Travis Hoppe

Acting CAIO

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Travis Hoppe, former White House OSTP Assistant Director of AI R&D, now serves as the acting Chief AI Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He leads research, development, and policy work on AI, ML, and data science initiatives. Along with other policy entrepreneurs, he enabled CDC to be the first federal agency to unilaterally deploy a generative AI model, ChatGPT, to all staff. Before his tenure at the CDC, Travis co-authored The Pile, a pioneering open-source dataset used for training large language models that served as a catalyst for promoting open science within the field of AI. He holds a PhD in Physics from Drexel University and served two post-docs at the National Institutes of Health.

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