AI Degree Program Faculty

Faculty

Houssam Abbas

Houssam Abbas

Assistant Professor

houssam.abbas@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Formal methods, logical and automated reasoning, computational ethics, planning, cyber-physical systems verification and control

Julie A. Adams

Julie A. Adams

Professor
College of Engineering Dean's Professor

julie.a.adams@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Human-machine teaming, distributed artificial intelligence, multiple and collective robotics

Alireza Aghasi

Alireza Aghasi

Associate Professor

alireza.aghasi@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

AI theory and algorithm analysis, high dimensional probability, signal and information processing

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Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya

Associate Professor

Sharmodeep.Bhattacharyya@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Statistics, machine learning, network analysis, neuroscience

Lizhong Chen

Lizhong Chen

Associate Professor

chenliz@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

AI accelerators, computing efficiency of machine learning, natural language processing

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Maude David

Assistant Professor

maude.david@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

AI and machine learning applied to microbiome

Tom Dietterich

Thomas G. Dietterich

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

tgd@cs.orst.edu

Research Expertise

Robust ai, machine learning, anomaly detection, computational sustainability

Patrick Donnelly

Patrick Donnelly

Assistant Professor

Patrick.Donnelly@osucascades.edu

Research Expertise

Deep learning for non-speech audio, machine learning for music

Alan Fern

Alan Fern

Professor

alan.fern@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Reinforcement learning, planning, humanoid robotics, agricultural AI

Xiaoli Fern

Xiaoli Fern

Associate Professor

xfern@eecs.oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Applied machine learning, graph learning, explainability in machine learning, machine learning for microbiome

Naomi Fitter

Naomi Fitter

Assistant Professor
Kearney Faculty Scholar

naomi.fitter@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Human-robot interaction, socially assistive robotics, haptics, engineering education

Xiao Fu

Xiao Fu

Associate Professor

xiao.fu@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Machine learning, signal processing, optimization

Bechir Hamdaoui

Bechir Hamdaoui

Professor

hamdaoui@eecs.oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Intelligent networked systems; wireless and network cyber security; AI for wireless and wireless security

David Hendrix

David Hendrix

Associate Professor

david.hendrix@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Bioinformatics, computational biology, biological data science, data mining, machine learning

Sanghyun Hong

Sanghyun Hong

Assistant Professor

sanghyun.hong@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Trustworthy ai, machine learning, efficient machine learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, machine learning for security

Liang Huang

Liang Huang

Professor

liang.huang@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Computational linguistics (translation, parsing); computational biology (RNA folding and design); algorithms

Jinsub Kim

Jinsub Kim

Associate Professor

jinsub.kim@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Security of machine learning, machine learning and AI for energy systems, autonomous systems

Heather Knight

Heather Knight

Assistant Professor

heather.knight@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Social robotics, human-robot interaction

Stefan Lee

Stefan Lee

Assistant Professor

leestef@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning

Fuxin Li

Fuxin Li

Associate Professor

fuxin.li@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Computer vision, explainable machine learning, deep learning

V John Mathews

V John Mathews

Professor

Mathews@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Signal processing and machine learning; adaptation and online learning; neural engineering and structural health monitoring.

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Karthika Mohan

Assistant Professor

karthika.mohan@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Causal inference, graphical models, missing data, non-independent and identically distributed data, interference

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Raviv Raich

Professor

raich@eecs.oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Signal processing and machine learning, optimization, probabilistic modeling

Stephen Ramsey

Stephen Ramsey

Associate Professor

ramseyst@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Bioinformatics, computational biology, precision medicine, knowledge graphs

Sandhya Saisubramanian

Sandhya Saisubramanian

Assistant Professor

sandhya.sai@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Automated planning, reinforcement learning, AI safety

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Cory Simon

Associate Professor

cory.simon@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Molecular machine learning

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Bill Smart

Professor

smartw@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Machine learning, Reinforcement learning, robotics, AI

