{"id":217920,"date":"2026-05-21T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/honavar-named-vice-provost-for-artificial-intelligence-at-penn-state\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:45:09","slug":"honavar-named-vice-provost-for-artificial-intelligence-at-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/honavar-named-vice-provost-for-artificial-intelligence-at-penn-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Honavar named vice provost for artificial intelligence at Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanbazaaronline.com\/2026\/05\/21\/honavar-named-vice-provost-for-artificial-intelligence-at-penn-state-481242\/\">Honavar named vice provost for artificial intelligence at Penn State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanbazaaronline.com\/2026\/05\/21\/honavar-named-vice-provost-for-artificial-intelligence-at-penn-state-481242\/\">https:\/\/americanbazaaronline.com\/2026\/05\/21\/honavar-named-vice-provost-for-artificial-intelligence-at-penn-state-481242\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 08:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"americanbazaaronline.com\">americanbazaaronline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penn State has made an important appointment of Vasant Honavar as the inaugural vice provost for artificial intelligence (AI) to steer the university&#8217;s AI strategy.<\/li>\n<li>Honavar, an Indian American researcher with a solid academic and professional background, will start his role on June 1.<\/li>\n<li>His current positions include the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence and a professor in the Department of Informatics and Intelligent Systems.<\/li>\n<li>In his new role, Honavar will lead Penn State&#8217;s AI Transformation initiative and work collaboratively with various councils, groups and bodies.<\/li>\n<li>He holds a vision of leveraging AI to advance research and education and deliver benefits to communities beyond.<\/li>\n<li>Honavar has been at Penn State since 2013 and has been instrumental in expanding AI educational offerings, leading curricula developments, and directing strategic initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>Before coming to Penn State, Honavar contributed significantly to computer science and bioinformatics at Iowa State University.<\/li>\n<li>He was recognized for his contributions to leadership and research in data science and serves as a fellow in the American Association for Advancement of Science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honavar named vice provost for artificial intelligence at Penn State https:\/\/americanbazaaronline.com\/2026\/05\/21\/honavar-named-vice-provost-for-artificial-intelligence-at-penn-state-481242\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-21 08:33:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/americanbazaaronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image0-2026-05-21T175530.628.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-217920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217922,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217920\/revisions\/217922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}