Our Team

Our institute is composed of distinguished faculty across all UCR colleges and schools. Each member brings unique expertise and a commitment to pushing the frontiers of AI research.

AI Foundations

• Machine Learning

  Machine Learning

  

  Thrust Lead: Vagelis Papalexakis (Computer Science and Engineering, BCOE)

  

  Salman Asif

  

  Bir Bhanu

  

  Yuzhou Chen

  

  Evangelos Christidis

  

  Yue Dong

  

  Eamonn Keogh

  

  Shujie Ma

  

  Amit Roy-Chowdhury

  

  Vishwanath Saragadam

  

  Christian Shelton

  

  Greg ver Steeg

  

  Shuheng Zhou

  

  Yinglun Zhu

• Robotics and Embodied AI

  Robotics and Embodied AI

  

  Thrust Lead: Konstantinos Karydis (Electrical and Computer Engineering, BCOE)

  

  Mingyu Cai

  

  Ioannis Karamouzas

  

  Jiachen Li

  

  Cong Liu

  

  Hang Qiu

AI Applications

AI in Computational Sciences

• Systems and Security

  Systems and Security

  

  Thrust Lead: Srikanth Krishnamurthy (Computer Science and Engineering, BCOE)

  

  Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

  

  Emiliano De Cristofaro

  

  Ahmed Eldawy

  

  Basak Guler

  

  Trent Jaeger

  

  Hyoseung Kim

  

  Hamed Mohsenian-Rad

  

  Zhiyun Qian

  

  Chengyu Song

  

  Zhaowei Tan

  

  Vassilis Tsotras

  

  Heng Yin

  

  Nanpeng Yu

• Scientific Computing

  Scientific Computing

  

  Thrust Lead: Mark Alber (Mathematics, CNAS)

  

  Weitao Chen

  

  James Flegal

  

  Alfonso Landeros

  

  Maziar Raissi

  

  Shaolei Ren

  

  Craig Schroeder

  

  Tamar Shinar

AI in Natural and Agricultural Sciences

• Agriculture, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences

  Agriculture, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences

  

  Thrust Lead: Hoori Ajami (Environmental Sciences, CNAS)

  

  Boris Baer

  

  Abhijit Ghosh

  

  Tony Grubesic

  

  King-Fai Li

  

  Amr Magdy

  

  Elia Scudiero

  

  Luat Vuong

  

  Ran Wei

• Physical Sciences

  Physical Sciences

  

  Thrust Lead: Chia-en Chang (Chemistry, CNAS)

  

  Gregory Beran

  

  Simeon Bird

  

  Bahram Mobasher

  

  Yiwei Wang

  

  Bryan Wong
   

AI in Biology and Medicine

• Bioinformatics and Biomedical Sciences

  Bioinformatics and Biomedical Sciences

  

  Thrust Lead: Monica Carson (Biomedical Sciences, SOM)

  

  Wei-Chun Chou

  

  Adam Godzik

  

  Elizabeth Jacobs

  

  Tao Jiang

  

  Wei Vivian Li

  

  Stefano Lonardi

  

  Wenxiu Ma

  

  Mingxun Wang

  

  Sika Zheng

• Public Health

  Public Health

  

  Thrust Lead: Mario Sims (Social Medicine, Population and Public Health, SOM)

  

  Xinping Cui

  

  Zhe Fei

  

  Esra Kurum

  

  Daniel Novak

  

  Mark Wolfson

AI in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business

• Social Sciences

  Social Sciences

  

  Thrust Lead: Kevin Esterling (Political Science, CHASS)

  

  Ian Ballard

  

  Richard Carpiano

  

  Michalis Faloutsos

  

  Diogo Ferrari

  

  Nicholas Napolio

  

  Eric Schwitzgebel

• Economics and Business

  Economics and Business

  

  Thrust Lead: Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera (Economics, CHASS)

  

  Hai Che

  

  Ozkan Eren

  

  Bree Lang

  

  Tae-Hwy Lee

  

  Danko Turcic

AI Education

• Education and Outreach

  Education and Outreach

  

  Thrust Lead: Mariam Salloum (Computer Science and Engineering, BCOE)

  

  Jia Chen

  

  Richard Edwards

  

  Analisa Flores

  

  Paea LePendu

  

  Soojin Park