People
The researchers, advisors, and industry partners driving AI innovation through the SPARK AI consortium
Researchers
7 members leading SPARK AI research initiatives
James Short
Director — SDSC
Mel Horwitch
Visiting Scholar — MIT
Maj Mirmirani
Dean (ret.) — Embry-Riddle
Elena Naumova
Professor — Tufts University
Ilya Zaslavsky
Director, Spatial Info Systems Lab — SDSC
Tim Mackey
Professor — UC San Diego
Samson Qian
Independent Researcher
Advisors
12 leaders guiding consortium strategy and direction
Barry Rudolph
IBM (ret.) — IBM
Jonathan Behnke
CIO — City of San Diego
James Massa
Sr. Exec Director, Software Eng. — JP Morgan Chase
James Meng
Research Scientist — UCSD
Archaana Pattabhii
SVP, IT — Citigroup
Divya Joshi
Independent Researcher
Naguib Attia
Distinguished Engineer, VP (ret.) — IBM
Lina Parra Cartagena
Global Finance Head — Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Valquir Correa
VP, Corporate Finance — Baja Mar Resorts
Jack Ottman
COO — Minds.com
Bill Ottman
CEO — Minds.com
James M. Cooper
Professor — California Western School of Law
Industry Partners
11 organizations collaborating on applied AI
Raj Patil
CEO — AEEC
Ali Malihi
Founder — Back Bay Group
Deborah Stokes
Academic & External Research — Dell Technologies
Ken Durazzo
VP, AI Centric Engineering — Dell Technologies
Steve Orrin
Federal CTO — Intel
Steven Meltzer
Partner — Pillsbury
Prasanna Pendse
Global VP AI Strategy — Thoughtworks
John Ottman
Executive Chairman — Solix Technologies
Sai Gundavelli
Founder & CEO — Solix Technologies
Michael Sossong
Chief Scientist — LifeVoxel
Kovey Kovalan
Founder — LifeVoxel