James Landay

Denning Director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and an Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science. He co-founded Stanford HAI and specializes in human-computer interaction and human-centered AI.

Stanford Merges AI and Data Science Institutes Around Open Scientific Discovery

Stanford’s AI+Science Conference opened with James Landay announcing that the university is merging the Human-Centered AI Institute and Stanford Data Science into a single institute for AI and data science across Stanford. Landay, president Jonathan Levin, Surya Ganguli and Risa Wechsler framed the move around a common argument: AI is becoming a scientific instrument, but one that will require open research, domain-specific rigor, uncertainty-aware methods and human judgment about which questions matter.

Stanford HAIMay 15, 202612 min read