AI Degree Program Faculty
Faculty
Houssam Abbas
Associate Professor
Research Expertise
Formal methods, logical and automated reasoning, computational ethics, planning, cyber-physical systems verification and control.
Julie A. Adams
Professor College of Engineering Dean's Professor
Research Expertise
Human-machine teaming, distributed artificial intelligence, multiple and collective robotics.
Alireza Aghasi
Associate Professor
alireza.aghasi@oregonstate.edu
Research Expertise
AI theory and algorithm analysis, high dimensional probability, signal and information processing.
Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya
Associate Professor
Sharmodeep.Bhattacharyya@oregonstate.edu
Research Expertise
Statistics, machine learning, network analysis, and neuroscience.
Lizhong Chen
Professor
Research Expertise
AI accelerators, computing efficiency of machine learning, natural language processing
Maude David
Assistant Professor
Research Expertise
AI and machine learning applied to microbiome
Thomas G. Dietterich
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Expertise
Robust AI, machine learning, anomaly detection, and computational sustainability.
Wenqian Dong
Assistant Professor
Research Expertise
Machine learning systems, AI for Science, and high-performance computing.
Patrick Donnelly
Associate Professor
Patrick.Donnelly@osucascades.edu
Research Expertise
Deep learning for non-speech audio, machine learning for music
Alan Fern
Professor
Research Expertise
Reinforcement learning, planning, humanoid robotics, and agricultural AI.
Xiaoli Fern
Professor
Research Expertise
Applied machine learning, graph learning, explainability in machine learning, and machine learning for microbiome.
Naomi Fitter
Associate Professor
Research Expertise
Physical human-robot interaction, socially assistive robotics, haptics, robots in education, and robotic entertainers.
Xiao Fu
Associate Professor
Research Expertise
Machine learning, signal processing, and optimization. His research interests include the broad area of signal processing and machine learning, with recent emphases on factor analysis (tensor and matrix factorization), large-scale optimization for data mining, and applications of deep neural nets in signal processing.
Bechir Hamdaoui
Professor
Research Expertise
Intelligent networked systems; wireless and network cyber security; AI for wireless and wireless security.
David Hendrix
Professor
Research Expertise
Bioinformatics, computational biology, biological data science, data mining, and machine learning.
Sanghyun Hong
Assistant Professor
Research Expertise
Trustworthy ai, machine learning, efficient machine learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, machine learning for security
Liang Huang
Professor
Research Expertise
Computational linguistics (translation, parsing), computational biology (RNA folding and design), and algorithms.
Rebecca Hutchinson
Associate Professor Kearney Faculty Scholar
Peter G. Jacobs
Professor James and Shirley Kuse Chair in Chemical Engineering
Research Expertise
Medical device design, ubiquitous sensing technologies, machine learning, control systems, and signal processing as applied towards diabetes technologies and other diseases including multiple sclerosis.
Cédric John
Courtesy Appointment (Professor as of 9/15/2026)
Research Expertise
Foundation and multimodal generative models for Earth Sciences, deep learning for subsurface and remote sensing data, AI for climate and energy transition, neural surrogates for stratigraphic simulation
Jinsub Kim
Associate Professor
Research Expertise
Security of machine learning, machine learning and AI for energy systems, autonomous systems
Stefan Lee
Associate Professor Brent and Elaine Leback Professor in Engineering
Research Expertise
Computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Fuxin Li
Professor
Research Expertise
Computer vision, explainable machine learning, deep learning
Leandro F. Maia
Assistant Professor
Research Expertise
Large-scale continuous optimization, optimization for machine learning/data science, and distributed optimization.
V John Mathews
Professor
Research Expertise
Signal processing and machine learning; adaptation and online learning; neural engineering and structural health monitoring.
Karthika Mohan
Assistant Professor
karthika.mohan@oregonstate.edu
Research Expertise
Causal inference, graphical models, missing data, non-independent and identically distributed data, and interference.
Raviv Raich
Professor
Research Expertise
Signal processing and machine learning, optimization, probabilistic modeling
Stephen Ramsey
Professor
Research Expertise
Bioinformatics, computational biology, precision medicine, and knowledge graphs.
Sandhya Saisubramanian
Assistant Professor
Research Expertise
Automated planning, reinforcement learning, AI safety
Cory Simon
Associate Professor
Research Expertise
Applied machine learning and optimization; automated decision-making algorithms. Bayesian optimization for the adaptive design of experiments to efficiently discover and synthesize molecules and materials Bayesian statistical inference to solve physical inverse problems with quantified uncertainty while incorporating prior information Computational design of arrays of nanoporous materials for gas sensing and machine learning to interpret their response patterns Stochastic schedules for mobile robots, equipped with chemical or radiation sensors, to efficiently and unpredictably patrol an environment for anomalies
Bill Smart
Professor
Research Expertise
Machine learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and AI.
Prasad Tadepalli
Professor
Research Expertise
Reinforcement learning, explainable ai, automated planning, machine learning
Arash Termehchy
Associate Professor
Research Expertise
Reasoning and ML on raw data, reasoning and ML on structured data, scalable and robust ML, data systems, and human-data interaction.
Sinisa Todorovic
Professor
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
Professor
Research Expertise
Multiagent reinforcement learning and multi-objective learning.
Huazheng Wang
Assistant Professor
Research Expertise
Information retrieval, reinforcement learning, and trustworthy AI.
Weng-Keen Wong
Professor
Research Expertise
Machine learning; probabilistic graphical models; anomaly detection; human-in-the-loop learning; computational sustainability.
Jing Zhou
Assistant Professor
Research Expertise
Digital Agriculture, Smart Farming, Agricultural Autonomy
Affiliated Faculty
Ravi Balasubramanian
Associate Professor
ravi.balasubramanian@oregonstate.edu
Research Groups
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Robotics
Jason Clark
Associate Professor of Teaching
Research Groups
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Electronic Materials and Devices | Integrated Electronics | Health Engineering | Computer Science Education
Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Additional Positions
Professor
Research Groups
Data Science and Engineering | Energy Systems
Geoff Hollinger
Professor
geoff.hollinger@oregonstate.edu
Research Groups
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