Note: Rebecca Willett is Deputy Director for Research (AI) on the SkAI Institute Executive Board
Original URL: https://datascience.uchicago.edu/news/under-the-hood-the-mathematics-of-ai/
By The University of Chicago Data Science Institute (DSI News, June 30, 2025)
Earlier this month, Rebecca Willett, the Data Science Institute’s Faculty Director of AI, gave a public lecture at the National Museum of Mathematics as part of its Math Encounters series. Professor Willett’s lecture highlights some of the core mathematical ideas underlying AI, and explains why understanding these concepts will be critical to the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning. To read more, see https://datascience.uchicago.edu/news/under-the-hood-the-mathematics-of-ai/
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.
