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For our fourth AMA, we have Dr. David Leake, Professor of Computer Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University, where he served as Executive Associate Dean from 2012-2021. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1990. His research is in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, including contributions in case-based reasoning, explanation, intelligent information systems, intelligent user interfaces, and introspective learning. He has authored/edited over 200 publications with over 8,500 Google Scholar citations. He played a key role in developing the field of case-based reasoning and is a five-time winner of best paper awards at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR). He is Editor in Chief Emeritus of AI Magazine, the official magazine of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), after 17 years as Editor in Chief. In 2014 he received the AAAI Distinguished Service Award. He is a Senior Member of AAAI.

For our third AMA, we have Dr. Ashok Goel, a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Chief Scientist with Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. He conducts research into cognitive systems at the intersection of AI and cognitive science with a focus on computational design and creativity, and recently, also on AI in education and education in AI. During 2016-2021, he was the Editor-in-Chief of AAAI’s AI Magazine and led the launch of the Interactive AI Magazine. He is a Fellow of AAAI and a recipient of AAAI’s Outstanding AI Educator Award. Ashok is the Executive Director of the NSF’s National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education.

For our second AMA, we have Prof. Toby Walsh, an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW and CSIRO Data61, and adjunct professor at QUT. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many other bodies on this topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international “Who’s Who in AI” list of influencers. He has authored two books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled “2062: The World that AI Made”.

For our first AMA, we have the co-editors of AI Magazine, Drs. Brent Venable and Odd Erik Gundersen.

Dr. Brent Venable joined the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) in August 2012. She is also professor of computer science at University of West Florida (UWF). Since 2019 she is the director of the newly established IHMC-UWF PhD program in Intelligent Systems and Robotics. Her research is dedicated to providing a solid framework for the design and deployment of intelligent systems able to reason about preferences. Research areas: reasoning about preferences, multi-agent systems, constraint-based temporal reasoning, AI for social good.

Dr. Odd Erik Gundersen is an adjunct associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Chief AI Officer at TrønderEnergi AS, a Norwegian renewable energy company. Gundersen has applied AI in industry, mostly for startups, since 2006. Currently, he is investigating how AI can be applied in the renewable energy sector and for driver training. On late evenings he ponders how research in AI can be made reproducible. Research areas: AI for renewable energy, AI-based simulators for driver training, reproducible AI.