Travis Hoppe (he/him)
Chief AI Officer, GroundVue
Travis Hoppe is Chief AI Officer (CAIO) at GroundVue, a startup that uses AI and social science to analyze local government meetings. He was the former CAIO for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and completed a tour at the White House OSTP as the Associate Director of AI R&D. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Drexel University, and served his post-docs at the National Institutes of Health. He has authored an eclectic range of publications including fields of biophysics, chemical physics, number theory, AI, R&D policy, and bibliometrics.
He helped shape national AI policy through his detail to the White House OSTP where he supported the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) adoption. At CDC, he deployed the first generative AI model to all staff, published two guidance documents on maturity models for generative and agentic AI for local public health agencies, and led the release of an AI model from the National Center for Health Statistics, developed standards for trustworthy AI aligned with NIST, and stood up new communities of practice to accelerate innovation across the agency. He published widely cited work on disparities in NIH funding, open citation data, and a driver of open-source science including AI models like The Pile.