ABOUT US

Ensuring The Use of Artificial Intelligence is Safe, Controlled, and Managed in ALL Applications

What we do

The Center for Trustworthy AI Through Model Risk Management (TAIM) seeks to provide a framework to ensure that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-based systems is safe, controlled, and managed in all applications. In doing so, the Center will become an international research hub in the emerging area of identification and management of risks associated with the adoption of algorithms.

In order to build this frame work, the members of the Center will focus on understanding the weaknesses and reliability of AI through both mathematical AND policy formulations. Our research will focus on three core areas:

Uncertainty Analysis for Artificial Intelligence Methods

Controls Hierarchy for Artificial Intelligence

Regulatory Framework for Artificial Intelligence

who we are

Research like this does not take place in a bubble. Since AI touches almost every aspect of our lives, it is only prudent to assemble a multi-disciplinary team from a wide variety fields in the academic, industrial, and governmental sectors to work together to build the framework that is at the heart of the Center’s work.

Our founding team contains a substantial amount of diversity of experience, with experience in fields as wide-ranging as mathematics to data science to business to government policy to philosophy.

Center Leadership

Director

Taufiquar Khan
Chair and Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics & Statistics

Center Advisory Team

Doug Hague
Executive Director
School of Data Science
Agus Sudjianto
Executive in Residence
School of Data Science

Affiliated Faculty

UNC Charlotte Team

Robert  Fox
Senior Lecturer
School of Data Science
John  Hall
Assistant Professor
Energy Production & Infrastructure Center
Jiancheng Jiang
Professor of Statistics
Mathematics & Statistics
Jake Lee
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Damien Williams
Assistant Professor
Philosophy
Sunshine  Xiu
Associate Professor
College of Computing and Informatics
Depeng Xu
Assistant Professor
School of Data Science

Business, Industry and Government Partners

Gunay Dogan
Applied Mathematician
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Patrick Hall
Assistant Professor
The George Washington University
Alex Shenkar
Senior Vice President, Model Risk Management
Truist Bank
Aijun Zhang
Head of Machine Learning and Validation Engineering, Model Risk Management
Wells Fargo Bank

Institutional Partners

Peter Maass
Director of Center for Industrial Mathematics
University of Bremen
Michael Pokojovy
Associate Professor of Data Science
Old Dominion Universy
Cole Smith
Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University

Postdocs

Andrew Pangia
Postdoctoral Fellow
UNC Charlotte Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Center Staff

Brittany Clement
Center Administrative Assistant
Mathematics & Statistics
Cayman Powell
Website & Communications Manager
Center for TAIMing AI

VISION & MISSION

VISION:

Ensure the application of AI is safe, controlled and managed in all applications.

MISSION:

Extend the understanding on the weakness and reliability of AI through mathematical and policy formulations.

  • Extend uncertainty analysis for AI methods
  • Hierarchy of controls for AI
  • Regulatory framework for AI