NSF AI Institute for ARtificial and Natural Intelligence

Collaborating with academic and industry partners across the U.S., Columbia researchers will work to connect the major progress made in AI systems to the revolution in our understanding of the brain

ARNI is a collaboration between Columbia, Baylor College of Medicine, City University of New York, Harvard, Princeton, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Mila Quebec AI Institute, Tuskegee University, the University of Pennsylvania, and UTHealth Houston. Industry partners include Amazon, DeepMind, Google, IBM, and Meta, and outreach partners include the Neuromatch Academy and the New York Hall of Science. In addition to receiving NSF funding, ARNI is funded by a partnership between NSF and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (R&E).

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Our Collaborators

Baylor College of Medicine

  • Ankit Patel
  • Andreas Tolias

Carnegie Mellon University

  • Xaq Pitkow

City University of New York

  • Tatiana Aloi Emmanouil
  • Sarah Levitan
  • Tony Ro
  • David Schwab

Columbia University

  • Larry Abbott
  • Elias Bareinboim
  • David Blei
  • John Patrick Cunningham
  • Sean Escola
  • Stefano Fusi
  • Julia Hirschberg
  • Elias Issa
  • Samory Kpotufe
  • Niko Kriegeskorte
  • Ashok Litwin-Kumar
  • Kathleen McKeown
  • Nima Mesgarani
  • Ken Miller
  • Liam Paninski
  • Christos Papadimitriou
  • Toniann Pitassi
  • Jessie Taft
  • Zenna Tavares
  • Eric Vieira
  • Carl Vondrick
  • Richard Zemel

Harvard University

  • Bence Olveczky

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

  • Ann Hermundstad
  • Vivek Jayaraman
  • Sandro Romani
  • Srini Turaga

Neuromatch

  • Nick Harper

New York Hall of Science

  • Dorothy Bennett

Princeton University

  • Tom Griffiths

Tuskegee University

  • Nafiseh Ebrahimi
  • Dewan Noor

Université de Montréal; Mila

  • Yoshua Bengio
  • Blake Richards

University of Pennsylvania

  • Vijay Balasubramanian
  • Pratik Chaudhari
  • Josh Gold
  • Jianbo Shi
  • Alan Stocker

UT Health Science Center - Houston

  • Nitin Tandon

Yale University

  • John Lafferty
  • John Murray

Join ARNI

ARNI seeks highly qualified candidates for Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions, starting in Summer or Fall 2023.