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Anthony Aguirre

Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

Physicist Anthony Aguirre studies the formation, nature, and evolution of the universe, focusing primarily on the model of eternal inflation—the idea that inflation goes on forever in some regions of the universe—and what it may mean for the ultimate beginning of the universe and time. He is the co-founder and associate scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute, which supports research on questions at the foundations and new frontiers of physics and cosmology. Anthony is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, an organization aiming to increase the probability that life has a future, and of Metaculus, an effort to optimally aggregate predictions about scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs, and other interesting issues.

 

Russ Altman*

Kenneth Fong Professor and Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, of Medicine (General Medical Discipline), of Biomedical Data Science; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

 

Russ Altman’s primary research interests are in the application of computing (AI, data science and informatics) to problems relevant to medicine. He is particularly interested in methods for understanding drug action at molecular, cellular, organism and population levels. His lab studies how human genetic variation impacts drug response (e.g., http://www.pharmgkb.org/). Other work focuses on the analysis of biological molecules to understand the actions, interactions and adverse events of drugs (e.g., http://feature.stanford.edu/). He helps lead an FDA-supported Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation. At Stanford, Russ is also a professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science and is the past chairman of the Bioengineering Department. 

 

Russ holds an AB from Harvard College, and an MD from Stanford Medical School, and a PhD in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford. He received the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine, IOM). He is a past-president, founding board member, and a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and a past-president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (ASCPT). 

 

Russ has chaired the Science Board advising the FDA commissioner, and has served on the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee, and as cochair of the IOM Drug Forum. He is an organizer of the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and a founder of Personalis (NASDAQ: PSNL). Russ is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Informatics. He received the Stanford Medical School graduate teaching award in 2000 and mentorship award in 2014. He is the founding editor of the Annual Reviews of Biomedical Data Science and hosts a SiriusXM radio show (and podcast) entitled “The Future of Everything.”

 

Angela Aristidou*

Assistant Professor, University College London School of Management

 

Angela Aristidou is a 2022-23 Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), focusing on a project tentatively titled “Bringing the ‘Social’ in the Practice of Artificial Intelligence for Cross-sector Collaborations.” At UCL, she leads a team of postdoctoral research fellows and PhD students that combines methodologies from management, economics, sociology and public policy and employs both qualitative and quantitative techniques to collect real-life datasets in the UK, China, US, and Canada. Each of these empirical studies consists of multiple cases of digital tools being deployed in the formation of new government-mandated cross-sector collaborations for health care integration. 

 

In 2022, Angela was invited to join the UK NICE Panel for the development of national standards for AI implementation in healthcare and has published on the topic of AI in Healthcare in The Lancet. Since 2019, she has been chairing the international Research Advisory Board for the Relational Coordination Collaborative as well as multiple international, interdisciplinary symposia on cross-sector collaboration and AI.

 

Ioana Badea

Director of Research, Foresight and Product Strategy, Meta

 

Iona Badea leads user research efforts in foresight and product strategy with a focus on market trends, early-stage innovation, and user experience. She works with a team of researchers focused on anticipating market shifts and deeply understanding people and their ever-changing relationship with social media and technology at large. This team is comprised of researchers spanning all areas of social science and research, including ethnographers, qualitative design researchers, mixed methods, market research, foresights strategists, and quantitative researchers.

 

Previously, she spent 17 years at Intel, including as Senior Director of Global Insights & Analytics. In that role she led Intel’s center of excellence for Global Insights & Analytics, chartered to bring the voice of the end-users across brand and product growth opportunities. Ioana is a graduate of Politechnic University Bucharest, Romania, where she earned her MS in Engineering, Nuclear Energy.

 

Joey Barnett

Associate, Omidyar Network

 

As an associate at Omidyar Network, Joey Barnett conducts research and analysis to inform the programmatic portfolio, including work on The Tech We Want (TTWW), a workstream focused on building an ecosystem that gives life to tech purposed for collective well-being. Among his contributions to this effort, he has synthesized and supported funding strategy based on the convening of TTWW’s Luminaries, a diverse group of entrepreneurs, funders, thinkers, creators, and builders co-creating the project’s vision.

 

Prior to Omidyar Network, Joey’s professional background was in entertainment and academia, as a director of analytics at Universal Pictures; a stage performer in Bollywood stage show of Mystic India: The World Tour; and a doctoral track researcher/instructor at University of California, Irvine, where he originated research on the global cultural and economic flows of Bollywood and their relationship to film finance and creative labor. 

 

Joey received an MBA with a certificate in public management and social innovation from Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MA in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA in anthropology with a certificate in South Asian studies from Princeton University.
 

Lonny Avi Brooks

Professor, Communication, California State University, East Bay

 

Lonny Avi Brooks is co-executive producer of “The Afrofutures Podcast,” co-author of Afrofuturism 2.0: the Rise of Astro-Blackness, lead editor, “When is Wakanda?” (Journal of Futures Studies), and the author of “From Algorithms to AfroRithms in Afrofuturism,” in the anthology Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection. Lonny is co-organizer of the Black Speculative Arts Movement, co-directs the Community Futures School, Museum of Children’s Arts, and imagines democratized futures as co-designer of the game Afro-Rithms From The Future. He is a research affiliate at the Institute for The Future, a Long Now Foundation Research Fellow and a Visiting Professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design, Stanford University. He is currently co-editor with Tobias vanVeen of the Afrofuturist Studies and Speculative Arts book series with Lexington Press. 

 

Lonny is also the cofounder of the AfroRithm Futures Group, which produced the Mothership Series working with the Origami Air World Network and the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination’s metaFutures series. This collaboration introduced the Air AfroRithm ship in virtual reality (VR) as a vibrant hub for Afrofuturism, establishing their presence in the metaverse (called “the Pluriverse). With the support of the creative research foundation Fathomers and Origami Air Co., they are developing the Astro-Equalitarian Virtual Nation, a safe space for Africana and Indigenous Diasporans in the virtual reality pluriverse.

 

Erik Brynjolfsson*

Director, Digital Economy Lab; Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University

 

Erik Brynjolfsson’s research, teaching and speaking focus on the effects of digital technologies, including AI, on the economy and business. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-author of six books, including The Second Machine Age. Erik’s additional affiliations at Stanford include the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at SIEPR, and a professor, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Department of Economics.

 

Rosa Cao

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

 

Rosa is interested in the implications of what might be broadly termed "informational" approaches to studying the brain, mind, and cognition. How should we understand notions such as "representation", "computation," and "information" in neuroscientific and philosophical frameworks? How are computational models to be evaluated empirically? What is the status of neural representation, and how does it relate to mental representation? How should we understand the relationship between natural and artificial intelligence?

 

Erica Cartmill

Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Erica Cartmill studies the acquisition and evolution of human language. Her work bridges the biological and linguistic subfields and involves both comparative and developmental approaches to communication. She is interested in how the multimodal aspects of communication contribute to and constrain the construction of meaning in spontaneous interaction and whether gesture played a role in the origins of human language. Erica approaches this from different angles: by studying how great apes learn and use gestures, and how human children gesture (and learn from the gestures of others) before they are fully proficient in spoken language. 

 

Her great ape and human research involve observing spontaneous interactions between communicative partners as well as employing communication games that allow for more controlled experimentation. All her primate work takes place in American and European zoos and focuses on orangutans but planned studies will involve comparison with other great apes. Erica’s work with human children takes place in home environments and at the university, focusing on North American children learning English, and involving families with a range of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds.

 

Angèle Christin*

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Stanford University; HAI Affiliate

 

Angèle Christin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, and, by courtesy, in the Sociology Department at Stanford University. She studies fields and organizations where algorithms and analytics transform professional values, expertise, and work practices. Angèle received her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and the EHESS (Paris).

