Scholar
Erion Plaku
Google Scholar ID: DK3QY9sAAAAJ
Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,310
H-index
19
i10-index
37
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
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Research Experience
- Acting Senior Advisor for AI at NSF, guiding AI research directions, policy development, and cross-directorate/interagency initiatives
- Co-leads the National AI Research Institutes program, overseeing a $640M investment in 29 institutes
- Program Director for NSF’s Robust Intelligence program, advancing core research in AI, ML, computer vision, human-language technologies, and computational neuroscience
- Co-led NSF’s Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) and National Robotics Initiative (NRI)
- Co-chairs the NSF AI Steering Committee and the NITRD AI R&D Interagency Working Group, coordinating federal AI R&D across 32 agencies