Prasad Tadepalli

Prasad Tadepalli

Professor

tadepall@eecs.oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Reinforcement learning, explainable ai, automated planning, machine learning

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Arash Termehchy

Associate Professor

termehca@eecs.oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Reasoning and ML on raw data, reasoning and ML on structured data, scalable and robust ML, data systems, human-data interaction

Sinisa Todorovic

Sinisa Todorovic

Professor

sinisa@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Computer vision: semantic and instance segmentation in images; action segmentation in videos; few-shot, weakly-supervised, cross-domain settings of these vision problems

Kagan Tumer

Kagan Tumer

Professor

kagan.tumer@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Multiagent reinforcement learning, multi-objective learning

Huazheng Wang

Huazheng Wang

Assistant Professor

huazheng.wang@oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Information retrieval, reinforcement learning, trustworthy AI

Weng-Keen Wong

Weng-Keen Wong

Professor

wong@eecs.oregonstate.edu

Research Expertise

Machine learning; probabilistic graphical models; anomaly detection; human-in-the-loop learning; computational sustainability.

Affiliated Faculty

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Ravi Balasubramanian

Associate Professor

ravi.balasubramanian@oregonstate.edu

Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute | Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Robotics
Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez

Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez

Professor

ecs@oregonstate.edu

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Data Science and Engineering | Energy Systems
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Geoff Hollinger

Associate Professor
Ron and Judy Adams Faculty Scholar

geoff.hollinger@oregonstate.edu

Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute | Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Robotics

Interdisciplinary Advisory Committee

The IACAI advises on strategic directions for the AI program, including potential new courses, student and faculty recruitment, and cross-college research collaboration opportunities.

  • Matt Betts, College of Forestry:  Landscape and wildlife ecology
  • Xiaohui Chang, College of Business:  Space-time modeling for environmental applications and business; big data collected from social media; machine learning
  • Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, College of Science: Chemistry
  • Cass Dykman, College of Education:  Sentiment analysis, natural language processing, Bayesian statistics, AI augmented counter-intelligence
  • Xiaoli Fern, College of Engineering:  Applied machine learning, graph learning, explainability in machine learning, machine learning for microbiome
  • David Hendrix (co-chair), College of Engineering: bioinformatics, computational biology, biological data science, data mining, machine learning
  • Emily Ho, College of Health: Biology and population health
  • Liang Huang (chair), College of Engineering:  Natural language processing (translation, parsing, etc.), computational biology (RNA folding, mRNA design, RNA design, etc.)
  • Pankaj Jaiswal, College of Agricultural Sciences:  Genomics; bioinformatics, natural language processing, machine learning, high throughput phenotyping, big data
  • Jinsub Kim, College of Engineering:  Security of machine learning, machine learning and AI for energy systems, autonomous systems
  • Molly Megraw, College of Agricultural Sciences:  Computational biology; genomics; bioinformatics; interpretable classical machine learning techniques for highly dependent feature sets
  • Stephen Ramsey, College of Veterinary Medicine:  Precision medicine; biomedical knowledge graphs; bioinformatics
  • Gaurav Sahay, College of Pharmacy:  Lipid Nanoparticles for delivery of mRNA for therapeutic applications (gene delivery, gene editing), using AI to design nanoparticles
  • Christopher A. Sanchez, College of Liberal Arts:  Human-computer interaction, human-centered design, cognitive science, decision making
  • Steve Strauss, College of Forestry:  Biotechnology, genetically modified organisms, gene editing, CRISPR, regulations, sustainability, wood, carbon, trees, agriculture, genomics, environment
  • Robyn Tanguay, College of Agricultural Sciences:  Environmental and molecular toxicology
  • Yelda Turkan, College of Engineering:  Construction engineering
  • Nicole von Germeten, College of Liberal Arts:  Global history, gender, race, religion, storytelling
  • James Watson, College of Earth,Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences:  Complex adaptive systems