 

Mick Costigan

Vice President, Salesforce

 

Mick leads the Futures team at Salesforce, working closely with Peter Schwartz, the Chief Futures Officer. His team helps Salesforce leadership and customers anticipate, imagine, and shape the future relating to issues including customer experience, sustainability, and the global business environment. Mick has nearly a decade of leadership experience in innovation and futures at Salesforce. Prior to that he served clients on five continents over a decade at Monitor Group, with a focus on scenario planning, strategy, and economic development at Global Business Network. Mick is originally from Ireland and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

Charles Eesley

Associate Professor and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

 

As part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Charles Eesley researches the role of the institutional and university environment in high-growth, technology entrepreneurship. His research focuses on rethinking how the educational and policy environment shapes the economic and entrepreneurial impact of university alumni. His field research spans China, Japan, Chile, Bangladesh, Thailand and Silicon Valley and has received awards from the Schulze Foundation, the Technical University of Munich, and the Kauffman Foundation. 

 

Charles is a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Center for International Development, the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Stanford King Center on Global Development. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Strategic Management Journal.

 

Ian Eisenberg*

Head of Data Science, Credo AI

 

Ian Eisenberg is a machine learning engineer and cognitive neuroscientist. At Credo AI, he leads the development of Lens, an open-source Responsible AI Assessment Framework. Ian believes safe AI requires systems level approaches that draw on technical, social, and regulatory advancements and he is currently focused on building the tools and processes that operationalize Responsible AI in an accessible manner. His interest in AI started as a neuroscientist at Stanford, which developed into a focus on reducing AI risk through his involvement with the Effective Altruism movement and as a machine learning engineer in the hiring space. Ian received his PhD from Stanford University and BS from Brown University and has been a researcher at Stanford, the NIH, Columbia, and Brown.

 

Jacob Foster*

Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Jacob Foster is a computational sociologist interested in the social production of collective intelligence, the evolutionary dynamics of ideas, and the co-construction of culture and cognition. His empirical work blends computational methods with qualitative insights from science studies to probe the strategies, dispositions, and social processes that shape the production and persistence of scientific and technological ideas. Jacob uses machine learning to mine the cultural meanings buried in text, and computational methods from macro-evolution to understand the dynamics of cultural populations. He also develops formal models of the structure and dynamics of ideas and institutions, with an emerging theoretical and empirical focus on the rich nexus of cognition, culture, and computation. He is currently writing a book on knowledge as an emergent feature of complex adaptive systems. 

 

Jacob is founding co-director of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, a program that aims to build community, collaboration, and creative thinking among early career scholars interested in the study of mind, cognition, and intelligence of diverse forms and formats—from ants and apes to humans and AI. After studying mathematical physics at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he received a PhD in Physics (with a specialty in Complexity Science) from the University of Calgary, spent three years as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago before moving to UCLA in 2013. 

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Michael C. Frank*

David and Lucile Packard Professor of Human Biology and Director, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University

 

How do we learn to communicate using language? Michael studies children's language learning and how it interacts with their developing understanding of the social world. He uses behavioral experiments, computational tools, and novel measurement methods like large-scale web-based studies, eye-tracking, and head-mounted cameras.

 

Surya Ganguli*

Associate Professor of Applied Physics; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

 

Surya Ganguli triple majored in physics, mathematics, and EECS at MIT, completed a PhD in string theory at Berkeley, and a postdoc in theoretical neuroscience at UCSF. He is now an associate professor of Applied physics at Stanford where he leads the Neural Dynamics and Computation Lab and is a Research Scientist at Meta AI. His research spans the fields of neuroscience, machine learning and physics, focusing on understanding and improving how both biological and artificial neural networks learn striking emergent computations. At Stanford, Surya is also a professor, by courtesy, of Neurobiology, of Electrical Engineering, and of Computer Science.

