Dr. Silvio Savarese has served as our director since August 2024. Dr. Savarese currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of Salesforce Research where he leads the AI Research organization and various AI related investments and shapes its scientific direction and long-term AI strategy. He has been in this position since April 2021. Dr. Savarese has also been an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Stanford University since April 2021, and was previously an associate professor with tenure from April 2017 to April 2021 and an assistant professor from September 2013 to April 2017. Prior to Stanford, he was an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan from 2008 to 2013. Dr. Savarese earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.