NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH RESOURCE

Annual Meeting

March 10 - 13, 2026 – Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA

Meet Members of the Program Committee 

The schedule is shaped by the Program Committee, a team of community leaders who come together to plan the event. Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the 2026 NAIRR Annual Meeting.

Name Organization
Anuj Karpatne Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian Iowa State University
Edward Kim Drexel University
Martine  De Cock University of Washington Tacoma
Kinnis Gosha Morehouse College
Bernie Boscoe Southern Oregon
Karen Colbert Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College
Sri Yash Tadimalla Computing Research Association (CRA)
Zhe Zhang Texas A&M Main Campus
Forough Ghahramani Edge
Shelley Knuth CU Boulder
Frank Wuerthwein UC San Diego; SDSC
Katherine Riley Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
Bill Mannel HPE
Tom Gibbs NVIDIA
Lacey Strahm OpenMined
Dana Brunson Internet2
Lauren Michael Internet2
Katie Antypas National Science Foundation
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen National Science Foundation
Sharon Gev National Science Foundation