Research

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Satinder S. Baveja, Director
3749 Beyster Bldg.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121
PH: 734-936-2831
baveja@eecs.umich.edu


Kimberly Mann
Research Proc. Coordinator
3820 Beyster Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121
PH: 734-763-6985
Fax: 734-763-1260
kimrmann@umich.edu

Faculty

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.
 
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.
 
Ella M. Atkins
Address: 3009 FXB
Phone: (734) 615-7456
Email: ematkins@umich.edu
Degree: Ph.D. University of Michigan
Title: Associate Professor; Associate 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.
 
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; Theory of Computation.
Areas of Specialty: Cognitive Architectures; Multiagent Systems; Machine Learning; Electronic Commerce; Assistive Technology; The Intersection of Computer Science and Economics; Healthcare Computing.
 
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; Electronic Commerce; Constraint-based Reasoning; Assistive Technology; Robotics.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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: Machine Learning; Robotics; Computer Vision.
 
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.
 
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; Healthcare Computing.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
Areas of Specialty: Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval; Computational Healthcare; Healthcare Computing.
 
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; Theory of Computation.
Areas of Specialty: Multiagent Systems; Electronic Commerce; Constraint-based Reasoning; The Intersection of Computer Science and Economics.