I am the Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute , an innovative academic joint venture between the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell University (I am also a Professor in Cornell's Department of Computer Science) and a critical part of Cornell Tech in New York City. The Jacobs Institute is the most experimental part of Cornell Tech, expressly chartered to push the boundaries of academia, to work closely with large industry and startups, to create innovative new programs and star
I have held many leadership positions in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence throughout my career, including President of AAAI and Secretary-Treasurer of IJCAI, Inc. I have served on advisory committees at Princeton University, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Johns Hopkins University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence , the International Computer Science Institute , and the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board of the National Academies.
I served for nine years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association , and also as its Treasurer. I am one of the editors of the Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning . I have advised an innovative startup called Segovia , which is building enterprise software to help fight extreme poverty, by supporting cash transfers to people in need in emerging economies and humanitarian situations. I am currently serving on the Nokia Bell Labs Advisory Coun