Prof. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran is the Director of the AI Plus Institute and an Empire Innovation Professor in the faculty of Computer Science Department, University at Albany (State University of New York, Albany). Dr. Prabhakaran also served as program director for the National Science Foundation’s Human-Centered Computing Program in the Information and Intelligent Systems Division from 2019-23 and as "theme lead" for the NSF AI Institute on Human-AI Interaction. He received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award FY 2003 for his proposal on Animation Databases. He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011. He has been serving in the steering committees for several top research conferences, including the IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI). Prabhakaran is serving on the editorial boards of high-impact journals such as Elsevier’s Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Springer’s Journal of Health Informatics Research. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE MultiMedia. Prabhakaran has also served as General Chair and Technical Program Committee Chair for several important research conferences in health informatics and multimedia. Prof Prabhakaran's research has been funded by Federal Agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the USA Army Research Office (ARO), and the US-IGNITE Program. Dr. Prabhakaran works in the broad area of collaborative, mixed reality systems for healthcare and STEM education. These systems involve multi-modal devices, such as haptic devices giving force feedback and body sensors, integrated with mixed reality. Some of these systems have undergone clinical trials for use by amputees to manage phantom pain and for remote evaluation of stroke patients in a clinical setting, as well as in a home setting without expert guidance.