Leadership
Denning Co-Directors
John Etchemendy
Denning Co-Director, Stanford HAI
"At HAI, we view the field of AI as spanning the entire university. Unless we tap into the full gamut of disciplinary expertise we cannot hope to realize the potential of the technology while avoiding its pitfalls."
Associate Directors
Russ Altman
Kenneth Fong Professor and Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, of Medicine (General Medical Discipline), of Biomedical Data Science, and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
Susan Athey
Economics of Technology Professor, Senior Fellow at The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor, by Courtesy, of Economics
"To ensure that AI is deployed in a way that benefits humans, we need to understand, measure, and anticipate its impact on organizations, consumers, workers, and society as a whole."
Michele Elam
William Robertson Coe Professor of Humanities, Department of English, Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
"The arts and humanities are key to realizing HAI’s goal of human-centered AI, in which prioritizing issues of equity, ethics, and social impact at the very outset of a technology’s design and throughout its use is essential."
Surya Ganguli
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, and by courtesy, of Neurobiology, of Electrical Engineering, and of Computer Science, Stanford University
"We want to solve the mysteries of biological intelligence and create next-generation artificial intelligence that empowers humanity."
Daniel E. Ho
William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science; Senior Fellow, SIEPR; Associate Director, HAI; Faculty Fellow, CASBS; Faculty Director, Stanford RegLab
"To make AI more human-centered, we need to develop partnerships between technologists and subject matter experts to identify the most compelling problems for which AI tools can be designed, piloted, and evaluated."
James Landay
Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Curtis Langlotz
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics; Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine & Imaging
Christopher Manning
Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science, Stanford University
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
"Stanford HAI gives philosophers and social scientists the opportunity to study the effects of AI in the world and to partner with scientists in developing technologies, so that the interdisciplinary collision of ideas produces new ways of thinking about AI."
Senior Staff
Michael Sellitto
Deputy Director
"We have a unique opportunity to put humans at the center of AI technologies from the design stage, helping make sure they’re deployed to meet human needs and fulfill their potential."