AI Advisors
Faculty leadership for human-led, AI-enabled learning
Artificial intelligence is changing what students need to learn, how faculty teach and assess learning, and how every discipline approaches professional practice. Indiana University’s response begins with people: human judgment, disciplinary expertise, and a shared responsibility to use AI thoughtfully.
The AI Advisors program brings this approach into IU’s schools and academic programs. AI Advisors are trusted faculty leaders who connect university-wide AI resources and expertise with the priorities, questions, and practices of their disciplines.
The AI Advisors program is led by Justin Hodgson, Strategic Director of Generative AI Faculty Initiatives, and Michele Kelmer, Director of Faculty Engagement and Outreach in UITS. For more information, please email hale@iu.edu.
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There is no single approach to AI that will work for every field. What responsible and effective AI use looks like in medicine may differ from what it looks like in business, education, the arts, or the humanities.
AI Advisors help their schools determine what students should know and be able to do with AI and how programs can prepare them to use it with confidence, ethical reasoning, and sound professional judgment. At the same time, Advisors bring local perspectives and emerging needs into IU’s broader AI work.
This distributed model allows IU to move forward together while preserving the disciplinary differences that make responsible AI adoption possible.
Working with faculty, academic leaders, and IU’s Human + AI Learning Ecosystem, AI Advisors:
- Lead conversations about AI literacy, durable human skills, and responsible AI use
- Help academic programs map AI-related knowledge and skills across the curriculum
- Coordinate the development of practical, discipline-specific AI playbooks
- Connect faculty with workshops, consultations, fellowships, grants, technology support, and other IU resources
- Surface faculty questions, concerns, and promising practices
- Share evidence and experience through a university-wide network of faculty leaders
Advisors are conveners, translators, and connectors. They are not expected to be their school’s only AI expert or to replace instructional designers, technology specialists, policy offices, or faculty governance.
Each Advisor works with colleagues in their school to identify priorities and develop an approach suited to its students, programs, and disciplines. Advisors meet as a university-wide network to exchange resources, learn from emerging practices, surface shared challenges, and help shape IU’s broader AI efforts.
Through this distributed network, IU can connect university-wide strategy with local action, expand effective practices, and keep its AI initiatives grounded in faculty expertise, disciplinary context, and student learning.
Your school’s AI Advisor can help you:
- Explore appropriate uses of AI in teaching, learning, and curriculum
- Find IU guidance, professional learning, and consultation services
- Connect with colleagues working on similar questions
- Develop shared expectations for students and faculty
- Identify opportunities to participate in IU AI initiatives
IU Bloomington
- Caleb Weintraub, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
- Lopo Rego, Kelley School of Business
- Will Geoghegan, Kelley School of Business
- Erik Jacobson, School of Education
- Justin Ross, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Matthew Pratola, College of Arts and Sciences
- Vivian Halloran, College of Arts and Sciences
- Amaury de Siqueira, School of Public Health
- Anna Marie Johnson, IU Libraries
- Nathan Ensmenger, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
- Kelly Markgraf, Jacobs School of Music
IU Indianapolis
- Keith Avin, IU Graduate School
- Frank Emmert, McKinney School of Law
- Megan Stuffle, IU School of Nursing
- Betsy Holtel, IU School of Nursing
- Sunny Urquhart, University Library
- Gemmicka Piper, University Library
- Laurie Paarlberg, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
- Lamia Scherzinger, School of Health and Human Sciences
- David Wilkerson, School of Social Work
- Jennifer Mahoney, School of Liberal Arts
- Adam Maksl, School of Liberal Arts
- Katy Ellis Hilts, Fairbanks School of Public Health
- Christian Buerger, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Vinicius Dutra, School of Dentistry
- David Zahl, School of Dentistry
- Angela Murillo, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
- Marie Brown, School of Education and Center for Teaching and Learning
IU East
- Stephanie Whitehead, Criminal Justice and Center for Faculty Development
- Kerri Getz, School of Nursing and Health Sciences
IU Kokomo
- Mary Bourke, School of Nursing and Allied Health Professions
- Aaron Pickens, New Media, Art, and Technology
- Lalatendu Acharya, School of Sciences
- Dmitriy Chulkov, School of Business
IU Northwest
- Olatunde Abiona, College of Arts, Sciences, and Education
- Dan Kelly, College of Arts, Sciences, and Education
- Jie Wang, College of Arts, Sciences, and Education
- Yllka Azemi Binaku, School of Business and Economics
- Daniella Pavloski, College of Health and Human Services
IU South Bend
- Susan Thomas, IU Libraries
- Tony Randles, School of Education
IU Southeast
- Greg Kordsmeier, Educational Excellence/Academic Affairs
IU Columbus
- Kevin Jones, Division of Business
- Lori Montalbano, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students
IU Fort Wayne
- Kathie Williamson, IU School of Nursing