08/28/2026
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CCI is excited to welcome Professor Shani Daily to UT School of Information Sciences! Daily is one of eight outstanding scholars the university is welcoming this fall as part of UT’s preeminent hiring initiative and ongoing investment in research and innovation. A Nashville native, Daily returns to Tennessee with an interdisciplinary career focused on the intersection of technology, education, and human experience.
Her research explores human-centered artificial intelligence, affective computing, creative learning technologies, and education and workforce development. She is particularly interested in how technology and educational systems can create more pathways for students to persist and thrive in STEM.
Her academic journey includes degrees from Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and the MIT Media Lab, where she worked with influential researchers whose ideas about learning, creativity, and emotion continue to shape her work today.
At UT, Daily sees opportunities to collaborate across disciplines and with organizations including the AI Tennessee Initiative, UT Institute of Agriculture, Tickle College of Engineering, CEHHS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and UT’s extension campuses.
Read more about Daily’s research, her journey back to Tennessee, and what she hopes to accomplish at UT: tiny.utk.edu/AlE5n
