Richard Zemel

I am a professor of computer science at Columbia. I am also the director of the NSF AI Institute for ARtificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI).

I was previously the co-founder and inaugural research director of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and I have been a visiting researcher at Amazon, Google, Meta and Spotify, and founded and ran a startup company, Smartfinance.

I am a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research AI Chair and on the Advisory Board of the Neural Information Processing Society. I received an AI Lifetime Achievement Award (CAIA) and a Pioneer of AI Award (NVIDIA).