Artificial Intelligence Lab
Faculty
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Steven Abney Address: 412 Lorch Phone: (734) 647-5588 Fax: 734-936-3406 Email: abney@umich.edu Degree: PhD MIT Title: Assoc. Professor, EECS; Assoc. Professor, Information; Assoc. Professor, Linguistics; Research Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. |
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Lada A. Adamic Address: 4360 North Quad Phone: (734) 615-2132 Email: ladamic@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Stanford Title: Associate Professor (courtesy appt) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Associate Professor, School of Information; Research Interests: My research interests center on information dynamics in networks: how information diffuses, how it can be found, and how it influences the evolution of a network's structure. Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. |
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Ella M. Atkins Address: 3009 FXB Phone: (734) 615-7456 Email: ematkins@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. University of Michigan Title: EECS Professor; Professor, Aerospace Engineering; Research Interests: Ella Atkins' research integrates task and motion planning algorithms to enable opportunistic, fault-tolerant autonomous aircraft and spacecraft flight management. Projects include damage-adaptive flight management, coordination strategies for VTOL/STOL air traffic, and spacecraft burn planning to maximize science return. Hardware platforms for research and teaching include avionics-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), an autonomous planetary surface rover, and TableSat, a tabletop satellite simulator. Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Robotics. |
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Satinder Singh Baveja Address: 3749 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 936-2831 Email: baveja@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Title: EECS Professor; Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Computational Game Theory, Adaptive Human Computer Interaction Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Cognitive Architectures; Multiagent Systems; Machine Learning; Assistive Technology; Robotics. |
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Edmund H Durfee Address: 3745 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 936-1563 Fax: (734) 763-1260 Email: durfee@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. U-Massachusetts Title: EECS Professor; Research Interests: Multi-agent coordination and intelligent real-time systems Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Multiagent Systems; Constraint-based Reasoning; Assistive Technology; Robotics. |
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Georg Essl Address: 3624 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 615-2691 Fax: (734) 763-1260 Email: gessl@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D, Princeton Research Interests: Interactive Computer Music, Mobile HCI & Mobile Music Making, Sensory-Rich Interfaces, Real-time Sound Synthesis, Musical Acoustics, Application of Computer Science to Music and the Arts. Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence; Interactive Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Software Systems. Areas of Specialty: Performative and Mobile Art and Creativity; Performative and Mobile Art and Creativity. |
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Ryan M. Eustice Address: 204 NAME Building Phone: (734) 647-9411 Fax: (734) 936-8820 Email: eustice@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. MIT / WHOI Joint Program Title: Assistant Professor Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering; Assistant Professor of Elec. Eng. and Computer Science; Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental research in probabilistic robotics for large-scale mapping and navigation. Specific topics include vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping, underwater computer vision and image processing, data fusion, underwater vehicle navigation, and autonomous vehicles. Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics and Computer Vision. |
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John H. Holland Address: 1255 East Hall Phone: (734) 763-3648 Email: jholland@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. U. Michigan Title: EECS Professor; Professor, Psychology Department; Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Cognitive Architectures; Machine Learning. |
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Benjamin Kuipers Address: 3741 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 647-6887 Fax: (734) 763-1260 Email: kuipers@umich.edu Degree: PhD., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: EECS Professor; Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics and Computer Vision. Areas of Specialty: Robotics; Computer Vision. |
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John E. Laird Address: 3753 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 647-1761 Fax: (734) 763-1260 Email: laird@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon Title: John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering; EECS Professor; Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Architectures, Machine learning, and Computer Games Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Cognitive Architectures; Machine Learning; Robotics. |
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Honglak Lee Address: 3773 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 764-3726 Email: honglak@umich.edu Degree: PhD Stanford University Title: Assistant Professor; Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Audio Recognition, Text Processing, Robotic Perception, Cognitive Architectures, Data Mining Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence; Signal and Image Processing; Robotics and Computer Vision. Areas of Specialty: Machine Learning; Statistical Estimation and Learning; Computer Vision. |
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Qiaozhu Mei Address: 303D West Hall Phone: (734) 763-0076 Email: qmei@umich.edu Degree: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne Title: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Assistant Professor, School of Information; Research Interests: information retrieval, text mining, social network analysis, and biomedical informatics Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. |
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Edwin Olson Address: 3737 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 647-1049 Fax: (734) 763-1260 Email: ebolson@umich.edu Degree: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Assistant Professor; Research Interests: Prof. Edwin Olson's interests focus on finding ways for robots to sense and understand their environment while coping with uncertainty and ambiguity. The perception problem is central to a variety of practical applications, from indoor robots that can lead tours or deliver mail to autonomous cars that can navigate urban environments. His work includes both fundamental algorithm research (optimization, state estimation, classification) and system building. Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics and Computer Vision. Areas of Specialty: Machine Learning; Robotics. |
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Thad A. Polk Address: 525 E. University Phone: (734) 647-6982 Fax: 734-763-7480 Email: tpolk@umich.edu Degree: PhD CMU Title: Assoc Professor; Assoc Professor, LS&A Psychology; Director, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience; Research Interests: Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Cognitive Architectures. |
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Martha Pollack Address: 3052 Fleming Administration Bldg. Phone: 734-763-1282 Email: pollackm@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Title: Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Professor of School of Information; Vice Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs; Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, planning and execution, agent-based systems, computational models of rationality Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Constraint-based Reasoning; Assistive Technology. |
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Dragomir Radev Address: 3769 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 764-3726 Fax: (734) 764-2475 Email: radev@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Columbia University Title: EECS Professor; Professor, School of Information; Research Interests: Information retrieval, natural language processing, digital libraries, text and data mining, artificial intelligence Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Bioinformatics; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. |
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Clayton D Scott Address: 4433 EECS Phone: (734) 615-3656 Fax: 734 763-8041 Email: clayscot@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Rice University Title: Associate Professor; Research Interests: Machine learning theory, methods, and applications. Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence; Signal and Image Processing. Areas of Specialty: Machine Learning; Computational Imaging and Inverse Problems; Statistical Estimation and Learning. |
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Zeeshan H. Syed Address: 3777 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 936-1272 Fax: 734-763-1260 Email: zhs@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D, MIT Research Interests: Application of machine learning and signal processing to problems in clinical medicine and developing world healthcare. Specific areas include computational biomarkers to predict cardiovascular and neurological disorders; treatment planning for cancer and surgery; low-cost software-based surrogates for expensive diagnostic hardware; sustainable information and communication technologies for global health education and disease prevention. Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence; Signal and Image Processing; Software Systems. Areas of Specialty: Machine Learning; Computational Healthcare. |
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Michael Wellman Address: 3757 Beyster Bldg. Phone: (734) 764-6894 Fax: (734) 763-1260 Email: wellman@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. MIT Title: EECS Professor; Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Commerce Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence. Areas of Specialty: Multiagent Systems; Electronic Commerce; Constraint-based Reasoning. |