Sayeed Choudhury

Sayeed Choudhury is Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure and Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon Libraries, as well as Executive Director of the Open Forum for AI and holds affiliated faculty roles at the Block Center for Technology and Society and Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. He led an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for university OSPO coordination and was a Co-Investigator for the Black Beyond Data Project. Choudhury serves on advisory boards Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board, Human AI Collective Advisory Board - BGV & EAIGG, and Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) Advisory Board. He was the Software Area Expert and member of the Steering Committee for the Research Data Alliance (RDA) - US. Previously, he was Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure, Applications, and Services and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University (JHU), where he led the JHU Library team that supported the Covid-19 dashboard and launched the JHU's open source programs office (OSPO), the first of its kind within a US university.

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