Jim Davis, Ph.D.

UCLA CIO/CTO/Professor Emeritus; executive oversight CESMII & the UCLA SM Initiative in CA, Office of Advanced Research Computing

Jim Davis, former UCLA Vice Provost IT (CIO/CTO); currently Special Advisor on SM in the UCLA Office of Research with oversight of CESMII & the SM Initiative in CA. Davis co-founded SM as an AI-enabled manufacturing strategy in 2006 and continues national planning on scaled adoption.