SVP Education – Dr. Eric Kildebeck, MD, PhD leads the Center for Engineering Innovation (CEI) at UT Dallas and the Center for Applied AI at the Richardson Innovation Quarter with UT Dallas Expertise (CAIQUE). The mission of these Centers is to use an engineering and entrepreneurial mindset to innovate and translate technologies that solve real-world problems.

Collectively, these teams combine multi-disciplinary expertise in artificial intelligence, immersive learning, social sciences, materials science, and bioelectronics with a network of academic and industry collaborators across the USA and the world. Eric has been the director of the CEI’s Polycraft World team since 2018 and managed large multi-org programs as PI of multiple DARPA DSO projects using Polycraft World for AI training and human-AI teams.

As an instructor at UT Dallas and in his prior work as a master trainer at the Princeton Review, he has experience teaching scientific concepts to hundreds of undergraduate students and motivating students to develop skills and a passion for STEM topics. M.D. Ph.D. UT Southwestern/ Stanford, undergraduate work as a McDermott Fellow at the University of Texas at Dallas.