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Roles

Steve develops and manages computer science research programs, bridging research and industry, working to improve the impact and relevance of academic research at Stanford University. He is responsible for Stanford’s programs in artificial intelligence and data science.

Steve is the Executive Director of the following programs:

SDSI, Stanford Data Science Initiative
Stanford’s university-wide program for big data. Research on massive data, new algorithms, and advanced analytics.
SAIL, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab
The Stanford AI Lab comprises machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, genomics, and autonomous vehicles.
SITP, Secure Internet of Things Project
End-to-end solutions for IoT including hardware and software with an emphasis on security.
SAIL-Toyota Center for Artificial Intelligence Research at Stanford
The future of how humans interact with intelligent vehicles and other smart machines.
DAWN, Infrastructure for Usable Machine Learning
A five-year research project to democratize AI by making it dramatically easier to build AI-powered applications.
Center for AI Safety
Developing rigorous techniques for building safe and trustworthy AI systems and establishing confidence in their behavior and robustness.

Other Activities

Steve is architect, co-founder, and member of the management team of the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium. The BAPVC is a US Department of Energy-funded research consortium run by Stanford and UC Berkeley. It funds research on solar energy at many universities and national labs nationwide.
Steve is an Associate Member of the National Academies panel on “Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods in Federal Statistics: Frameworks, Methods, and Assessment” where Steve is exploring the potential for corporate data contributions to federal statistics.
Steve is General Co-Chair of SenSys 2016 (The 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems) to be held November 14-16, 2016, at Stanford, CA.
Steve is Co-Chair of the IEEE Conference "Data Analytics for Advanced Manufacturing."
Steve is Chair of the Leadership Board of the College of Arts & Sciences at Santa Clara University.

Presentations

Selected Past Events

Speaker at The AI Summit, (September 19, 2018; San Francisco, CA).
Keynote Address: “Advanced Analytics and AI—Creating Competitive Advantage.” Melbourne Business Analytics Conference, (July 19, 2018; Melbourne, Australia).
“The Internet of Things: A Primer,” presented by The Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Policy Initiative in collaboration with the California State Assembly Committee on Privacy & Consumer Protection and the Assembly Tech Caucus, (March 9, 2018; Sacramento, CA).
Steve presented testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy, (December 13, 2017; Washington, DC).
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Subcommittee on Energy Hearing - Advancing Solar Energy Technology: Research Trumps Deployment.
“Artificial Intelligence for Asia Business.” 2017 Autumn Forum of the Asia Business Council, (September 28, 2017; Taipei, Taiwan).
“The Profitable Collision of Real and Virtual Worlds.” The AI Summit, (September 27, 2017; San Francisco, CA).
Keynote Address: “The Present and Future of Sensors for Intelligent Vehicles.” Image Sensors Americas 2016 Conference, (October 27, 2016; San Francisco, CA).
Opening Keynote Presentation: “AI will be everywhere.” The AI Summit, (September 28, 2016; San Francisco, CA).
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Panelist on "Technology Disruptors," SAE Convergence Conference, (September 20, 2016; Novi, MI).
"PV and the Data Science Revolution," Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium Semi-Annual Meeting, (May 16, 2016; Stanford, CA).
Internet of Things in Emerging Markets Panel Series, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, (May 10, 2016; San Luis Obispo, CA).
"Impactful Trends in Data Science" The Data Science Conference, (April 21, 2016; Chicago, IL).
"The Data Revolution and Innovation" Competition and IP Policy in High-Technology Industries, (April 19, 2016; Stanford, CA).

(Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research)
"IoT, Big Data, AI, and Materials Science" Canadian National Institute for Nanotechnology, (January 20, 2016; Stanford, CA).
"What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know: Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data," TechCode Accelerator, (January 14, 2016; Mountain View, CA).
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"Models for University-Corporate Engagement" ITRI-Stanford, (November 19, 2015; Taipei, Taiwan).

“Connected Innovation for Smart Transformation” Workshop on The Role of University and Research Institute in Industrial Revolution
"Data Science Revolution and University-Industry Innovation" ITRI-Stanford, (November 19, 2015; Taipei, Taiwan).

"Connected Innovation for Smart Transformation" Workshop on Emerging Tech Innovation Ecosystem of Silicon Valley and Finland
"So you want to change the world?" TEDx CupertinoHigh, (August 2, 2015; Cupertino, CA).
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Keynote address, "Disruptive Engineering and Societal Impact" ISCAS (International Symposium on Circuits and Systems) 2015, (May 24, 2015; Lisbon, Portugal).
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Research on Innovation

S. Eglash and S. Rizk, "Discovery and application of exemplary models of innovation," MRS Bulletin, June 2016.

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In the Media

Interviewed in CMO from IDG, July 16, 2018, "Why we need to look inside the black box of AI"
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Reported in Melbourne Business School News, June 27, 2018, “Stanford expert predicts AI of the future will be more of a help than a harm.”
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Interviewed in AI Business, September 11, 2017, Stanford U: “We Are Experiencing An AI Revolution”
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Future Talk, April 29, 2017, Discusses the Internet of Things on Future Talk TV with colleagues Phil Levis and Keith Winstein.
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Interviewed in AI Business, September 15, 2016, "Stanford University’s Steve Eglash: Corporations, Universities & Government are Partners in AI Innovation"
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Quoted in SJMN, February 13, 2016, "Gaming chip is helping raise your computer’s IQ."
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Quoted in The Verge, January 9, 2016, "It’s a kind of convergence of information technology with the traditional automobile industry."
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Interviewed in British online magazine Contagious, October 12, 2015, "Accelerating AI."
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Bio

Steve Eglash is executive director of strategic research initiatives, Computer Science, Stanford University, where he structures and manages research programs, bridging research and industry, working to improve the impact and relevance of academic research.