Generative AI Advisory (GAIA) Committee

The GAIA Committee was formed to provide guidance to the university community for the use of generative AI and provide strategic advice to the VPIT-CIO and Provost.

Goals

  • Provide clarity on generative AI tools, including strengths, weaknesses, new developments and future developments to monitor
  • Provide guidance for the university community on how to handle the impact of Generative AI tools for Fall 2023
  • Provide training and support infrastructure for the use of GAI tools
  • Solicit faculty, student, and staff input
  • Identify ethical and legal implications
  • Study longer-term implications
  • Mechanisms to evaluate and assess committee’s recommendations
  • Recommend sustainable management and infrastructure for future research/development/adaptation of GAI technologies & tools at U-M

The committee is preparing an initial report to the Provost this summer.

Contact: [email protected]

Membership List

Ravi Pendse, executive sponsor & co-chair

Karthik Duraisamy, Ph.D., Chair
Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering & Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE)
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Assistant: Esther Haseli, [email protected]

Varun Agrawal
Undergraduate Student, College of Engineering
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Brian D. Athey, Ph.D.
Michael Savageau Collegiate Professor
Chair, Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics
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Assistant: Theresa Nester, [email protected]

Tazin Daniels, Ph.D. (audio)
Associate Director, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
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Kapotaksha Das
Graduate Student, College of Engineering
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Nick Gaspar
Distance Learning Director, Office of Online and Digital Education
Adjunct Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing
University of Michigan, Flint
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Anne Ruggles Gere, Ph.D.
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor
Co-Chair, Joint Program in English and Education
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Cait Hayward, Ph.D.
Director, Research & Analytics
Center for Academic Innovation
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Libby Hemphill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Information
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Robert (Bob) Jones
Executive Director, ITS Support Services
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Assistant: Rhonda Sheppard, [email protected]

Nigel P. Melville, Ph.D., MS ECE
Program Director, Design Science
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Associate Professor of Integrative Systems + Design 
College of Engineering
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David Mendez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Technology and Operations, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Rada Mihalcea, Ph.D.
Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science, College of Engineering
Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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John Rodriguez
Strategic Communications Manager
Office of the Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics, HEC-C
Interim Co-Director, Center for Bioethics & Social Sciences in Medicine
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Theresa Tinkle, Ph.D.
Director, Sweetland Center for Writing
Professor of English and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Department of English
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Assistant: Laura Schuyler, [email protected]

Colleen van Lent, Ph.D.
Lecturer IV | Posse 4 Mentor | Responsible Employee aka "Mandatory Reporter"
University of Michigan School of Information
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Paul Watta, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Staff Support

Mallory Kwiatkowski
ITS Senior Project Manager
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