What I do:Ganesh Patil is a mechanical engineer and researcher who develops intelligent acoustic sensing systems inspired by nature. His work brings together wave physics, biosonars, and AI/ML to help machines interpret sound the way animals do. By studying how echolocating species like dolphins and bats perceive their environments, he designs AI-powered acoustic perception methods … Read more
My research focuses on the mathematical foundations of decision-making, particularly in contexts involving multiple objectives and interacting agents. I work at the intersection of set-valued analysis, game theory, and reinforcement learning, aiming to develop theoretical tools that better reflect the complexity of modern decision systems. One major line of my work concerns set-valued HJB equations. … Read more
Ali Bolcakan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multilingual Digital Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Ali’s research focuses on how ideas and texts transform as they move across languages and cultures over long periods of time. His interest began during his dissertation, when he noticed specific patterns in … Read more
Minoh Jeong is a postdoctoral researcher whose work sits at the intersection of machine learning, statistical signal processing, and information theory. He designs principled algorithms that turn raw, high-dimensional data—images, sensor streams, genomic profiles—into compact, meaningful representations. A central thread of his research is contrastive learning, an approach that “teaches by comparison.” By pulling semantically … Read more
Annette Masterson is a communication and information scholar whose research operates at the intersection of policy and artificial intelligence. Applying feminist and critical studies to the analysis of interactive and companion AI systems, she evaluates the interpersonal and institutional impacts on data privacy and relationships. By studying the creation and collection of intimate data, she … Read more
Sen Lu is a Postdoctoral research fellow in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who develops brain-inspired computational models to understand how the brain efficiently processes information and perceives time. His research focuses on creating bioplausible and neuromorphic neural networks to model brain neurons such as “time cells”—the neurons that act as the brain’s internal stopwatch—with … Read more
Yoonjoo Lee is a human-computer interaction (HCI) researcher whose work focuses on aligning AI systems with human cognitive processes to make them more adaptive, transparent, and responsible. Her research bridges HCI, natural language processing, and cognitive science. She designs evaluation tools and methods that assess how well AI systems align with human cognitive processes and … Read more
Allyson (Ally) Tabaczynski is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Kinesiology. Allyson has a training background in behavioral theory, and the design and evaluation of health behavior change interventions. Her work aims to create behavioral interventions that support the development of resilient physically active lifestyles among middle-aged and older adults. Ally seeks to … Read more
Nazreen Pallikkavaliyaveetil is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on developing machine learning models that can learn structured, interpretable representations of complex biological systems to support therapeutic discovery and systems-level reasoning. Currently, she is building machine learning models, including graph-based and transformer-based architectures, … Read more