Overview
The Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIR) group studies theory, algorithms, and systems for making intelligent decisions in complex and uncertain environments. The research covers most aspects of AIR including perception and interpretation of sensor data, learning about environments, learning to make decisions, automated planning and reasoning, and interaction of AIR systems with each other and with humans. The group studies AIR systems for both virtual and physical worlds under varying levels of autonomy, ranging from decision support systems to full autonomy.
The research is grounded in a wide range of applications. Example decision support applications include forest fire management, species conservation, emergency response, and precision agriculture. Our robotics applications include intelligent wheel chairs, ocean exploration, medical applications, and agriculture.
The faculty members in this research group are also part the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute. This interdisciplinary group is made up of 25 core faculty researchers and 180 graduate students, and another 40 collaborators across the university who apply robotics and AI in their work. The institute is committed to exploring the impact of robotics and AI on individuals and society through its three principal impact areas: academics, research, and deployed systems and policy.
Sub Areas
- Automated Decision Making and Control
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
- Robotics
Faculty
Houssam Abbas
Assistant Professor
Research
Design, control and verification of cyber-physical systems; ethics in AI
Julie A. Adams
Professor
Research
Distributed artificial intelligence; robotics; human-machine teaming; human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction
Alireza Aghasi
Associate Professor
alireza.aghasi@oregonstate.edu
Research
Data science and machine learning; signal and image processing; optimization theory; statistics and probability theory
Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya
Associate Professor
Sharmodeep.Bhattacharyya@oregonstate.edu
Research
Lizhong Chen
Professor
Research
CPU and GPU architecture; high-performance computing; machine learning accelerators; data centers; natural language processing.
Jason Clark
Associate Professor of Teaching
Research
Polymechatronics; electro micro metrology; microrobotics; artificial engineering; computer-aided design and engineering; intelligent tutoring systems
Thomas G. Dietterich
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research
Machine learning; safe and robust AI systems; sensor networks; intelligent user interfaces
Patrick Donnelly
Assistant Professor
Patrick.Donnelly@osucascades.edu
Research
Deep learning from non-speech audio; educational data mining from audio; large imbalanced datasets; machine learning in the musical domain
Alan Fern
Professor
Research
Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, data mining, and automated planning/control
Xiaoli Fern
Associate Professor
Research
Machine learning; data mining; unsupervised learning; ecosystem informatics; natural language processing
Xiao Fu
Associate Professor
Research
Topic modeling; large-scale structured matrix/tensor factorization algorithms; multivew analysis, canonical correlation analysis; hyperspectral imaging
David Hendrix
Professor
Research
Motif finding; non-coding RNA structure and function analysis; apps of machine learning to computational biology; deep sequencing data analysis
Sanghyun Hong
Assistant Professor
Research
Security, privacy, and machine learning, especially on building secure and reliable AI systems from a systems security perspective
Liang Huang
Professor
Research
Natural language processing, including parsing and translation; structured machine learning; computational structural biology (RNA and protein folding); deep learning
Stefan Lee
Associate Professor
Research
Computer vision; natural language processing; deep learning; machine learning.
Fuxin Li
Associate Professor
Research
Computer vision; deep learning; machine learning; segmentation-based object recognition and scene understanding; spatio-temporal video analysis.
Karthika Mohan
Assistant Professor
karthika.mohan@oregonstate.edu
Research
Causal inference; graphical models; AI safety
Raviv Raich
Professor
Research
Adaptive sensing/sampling; manifold learning; sparse representations for signal processing.
Stephen Ramsey
Professor
Research
Machine learning; computational systems biology; bioinformatics; integrative computational methods to map gene regulatory networks
Sandhya Saisubramanian
Assistant Professor
Research
Automated planning, reinforcement learning, safe and reliable AI.
Prasad Tadepalli
Professor
Research
Artificial intelligence; machine learning; automated planning; natural language processing.
Arash Termehchy
Associate Professor
Research
Reasoning and ML on raw data; reasoning and ML on structured data; scalable and robust ML; data systems; human-data interaction
Sinisa Todorovic
Professor
Research
Object recognition; region / shape matching; texture; video object segmentation; stochastic image grammars.
Huazheng Wang
Assistant Professor
Research
Machine learning; reinforcement learning; information retrieval; data mining
Weng-Keen Wong
Professor
Research
Machine learning; probabilistic graphical models; anomaly detection; human-in-the-loop learning; computational sustainability.
Affiliated Faculty
Ravi Balasubramanian
Associate Professor
ravi.balasubramanian@oregonstate.edu
Research
Robust operation in unstructured environments; neural control and biomechanics
Matthew Campbell
Professor
Research
Design automation and optimization; graph topology optimization; artificial intelligence in engineering design; automated manufacturing planning; product design and development
Geoff Hollinger
Professor
geoff.hollinger@oregonstate.edu
Research
Planning, coordination, and learning techniques for autonomous robotic systems
Bill Smart
Professor
Research
Improving interactions between people and robots; enabling robots to be self-sufficient; robots as personal assistants for people with severe motor disabilities
Kagan Tumer
Professor
Research
Learning, optimization & control in large complex systems; learning & coordination in multiagent systems; distributed reinforcement learning; evolutionary algorithms for control & optimization