Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi is a senior lecturer in the discipline of computer science at Columbia University, specializing in artificial intelligence. As founder and director of the PRAISE Lab (Practice and Research in AI for Science and Education), she leads innovative research at the intersection of AI, education, and scientific applications. With over a decade of experience teaching AI at Columbia University, Ansaf has educated hundreds of students annually and developed the AI Micromasters program on EdX, reaching more than 250,000 learners across 200 countries since 2017. Her commitment to AI education extends beyond academia through Aiphabet Inc., a non-profit organization she founded to provide free, quality AI education to teens and pre-college students. An accomplished researcher with over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Ansaf's work has earned recognition including the Eighth Symposium on EAAI New and Future AI Educators award, the best paper award at EGC 2008 , and the NIH-NICHD Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge. Her academic journey began with an engineering degree in computer science from USTHB in Algeria, followed by graduate studies at the University of Orleans, France, and post-doctoral research at INRIA Rennes.