Aniket (Niki) Kittur

 Aniket "Niki" Kittur is a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research on AI-augmented cognition looks at how we can accelerate knowledge acquisition and innovation by partnering human and machine intelligence. He has authored and co-authored over 100 papers, 17 of which have received best paper awards or honorable mentions. Dr. Kittur is a Kavli fellow, has been inducted into the CHI Academy, has received an NSF CAREER award, the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence, major research grants from NSF, NIH, Google, Microsoft, Bosch, and Toyota, and his work has been reported in venues including Nature News, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, TechCrunch, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He received a BA in Psychology and Computer Science at Princeton, and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from UCLA.