The team

The people who run AIBE.

Five officers, one faculty advisor, and a growing bench of mentors. Officers are students too — find any of us after a meeting.

Executive board · 2026–27

Founding officers.

Our founding board serves until the first regular officer selection in spring 2028. Names and photos are going up as the roster is finalized.

President

Name to be announced

Chairs the Executive Board and general body meetings, represents AIBE at Quad Day and campus entrepreneurship events, and is the primary liaison to our advisor and partners.

Vice President

Name to be announced

Plans and runs the workshops, idea sprints and demo days, and coordinates project teams — formation, milestones and end-of-semester demos.

Secretary

Name to be announced

Keeps the records: minutes, membership and attendance, project team registrations, and the list of AIBE's accounts. Issues meeting notices and handles correspondence.

Treasurer

Name to be announced

Builds and holds the budget, is primary signatory on AIBE's accounts, collects dues, and applies for campus funding including SORF.

Membership & Marketing Director

Name to be announced

Runs AIBE's social media and comms, grows the club across every college, keeps the membership roster and Active Member status, and fronts us at Quad Day and RSO fairs.

Faculty advisor

Frank Liu

Associate Professor of Marketing, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.

Professor Liu meets regularly with AIBE's officers, attends board and general meetings as schedule allows, helps orient new officers, and advises on training, program planning and the responsible use of AI in business.

Per our constitution, the advisor attends board meetings as a non-voting member. Decision-making stays with the student officers.

As AIBE grows

Roles that don't exist yet.

The Executive Board can create additional director positions as the club grows. These three are the ones we expect to need first. If one of them sounds like you, say so early — it is much easier to grow into a role you've already been doing informally.

How officers are selected

Proposed

Director of Projects

Owns the Project Slate and the teams: formation, milestones, demo day. Currently handled by the Vice President.

Proposed

Director of Partnerships

Sponsors, Research Park companies, industry speakers and credits. The person who makes the hackathon budget real.

Proposed

Director of Events

Rooms, food, logistics, field trips. The reason anything actually happens on time.

Open now

Newsletter editors

A member team that reads widely and picks the week's best articles and papers. Not an officer role — just a good one.

Mentors & advisory council

Faculty, staff, alumni, graduate students and industry professionals who lead workshops, advise project teams and share what they know.

If you've started something, run AI in production, invested in it, or researched it — and you'd give a few hours a semester to students who are trying — we would like to hear from you. Mentors participate in an advisory capacity and don't hold decision-making power in AIBE.

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