Our people
Faculty
Center members come from departments across UC Irvine, including computer science, statistics, informatics, mathematics, and the cognitive sciences.
Leadership
Judy Hoffman
Co-Director
Computer Vision · Robotics & Reinforcement Learning
Computer Science
Stephan Mandt
Co-Director
Generative AI · ML for Science
Computer Science
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