Nicholas B. Dirks is President and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences, one of the oldest scientific organizations in the United States. Previously, he served as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and Executive VP and Dean of the Faculty for Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
At The New York Academy of Sciences, Professor Dirks has spearheaded numerous new areas of programming related to AI, including the AI & Society Fellowships, conferences focusing on the New Wave of AI in Healthcare, and initiatives related to AI in Education.
During his tenure at UC Berkeley, he launched major initiatives in undergraduate education and research collaborations in areas such as neuroscience and genomics, overseeing the establishment of a new division of Data Science and leading a series of bold global projects, including the creation of the Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and a global alliance with the University of Cambridge, the National University of Singapore, and several other institutions.
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