Alex Ervin
Entrepreneurial Lead (EL)
Graduate Student, University of South Carolina
Master's student in Computer Science; B.Sc. in Computer Information Systems from UofSC. Research interests span interpretability, evaluation, and trustworthiness in AI and ML systems.
John Aydin
Co-Entrepreneurial Lead
Graduate Student, University of South Carolina
Master's student in Computer Science; B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from UofSC. Research in large language models, trustworthy information retrieval, generalized planning, and explainable AI.
Lokesh Johri
Industry Mentor (IM)
CTO, Synapse6 (San Jose, CA)
Engineering and product leader and entrepreneur; on the founding team of two startups with successful exits. Experience across AI/ML, IoT, security, and enterprise software.
Biplav Srivastava
Technical Lead (TL) and Principal Investigator
Professor, AI Institute, University of South Carolina
Previously at IBM for nearly two decades. ACM Distinguished Scientist, AAAI Senior Member, and IEEE Senior Member; co-inventor of over 75 issued patents.
Sai Teja Paladi
Co-Technical Lead
Graduate Student, University of South Carolina
Ph.D. student in Computer Science researching recommender systems, large language models, and fairness evaluation. Previously an Application Development Engineer at Accenture.
We thank the clinicians, health system leaders, engineers, researchers, and others who gave their time for customer discovery interviews, and the NSF I-Corps teaching team for their guidance throughout the program.
This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Award #2632220.