
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
External Advisory Board

Federica Bianco
Associate Professor, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
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Andy Connolly
Professor, Department of Astronomy; Associate Vice Provost for Data Science, University of Washington
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Angus Forbes
Member of the Strategic Researcher Engagement Team, NVIDIA; Associate Professor, Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University
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MSI Satellite Advisory Board

Amy Yeboah Quarkume
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Howard University
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Other Collaborators

Francesca Casadio (The Art Institute of Chicago)
Vice President and Executive Director, Conservation and Science
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Cliff Johnson (NU)
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
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Mike Papka (ANL)
Senior Scientist; Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences (CELS); Division Director, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
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Darsan Swaroop Bellie (NU)
Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Founder, Star Eyes Initiative
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Industry Partners
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 U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation.
Information on National AI Institutes is available at aiinstitutes.org.