April 7, 2025
Finalists announced in Executive Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Search
Finalists have been announced in the search for the next Executive Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence. These candidates will visit campus in April to meet with members of the University community, and each will make a public presentation from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Recordings of the candidates’ presentations will be available on this website 24-48 hours after each presentation.
The position announcement is available here.
The finalists and the dates of their presentation are:
Candidate 1
Dr. Cindy Bethel
Billie J. Ball Endowed Professorship in Engineering and Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University
IPA Program Director, Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Human-Centered Computing Cluster, National Science Foundation
Monday, April 14
Candidate 2
Dr. Vladimir Pavlovic
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Program Director, Directorate for Information and Intelligent Systems, Division of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation
Thursday, April 17
Candidate 3
Dr. Prashant Doshi
Interim Associate Director for Research, Institute for AI and Professor of Computer Science
University of Georgia
Monday, April 21
December 6, 2024
A 10-member committee has been appointed to begin the search for candidates for the position of Executive Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
The committee is chaired by Roberto Perdisci, Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute of Cybersecurity and Privacy in the School of Computing.
In addition to Dr. Perdisci the search committee members are:
- Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Professor, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, and Director, Computer-Human Ecosystems Lab, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Jennifer Gay, Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health
- Kyle Johnsen, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director, Georgia Informatics Institutes
- Gerald Kane, Department Head, C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration and Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, Terry College of Business
- Meredith Metcalf, Senior of Development, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
- Jin Sun, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, School of Computing
- Harshavardhan Thippareddi, John Bekkers Professor in Poultry Science, and Associate Dean for Research, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
- Kimberly Van Orman, Lecturer, and Undergraduate Coordinator, Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Xiaoming Zhai, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education, Mary Frances Early College of Education, and Director, AI4STEM Education Center
The committee will be supported by the UGA Search Group in Human Resources. Faculty, staff, students, or community members who wish to nominate candidates for consideration are invited to contact Michael Luthi, Director of the UGA Search Group, at [email protected] or 706-542-1837.
The position announcement is available here.