 

Surya has been awarded a Swartz-Fellowship in computational neuroscience, a Burroughs-Wellcome Career Award, a Terman Award, a NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award, a Sloan fellowship, a James S. McDonnell Foundation scholar award in human cognition, a McKnight Scholar award in Neuroscience, a Simons Investigator Award in the mathematical modeling of living systems, and an NSF career award. 

 

Nate Gaylinn 

Software engineer

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Nate Gaylinn is an intelligence researcher, software engineer, and science blogger. After fourteen years working on Google Search, he left the tech industry to pursue machine learning research inspired by systems biology, and to raise awareness of the nature, risks, and limitations of today's AI and social software.

 

Xiao Ge

Research Assistant, Psychology, Stanford University

 

Xiao Ge is a researcher in Psychology working with Professor Hazel Markus. She is also a research affiliate at the Center for Design Research in Mechanical Engineering Design Group.

 

Erika Gregory*

Managing Director, N Square Collaborative

 

Erika Gregory is a recognized catalyst for collaborative innovation. Over the last 25 years she has founded and/or led a series of organizations including the N Square Collaborative, Collective Invention, and The Idea Factory, where she has worked on solutions to some of the most crucial social challenges of our time. At N Square, Erika leads a team that is exploring cross-disciplinary, collaborative approaches to reducing nuclear weapons threat, from engaging tech innovators to recasting the way nuclear weapons are portrayed in popular media. Part R&D lab, part venture fund, N Square’s approach reflects Erika’s long experience designing innovation programs in government, the corporate world, the NGO community and philanthropy. Erika is a graduate of Juilliard.

 

Nicholas Haber

Assistant Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

 

After receiving his PhD in mathematics on Partial Differential Equation theory, Nicholas worked on Sension, a company that applied computer vision to online education. He then co-founded the Autism Glass Project at Stanford, a research effort that employs wearable technology and computer vision in a tool for children with autism. Aside from such work on learning and therapeutic tools, he and his research group develop artificial intelligence systems meant to mimic and model the ways people learn early in life, exploring their environments through play, social interaction, and curiosity. At Stanford, Nicholas is also a professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science, 

 

Gerald Harris

Chair, Technology & Society forum, Commonwealth Club of California; President, Quantum Planning Group 

 

Gerald Harris is the founder and president of the Quantum Planning Group (QPG). The company, founded in 2009, specializes in assisting businesses and non-profit organizations in strategic and business planning using the tools of scenario analysis. Since 2011 QPG has served as the lead consultant to the Western Electric Coordination Council for scenario analysis supporting long-term (20-year) electric reliability assessments. Since 2016 Gerald has served as the Chair of the Technology & Society member-led forum at the Commonwealth Club of California. In that capacity he produces programs on developments in science and technology for the Club’s members and the public. In 2022 Gerald joined the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Club.  

 

Dokyun Lee

Kelli Questrom Associate Professor of Information Systems Management & Computing and Data Sciences, Boston University

 

Dokyun (DK) Lee studies the {application, development, impact} of AI in e-commerce and the digital economy with focus on text. His specific agenda includes: (1) developing and applying interpretable machine learning and natural language processing algorithms for economics of unstructured data; and (2) applying generative models on text for algorithmic theory building. He also runs the BITLab (Business Insights through Text Lab) to study application domains such as content engineering and advertising, social media marketing, brand sentiment, technological innovation, and persuasion.

 

His work has been published at journals and conferences including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing Research, AAAI, AIES, and WWW. He is a recipient of the ISS Gordon B Davis Young Scholar, 2021 Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar, CDO Magazine Academic Data Leader, ISR Best Paper Award, MSBA Teaching Award, Management Science Distinguished Service Award, and Best Conference Paper Awards. His work is supported by organizations such as Adobe, Bosch Institute, Google Cloud, Marketing Science Institute, McKinsey & Co, Nvidia, and Net Institute.

