Core Faculty

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

Affiliated Faculty

  Name, Title Research Interests
Photo of Ravi Balasubramanian Ravi Balasubramanian
Assistant Professor (Adjunct) Assistant Professor		 Robust operation in unstructured environments; neural control and biomechanics
Photo of Lizhong Chen Lizhong Chen
Assistant Professor		 CPU and GPU architecture; high-performance computing (HPC) systems; data centers; interconnection networks
Photo of Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez
Associate Professor		 Cascading outages in power grids; power system protection, resiliency, and cybersecurity; smart grids and microgrids; wide-area power system data
Photo of Bechir Hamdaoui Bechir Hamdaoui
Professor		 Wireless communication networks; computer networking; mobile computing; resource optimization; network management; network privacy and security
Photo of Geoffrey Hollinger Geoffrey Hollinger
Associate Professor		 Planning, coordination, and learning techniques for autonomous robotic systems
Photo of Jinsub Kim Jinsub Kim
Assistant Professor		 Statistical signal processing; statistical learning theory; power systems state estimation; security of cyber physical system
Photo of V John Mathews 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