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Executive Chairs

... Irene Chen is an Assistant Professor in Computational Precision Health, EECS, and Berkeley AI Research. She studies machine learning systems for healthcare to be more robust, impactful, and equitable. Her work has been published in machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, AAAI) and medical journals (Nature Medicine, Lancet Digital Health), and has been covered by media outlets including MIT Tech Review, NPR/WGBH, and Stat News. Her work has been recognized by best paper and best poster awards, faculty research awards from Google and Apple Machine Learning, and Rising Star awards in EECS, Machine Learning, and Data Science.


... Alane Suhr is an Assistant Professor in EECS and affiliated with Berkeley AI Research, having received a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2022. Alane uses computational methods to study language and language use (especially in situated and jointly embodied interactions, and/or interactions that comprise multiple agents). This often intersects with contemporary efforts in designing and deploying language technologies (including "reasoning" models, vision-language models, and "agentic AI"). Alane's PhD dissertation received the AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Some work that Alane has done with collaborators at Cornell, Berkeley, and elsewhere has received conference paper awards.


... Colleen Chien is a Professor of Law who applies a range of empirical and analytical methods to problems in innovation, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, and the criminal justice system. She is the founder of the Paper Prisons Initiative (paperprisons.org) and a winner of the American Law Institute’s Early Career Award. She has testified numerous times before Congress and has had the privilege of serving in the Obama White House and in the Biden Administration, for the Department of Commerce and the US Patent and Trademark Office.