Penn State has chosen Vasant Honavar because the inaugural vice provost for artificial intelligence (AI) to information a complete AI technique and advance the University’s management in human-centered and moral AI innovation throughout educating, studying, analysis and operations.
Indian American researcher Honavar, who has a bachelor’s diploma in electronics engineering from Bangalore University, will start his appointment on June 1, in response to a college launch.
He presently serves because the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence within the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and a professor within the Department of Informatics and Intelligent Systems within the College of Information Sciences and Technology.
In his new place, Honavar, who will report back to Senior Vice Provost and Chief of Staff Josh Davis, will collaboratively develop and implement Penn State’s AI Transformation initiative. He will collaborate with the AI Coordinating Council, the AI Student Advisory Group, and different AI working teams and advisory our bodies.
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“I am honored to serve as vice provost for artificial intelligence at Penn State,” Honavar stated. “At a time when AI is reshaping discovery, learning, creative endeavors and the nature of work, Penn State has a unique opportunity, indeed, a responsibility — to lead by reimagining the land-grant mission in a world being transformed by AI. I look forward to working with University leadership, faculty, staff and students to build a coordinated and impactful AI strategy that advances research and education and delivers tangible benefits to communities across the commonwealth and beyond.”
Honavar joined Penn State in 2013 because the Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology and presently serves as director of strategic initiatives within the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.
He can also be the founding director of the Penn State Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications which brings collectively school experience to advance the event and functions of AI strategies and instruments to speed up discovery throughout life sciences, supplies sciences, well being sciences and associated fields.
At Penn State, Honavar has labored to increase AI instructional choices by co-leading the event of the curricula for the bachelor of science in artificial intelligence strategies and functions, in addition to an inter-college undergraduate diploma in information sciences.
He additionally co-led an NIH-funded biomedical information sciences interdisciplinary doctoral coaching program — drawing on school experience throughout a number of tutorial applications and campuses.
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Prior to becoming a member of Penn State, Honavar served on the college of laptop science at Iowa State University from 1990 to 2013, the place he co-led the event of one of many first doctoral applications in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Honavar additionally served as a program director within the NSF’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, the place he led the Big Data Science and Engineering Program from 2010 to 2013.
Honavar was acknowledged with the NSF Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment in 2013 for his management of the Big Data Program and was elected as a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science for his contributions to management and analysis in information science.
Honavar earned each a doctorate and grasp’s diploma in laptop science from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a grasp’s diploma in electrical engineering from Drexel University.