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 and Artificial Intelligence.

Zhen Bai

Bai, Zhen

Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3007 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(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

Mujdat Cetin

Cetin, Mujdat

Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science

Office Location
1211 Wegmans Hall and 719 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(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

Zhiyao Duan

Duan, Zhiyao

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science

Office Location
720 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-5302
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Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval

George Ferguson

Ferguson, George

Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program

Office Location
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

Daniel Gildea

Gildea, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3019 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7230
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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

Ralf Haefner

Haefner, Ralf

Associate Professor

Office Location
313 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(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

Hangfeng He

He, Hangfeng

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

Office Location
3009 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8848
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Interests: Machine learning; Natural language processing; Reasoning

Ehsan Hoque

Hoque, Ehsan

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3013 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1351
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Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Thomas M. Howard

Howard, Thomas M.

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location
732 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-3755

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

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Iordan, Coraline Rinn

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Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience

Office Location
308 Meliora Hall
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Interests: visual and semantic cognition; learning; attention; neuroplasticity; real-time fMRI; neurofeedback; machine learning; neural networks; data science

Robert Jacobs

Jacobs, Robert A.

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science

Office Location
306 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0753
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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

Anson Kahng

Kahng, Anson

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

Office Location
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

Christopher Kanan

Kanan, Christopher

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3017 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Cognitive Science; Applied Machine Learning (e.g. Medical Computer Vision)

Jian Kang

Kang, Jian

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3011 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Data mining; Computational social science; Uncertainty quantification; Algorithmic fairness; Trustworthy AI; Machine learning

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Liang, Jiaming

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

Office Location
2403 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Mathematical and numerical optimization; Sampling algorithms; Stochastic programming; Algorithmic game theory

Jiebo Luo

Luo, Jiebo

Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3101 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(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

Adam Purtee

Purtee, Adam

Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)

Office Location
2109 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming

Daniel Stefankovic

Stefankovic, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
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

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White, Aaron

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of FACTS.lab

Office Location
511A Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics