panelists
Leaders of panels on relevant topics of our time, including social media misinformation and disinformation during the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, tracking COVID-19 through the transportation system, and examining algorithmic fairness and transparency through the lens of racial and social justice.
Jakki Bailey
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Panel 3: Human-AI Interaction: Information, Disinformation, & Racial Justice
Dr. Jakki Bailey specializes in immersive media, and its influence on cognition, behavior, and learning. She is the current Scott C. and Vickie S. Reeve Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Bailey examines the psychological implications…
Sam Baker
Associate Professor, Department of English
Panel 2: Society & AI: Collaborative Research with the City of Austin
Samuel Baker, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Junior Fellow of the British Studies Program, and frequently teaches for Plan II Honors. Dr. Baker is…
Chandra Bhat
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering; Director, D-STOP USDOT Tier 1 Center
Panel 3: Human-AI Interaction: Information, Disinformation, & Racial Justice
Dr. Chandra R. Bhat is a world-renowned expert in the area of transportation and urban policy design, with far reaching implications for public health, energy dependence, greenhouse gas emissions, and societal quality of life. Methodologically, he has been a pioneer…
Tanya Clement
Associate Professor, Department of English
Panel 1: ML & Robotics: Collaborative Research with the Institute for the Foundations of ML
Tanya Clement studies the dynamic interplay of digital information systems and scholarly research in literary study by considering how the data, algorithms, software, platforms, and networks that comprise digital information systems are co-constructed with the services, practices, policies and theories…
Ken Fleischmann
Professor, School of Information
Panel 2: Society & AI: Collaborative Research with the City of Austin
Ken Fleischmann is the Founding Chair of Good Systems, a UT Grand Challenge and the Founding Director of Undergraduate Studies (B.S.I./B.A. in Informatics). His research and teaching focus on the ethics of AI, including the role of human values in…
Joydeep Ghosh
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Panel 1: ML & Robotics: Collaborative Research with the Institute for the Foundations of ML
Joydeep Ghosh is currently the Schlumberger Centennial Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. He also serves as the Chief Scientist of CognitiveScale , which was selected in 2018 to be among the 61…
Sherri Greenberg
Professor of Practice, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Panel 2: Society & AI: Collaborative Research with the City of Austin
Sherri R. Greenberg is a professor of practice and fellow of the Max Sherman Chair in State and Local Government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and she is the Graduate Advisor for the LBJ School Master of Public…
Junfeng Jiao
Associate Professor, Community and Regional Planning Program, School of Architecture ; Director, Urban Information Lab
Panel 2: Society & AI: Collaborative Research with the City of Austin
Junfeng Jiao is an associate professor in the Community and Regional Planning program at The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture (UTSOA). Dr. Jiao’s research focuses on urban informatics/big data, smart city and shared mobility, using different technologies…
Adam Klivans
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Panel 1: ML & Robotics: Collaborative Research with the Institute for the Foundations of ML
Adam Klivans is a recipient of the NSF Career Award. His research interests lie in machine learning and theoretical computer science, in particular, Learning Theory, Computational Complexity, Pseudorandomness, Limit Theorems, and Gaussian Space. He also serves on the editorial board…
Peter Stone
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Panel 1: ML & Robotics: Collaborative Research with the Institute for the Foundations of ML
I am the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as associate department chair and chair of…
Sharon Strover
Professor, School of Journalism and Media
Panel 3: Human-AI Interaction: Information, Disinformation, & Racial Justice
Sharon Strover is the Philip G. Warner Regents Professor in Communication and former Chair of the Radio-TV-Film Department at the University of Texas, where she teaches communications and telecommunications courses and directs the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute. As of…
S. Craig Watkins
Professor, School of Journalism and Media
Panel 3: Human-AI Interaction: Information, Disinformation, & Racial Justice
S. Craig Watkins is the incoming Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. An internationally recognized expert in media, Watkins is the author of five books exploring young people's engagement with media and technology. His…