Columbia | Brookings Institution Education Leadership Council Day

The Emerging Technologies Consortium had the pleasure of hosting the Brookings Institution Center for Universal Education Leadership Council, Senior Fellows, and Echidna scholars on campus this fall. The event featured some of the brightest minds at Columbia University in AI research, Robotics, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality, who shared their insights on digital transformation and the growing application of emerging technologies in academics and research.

Agenda Highlights

• Welcome from Parixit Davé, Senior Director of Emerging Technologies.
• Opening remarks from Maneesha Aggarwal, AVP of Academic, Emerging Technologies & Research Services.
• Faculty Overviews by Hod Lipson, Professor of Innovation, Mechanical Engineering; Director of Creative Machines lab, on AI Research.
• Faculty Overviews by Sunil Agrawal, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, on Robotics to Retrain and Assist Human Movements.
• Lab Tours of Robotics & Rehabilitation (RoAR) and Creative Machines.
• Faculty Vignettes by Courtney Cogburn, Associate Professor of Social Work; Co-director of the Justice + Equity + Tech (JET) Studio, on XR for Good: Exploring Extended Reality + Social Work + Social Justice.
• Faculty Vignettes by Seth Cluett, Lecturer in Music, Computer Music and Sound Studies; Director, Computer Music Center, on Augmented Reality for Accessible and Inclusive Technical Studio Education.
• Closing remarks from Gaspare LoDuca, Chief Information Officer of Columbia University Information Technology.

The Columbia University Emerging Technologies Grant program strives to empower faculty, research, and administrative members to utilize next-generation technologies to explore and develop new pedagogical strategies and research applications. The event highlights the successful collaboration between higher educational institutions and educational leadership and research organizations, bringing a diverse discussion and evaluation of emerging technologies' impact on advancing research and pedagogy across a wide array of disciplines.

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