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Dr. Ebrahim Tarshizi
Program Director
MS in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Damien Benveniste
Founder, TheAIEdgeAI Program Advisory Board Member
Formerly, Machine Learning Tech Lead at Meta
Vitor Carvalho, PhD
Microsoft AI Principal Applied Science Manager | Advisory Board Member
Formerly, developed AI & ML products at Intuit, Snapchat, Qualcomm
Navid Alipour
Founder & CEO - CureMetrixAI Program Advisory Board Member
Built a global leader in AI for medical imaging
Albert Wang
. Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures | AI Advisory Board Member
Launched the $100M Qualcomm AI Fund
Chell Roberts, PhD
Dean, Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering
Designed an award-winning, real-world-focused engineering curriculum.
Imane Khalil, PhD
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Led structural analysis for NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity.
Eric Colson
DS & ML Advisor, Activation Fund
Former VP of Data Science & Engineering, Netflix.
Applied Machine Learning Specialists design and develop machine learning and deep learning systems, models, and data-driven solutions.
Projected Salary
$121,299
AI Engineers are problem solvers who use machine learning and natural language processing techniques to build intelligent models.
Projected Salary
$180,000
Machine Learning Engineers develop software that learns from data to build predictive models and derive actionable insights.
Projected Salary
$155,000
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Matthew Dominick
BS, Electrical Engineering Commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission
Jonny Kim
BA, Mathematics & MD | Flight Engineer for NASA’s Soyuz MS-27 / ISS Expedition 72/73
Jim Parsons
Actor, Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Winner
Mike Brown
Associate head coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA)
Lowell McAdam
Former President CEO of Verizon Communications
Dr. Craig Venter
American biochemist & geneticist. Founder of Celera Genomics, Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute
Monte Berm
Co-founder, Chairperson of board of Directors, StepStone
Michaella Wittmann
BS/BA, Electrical EngineeringLed over 20 LEED sustainability projects worth multi-million dollar projects
