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."

https://twitter.com/drfeifei feifeili@stanford.edu

"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."

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-etchemendy-891708a etch@stanford.edu

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

"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."

https://twitter.com/Rbaltman Russ.Altman@stanford.edu

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."

https://twitter.com/Susan_Athey

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."

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-elam-7130537b melam@stanford.edu

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."

https://twitter.com/SuryaGanguli sganguli@stanford.edu

Daniel E. Ho

William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

"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."

https://twitter.com/DanHo1 dho@law.stanford.edu

James Landay

Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science

"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."

https://twitter.com/landay landay@stanford.edu

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."

https://twitter.com/chrmanning manning@cs.stanford.edu

Rob Reich

Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director of the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, and the Marc and Laura Andreesen 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."

https://twitter.com/robreich reich@stanford.edu

Senior Staff

Deep Ganguli

Director of Research

"AI increasingly influences broad swaths of science and society, HAI brings diverse people from across campus to collaboratively create and responsibly guide the future of AI for the greater public good." Deep Ganguli is the director of research programs at the Stanford Institute for Human-Center ...

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."

https://twitter.com/MPSellitto sellitto@stanford.edu