Dr. Alfred Hero, Program Director in the NSF CISE Directorate, and the John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan.
Alfred O. Hero, PhD, is the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan and co-Director of the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society.
The Hero group focuses on building foundational theory and methodology for data science and engineering. The Hero group is developing theory and algorithms for data collection, analysis and visualization that use statistical machine learning and distributed optimization. These are being to applied to network data analysis, personalized health, multi-modality information fusion, data-driven physical simulation, materials science, dynamic social media, and database indexing and retrieval.