Sayeed Choudhury

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Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure and Director of the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) at Carnegie Mellon Libraries, affiliated faculty at the Block Center for Technology and Society, and Executive Director of the Open Forum for AI. He directs an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant coordinating University OSPOs and is Co-Investigator for the Black Beyond Data Project. He serves on the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board, Human AI Collective Advisory Board, and as Software Area Expert and Steering Committee member for the Research Data Alliance-US.

Appointed by President Obama, Choudhury served on the National Museum and Library Services Board. His involvement with the National Academies includes committees on biomedical data preservation and the Board on Research Data and Information. He testified before the Congressional Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Research Subcommittee and participated in the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation.

Choudhury previously held board positions with organizations like NISO, DuraSpace, and ICPSR Council, and was Senior Presidential Fellow at CLIR. At Johns Hopkins University, he launched the first U.S. university OSPO, directed the Digital Research and Curation Center, and co-founded the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES). His team supported the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard.

His work has been funded by NSF, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library of Congress, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Microsoft Research. He received the 2012 OCLC/LITA Kilgour Award and has extensively published and presented internationally.