About CAIR Institute
Our goal is to increase knowledge about collective action and performance
Our Mission
The CAIR Institute is an emergent research-as-a-service institute and think tank in the field of Collective and Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to advance knowledge about how to improve collective performance through collaboration between humans and AI. We use collective intelligence as a perspective to promote human ingenuity, creativity and resilience in an increasingly connected and dynamic world.
Our Team of Researchers and Advisors
Our team consists of researchers who are renowned experts in their field. They combine decades of experience in academia, industry, and applied research. We offer comprehensive guidance to private businesses, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, as well as public institutions. Our team is integrated into a global cross-disciplinary network.
Our Advisors bring in outstanding experience to complement our core team and help our institute to maintain a vision aligned with the positive potential of generative AI and other digital technologies and how to generate value from them for a humane and resilient society.
Dr. Sven-V. Rehm
Senior Researcher and Director
Dr. Rehm is an expert in collective intelligence with 25+ years of experience in applied research on innovation management and digital platforms in business ecosystems. His research is on how Human-AI inferencing allows us to create new realms for reasoning and understanding.
Iris Junglas, PhD
Senior Researcher
Professor Junglas is Chaired Professor of Information Systems with 25+ years of experience in research on digital innovation. She is a leading scholar in the field of IT innovation and adoption in business.
Shane McLoughlin, PhD
Senior Researcher
Professor McLoughlin is an expert on socio-technical approaches for developing, adopting and scaling disruptive social innovations. He applies Generative AI for learning and research. He has recently coordinated one of the leading European projects on using the AIoT for urban development.
Dr. Yulia Litvinova
Researcher
Dr. Litvinova has 8+ years of experience in IT project management and 6 years in research. Her research in AI and Cognitive Psychology is about the mechanisms for leveraging human cognitive abilities with AI to make our society a better place to live.
Dr. Daniel Braun
Senior Researcher and
Software Engineer
Dr. Braun is Chaired Professor at the Univ. of Marburg (DE). His research is focused on the application of AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Natural Language Generation (NLG) in knowledge-intensive processes and societally relevant contexts, e.g. in the legal domain.
Dr. Boyka Simeonova
Senior Researcher
Dr. Simeonova is Associate Professor of Innovation and Director of Research for the Marketing and Strategy School at the College of Business, University of Leicester. Her fields of expertise include Strategic Information Management, Entrepreneurial Behavior and Qualitative Digital Research.
Lakshmi Goel, PhD
Advisor
Professor Goel is Dean of the School of Business Administration at Al Akhawayn University, Marocco. Her research looks at how novel digital technologies like generative AI, the metaverse, and the AIoT, create novel opportunities for innovation under humane conditions.
Mattia Crespi
Advisor
M. Crespi is Founder and CEO of Qbit Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto), Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future (IFTF), Director of the Futures Lab at H-Farm (Venice, IT), startup advisor and keynote speaker. He is an evangelist for leveraging the positive, disruptive potential of the metaverse, the AIoT, and Generative AI for business use and social good.
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How we can help you
If your business or public institution is interested in how Collective Intelligence can advance your organization, contact us today.