 

DK holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University (Machine Learning Focus), a master’s degree in Statistics  from Yale University and PhD from the Operation, Information and Decisions department of the Wharton School. Before academia, DK worked at four tech start-ups and Blackrock as a quantitative software engineer and at Thomson Reuters as an ML contractor building a natural language processing engine for financial data.

 

Daniel Lim

Senior Director, Futures team, Salesforce

 

Daniel investigates emerging futures and their implications on society, industry, and the company. Previously Daniel was a fellow at the World Economic Forum’s Artificial Intelligence platform where he led the initiative that provided practical resources for leaders to operationalize ethics in technology. In his 30-year career that included leadership roles at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, McKinsey & Company, and Sequence, Daniel has lived in the confluence of technology, design, and public policy. Daniel holds a MS in Public Policy and Management, and a BA in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University.

 

Brie Linkenhoker*

CEO, Worldview Studio

 

Brie founded Worldview Studio in 2018 to connect science and society through strategy, research, media, and design. Previously she led Worldview Stanford, which pioneered interdisciplinary, multimedia learning experiences at Stanford University, and led strategy and scenario projects with Global Business Network (GBN) and Monitor. She holds a PhD in neuroscience, an MA in international policy studies (both from Stanford University), and a BA in psychology (Transylvania University).   

 

Katharine (Kate) Maher

Professor of Earth Systems Science and Senior Fellow, The Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

 

Kate Maher’s research examines the carbon cycle through multiple lenses, from the history of atmospheric carbon dioxide and its impact on the evolution of life to strategies for sequestering carbon today. By combining computer models with field and laboratory measurements, her research links together hydrologic, chemical and biological processes to understand our unique planet. Her current research projects include soil carbon cycling, water quality and carbon dioxide storage in volcanic basins. 

 

In 2015, Kate was awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union; in 2012 she was awarded the Allan Cox Medal for Mentoring of Undergraduate Research. She is also a featured scientist in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History exhibit on Deep Time. Kate was recently selected as a Helmholtz International Fellow and will travel to Germany to conduct research and teach design to scientists.

 

Eric Marshall*

Principal Advisor for Programs in Discovery Science, Templeton World Charity Foundation

 

Eric Marshall provides consultation to the foundation on current programs and is developing new initiatives to support scientific research on human flourishing. His broad range of experience includes science, education, and communications in the philanthropy, nonprofit, and corporate sectors, with success in creating strategic partnerships and systemic transformation in science and society. 

 

Earning a PhD in applied physics from UCSD, he became a Research Staff Member at IBM where he innovated new materials and launched IBM’s international Reinventing Education initiative. He then held positions as Curator of the Creative World at the California Science Center and as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at the New York Hall of Science. He then returned to IBM as a research scientist. Before joining TWCF, he served as Vice President of Prizes and Public Programs at The Kavli Foundation where he built the foundation’s strategic efforts in public engagement with science, communications, and prizes. Eric has published and presented over 100 book chapters, papers, patents, and presentations.

 

Katharine Norwood

Head of UX Insights and Strategy, Google

 

Katharine Norwood is a design researcher and strategy lead at Google. She has spent the last 15 years in product and service design, specializing in building comprehensive, end-to-end insights and strategy programs to help define product roadmaps and human-centered product development practices. Prior to her work in tech, Katharine was working on a PhD in Literature and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz where she also helped found and run a feminist research institute. She lives in San Francisco and is originally from Hawaii. 

 

Cole Oman

Strategic Foresight Leader, Office for the Future, Deloitte Consulting

 

As Strategic Foresight Leader, Cole partners with senior leadership to help future proof their organization. Cole consults on nascent technologies and discontinuous forces of change to assist businesses in effectively managing across time horizons and avoid disruption. He leads teams in the development of solutions to address the most significant challenges facing business and society. Prior to this role, Cole served in the Monitor Deloitte Strategy practice with a primary focus on scenario planning, competitive response, and artificial intelligence.

