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Munawar brings AI expertise to UM-Flint as Jack W. Thompson, M.D. Distinguished Visiting Professor

“Dr. Munawar has consistently driven innovation at the intersection of deep learning, symbolic reasoning, and generative AI,” said Khalid Malik, professor of computer science, who nominated Munawar for the appointment.

Asim Munawar, an artificial intelligence researcher and project lead at IBM's Watson Research Center, has joined the University of Michigan-Flint for the 2025-26 academic year as a Jack W. Thompson, M.D. Distinguished Visiting Professor. At the Watson Research Center, Munawar spearheads initiatives to enhance the reasoning and planning capabilities of enterprise-scale large language models. A[…]

Worline joins UM-Flint as a Jack W. Thompson, M.D. Distinguished Visiting Professor

Monica Worline, an organizational psychologist and faculty director of the University of Michigan's Center for Positive Organizations, has joined UM-Flint for the 2025-26 academic year as a Jack W. Thompson, M.D. Distinguished Visiting Professor.  Worline's work focuses on cultivating more courageous thinking, compassionate leadership and forms of organizing that bring people's best work to life.[…]