Cynthia Brossman: Program Co-Manager
Cynthia Brossman is Director of the Boston University Learning Resource Network (LERNet) a center at Boston University dedicated to promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. LERNet offers programs to K-12 teachers and students that encourage their interest in STEM disciplines and promote awareness both of careers and research in these fields. In addition to AI4ALL, LERNet programs include Artemis, BIOBUGS, Summer Pathways, GROW, and Codebreakers, several of which focus on encouraging young women to pursue STEM.
LERNet also has administered several NSF programs including GLACIER, a GK-12 program focused on Global Change; a Research Experience for Teachers in Biophotonics; PROSTARS (a STEP grant focusing on increasing STEM undergraduate majors); and WIN (Women in Networks), a PAID award.
LERNet also took a lead in forming the Boston Area Girls STEM Collaborative, a coalition of local universities and non-profits that advocates for girls in science and implements programming to increase their participation in STEM activities. LERNet has helped organize their two annual flagship programs, SET in the City and Tech Savvy, for the past ten years.
Jessie Guinn Jr: Program Co-Manager
Jessie Guinn has worked in higher education and the corporate tech space in various administrative roles for over the past decade. He is the incoming Director of the Learning Resource Network and office of STEM Outreach & Diversity in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Guinn is a trained neuroscientist with a passion for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion at the operational, program, and curriculum levels and looks forward to applying his background and expertise to the role and supported outreach initiatives.
Kate Saenko: Program Co-Director
Kate Saenko is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, and the director of the Computer Vision and Learning Group and member of the IVC Group. She received her PhD from MIT. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at UMass Lowell, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley EECS and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. Her research interests are in the broad area of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Adaptive Machine Learning, Learning for Vision and Language Understanding, and Deep Learning.
Bryan Plummer: Program Co-Director
Bryan Plummer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, where he also previously worked as a Postdoctoral Associate and Research Assistant Professor, and is a member of the IVC Group. He obtained his PhD in the computer vision group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bryan’s research interests fall within the umbrella of artificial intelligence with a focus visual recognition, scene understanding, interpretable machine learning, and understanding the relationship between vision and language.