Thomas Padilla

IAS Annual Theme: AI:Facts, Fictions, Futures

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Thomas Padilla is Director of Information Systems and Technology Strategy at the Center for Research Libraries.

He is Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Collections as Data: Part to Whole; Past Principal Investigator of the Institute of Museum and Library Services funded, Always Already Computational: Collections as Data; and author of the research agenda, "Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Libraries".

Thomas is Chair, ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee; Technical Advisory Board Member, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship; and National Advisory Board member, Opioid Industry Documents Archive.