Ahmed Elgammal is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where he is also the founder and director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research on knowledge discovery in art history and AI art generation, received wide international media attention, including reports in The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC News, The Daily Telegraph, Science News, New Scientist and many others. In 2017, an Artsy editorial acclaimed his work on AI generated art as “the biggest artistic achievement of the year.” In 2016, a TV segment about his research, produced for PBS, won an Emmy award.