Leadership

The National AI Institute for Exceptional Education is a National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institute led by the University at Buffalo and funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences of the US Department of Education.

Senior Leadership Team

Portrait of Venu Govindaraju.
1/10/23

Venu Govindaraju, PI

Institute Director

University at Buffalo

Portrait of Jinjun Xiong.
1/10/23

Jinjun Xiong, Co-PI

Scientific Director

Institute Co-Director

University at Buffalo

Portrait of Srirangaraj Setlur.
1/10/23

Srirangaraj Setlur, SP

Institute Managing Director

University at Buffalo

Portrait of Pamela Hadley.

Pamela Hadley, Co-PI
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Portrait of Julie Kientz.

Julie Kientz, Co-PI
University of Washington

Portrait of David Feil-Seifer.

David Feil-Seifer, Co-PI
University of Nevada, Reno

External Advisory Board

Portrait of Brian Graham.

Brian Graham
Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools, Grand Island Central School District

Portrait of Megan-Brette Hamilton.

Megan-Brette Hamilton
Chief Staff Officer for Multicultural Affairs, The American-
Speech-Language Hearing Association

Portrait of Anil Jain.

Anil K. Jain
University Distinguished Professor, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University

Portrait of Ye Jia.

Ye Jia
Chief Scientist, Tomato.ai

Portrait of Jennifer Taps Richard.

Jennifer Taps Richard
Co-Owner and Director, SLPath

Portrait of Tracy Sawicki.

Tracy A. Sawicki
Executive Director, The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation

Broader Impact Initiative Leads

Portrait of Alison Eisel Hendricks.

Alison Hendricks
 Validation of Impacts
 University at Buffalo

Portrait of Ifeoma Nwogu.

Ifeoma Nwogu
 Community Outreach
 University at Buffalo

Portrait of Letitia Thomas.

Letitia Thomas
 Broadening Participation and DEI
 University at Buffalo

Portrait of Christine Wang.

Christine Wang
 Education and Workforce Development
 University at Buffalo

Portrait of Wenyao Xu.

Wenyao Xu
 Knowledge Transfer
 University at Buffalo

Faculty Participants

Portrait of Maneesh Agrawala.

Maneesh Agrawala
 Stanford University

Portrait of Diego Aguirre.

Diego Aguirre
University of Texas at El Paso

Portrait of Changyou Chen.

Changyou Chen
University at Buffalo

Portrait of Karthik Dantu.

Karthik Dantu
University at Buffalo

Portrait of Mark Frank.

Mark Frank
University at Buffalo

Portrait of Nick Haber.

Nick Haber
Stanford University

Portrait of Mark Hasegawa-Johnson.

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Portrait of Yun Huang.

Yun Huang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Portrait of Heng Ji.

Heng Ji
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Portrait of Windi Krok.

Windi Krok
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Portrait of Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky.

Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Portrait of Carol Miller.

Carol Miller
Penn State University

Portrait of Abbie Olsewzski.

Abbie Olszewski
University of Nevada, Reno

Portrait of Mari Ostendorf.

Mari Ostendorf
University of Washington

Portrait of Alexander Rush.

Alexander Rush
Cornell University

Portrait of Humphrey Shi.

Humphrey Shi
Georgia Institute of Technology

Portrait of Hariharan Subramonyam.

Hariharan Subramonyam
Stanford University

Portrait of Nigel Ward.

Nigel Ward
University of Texas at El Paso

Portrait of Junsong Yuan.

Junsong Yuan
University at Buffalo

Portrait of Shaofeng Zou.

Shaofeng Zou
University at Buffalo