California Institute of the Arts

Director

• Define and evolve CCAT’s research agenda in alignment with the Center’s annual priorities and institutional thesis.
• Collaboratively design and oversee the lab’s experimentation plan: research questions, development pathways, evaluation criteria, and propose publication or dissemination strategies.
• Co-Establish and maintain methodological standards for ML work conducted under CCAT’s name, including demos, prototypes, and public-facing technical claims.
• Conduct feasibility and risk review for proposed projects and programs where ML is a core medium or technical component.
• Stay current with developments across model training, large language models, neural networks, and computing infrastructure, and bring that knowledge actively into CCAT’s program planning.
• Participate in Working Group co-development of program concepts, research thesis, and curatorial framing.
• Surface technical opportunities, constraints, and risks that shape what CCAT can responsibly commit to publicly.
• Partner with the 2 other Research Directors, Senior Curator, and Technical Director(s) to translate research into public programs, exhibitions, and knowledge-sharing outputs.
• Build and sustain relationships with peer research institutions, university ML labs, and external technical communities; support informal peer review of CCAT’s research output and help position the center’s work within the broader field.