Partners
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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
Susan Martinis
Senior Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
External Advisory Board
Federica Bianco
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
Andy Connolly
Professor, Department of Astronomy; Associate Vice Provost for Data Science, University of Washington
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
Roummel Marcia
Chair and Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced
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
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
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
Karen Livescu (TTIC)
Professor, Speech and Language Processing, and Machine Learning
Eric Oberla (UC)
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mike Papka (ANL)
Senior Scientist; Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences (CELS); Division Director, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
Darsan Swaroop Bellie (NU)
Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Founder, Star Eyes Initiative
Industry Partners
Partner Institutions
Lead Institutions
Partner Institutions
SkAI Satellite Network Institutions
Funding Partners
The SkAI Institute is one of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation.
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