Our People

Meet the experts and visionaries driving SPARK AI's mission to advance AI in business

Our Researchers

James Short

Director

SDSC

Mel Horwitch

Visiting Scholar

MIT

Maj Mirmirani

Dean, Embry-Riddle ret.

Embry-Riddle (retired)

Elena Naumova

Professor

Tufts University

Ilya Zaslavsky

Tim Mackey

Samson Qian

Independent Researcher

Our Advisors

Barry Rudolph

IBM, ret.

IBM (retired)

Jonathan Behnke

CIO, City of San Diego

City of San Diego

James Massa

James Meng

Research Scientist

UCSD

Archaana Pattabhii

Divya Joshi

Independent Researcher

Naguib Attia

Lina Parra Cartagena

Valquir Correa

Jack Ottman

Bill Ottman

CEO

Minds.com

Sid Dalal

Our Industry Partners

Raj Patil

CEO

AEEC

Ali Malihi

Founder, Managing Director

Back Bay Group

Deborah Stokes

Academic and External Research

Dell Technologies

Ken Durazzo

VP, AI Centric Engineering

Dell Technologies

Steve Orrin

Federal CTO

Intel

Steven Meltzer

Partner

Pillsbury

Prasanna Pendse

Global VP AI Strategy

Thoughtworks

John Ottman

Executive Chairman

Solix Technologies

Sai Gundavelli

Founder and CEO

Solix Technologies

Michael Sossong

Chief Scientist

LifeVoxel

Kovey Kovalan

Founder

LifeVoxel

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