Full Name
Michael Running Wolf
Job Title
Technical Director, First Languages AI Reality
Company/Org.
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Speaker Bio
Michael Running Wolf (Northern Cheyenne/Lakota/Blackfeet) was raised in a rural prairie village in Montana with intermittent water and electricity; naturally, he has a Master’s of Science in Computer Science, is a former engineer for Amazon’s Alexa, former faculty at Northeastern University, and is pursuing a PhD in CS at McGill University. He is researching Indigenous language and culture reclamation using immersive technologies (AR/VR) and artificial intelligence. His work has been awarded an MIT Solve Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Patrick McGovern AI for Humanity Prize. Through the ethical application of AI and advanced technology, respecting Indigenous ways of knowing, he is contributing to the ecology of thought represented by the Indigenous.
Michael Running Wolf