Ron Brachman is an internationally known expert in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Schmidt Sciences and a Visiting Professor at Cornell University. He was Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in NYC from 2016 through 2023; was Chief Scientist of Yahoo and Head of Yahoo Labs; and served as the Director of the Information Processing Technology Office at DARPA, where he created the program that gave birth to Siri. Earlier, he held research leadership positions at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs.

Brachman holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He has served as President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAI, and AAAS. Brachman’s most recent book (with Hector Levesque), Machines like Us: Toward AI with Common Sense, was published by MIT Press.