Kiana Jafari
Executive Director at Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolKiana Jafari is an executive leader and human-centered AI researcher with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and institutional leadership in Palo Alto. Currently Executive Director at the Stanford Center for AI Safety and a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory, she combines systems engineering rigor from a PhD with hands-on work shaping safe, human-aware AI. As Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, she influences the field’s scholarly agenda while translating rigorous research into policy and practice. Her background in systems and industrial engineering equips her to tackle complex socio-technical problems, from model robustness to deployment governance. Known for prioritizing people-centered solutions, she brings an uncommon mix of editorial stewardship, research depth, and operational leadership to AI safety initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Industrial Engineering, Master of Science - MS Industrial Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Systems Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (34)
convolutional-neural-networks9
recurrent-neural-networks9
logistic-regression9
k-nearest-neighbours8
random-forest8
text-processing8
document-classification8
dimensionality-reduction8
classification7
text-mining7
nlp6
nlp-machine-learning6
survey6
text-classification6
natural-language-processing5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ikiana/ReinforcementLearning
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
ikiana/TF_Tutorials
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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