Yujing Yang is a Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan whose research focuses on multimodal perception for intelligent manufacturing decision-making. She develops data-driven methods that integrate information from multiple sensing modalities to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of human-centric manufacturing systems. Her research lies at the intersection of computer vision, … Read more
Youran Lee is a president’s postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan School of Nursing whose research focuses on using artificial intelligence (AI) and health data to improve cancer care. As an oncology nurse, cancer survivor, and cancer researcher, she is driven by a simple question: how can we use data to better understand what … Read more
Youngheun Jo is a network neuroscientist with a focus on developmental brain dynamics. By modeling higher-order interactions and applying graph theoretical approaches to adolescent brain development and psychopathology, her work is at the intersection of computational predictive modeling, data science, and network neuroscience to uncover critical dynamic changes in brain network development.
Wenxin Yang is a geographer whose research focuses on biodiversity conservation and sustainable land use planning. By applying spatial data science and AI methods such as transfer learning and foundation models, Wenxin aims to build replicable methods to help monitor species habitats (e.g., extent, pattern, and 3D structures), and advance 3D landscape ecology for conservation … Read more
Tong Suo is a cultural psychologist whose research focuses on socio-psychological determinants of wellbeing and economic mobility, especially among underrepresented populations outside of the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies. Her ongoing projects are particularly interested in psychological and behavioral tendencies shaped by sub-Saharan African cultural contexts and their impacts on motivations and … Read more
Rene Mai is a postdoctoral researcher. Her work answers the central question of how should humans work together with autonomous systems? Her work focuses on developing data-driven and control-theoretic frameworks for real-time collaboration between humans and robots and artificial intelligence agents to exceed both human and autonomous systems’ capabilities, while promoting team interdependence, situational awareness, … Read more
Nizhum Rahman is an applied mathematician whose research combines mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and data science to better understand complex biomedical systems. His work focuses on questions such as how cancer cells interact with one another and with immune cells, why tumors respond differently to treatment, and how biological materials are transported within cells. He … Read more
Marvin Poul is a computational materials scientist working on machine-learned interatomic potentials, alloy thermodynamics, and computational methods combining them. His current focus is enabling back-propagation of costly thermodynamic simulation protocols for improved ML models of atomistic interactions. He maintains and contributes to range of open source projects for computational materials science and related workflow tools, … Read more
Eva Albalghiti recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a PhD in Environmental Engineering. During her PhD, she used creative experimental approaches to investigate how mineral-precipitating microorganisms can alter the flow of fluids–like water, carbon dioxide, and hydrocarbons–in Earth’s subsurface. Her current research remains focused on the subsurface, but will require her to step … Read more