 

Before Deloitte, Cole was an investment banker focused on M&A, leveraged buyouts, and capital markets transactions. He also served as a microfinance consultant for an international non-profit abroad. Cole earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Business Economics and Accounting from the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Matthias Oschinski

Founder and CEO, Belongnomics; Lecturer, University of Toronto

 

Matthias Oschinski is the founder and CEO of Belongnomics and a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Toronto’s Munk School. He is an empirical economist with 20 years’ experience in applied research, statistical analysis and policy advisory with in-depth expertise in labor market issues, the future of work and inclusive growth. Over the past two decades, Matthias has held positions in academia, the public sector, the private sector and the non-profit sector conducting quantitative and qualitative research.

 

Alex (Sandy) Pentland

Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science, Director of the Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, MIT

 

Sandy Pentland directs MIT Connection Science, an MIT-wide initiative, and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is presently a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.He is one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and Forbes declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. 

 

Sandy is on the Board of the UN Foundations' Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR, and was one of the UN Secretary General's "Data Revolutionaries" helping to forge the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Sandy has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy. Recent invited keynotes include annual meetings of OECD, G20, World Bank, and JP Morgan.

 

Rob Reich

Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director of the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, and the Marc and Laura Andreessen Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

 

Rob Reich’s scholarship in political theory engages with the work of social scientists and engineers. His next book is Digital Technology and Democratic Theory (edited with Helene Landemore and Lucy Bernholz, University of Chicago Press). He is the author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values (edited with Chiara Cordelli and Lucy Bernholz, University of Chicago Press, 2016). He is also the author of several books on education: Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and Education, Justice, and Democracy (edited with Danielle Allen, University of Chicago Press, 2013).

 

At Stanford, Rob is also Professor, by courtesy, of philosophy and at the Graduate School of Education. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Walter J. Gores award, Stanford’s highest honor for teaching. He was a sixth-grade teacher at Rusk Elementary School in Houston, Texas before attending graduate school. Rob is a board member of the magazine Boston Review, of Giving Tuesday, and at the Spencer Foundation.

 

Lisa Solomon

Designer in Residence, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University

 

Lisa Kay Solomon designs environments, experiences and classes to help people expand their futures, adapt to complexities, and build civic fellowship. Named one of ixDA’s Women of Design 2020, her work blends imagination with possibility, building the capacity to take the long view when today’s problems seem overwhelming. Currently a Designer in Residence at the Stanford d. school, Lisa focuses on bridging the disciplines of futures and design thinking, creating experiences like “Vote by Design: Presidential Edition,” “All Vote No Play,” and "The Future’s Happening" to help students learn and practice the skills they don’t yet know they need. 

 

Lisa co-authored the bestselling books Moments of Impact that Accelerate Change, and Design A Better Business, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. Lisa created the popular LinkedIn Learning Courses “Leading Like a Futurist” and “Redesigning How We Work for 2021,” and has written extensively on helping leaders productively navigate ambiguity through teachable and learnable practices.   

 

Srinija Srinivasan

Co-founder, Loove

 

Srinija Srinivasan is co-founder of Loove, a developing music venture designed to demonstrate how commerce and technology can be guided by artistic values rather than letting our culture be led by market values. In 1995 Srinija joined Yahoo! Inc. as their fifth employee and self-titled Ontological Yahoo to lead the organization and evolution of the Yahoo! Directory. As vice president, editor in chief, she additionally led a range of editorial and policy functions globally, including network editorial standards, privacy and data use, advertising standards, youth safety, community guidelines, accessibility, and corporate responsibility, until stepping down in 2010. 

 

Prior to Yahoo!, Srinija was an Ontological Engineer for the Cyc Project, a large AI effort to build an immense database of commonsense knowledge. Srinija serves as a vice chair of Stanford University's Board of Trustees and holds a BS with distinction from Stanford in symbolic systems. She recently concluded membership on the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, and she previously chaired the board of non-profit SFJAZZ. She is a 2000 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and she lives bi-coastally in Palo Alto, CA and Brooklyn, NY.

Dakuo Wang*

Senior Staff Member, IBM Research; Principal Investigator at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University. 

 

Dakuo Wang’s research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), artificial intelligence (AI), and data science, with a focus on the exploration, development, and evaluation of human-centered AI (HCAI) systems. The overarching goal is to democratize AI for every person and every organization, so that they can access their own AI and collaborate with these real-world AI systems (human-AI collaboration).

 

Dakuo is co-leading IBM Research’s human-centered natural language processing strategy (HC-NLP). In the past couple of years, he has led a team to conduct research for IBM’s Automation of AI & Data Science strategy (AutoAI). Outside his IBM work, Dakuo is broadly interested in healthcare and educational AI systems as well.

 

Before joining IBM Research, Dakuo got his PhD from the University of California Irvine. He has worked as a designer, researcher, and engineer in the U.S., China, and France. He serves in organizing committees, program committees, and editorial boards for a variety of venues, and ACM has recognized him as an ACM Distinguished Speaker.  

 

Claire Webb

Associate Director, Programs, Berggruen Institute

 

Claire Isabel Webb directs the Berggruen Institute’s Future Humans program. She earned her PhD from MIT’s History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) program in 2020. An internship at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in 2008 sparked the topic of Webb’s dissertation: Technologies of Perception: Searches for Life Beyond Earth. Informed by her ongoing work with the SETI group Breakthrough Listen at U.C. Berkeley, Webb’s book project historically and ethnographically tracks how scientists have investigated extraterrestrial life forms—both microbes and beings—since the Space Age.

 

Wilson Wong

Co-Director and Associate Professor of Data Science and Policy Studies (DSPS) Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). 

 

Wilson Wong’s major areas of research include data governance, social data science, digital governance, ICT and innovation, comparative public policy and management. This academic year (2022-23), he serves as a CASBS fellow at Stanford, working on the project “Data Science and the State” to examine the impact of disruptive technologies including AI and Big Data on governance and national AI strategies. 

 

Wilson is the Lead Area Editor of Data & Policy, a flagship journal by Cambridge University Press dedicated to the impact of data-policy interactions. He is also the regional editor of Asian Journal of Political Science, co-edited the Handbook of Asian Public Administration, and contributed a chapter on AI and the future of work to the report “Artificial Intelligence for Social Good,” (Association of Pacific Rim Universities). 

 

Wilson received his MPA and PhD in public administration from Syracuse University, served as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and Harvard University, and has taught in multiple university executive education programs. He is now working on a project on synthetic data and privacy in partnership with Roche.

 

Chunchen Xu

Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology Department, Stanford University

 

Chunchen Xu is currently a researcher at the Psychology Department at Stanford University and is broadly interested in the social psychological impact of smart technology. In particular, Chunchen explores cultural assumptions underlying conceptions of smart technology in different groups and societies—how do pre-existing cultural worldviews and values afford people to imagine, design, and interact with smart technology in different ways? Whose cultures are represented and promoted by the deployment of smart technology? Unpacking these cultural assumptions is critical to reflecting on the purposes of smart technology so as to guide its development to serve a broader range of the population in society.

 

Chunchen received a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has been working with Professor. Hazel Markus on research related to culture, creativity, and smart technology. This work has been supported by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS), and Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program (HPDTRP). Prior to Stanford, Chunchen completed a bachelor’s degree in China and master’s degrees in Anthropology and in Human Resources and Industrial Relations.

 

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Alison Fell

Director, Business Operations, Worldview Studio

 

Ali Fell is responsible for business operations at Worldview Studio. She’s dedicated to building strong client relationships while managing the diverse in-depth project work the company takes on each year with the goal of reaching what global success looks like for both the client, and for Worldview. Previously she was Worldview Stanford’s project manager and social media specialist. Her prior experience includes project management, marketing, branding, and communication strategy in the Tech industry. Ali holds a BA in visual arts (University of California-San Diego), and an MFA in commercial and documentary photography (Academy of Art University). Should you have any questions about how we work or would like additional information about Worldview Studio, please contact Ali at Alison@worldview.studio.

