Erez Karpas
Dr. Erez Karpas is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he is also head of the Cognitive Robotics Lab. His main research interests are artificial intelligence and robotics, with a focus on automated planning for robots. Karpas was a postdoctoral associate in the Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group at MIT and a research fellow at the Technion-Microsoft Electronic-Commerce Research Center. He completed his Ph.D. in 2012 at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He obtained his M.Sc. (2005) and B.Sc. (2001) at the Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University.
Kanishka Misra
Dr. Kanishka Misra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UT Austin. His research program lies at the intersection of cognitive science, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. He is primarily interested in characterizing the statistical mechanisms that underlie the acquisition and generalization of linguistic phenomena and conceptual meaning. To this end, Misra devises controlled experiments and analyses on neural network-based language models to test hypotheses and generate new predictions that can then be tested in the lab with human participants. Previously, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, and before that he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at UT Austin. Misra received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2023.
Stella Offner
Dr. Stella Offner is a computational astrophysicist at UT Austin who holds appointments in the Astronomy Department and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Offner explores how stars form by combining computer models, telescope observations, and statistical techniques. A core focus of her research aims to develop methods to effectively use artificial intelligence to analyze astronomy data and predict properties that cannot be directly observed Her research is supported with funding from NASA, NSF, and the Simons Foundation. She is the Director of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) and Co-Director of the Oden Center for Scientific Machine Learning. Offner completed her Ph.D. in Physics at UC Berkeley and was a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She is the recipient of a variety of awards and honors, including an NSF Early Career Award, a Cottrell Scholar Award, and a Peter O’Donnell Distinguished Researcher Award. Her research has been published in Science and Nature and featured in a variety of articles in the popular press, including The Washington Post, Forbes, Science Daily, the BBC and many others.
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