People of AIRC
AIRC Steering Committee
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Lisa Amini
DE; Director, IBM Research Cambridge, AI Horizons Network IBM Research AI
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Robert Hull
Acting Vice President for Research, Henry Burlage Jr. Professor of Engineering, and Director of Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems , Materials Science and Engineering
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Aleksandra Mojsilovic
IBM Fellow, AI Science Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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John Kolb
Vice President, Information Services and Technology and Chief Information Officer
AIRC Directors
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Pin-Yu Chen
Research Staff Member, AI Foundations Group and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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James Hendler
Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor of Computer, Web, and Cognitive Sciences and Director of the Future of Computing Institute; Director of AIRC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Ho-Cheol Kim
Program Director, Academic Research Programs, AI Research Collaboration (AIRC); Senior Research Scientist, Master Inventor; IBM Research
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Kathleen (Kathy) Fontaine
Program Manager, IBM/RPI AI Research Collaboration (AIRC); Sr. Lecturer, IT and Web Science (ITWS); Tetherless World Constellation