Henry Kautz, the founding director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science at the University of Rochester, will direct the National Science Foundation (NSF) division that supports artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and data science.

Kautz will serve for a three-year rotation, before returning to Rochester. He is an expert in artificial intelligence, pervasive computing, and health care applications, and his research has been cited more than 20,000 times. Kautz is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), for which he has also served as president.

Details: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/henry-kautz-direct-intelligent-systems-division-nsf-314072/