AI/ML/Data Mining/Signal Processing
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Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related areas have transformed all aspects of our society and are poised to accelerate the pace of discovery in every scientific field. The College of Science and Engineering has a strong network of faculty who are pushing the boundaries of research in each of these areas.
Affiliated Faculty
![chris](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/bartel-new.jpg.webp?itok=4MZATUBU)
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
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![Mahdi Bayat](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mahdi%20Bayat.webp?itok=jWNEZZxJ)
Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Informatics,
Imaging Informatics Area Leader, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
![natalie](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/boehnke%20200.jpg.webp?itok=ujdjfmOs)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
![Rene Boiteau](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/rene%20boiteau_headshot.jpg.webp?itok=d99A8kBQ)
![Jeff Calder headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/calder.jpeg.webp?itok=0ZlhB3-4)
![Yu (Kevin) Cao](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Kevin_Yu_Cao_0.jpg.webp?itok=gN-nZCWc)
![Martina Cardone](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/martina%20cardone.jpg.webp?itok=9I4Mcz8t)
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Stevie Chancellor](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Chancellor_Stevie_headshot_thumb_0.jpg.webp?itok=GlFNt4-N)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Yao-Yi Chiang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yao-Yi%20Chiang.jpeg.webp?itok=-T_U9yo5)
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Changhyun Choi](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Changhyun%20Choi_2.jpg.webp?itok=yaG6gjt1)
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Seongjin Choi](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/sjchoi.jpeg.webp?itok=K8ozIRj3)
Assistant Professor (beginnning January 2024), Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Michael Coughlin headhot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/_AES5786.jpeg.webp?itok=BUhGLLlv)
![Ying Cui headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ying-Cui.jpeg.webp?itok=SalTZKhF)
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
![Prodromos Daoutidis](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/prodromos%20200-2_0.jpg.webp?itok=crwRbVn7)
College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor and Executive Officer, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
![Jie Ding](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Jie%20Ding.jpeg.webp?itok=aYz-dElV)
![K dos Santos](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/K%20dos%20Santos_0.jpeg.webp?itok=svzC0LVC)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Traian Dumitricã headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Dumitrica_200x300_0.jpeg.webp?itok=HDT9ydOp)
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![Lucy Fortson](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/LucyFortsonTate2018-compressed.jpg.webp?itok=eR6eu22Q)
Associate Head, School of Physics and Astronomy,
Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Renee Frontiera](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Renee%20FrontieraNP.jpg.webp?itok=bStOR7VG)
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Chemical Physics, Department of Chemistry
![Ge Chang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ge_Chang_headshot.jpeg.webp?itok=5lLbdE1B)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Michele Guala](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/michele-guala_0.jpg.webp?itok=FwAq6K7e)
Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
![Gregory Handy](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Gregory%20Handy.jpeg.webp?itok=WGUE76PT)
![Professor Jarvis Haupt](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Jarvis%20Haupt.jpg.webp?itok=j6V314ki)
Associate Professor; Associate Dept. Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Christy Haynes](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ChristyHaynes%202023_2.jpg.webp?itok=JQCSeXEy)
Department Head, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry
![Qizhi He](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/IMG-0044%20%281%29_0.jpeg.webp?itok=zCFPwRMy)
![Alon Herschhorn](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Alon%20Herschhorn.png.webp?itok=4XblvnKH)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Medical School
![Mingyi Hong](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mingyi%20Hong_1.jpg.webp?itok=GeO7dtlN)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Krishnamurthy Iyer headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/00100sPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20191226122444242_COVER-1.jpeg.webp?itok=q7R6Fw_n)
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
![Richard D. James headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Jamesresized_1.jpeg.webp?itok=s1J5DgZb)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Mechanics
![Zhenong Jin headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/zhenongjin_2019_headshot2.jpeg.webp?itok=6P1tTao0)
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
![Dongyeop Kang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/dykang2-enhanced.jpg.webp?itok=_C3VPfE4)
![George Karypis headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/GeorgeKarypis_0.png.webp?itok=nmwdZHzG)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Mostafa Kaveh](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mos%20Kaveh_0_1.jpg.webp?itok=vql0tObT)
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Alireza Khani headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/khani-web.jpeg.webp?itok=wlLUozG-)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Steven Koester](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Steve%20Koester_2.jpg.webp?itok=o-C1gxDZ)
Russell J. Penrose Professor in Nanotechnology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![konstan](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Joseph%20Konstan.jpg.webp?itok=TIZv7CZs)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor;,
Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
Associate Dean for Research, College of Science & Engineering
![Vipin Kumar headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Kumar_Vipin_1.jpg.webp?itok=6RYEj1QF)
Regents Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing,
Director, CSE Data Science Initiative
![Erich Kummerfeld](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Erich%20Kummerfeld.jpg.webp?itok=r8Tfgx4E)
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![Andrew Lamperski](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Andrew%20Lamperski_1.jpg.webp?itok=vukNJ3Am)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![William Leeb](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/wleeb_0.jpeg.webp?itok=d8H9YbN0)