 

Sharon Lu

Strategy Designer, Worldview Studio

 

Sharon Lu works to bring people together across disciplines, sectors, and cultures to promote empathy, diversity, and creativity. She co-founded an international organization focused on human-centered diplomacy. She integrates scientific and design research to help organizations across the globe with strategy and experience design. She holds a PhD in neuroscience (Stanford University) and a BS in biology (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

 

Guillaume Riesen

Science Engagement Designer, Worldview Studio. 

 

Guillaume Riesen works to connect people with ideas through exciting and interactive experiences. His educational YouTube channel has nearly 4 million views and he has designed materials for museums and Universities. He holds a BS in cognitive neuroscience (Brown University) and a PhD in neuroscience (Stanford University).

 

Lisa Weaklim

Video Producer, Worldview Studio 

 

Lisa Weaklim specializes in conceiving, shooting, and editing research-based videos. She has spent multiple years as a producer and creative partner at Spillsheat Media and co-owner/sound engineer at Anagram Sound Studio. Lisa also has over 15 years of project management experience and holds a BBA in Marketing Management (Stetson University).

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Emily Shepard

Graphic Facilitator  

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Emily Shepard is a graphic facilitator, illustrator, and teacher with over 15 years’ experience. She is passionate about using the power of visuals to help people clarify and align their thinking, collaborate effectively and create change. Her previous experience as a graphic designer and her skill as a fine artist, allow her to work efficiently and creatively in meeting clients’ needs. She believes in strong partnerships that are grounded in empathy, clear outcomes, and fun.

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Her clients have included  large multinational corporations, start up businesses, non profits, foundations and government. She’s helped groups think better at board retreats and conferences, and at sessions involving strategic visioning, innovation, and stakeholder alignment.

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Emily also loves to get people to pick up the pen! She has taught visual thinking workshops at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Stanford University’s School of Business and at California College of the Art’s dMBA program, as well as at various consulting firms, public agencies, and local public school districts.

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Emily received a B.A. from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a M.F.A. with distinction from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. Her fine art website can be found at emilyshepard.com

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STANFORD INSTITUTE OF HUMAN-CENTERED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (HAI) STAFF

 

Christie Ko

Executive Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

 

Prior to joining Stanford, Christie Ko was associate director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. She also served as the head of Member Services for the MIT Energy Initiative, where she worked closely with corporations, foundations, and individuals to support research, symposia, events, and educational programs. During her time at MITEI, she also ramped up a multi-disciplinary Energy Studies Minor and piloted an internship program. Christie received a BA in literature from Boston University and an MS in writing and cultural politics from the University of Edinburgh.

 

Vanessa Parli

Associate Director of Research Programs, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

 

Vanessa Parli leads the HAI grant programs, research convenings, student groups and “state of AI” reports such as the AI Index and AI100. Her team also analyzes the effectiveness of these programs to continuously improve HAI’s ability to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations internal and external to Stanford. Prior to Stanford, Vanessa worked in management consulting where she utilized statistics, machine learning and other data science methodologies to advise government agencies, large biotech companies and nonprofits organizations on everything from software implementation to sales, marketing and incentive strategy. Vanessa holds an MS in Engineering Management and Computational Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University. 

Susan Young

Director of Strategic Initiatives, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

 

Prior to joining Stanford, Susan Young was assistant director of workforce learning at the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab, where she led membership development and community building, managed its research grant program, and supported program development and research activities. Susan also served as assistant director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE), where she managed the Analytics Lab action learning course, developed special projects, and supported strategic development of the Initiative. During her time at IDE, she was producer of the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge, where she managed partnerships with collaborators and local teams responsible for implementing the program at a regional level across the globe. Susan holds an MA in international relations from New York University and a BA in political science from the University of Chicago.