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Faraz Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Cardiology Division, Feinberg School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Medicine, Cardiology Division, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Natural Language Processing; AI and Human Interaction; clinical decision support tools; natural language processing; computer vision; computational phenotyping; risk prediction; digital infrastructure.

Nausheen Akhter
Associate Professor, Medicine, Cardiology Division, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Medicine, Cardiology Division, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: AI and Human Interaction; Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); Applications of AI in cardio-oncology.

Ronald J Allen
Professor, Pritzker School of Law
John Henry Wigmore Professor, Pritzker School of Law
AI-related Research Areas: Reasoning and Inference; Naturalized epistemology; cognitive capabilities, limits, bias.

Luis Amaral
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary Division, Feinberg School of Medicine
Co-Director, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor, Molecular Biosciences, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Erastus Otis Haven Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Natural Language Processing; Accuracy limits of ML approaches; methods for text pre-processing (stopwords, stemming, and so on); analysis of highthroughput biological data; analysis of court records.

Xiaomin Bao
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biosciences, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor, Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; My group is interested in understanding how human skin regenerates. We are hoping to use AI to decipher gene regulatory mechanisms underlying adult stem cell maintenance and terminal tissue differentiation.

S. Kathleen Bandt
Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; surface-based analysis; deep learning; neuroimaging, cortical physiology; automated feature detection

Christopher Philip Luke Berry
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; classification; regression; active learning; emulation.

Randall Berry
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
John A. Dever Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Chairperson, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; AI for wireless networking/5G; Crowd intelligence/Crowd sourcing; No regret learning; Multi-agent learning/game theory

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; neuroimaging, brain shape, MRI, neuroscience, shape analysis.

Bharat Bhushan
Research Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, Dental Surgery Division, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; AI and Human Interaction; Reasoning and Inference; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); Machine learning, Decision making, Decrease Variability, Increase Efficiency

Ulf Bockenholt
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Natural Language Processing; Perception/Sensor Understanding; AI and Human Interaction.

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); computational social science; uncertainty estimation; NLP; text-as-data; prior elicitation; Bayesian models; nonparametric modeling.

Rosemary Braun
Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Reasoning and Inference; Bioinformatics; Biologically-informed Machine Learning; Network Inference; Network Analysis; Complex Systems; Dynamical Systems; Large-p Small-n Problems; High Dimensional Data; Time Series; Omics.
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; AI and Human Interaction; Medical A.I.
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Jian Cao
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
URIC Director, NU Initiative for Manufacturing, Science and Innovation
Associate Vice President of Research, Office for Research
Cardiss Collins Professorship, Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; material characterization; manufacturing; additive manufacturing.

Jennifer Lisa Chan
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; AI and Human Interaction; Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); disasters; humanitarian crises, interdisciplinary research, realtime information and knowledge management, health ontology and lexicon in disasters, social good applications, computational models with domain knowledge and cognitive/social theories.

Wei Chen
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Wilson Cook Professor of Engineering & Design, Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Chairperson, Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Natural Language Processing; AI and Human Interaction; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); physics-informed machine learning, Bayesian reinforcement learning, materials informatics, interpretable machine learning, generative design, geometry based machine learning, data-driven design, adaptive learning.

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Reasoning and Inference; computer security and management research for large-scale distributed systems and networking.

Alok Nidhi Choudhary
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Henry and Isabelle Dever Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Natural Language Processing; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); data mining, Machine Learning, AI and applications; sciences (climate, astrophysics, materials;) medicine (diseases causes, drugs, outcome predictions); business (marketing, intelligence, social media).

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; AI and Human Interaction; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); medicine; cancer; pathology; genomics; imaging; software; trustworthy AI; explainability.

R. James Cotton
Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Perception/Sensor Understanding; AI and Human Interaction; Robotics and Embedded Systems; Wearable sensors and AI to advance rehabilitation; inverse reinforcement learning to track intent; neural networks EMG decoders on edge devices; markerless pose tracking to infer actions; predictive models and model inversion.

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; AI and Human Interaction; Reasoning and Inference; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); social media; branding; consumer research; market research; digital marketing; weak supervision; network analysis; text analysis; online influence.

Sumitrajit Dhar
Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Communication
Hugh Knowles Professor of Hearing Sciences, Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Communication
Associate Dean (Academic), School of Communication
AI-related Research Areas: Perception/Sensor Understanding; Hearing loss detection and hearing healthcare delivery.

Jennifer Marie Dunn
Research Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Director of Research, Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering
Associate Director (Academic), Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); Identification of changes in land use and land cover using machine learning and computer vision, design of sustainable manufacturing processes through AI application.

Mozziyar Etemadi
Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Research Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Natural Language Processing; Perception/Sensor Understanding; AI and Human Interaction; Reasoning and Inference; Robotics and Embedded Systems; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); Applications in AI driven by deep collaborations with Northwestern Medicine; Fundamental, non-gradient-descent based AI training methods; AI-aware embedded, wearable systems for intensive care; Infrastructural integration between AI and healthcare IT.

Liu Fawzi
Professor, Ophthalmology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Ophthalmology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Cyrus Tang and Lee Jampol Professorship in Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Retinal imaging, predictive models, disease prediction.

Benjamin Freed
Associate Professor, Medicine, Cardiology Division, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Medicine, Cardiology Division, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Perception/Sensor Understanding; AI and Human Interaction; Robotics and Embedded Systems; Wearable sensors and AI to advance rehabilitation; inverse reinforcement learning to track intent; neural networks EMG decoders on edge devices; markerless pose tracking to infer actions; predictive models and model inversion.
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Jean-François Gaillard
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; pattern recognition in spectroscopic data; processing of computed tomography data.

Matt Goldrick
Professor, Linguistics, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); speech; language; mental health.

Jeffery Goldstein
Assistant Professor, Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Natural Language Processing; Reasoning and Inference; Digital pathology; Placenta; Diseases of pregnancy; Biomedical informatics; Digital microscopy; Problems in data annotation; Problems in data aggregation - replication of human gestalt; COVID-19.

Andrea Graham
Assistant Professor, Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: AI and Human Interaction; Designing, testing, and implementing digital mental and behavioral health interventions.

Josiah Hester
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Perception/Sensor Understanding; Robotics and Embedded Systems; sensing, mobile computing, smart cities, wearables, mobile health, smart devices for sustainability.

Jeanne Horowitz
Associate Professor, Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Natural Language Processing; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); machine learning, radiology, imaging, gynecology, liver.

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; AI and Human Interaction; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency, Bias); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); inference of knowledge diffusion networks; social bias on online platforms; machine learning modelling of collective intelligence.

AI-related Research Areas: Vision/Image Processing; Use of reverse-mode automatic differentiation from AI toolkits for image reconstruction.

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Pose Estimation; Behavior Classification; Unsupervised Learning; Nonlinear Embedding; Forecasting; Imitation Learning.

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Quantum chemistry; protein structure prediction; materials database creation; solar chemistry performance optimization.

Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Center Director, Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Perception/Sensor Understanding; machine learning for sensor signal processing.

Prem Kumar
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Perception/Sensor Understanding; Robotics and Embedded Systems; I am interested in the role of AI methods in the emerging quantum technologies and vice versa -- what can emerging quantum methods and technologies do for AI applications?

AI-related Research Areas: Machine Learning; Vision/Image Processing; Deep learning with multimodal brain MRIs to predict decline in Parkinson's disease; neuroimaging; neurodegenerative diseases; Parkinson's disease; diffusion MRI; functional MRI; structural MRI; Deep Learning; CNN; Graph NN.