Dominic Slauson

Dominic is an AI Specialist at the University of California Irvine, where he leads initiatives to foster AI literacy across campus. In his current role, he explores innovative use cases for generative AI in higher education, develops frameworks for responsible AI adoption, and designs educational resources that empower faculty, students, and staff to navigate the evolving AI landscape with confidence and effectiveness.

With extensive experience in the educational field, Dominic has held roles in faculty development, instructional design, and educational technology. He provides comprehensive guidance, best practices, and helps develop practical use cases that enhance administrative efficiency and operational excellence for university staff. He previously served as Instructional Technologist for the OpenRN Project, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, where he leveraged generative AI to create engaging virtual simulations for nursing education.

In 2022, Dominic founded Codaptive Labs, a company dedicated to providing training and resources for the responsible implementation of generative AI in education. Throughout his work, Dominic emphasizes thoughtfully integrating AI technologies to enhance teaching, learning, and institutional operations while prioritizing ethical considerations and equitable access for all university community members.

Chris Price

AI Lead Software Solutions Architect and Developer for UC Irvine's new Generative AI team under the Office of Information Technology (OIT), primarily supporting the ZotGPT platform and brand. Since the emergence of generative AI, Chris has played a pivotal role architecting generative AI solutions, including UCI's ZotGPT platform, to engage our campus community in this new technology. Chris provides technical direction, solution evaluation, software implementation, project management, and overall connects and coordinates the team of volunteers and full time staff with the goals for the platform. Before this Chris supported UC Irvine's Office of Research Administration for a little over 6 years, and UC Irvine's Student Life and Leadership for a little over 5 years. During that time Chris published software security research in password management. Prior to higher education, Chris worked for themselves in the software development field for about 7 years.