Leadership
Denning Co-Directors
Fei-Fei Li
Denning Co-Director, Stanford HAI
"We have a historical opportunity and responsibility to establish a human-centered framework for AI research, education, practice and policy."
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; Associate Director, Stanford HAI
"As AI starts to impact all areas of medical discovery and healthcare delivery, the focus should be how it improves care, leading to longer and happier lives."
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 HAI
"AI gives us new tools to better support humans as we tackle problems in education, health and the environment, bridging the physical and digital worlds."
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
"As AI systems start to be used in and affect the world, one of Stanford HAI’s biggest campus roles is broadening the pursuit of the technology and considering the economic context, values, biases, and dangers that might be possible in these systems."
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."