Organizational Chart

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SkAI Institute Organizational Chart

To remain at the forefront of this dynamic field, the SkAI management structure enables agile resource allocation, continuous strategic planning, and robust communication. Having a lean-but-agile structure means using a combination of robust internal leadership teams overseeing the different domains that SkAI work spans, a core Operations Team that coordinates and convenes work both across the Institute and across institutions, and advisory boards that provide critical thought partnership in priority areas, as visualized in the organizational chart below.

Key to the Abbreviations

AD = Assistant Director

HS = high school

DD = Deputy Director

PD = postdoc

EB = Executive Board

SkAI ops = SkAI Operations Team

GS = graduate student

UG = undergraduate

VCR for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) = Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation

VPR for Northwestern University (NU) = Vice President for Research

VPR for The University of Chicago (UC) = Vice Provost for Research

SkAI Institute organizational chart

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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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