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Manish Parashar
Director & Chair in Computational Science and Engineering
Penny Atkins
Penny Atkins
Director, Research and Science
Patti Ross
Patti Ross
Chief Corporate Engagement Officer
Kelly Hermans
Kelly Hermans
PR/Communications Manager

Executive Committee

William Anderegg
Director, Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy; Associate Professor, Biology
Simon Brewer
Associate Professor, Geography
Nina de Lacy
Nina de Lacy
Assistant Professor, Huntsman Mental Health Institute; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Kahlert School of Computing
Jim Hotaling
Jim Hotaling
Associate Professor, Surgery (Urology); Associate Vice President of Research for Innovation and Translation; Director, Men’s Health; Director, Urologic Research; Co-Director, DELPHI Data Science Initiative
Mike Kirby
Mike Kirby
Professor of Computing; Adjunct Professor of Mathematics; Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering
Sameer Patil
Associate Professor, Kahlert School of Computing
Aaron Quinlan
Professor, Human Genetics; Professor, Biomedical Informatics; Co-Director, DELPHI Biomedical Data Science Initiative; Associate Director, Utah Center for Genetic Discovery
Kathy Sward
Kathy Sward
Professor, College of Nursing; Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Aik Choon Tan
Senior Director of Data Science and Professor, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Department of Oncological Sciences
Sara Yeo
Sara Yeo
Associate Professor, Communications; Faculty Director, STEM Ambassador Program (STEMAP)

Previous Members of the Executive Committee

Avery Holton (2024)
Chair, Department of Communication; Director, Utah Artificial Intelligence Research Center in the Humanities

External Advisory Committee

Anthony Annunziata
Director of AI Open Innovation and the AI Alliance at IBM
Margaret Busse
Executive Director at Utah Department of Commerce
David Danks
Professor of Data Science & Philosophy at University of California, San Diego
Susan Gregurick
Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy, National Institutes of Health
Greg Jones
Director, Global Business Development/Product Management, XR at NVIDIA
Bassam Salem
Founder of Mindshare Ventures and AtlasRTX
Elham Tabassi
Chief AI Advisor and Associate Director for Emerging Technologies at Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Science and Technology
Nicholas Tatonetti
Professor and Vice Chair of Operations of Computational Biomedicine and Associate Director of Computational Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Valerie Taylor
Director of Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory