AI Communities of Practice

Group Name & Description	Eligibility	Contact
NLP/LLM Interest Group This group aims to facilitate collaboration and discussion among faculty and students interested in NLP/LLM, offering a forum to share research ideas, present ongoing AI work, and explore potential collaborations.	Open Yale-wide to faculty and students interested in NLP/LLM.	Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS) Website - see link for NLP/LLM mailing list sign up instructions Zachary Chen, zachary.y.chen@yale.edu
Yale Library Coding Meetup Curious about coding? The Library Coding Meetup is a welcoming space for all staff regardless of experience level to share practical solutions and learn from one another. In person meeting is preferred and a video conference link enables hybrid participation.	The core of the group consists of librarians and cultural heritage specialists. Members from other areas welcome.	Yale Library Sign up form Teams Channel Tim Thompson, timothy.thompson@yale.edu or Cliff Anderson, clifford.anderson@yale.edu
DISSC AI Virtual Lunch Series This group meets monthly during the academic year for a virtual brown bag lunch to explore and discuss research use cases of machine learning and LLMs.	The informal group is made up of social science research support staff members. Members from other areas welcome.	Data Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC) Molly Aunger, molly.aunger@yale.edu
AI Community of Practice for Yale Communicators This group meets quarterly to exchange ideas, share insights, and discover new ways to amplify their impact with AI.	Open to Communications professionals Yale-wide	Office of Public Affairs & Communications (OPAC) Julienne Hadley & Michael Helfenbein, opac@yale.edu
OneIT AI Community of Practice, OneIT Monthly virtual meet up featuring activities like use case sharing and guest speakers. Ongoing open discussions in Teams regarding the latest developments in AI.	Open to IT Professionals (central and distributed) Yale-wide	OneIT Teams Channel AICoP Team, oneit.aicop@yale.edu or Jason Shuff, jason.shuff@yale.edu
HR AI Coffee Talks This monthly virtual series for human resource personnel features guest speakers to spur conversations about AI within the HR Community.	Open to human resource personnel Yale-wide	Human Resources Janice Frank, janice.frank@yale.edu

Group Name & Description

Eligibility

Contact

NLP/LLM Interest Group

This group aims to facilitate collaboration and discussion among faculty and students interested in NLP/LLM, offering a forum to share research ideas, present ongoing AI work, and explore potential collaborations.

Open Yale-wide to faculty and students interested in NLP/LLM.

Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS)

Website - see link for NLP/LLM mailing list sign up instructions

Zachary Chen, zachary.y.chen@yale.edu

Yale Library Coding Meetup

Curious about coding? The Library Coding Meetup is a welcoming space for all staff regardless of experience level to share practical solutions and learn from one another. In person meeting is preferred and a video conference link enables hybrid participation.

The core of the group consists of librarians and cultural heritage specialists. Members from other areas welcome.

Yale Library

Teams Channel

Tim Thompson, timothy.thompson@yale.edu

Cliff Anderson, clifford.anderson@yale.edu

DISSC AI Virtual Lunch Series

This group meets monthly during the academic year for a virtual brown bag lunch to explore and discuss research use cases of machine learning and LLMs.

The informal group is made up of social science research support staff members. Members from other areas welcome.

Data Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC)

Molly Aunger, molly.aunger@yale.edu

AI Community of Practice for Yale Communicators

This group meets quarterly to exchange ideas, share insights, and discover new ways to amplify their impact with AI.

Open to Communications professionals Yale-wide

Office of Public Affairs & Communications (OPAC)

Julienne Hadley & Michael Helfenbein, opac@yale.edu

OneIT AI Community of Practice, OneIT

Monthly virtual meet up featuring activities like use case sharing and guest speakers. Ongoing open discussions in Teams regarding the latest developments in AI.

Open to IT Professionals (central and distributed) Yale-wide

OneIT

Teams Channel

AICoP Team, oneit.aicop@yale.edu

Jason Shuff, jason.shuff@yale.edu

HR AI Coffee Talks

This monthly virtual series for human resource personnel features guest speakers to spur conversations about AI within the HR Community.

Open to human resource personnel Yale-wide

Human Resources

Janice Frank, janice.frank@yale.edu

Listings Contact

If you are organizing a new community of practice or need to update your group listing, contact Connie Steel, Program Manager AI Initiatives, Office of the Provost.