Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
The Kempner Institute’s scientific advisory board (SAB) is composed of visionaries in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational biology.
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The Kempner’s six-member board is appointed for a two-year term and meets with Kempner leadership to help shape the Institute’s scientific and engineering objectives.
Members of the Kempner’s Scientific Advisory Board:
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Mira Murati
Chief Technology Officer, OpenAI
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Joelle Pineau
Vice President, AI Research, Meta; Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science, McGill University
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Stephen Quake
Head of Science, CZI; Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Applied Physics & Physics (by courtesy), Stanford University
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Aviv Regev
Head, Executive Vice President, Genentech Research and Early Development
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Eero Simoncelli
Scientific Director, Center for Computation- al Neuroscience, Flatiron Institute; Silver Professor, Neural Science, Math, Data Science & Psychology, NYU
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Karel Svoboda
Vice President and Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics