William Swartout, PhD

Chief Science Officer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Co-Director, USC Center for Generative AI and Society
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Research Professor, Computer Science

MIT, PhD & MS, Computer Science with focus on AI
Stanford, BS, Mathematical Sciences

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I have been fascinated by artificial intelligence since grade school and have researched AI throughout my career, starting as an undergrad at Stanford, continuing with my graduate studies at MIT, then significantly expanding AI research at USC’s Information Sciences Institute and co-founding the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and the USC Center for Generative AI and Society. I am passionate about using AI to improve our lives.