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  David, Goliath, and the future of AI

  How Yejin Choi is challenging AI’s biggest assumptions—about common sense, about scale, and about who gets to build the future.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • School of Engineering

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  The protein observatory

  Polly Fordyce is building a global engine for protein discovery—one that could help researchers harness AI to create new medicines, materials, and climate solutions.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Engineering
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  Mind in the mirror

  Surya Ganguli is helping pioneer a new science of intelligence—one that studies how brains perceive, how AI learns, and what each can reveal about the other.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • School of Humanities and Sciences
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  The universe, decoded

  A new Stanford center is uniting astronomers and data scientists to decipher the cosmos—and reinvent the future of discovery.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • School of Engineering
  • School of Humanities and Sciences
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  Ambient intelligence, human impact

  Health care providers struggle to catch early signals of cognitive decline. AI & computational neuroscientist Ehsan Adeli’s innovative computer vision tools may offer a solution.

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  • Leadership in AI
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  The neuroscience of understanding

  Laura Gwilliams is unlocking how the brain turns sound into meaning.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • School of Engineering
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  Pathogens, poetry, and predicting evolution

  What if we were fluent in the language of biology? Brian Hie is on a mission to translate life’s code, predict viral evolution, and revolutionize medicine.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • Molecular Futures
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Engineering
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  Not her first rodeo

  How do you fix AI’s understanding of marginalized populations? Tina Hernandez-Boussard thinks the answer lies in her rural roots.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • School of Medicine
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  Artful intelligence

  How can we develop artificial intelligence that respects our humanity?

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  • Leadership in AI
  • Stanford Arts
  • Humanities
  • School of Humanities and Sciences
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  Using machine learning to help refugees succeed

  How GeoMatch is revolutionizing resettlement efforts.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • School of Humanities and Sciences
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  Experiments without experimenting

  Guido Imbens uses data science to search for cause and effect in the wild.

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  • Leadership in AI
  • School of Humanities and Sciences
  • Graduate School of Business