University of Chicago Booth School of Business at The CIO Room

Priorities

Kiriakos prioritizes operationalizing AI governance into the software development lifecycle, deploying technical controls across autonomous agents, and bridging academic research with industry applications. Operational focus areas include fostering agile practices, scaling developer experience, establishing robust data engineering infrastructure, and advocating for workforce diversity and women leadership in AI.

Current focus

As Director at the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at Chicago Booth, Cathy Kiriakos leads strategic and operational direction, external partnerships, and programming. Her active projects focus on building predictable, high-value data ecosystems, designing secure agentic development deployment frameworks, addressing technical debt, and improving engineering, DevEx, and release practices.