Dr. Joe Sutherland is the founding director of Emory's Center for AI Learning, a professor in Emory’s Department of Quantitative Theory & Methods, associate faculty at the Empathetic AI for Health Institute at Emory Healthcare, principal investigator of the Emory branch of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium, and fellow of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Public Policy, and Government at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been featured on FOX 5 Good Day Atlanta, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Forbes, Georgia Trend, Government Technology, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other venues. His professional background includes leadership service at The White House, Cisco, Amazon, and as CEO of an AI startup. His research exploring the utilization of machine learning and AI in congressional lawmaking, state policy leadership, and development economics is published in top peer-reviewed journals. He holds patents for systems that manage and analyze petabyte-level databases, apply machine learning to unstructured data, and artificial intelligence systems that make judgments about the information they observe. Sutherland earned his PhD, MPhil, and master’s degrees from Columbia University and his bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis. Visit to learn more and book an appointment: https://jlsutherland.com.