Rebecca Willett is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago and Faculty Director of AI at the Data Science Institute. Her research interests include network and imaging science with applications in medical imaging, wireless sensor networks, astronomy, and social networks.

Michael J. Franklin is the inaugural holder of the Liew Family Chair of Computer Science. An authority on databases, data analytics, data management and distributed systems, he also serves as Senior Advisor to the Provost on Computation and Data Science and is Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute.

Ben Zhao is the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago.  He completed his PhD from Berkeley (2004) and his BS from Yale (1997). He is a Fellow of the ACM, TED/AI speaker, and a recipient of the
NSF CAREER award, MIT Technology Review’s TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35), TIME100/AI (TIME Magazine 100 Most Influential people in AI), Concept Art Association’s Community Impact Award, USENIX Internet Defense Prize, ComputerWorld Magazine’s Top 40 Technology Innovators award, IEEE ITC Early Career Award, and Faculty awards from Google, Amazon, and Facebook. His work has been covered by many media outlets including New York Times, CNN, NBC, ABC, BBC, MIT Tech Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and New Scientist. His current research focuses on mitigating the harms of misused AI.