Artificial Intelligence Research
Artificial Intelligence research at UR includes work on knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, dialog systems, statistical natural language processing, automated planning, AI-based assistive technology, and computer vision. We collaborate with the departments of linguistics and brain and cognitive sciences. We participate in the Center for Language Sciences, the Center for Visual Science, and The Goergen Institute for Data Science.
Allen, James F.
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning
Bai, Zhen
Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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- 3007 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-7758
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Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI
Cetin, Mujdat
Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science
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- 1211 Wegmans Hall and 719 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 276-5061
Interests: computational sensing and imaging as applied to radar and biomedical imaging; probabilistic methods for image and video analysis as applied to biomedical image analysis, microscopic neuroimaging, and computer vision; signal processing and machine learning for brain-computer/machine interfaces, with applications for alternative communication and rehabilitation for patients and monitoring of cognitive states
Duan, Zhiyao
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
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- 720 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 275-5302
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Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval
Ferguson, George
Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program
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- 2103 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems
Ghoshal, Gourab
Professor of Physics
Professor of Computer Science
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- 464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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- (585) 276-7748
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Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics and data science
Gildea, Daniel
Professor of Computer Science
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- 3019 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-7230
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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
Haefner, Ralf
Associate Professor
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- 313 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 276-7453
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Interests: perceptual decision-making; probabilistic inference; selective attention; neural population encoding and decoding; depth perception/processing of binocular disparity
He, Hangfeng
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
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- 3009 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-8848
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Interests: Machine learning; Natural language processing; Reasoning
Heyworth, Gregory
Associate Professor of English
Director, Lazarus Project
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- 408 Morey Hall
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- (585) 275-2548
Hoque, Ehsan
Professor of Computer Science
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- 3013 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-1351
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Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills
Howard, Thomas M.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- 732 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction
Iordan, Coraline Rinn
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Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
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- 308 Meliora Hall
- mci@rochester.edu
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Interests: visual and semantic cognition; learning; attention; neuroplasticity; real-time fMRI; neurofeedback; machine learning; neural networks; data science
Jacobs, Robert A.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science
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- 306 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 275-0753
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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation
Kahng, Anson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
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- 2401 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Computational social choice; Democracy and computer science; Economics and computation; Artificial intelligence; Theoretical computer science; Algorithmic game theory
Kanan, Christopher
Associate Professor of Computer Science
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- 3017 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Cognitive Science; Applied Machine Learning (e.g. Medical Computer Vision)
Kang, Jian
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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- 3011 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Data mining; Computational social science; Uncertainty quantification; Algorithmic fairness; Trustworthy AI; Machine learning
Kautz, Henry
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Pervasive computing; Data science
Liang, Jiaming
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
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- 2403 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Optimization; Sampling
Luo, Jiebo
Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
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- 3101 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 276-5784
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Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
Purtee, Adam
Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
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- 2109 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming
Schubert, Lenhart K.
Professor of Computer Science
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- 3003 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-8845
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Interests: Language and dialogue ; Knowledge representation and inference; Schema learning and schema-based behavior ; Self-motivated agents
Stefankovic, Daniel
Professor of Computer Science
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- 2315 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Theoretical computer science: graph theory, combinatorics, Fourier transform, Markov chains/counting, learning theory, phylogeny, game theory, graph equations, routing
White, Aaron
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Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of FACTS.lab
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- 511A Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics
Xu, Chenliang
Associate Professor of Computer Science
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- 3005 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Computer Vision; Video Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Multimodal Modeling