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Our people

Faculty

Center members come from departments across UC Irvine, including computer science, statistics, informatics, mathematics, and the cognitive sciences.

Leadership

Faculty

Pierre Baldi

ML for Science · Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science

Alex Berg

Computer Vision

Computer Science

Carter Butts

ML for Science

Sociology

David Chan

Natural Language & Cognition · Agentic AI

Computer Science

Rina Dechter

Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science

Charless Fowlkes

Computer Vision · Generative AI

Computer Science

Roy Fox

Robotics & Reinforcement Learning · Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science

Mike Goodrich

Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science

Alexander Ihler

Theoretical Foundations of AI · ML for Science

Computer Science

Ramesh Jain

Computer Vision · ML for Science

Computer Science

Unnat Jain

Computer Vision · Robotics & Reinforcement Learning

Computer Science

Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi

ML Systems

Computer Science

Sven Koenig

Robotics & Reinforcement Learning · Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science

Natalia Komarova

ML for Science

Mathematics

Jeffrey Krichmar

Robotics & Reinforcement Learning · Theoretical Foundations of AI

Cognitive Sciences

Marco Levorato

ML Systems · Computer Vision

Computer Science

Chen Li

ML Systems · Agentic AI

Computer Science

Eric Mjolsness

ML for Science · Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science, Mathematics, Systems Biology

Ioannis Panageas

Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science

Lisa Pearl

Natural Language & Cognition

Cognitive Sciences

Sameer Singh

Natural Language & Cognition · Generative AI

Computer Science

Padhraic Smyth

ML for Science · Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science

Hal S. Stern

Theoretical Foundations of AI

Statistics

Mark Steyvers

Natural Language & Cognition · Generative AI

Cognitive Sciences

Erik Sudderth

Computer Vision · Theoretical Foundations of AI

Computer Science

Bill Tomlinson

Generative AI

Informatics

Daniel Whiteson

ML for Science

Physics, Astronomy

Xiaohui Xie

ML for Science · Computer Vision

Computer Science

Thomas Zimmermann

Agentic AI

Informatics