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Ai in Science Program Team

Tim Cavnar

Dr. Tim Cavnar is the Postdoctoral Program Manager for MIDAS. A linguist by training, he completed his PhD in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2023. As Program Manager, he brings his 11+ years of experience working in higher education in widely varied instructional, administrative, and leadership roles. When he’s ...

Janet Gribbons

Janet is the Training Program Specialist at MIDAS. She works to support both faculty-training programs and postdoctoral programs. Janet grew up in Ann Arbor and graduated from Eastern Michigan University (BBA) and University of Michigan Dearborn (MBA). In her free time, she likes to cook, crochet, and play video games.

Brendon Cho

Brendon Cho provides administrative support to MIDAS leadership and the Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship program. His responsibilities include schedule coordination, building-related activities, IT ordering/inventory, and event support among other operations-related duties.

Jing Liu

What I do: Artificial intelligence (AI) and data science have become a major force to transform science and society. As the MIDAS Executive Director, I lead my institute’s effort to enable the adoption of AI and data science methods across research fields and catalyze research breakthroughs, upskill academic researchers, improve the rigor and reproducibility of ...

H. V. Jagadish

Research summary: My area of research in the past has been data management, which has since evolved into data science. I’ve worked in many aspects of data science over the course of my career, particularly the integration of data across multiple sources and the usability of database systems by non-technical users. Currently, the bulk of ...

William Currie

Bill Currie studies how physical, chemical, and ecological processes work together in the functioning of ecosystems such as forests and wetlands.  He studies how human impacts and management alter key ecosystem responses including nutrient retention, carbon storage, plant species interactions, and plant productivity.   Dr. Currie uses computer models of ecosystems, including models in which he ...