AI Degree Program Faculty

Core Faculty

	Name, Title	Research Interests
	Houssam Abbas Assistant Professor	Design, control and verification of cyber-physical systems
	Julie A. Adams College of Engineering Dean's Professor CoRIS Associate Director of Research	Distributed artificial intelligence; robotics; human-machine teaming; human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction
	Tom Dietterich Distinguished Professor Emeritus CoRIS Associate Director of Policy	Machine learning; safe and robust AI systems; sensor networks; intelligent user interfaces
	Patrick Donnelly Assistant Professor Computer Science	Deep learning from non-speech audio; educational data mining from audio; large imbalanced datasets; machine learning in the musical domain
	Alan Fern Professor Associate Head of Research	Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, data mining, and automated planning/control
	Xiaoli Fern Associate Professor	Machine learning; data mining; unsupervised learning; ecosystem informatics; natural language processing
	Xiao Fu Assistant Professor	Topic modeling; large-scale structured matrix/tensor factorization algorithms; multiview analysis, canonical correlation analysis; hyperspectral imaging
	David Hendrix Associate Professor Computer Science & Biochemistry/Biophysics	Motif finding; non-coding RNA structure & function analysis; apps of machine learning to computational biology; deep sequencing data analysis
	Liang Huang Associate Professor	Natural language processing, including parsing and translation; structured machine learning; computational structural biology (RNA and protein folding); deep learning
	Rebecca Hutchinson Assistant Professor Computer Science & Fisheries & Wildlife	Machine learning; data mining; ecosystem informatics; computational sustainability
	Minsuk Kahng Assistant Professor	Human-centered AI; data visualization; interpretable machine learning; visual analytics for deep learning; human-computer interaction; databases; data mining
	Heather Knight Assistant Professor	Human-robot interaction; non-verbal machine communications; non-anthropomorphic social robots
	Stefan Lee Assistant Professor	Computer vision; natural language processing; deep learning; machine learning
	Fuxin Li Associate Professor	Computer vision; deep learning; machine learning; segmentation-based object recognition and scene understanding; spatio-temporal video analysis
	Raviv Raich Associate Professor	Adaptive sensing/sampling; manifold learning; sparse representations for signal processing
	Stephen Ramsey Associate Professor Computer Science & Biomedical Sciences	Machine learning; computational systems biology; bioinformatics; integrative computational methods to map gene regulatory networks
	William Smart Professor	Improving interactions between people and robots; enabling robots to be self-sufficient; robots as personal assistants for people with severe motor disabilities
	Prasad Tadepalli Professor	Artificial intelligence; machine learning; automated planning; natural language processing
	Arash Termehchy Associate Professor	Database systems; large-scale and usable data analytics; human-aware databases; heterogeneous data exploration and analytics
	Sinisa Todorovic Professor	Object recognition; region / shape matching; texture; video object segmentation; stochastic image grammars
	Kagan Tumer Professor	Learning, optimization & control in large complex systems; learning & coordination in multiagent systems; distributed reinforcement learning; evolutionary algorithms for control & optimization
	Kiri Wagstaff Associate Research Professor	Machine learning; interpretable models; novelty detection; science applications
	Weng-Keen Wong Professor	Machine learning; probabilistic graphical models; anomaly detection; human-in-the-loop learning; computational sustainability

Affiliated Faculty

	Name, Title	Research Interests
	Ravi Balasubramanian Associate Professor	Robust operation in unstructured environments; neural control and biomechanics
	Lizhong Chen Associate Professor	CPU and GPU architecture; high-performance computing (HPC) systems; data centers; interconnection networks
	Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez Associate Professor Interim Associate Head for Graduate Programs	Cascading outages in power grids; power system protection, resiliency, and cybersecurity; smart grids and microgrids; wide-area power system data
	Maude M. David Assistant Professor Microbiology and Pharmaceutical Sciences	Human microbiome analytics and prediction, computational biology, natural language processing, transformers, multi-omics
	Bechir Hamdaoui Professor	Wireless communication networks; computer networking; mobile computing; resource optimization; network management; network privacy and security
	Geoffrey Hollinger Associate Professor	Planning, coordination, and learning techniques for autonomous robotic systems
	Jinsub Kim Assistant Professor	Statistical signal processing; statistical learning theory; power systems state estimation; security of cyber physical system
	V John Mathews Professor	Adaptation & learning; nonlinear signal processing; application of signal & information processing to neural engineering and biomedical applications, structural health monitoring, audio & communication systems

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