![Lauren Linderman](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Lauren%20Linderman.jpeg.webp?itok=KmIADyNR)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Zhaosong Lu headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Zhaosong%20Lu%20-%20icon.jpeg.webp?itok=yHH7pYiS)
Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
![Yulong Lu](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yulong%20Lu.jpeg.webp?itok=iP8hNK8l)
![Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mohammad%20Maddah-Ali_2_1.jpg.webp?itok=aabxpImq)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Vuk Mandic](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Vuk_2019_1%20crop_0.jpeg.webp?itok=5TUdVgqK)
![Soheil Mohajer headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Soheil%20Mohajer.jpeg.webp?itok=r3WWiCIG)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Mohamed F. Mokbel](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mokbel_Mohammed_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=Q23AvHtY)
Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Peter Olver](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/peter_olver%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=wXEU3o9_)
![Rajamani_200x300.jpg Image Unavailable](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-06/Rajamani_200x300.jpg.webp?itok=VRxyLY1F)
Benjamin Y.H. Liu / TSI Applied Technology Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
![Marc Riedel](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Marc%20Riedel_no%20shadow_0.jpg.webp?itok=47GgD63S)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Sandra Safo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/safo-sandra.jpg.webp?itok=TdRrdVmP)
Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, School of Public Health
![Murti Salapaka headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Murti%20Salapaka.jpeg.webp?itok=pjzLlRxh)
Professor, Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Sachin Sapatnekar](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sachin%20Sapatnekar_2.jpg.webp?itok=uYGDjTzw)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Robert and Marjorie Henle Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![John Sartori](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/John%20Sartori_0.jpg.webp?itok=1g2WQI7f)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Shashi Shekhar](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Shekhar_Shashi_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=sA1oMP_b)
Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
ADC/CSE Chair
![Lian Shen headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Shen_200x300.jpeg.webp?itok=5T8FKG7u)
![Jaideep Srivastava headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Srivastava_Jaideep_1.jpg.webp?itok=OufXEncl)
Professor, Data Science Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Michael Steinbach umn](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/steinbach.jpeg.webp?itok=xegda2ou)
Researcher, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
Assistant Director, CSE Data Science Initiative
![Nadja Strobbe](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Strobbe%20Nadja%20SMALL.png.webp?itok=099Q5gce)
![Ju Sun](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sun_Ju_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=3WaKD8Qv)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Xiaoran Sun](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sun-X-2022-hdshot_0.jpg.webp?itok=7pPGyAdn)
![Ellad B. Tadmor headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Tadmorresized.jpeg.webp?itok=zj44qaAx)
![Yogatheesan Varatharajah](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yogatheesan%20Varatharajah.jpeg.webp?itok=lsnUAn1C)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![ceyang.jpg Ce Yang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-07/ceyang.jpg.webp?itok=f_3y1EBK)
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
![Suo Yang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yang_200x300_0.jpg.webp?itok=RrjLYP6n)
Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
![Qi Zhang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Zhang_Photo.jpeg.webp?itok=H393leAc)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
![Rui Zhang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Rui%20Zhang.png.webp?itok=GbpnS18i)
Founding Division Chief of the Division of Computational Health Sciences, Medical School
![Yiling-Zhang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yiling-Zhang---icon.jpg.webp?itok=_-24WHa1)
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
![Zhi-Li Zhang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Zhang_Zhi-Li_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=blp7WFeg)
Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Qwest Land Grant Chair in Telecommunications, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Catherine](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Zhao_Catherine_1.jpeg.webp?itok=qwDyB4Od)
![di zhu headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/IMG_1129%202.jpeg.webp?itok=KJQqXtNZ)
Labs and Research Groups
- Agricultural Robotics Laboratory
- Computational Reactive Flow & Energy Lab (CRFEL)
- Decision Discovery and Optimization Laboratory
- GroupLens
- Group of Learning, Optimization, Vision, Healthcare, and X (GLOVEX)
- Knowledge Computing Laboratory
- He Research Group
- UMN Networking Research Group
- Natural Language Processing/Information Extraction Program
- Richard D. James Research Group
- Information Processing Group
- Laboratory for Innovations in Sensing, Estimation, and Control (LISEC)
- Salapaka Lab
- UMN Transit Laboratory
Organizations
- Anthropological and Mathematical Analysis of Archaeological and Zooarchaeological Evidence (AMAAZE) Consortium
- ColabFit Dataset Exchange, Informatics for Advanced Materials and Chemistry
- Minnesota Robotics Institute
Selected Projects
- Robustness of Machine Learning Algorithms for HEP Event Reconstruction. See also Strobbe gets grant to study machine learning.
- Collaborative Research: CISE: Large: Integrated Networking, Edge System and AI Support for Resilient and Safety-Critical Tele-Operations of Autonomous Vehicles. See also Zhi-Li Zhang Earns $4.25 Million NSF Grant for Autonomous Vehicle Research.
- SCH: A New Computational Framework for Learning from Imbalanced Biomedical Data. Aee also Ju Sun Receives $4.5M in Funding for Medical AI Projects and Beyond.
- Advancing Deep Learning for Inverse Modeling
- Extracting Models of Minerals from Knowledge. See also CriticalMAAS AIM & MinMod and DARPA-Yao-Yi Chiang Receives $3.2M in Funding to Leverage AI in Predicting Mineral Deposits.
- At-Scale Heterogeneous Data based Adaptive Development Platform for Machine-Learning Models for Material and Chemical Discovery
- Collaborative Research: Reliable Materials Simulation based on the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM)
- Harnessing the Data Revolution: Knowledge Guided Machine Learning
- High-fidelity simulations and data-driven models with turbine controls
- Kite
- Predictive Modeling of Sleep Quality from Sleep Behavior Data
- Reliable Materials Simulation based on the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM)