Meet the Academic Alliance for AI Policy Leadership Team

Hamid Ekbia

Founding Director

Lynnell Cabezas

Managing Director

AAAIP Committees

AAAIP consists of several committees of at most 7 individual members each. Membership in these committees is on an annual basis with the possibility of renewal. Academic affiliates can express interest in joining, which needs approval from the directors.

Steering Committee

Tasked with helping to steer the strategic direction and policies of the AAAIP

Daniel Schiff

Purdue University

Kaylan Jackson-Schiff

Purdue University

Brad A. M. Johnson

University of Nevada, Reno

Susan Miller

Arizona State University

Lav Varshney

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Outreach and Policy Committee

Develop and execute strategies for outreach to policymakers, industry, and civil society

  • Virginia Doellgast

  • Alex Gagliano

  • Sadia Khan

  • Delali Kumavie

  • Debora Raji

Media and Communications Committee

Tasked with developing and executing public relation strategies

  • Katreen Boustani

  • David Crandall

  • Jeremy Gilbert

  • Lee Rainie

NSF Institutes

Coordinates policy outreach efforts across NSF AI institutes

  • Vikram Adve 

  • Tanya Berger-Wolf

  • Margaret Burnett

  • Yiran Chen

Advancement and Sponsorship Committee

Develops and executes strategy for fundraising

  • Ezekiel Dixon-Roman

  • Jeffrey Yost

Research and Academic Affairs Committee

Coordinates working groups around research themes, organizing conferences, gathering research-related resources, and gathering resources related to building policy capacity

  • Vikram Adve 

  • Kevin Crowston

  • Ingrid Erickson

  • Jeffrey Nickerson