.

Partner Institutions

 

Lead Institutions

Northwestern University logo

Northwestern University

 

 

The University of Chicago logo

The University of Chicago

 

 

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign logo

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

 

 

Partner Institutions

University of Illinois Chicago logo

University of Illinois Chicago

 

 

Adler Planetarium logo

Adler Planetarium

Argonne National Laboratory logo

Argonne National Laboratory

 

Fermilab logo

Fermilab

 

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago logo

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

 

University of Wisconsin–Madison logo

University of Wisconsin–Madison

 

 

SkAI Satellite Network Institutions

Chicago State University logo

Chicago State University

 

DePaul University logo

DePaul University

 

City Colleges of Chicago—Harold Washington College logo

Harold Washington College

City Colleges of Chicago—Harry S. Truman College logo

Harry S. Truman College

 

 

 

Howard University logo

Howard University

 

 

 

Illinois Institute of Technology logo

Illinois Institute of Technology

City Colleges of Chicago—Kennedy-King College logo

Kennedy-King College

City Colleges of Chicago—Malcolm X College logo

Malcolm X College

Northeastern Illinois University logo

Northeastern Illinois University

City Colleges of Chicago—Olive-Harvey College logo

Olive-Harvey College

Parkland College logo

Parkland College

 

City Colleges of Chicago—Richard J. Daley College logo

Richard J. Daley College

University of Alaska Anchorage logo

University of Alaska Anchorage

 

University of Hawaii at Manoa logo

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

City Colleges of Chicago—Wilbur Wright College logo

Wilbur Wright College

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