Jonathan Levin

President of Stanford University and Bing Presidential Professor. A distinguished economist and academic leader, he became Stanford’s 13th president in 2024 after serving as dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he publicly discusses Stanford’s role in AI, science, research, and education.

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