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ICS AI Faculty & Students

Guylaine Poisson Guylaine Poisson
Chair
Bioinformatics, computational biology, Cognitive Computer Science, AI ethics
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Mahdi Belcaid Mahdi Belcaid
Associate Chair

Generative AI, LLM, Data science education, probabilistic programming in genomics, big data approximation.
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Michael Brian Ogawa Michael Brian Ogawa
Graduate Chair

AI in education, AI for Instructional Systems Design
Kyungim Baek
Associate Professor
Computer vision, machine learning, computational modeling of visual perception.
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Kim Binsted
Professor

Artificial intelligence, human-computer interfaces, and long-duration human space exploration.
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Huaijin (George) Chen
Assistant Professor
Computational imaging/photography, computer vision, robotic perception.
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David Conner
Instructor
Digital transformation, information systems, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, programming languages, computer graphics, data visualization, user interface design, video game design, animation, educational design.
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Martha Crosby
Professor
Human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science education, information science education, authentication, cognitive robotics, collaborative learning, HCI theory, concepts and models, integrated and visual development environments, interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms, model curricula, philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence, user-centered design, virtual reality.
Nurit Kirshenbaum
Assistant Professor
Human-centered design, tangible user interfaces, cyberinfrastructure, shape-changing interfaces, learning technologies, games, interactive media, authoring and visualization tools.
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Alice Koniges
Affiliate Graduate Faculty
Emerging architectures, programming models, machine learning, partial differential equations.
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Jason Leigh
Professor
Big data visualization, virtual reality, high performance networking, video game design.
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Katy Tarrit
Assistant Professor
Developmental cognitive neuroscience, digital signal and image processing, brain computer interface.
Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli
Professor
Software engineering, cybersecurity.
Dusko Pavlovic
Professor
Security, network computation and economics, quantum computation, software, semantics, categories.
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Anthony Peruma
Assistant Professor
Program comprehension, software refactoring, software maintenance & evolution.
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Andrey Popov
Assistant Professor
Data assimilation, machine learning, reduced order modeling, data fusion.
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Scott Robertson
Professor
Human-computer interaction, sociotechnical systems, social computing and social informatics, community informatics and civic engagement, smart cities, digital democracy and e-participation.
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Peter Sadowski
Associate Professor
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, learning in biological systems, applications of machine learning to physics, astronomy, weather, and climate.
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Dan Suthers
Professor & CIS PhD Program Chair
Technology enhanced learning, human-computer interaction, social informatics, AI and Society; cognitive, social and computational perspectives on designing and evaluating software for learning, collaboration, and community.
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Italo Santos
Assistant Professor
Software engineering and human aspects, open-source software, human-computer interaction, empirical software engineering, and software engineering education and training.
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Yifan Wang
Assistant Professor
Databases, high-dimensional data systems, AI+DB, data analytic systems, information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for LLM.
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Haopeng Zhang
Assistant Professor
Natural language processing, generative AI, specifically text summarization, multi-modal LLM, LLM applications.
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Aii Advisors

Erica Kuo Erica Kuo
Advisor
IP Attorney: Erica has spent her career at the intersection of law and technology. Erica has practiced as a patent attorney for over 20-years, advising clients on the acquisition, exploitation and enforcement of legal rights protecting cutting-edge scientific and technological advances. Over her career, Erica has worked with universities, individual inventors, start-up companies, and multi-national corporations, in the U.S. and abroad, on a wide range of technologies, from bio-pharmaceuticals, to medical devices, to semiconductors, to analytical and optical devices, to fintech and software. AI presents the next, and most consequential, technological challenge to law and society. With her demonstrated technical literacy and broad legal experiences, Erica provides valuable insights to guide Aii in advancing its mission.
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Postdocs

Yannik Glaser

Graduate Students

Arianna Bunnell PhD CS student

Levi Davis MS CS student

Wenkai Dong PhD CS student

Will Harrigan PhD CS student

Yusuke Hatanaka PhD CS student

Zain Jabbar PhD Math student

Grayson Levy MS CS student

RuYu Li PhD CS student

Joel Nicolow PhD CS student

Akib Sadmanee PhD CS student

Rajan Sawhney PhD CS student

Zhengxiang Wei PhD CS student

Linnea Wolniewicz PhD CS student

Samuel Yang MS CS student

Undergraduate Students

Min Jun Han BS CS student

Wilson Huynh BS CS student

Lukas Moroz BS CS student

Kanta Saito BS CS student

Elijah Myles Saloma BS CS student