Advisory Board

CR4AI has a council of advisors that guide us in education, partnerships, research, and community endeavors.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo is a Chilean computer scientist specializing in algorithms, data structures, information retrieval, web search and responsible AI. Since 2025 he is a part-time Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden in Stockholm. Ricardo is a Visiting Full Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Courtesy Appointment.

Gen. David Barnes

Brigadier General David Barnes, PhD (US Army, Retired) is a preeminent authority in artificial intelligence (AI), strategic digital transformation, and innovation leadership. With extensive military, academic, and technology experience, David has shaped organizational strategies and technological advancements in defense, healthcare, cybersecurity, and higher education. As the former Chief AI Ethics Officer for the US Army AI Integration Center, Professor-US Military Academy, and Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, David’s work has driven transformative innovation at the intersection of policy, technology, and leadership. He was honored to be named among Forbes' “15 AI Ethics Leaders Showing the World the Way of the Future.”

Sergey Bratus

Sergey is a Dartmouth College Distinguished Professor in Cyber Security, Technology, and Society and an Associate Professor of Computer Science. In 2018--2024 he served as a Program Manager at DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O), where he created multiple fundamental research programs in cybersecurity, resilience, and sustainment of critical software.

Nikita Ivanov

Nikita is a technology and product leader with over 25 years of experience. Founder of:

• ​https://ignite.apache.org
• ​https://nlpcraft.apache.org
• ​https://www.gridgain.com
• ​https://cosplayengine.com
• ​https://humatron.ai

Mark Liberman

Mark is one of the founders of Statistical AI, the creator of Corpus Linguistics with the Penn Tree Bank. He is also a founding member of the Open-Source Science Steering Committee.

Carlos Maltzahn

Carlos was the founder and director of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) and the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) UC Santa Cruz. He also co-founded the Systems Research Lab, known for its cutting-edge work on programmable storage systems, big data storage & processing, scalable data management, distributed system performance management, and practical reproducible evaluation of computer systems.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Head of AI and interoperability, CODATA, leading Artificial Intelligence innovation with the practical challenges of the European and global scientific ecosystem. Dataverse Ambassador.