Schmidt AI in Science Fellows
2024 Cohort
Tsige Atilaw
AI/ML for space debris detection
Haotian Chen
Power systems (batteries) for aviation
Zheng Guo
Improving simulation methods
Xinyu Liu
Mobility system design
Xiaofeng Liu
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Madeline Peters
Within-host infection dynamics
Eunjae Shim
Biocatalysis
Jamila Taaki
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Seth Temple
Evolution (at the geonomics level)
Xin Wei
Landslide risk assessment
No profiles fit this criteria.
2023 Cohort
Kamal Abdulraheem
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Jacob Berv
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Vital Fernández
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Matthew Andres Moreno
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Kevin Napier
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Christin Salley
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Alyssa Schubert
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Elena Shrestha
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Yiluan Song
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Nanta Sophonrat
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Weichi Yao
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
No profiles fit this criteria.
2022 Cohort
James Boyko
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
Joseph (Yossi) Cohen
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
Nathan Fox
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow,
Andreas Rauch
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
Soumi Tribedi
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow,
Anastasia Visheratina
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow,
Xin Xie
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow,
No profiles fit this criteria.
Alumni
Jennifer Li
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow Alum
Yutong Wang
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow Alum
Program Team
Brendon Cho
Administrative Assistant
H. V. Jagadish
Program Director
Edgar F Codd Distinguished University Professor and Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor; MIDAS Director, EECS, College of Engineering
Jennifer Lewis
Program Manager
Program Manager, Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowships, MIDAS
Jing Liu
Program co-Director
No profiles fit this criteria.
Advisory Committee
Daniel Atkins III
Professor Emeritus of Information, W K Kellogg Emeritus Professor of Information, inaugural Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at NSF, and inaugural Dean of the U-M School of Information
Tabbye Chavous
Professor of Education and Psychology, U-M Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer, Director of National Center for Institutional Diversity,
Karthik Duraisamy
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Danny Forger
Professor, Mathematics, LSA Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Center for Systems Biology
Sharon Glotzer
John Werner Cahn Distinguished University Professor and Chair, Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
Eric Michielssen
Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
Bradford Orr
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics; U-M Associate Vice President for Research, Science and Engineering, Department of Physics
Douglas O. Richstone
Lawrence H. Aller Collegiate Professor of Astronomy, Department of Astronomy
No profiles fit this criteria.
Curriculum Committee
Joseph (Yossi) Cohen
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
Ambuj Tewari
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA EECS, College of Engineering
No profiles fit this criteria.
Current Mentors
2024 Mentors
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti
Assistant Research Scientist, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering and Adjunct Lecturer in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, College of Engineering
Yang Chen
Assistant Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Venkat Viswanathan
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Alexander Rodríguez
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Brian Kiedrowski
Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering
Xinyu Wang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
William Currie
Associate Dean, Research and Engagment, Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability and Professor of Environment, Program in the Environment, School for Environment and Sustainability and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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Samet Oymak
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Yafeng Yin
Donald Malloure Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Donald Cleveland Collegiate Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
Vijay Subramanian
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Aaron A. King
Nelson G Hairston Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Complex Systems, Professor of Complex Systems, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Kayvan Najarian
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical School and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Alison Narayan
Mary Sue Coleman Collegiate Professor, Life Sciences Institute
Ji Zhu
Susan A Murphy Collegiate Professor of Statistics and Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Lia Corrales
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Alfred Hero
John H Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, R Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly
Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Gideon Bradburd
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Jonathan Terhorst
Assistant Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Sabine Loos
Visiting Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
F. Estéfan T. Garcia
Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
2023 Mentors
Camille Avestruz
Assistant Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Mark A. Burns
T.C. Chang Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
Yang Chen
Assistant Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
David Fouhey
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Bryan Goldsmith
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
Alex Gorodetsky
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Xun Huan
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Brendan Kochunas
Charles and Elizabeth Schrock Faculty Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering
Sabine Loos
Visiting Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Anne McNeil
Carol A. Fierke Collegiate Professor of Chemistry; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry; Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Sally Oey
Arthur F Thurnau Professor and Professor of Astronomy, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Dimitra Panagou
Associate Professor of Robotics and Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Majdi Radaideh
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering
Katie Skinner
Assistant Professor of Robotics and Assistant Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, College of Engineering
Ambuj Tewari
Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Lu Wang
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Yixin Wang
Assistant Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Brian Weeks
Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
Kevin Wood
Associate Professor of Biophysics, Associate Director, Department of Biophysics and Associate Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Luis Zaman
Assistant Professor of Complex Systems and Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Paul Zimmerman
Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Kai Zhu
Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
2022 Mentors
Eunshin Byon
Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, College of Engineering
Steven Ceccio
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Vincent T and Gloria M Gorguze Professor of Engineering
Dean of Engineering
Kevin Wood
Assistant ProfAssociate Professor of Biophysics, Associate Director, Department of Biophysics and Associate Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Artsessor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Hui Deng
Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Jeffrey Fessler
William L. Root Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor (courtesy), Applied Physics; Biomedical Engineering; Radiology
Yuanfang Guan
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Neil Henderson Carter
Associate Professor of Geospatial Data Sciences Conservation + Restoration
Sean Johnson
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Nicholas Kotov
Irving Langmuir Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Joseph B and Florence V Cejka Professor of Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Pei-Cheng Ku
Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Christopher Limbach
Assistant Professor
Qing Qu
Assistant Professor
Venkat Raman
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Dan Rabosky
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Associate Curator, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Sabina Tomkins
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information and Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
Derek Van Berkel
Assistant Professor of Geospatial Data Sciences Conservation + Restoration
Gongjun Xu
Associate Professor of Statistics, Associate Professor of Psychology (by courtesy), Director of Master’s Program (Applied Statistics)
Stephen Smith
Associate Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Associate Curator, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
U-M Faculty Members Interested in Being AI Mentors
Name | Title | Primary Department: | Tagline: |
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Mark Ackerman | George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor | School of Information; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering; Learning Health Sciences, Medical School | Computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, social computing |
Fadhl Alakwaa | Assistant Research Scientist | Internal Medicine | Machine learning, personalized medicine, predictive modeling |
Karen Alofs | Assistant Professor | School for Environment and Sustainability | Integrating data on environmental change and ecological communities |
Camille Avestruz | Assistant Professor | Physics, LSA | Simulations to model, predict, and interpret observed large-scale cosmic structures |
Laura Balzano | Associate Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Statistical signal processing and optimization with large data. |
Nikola Banovic | Associate Professor | Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering | Behavior-aware User Interfaces, Computational Interaction, Computational models of human behavior |
Kira Barton | Associate Professor, Director of COE Research | Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, College of Engineering | Control theory and applications; iterative learning control; multi-agent systems; human/robot collaborations; smart manufacturing; manufacturing robotics; high-performance micro/nano-scale printing for electrical and biomedical applications |
Erhan Bayraktar | Professor | Mathematics, LSA | Mathematical finance and stochatic analysis |
Dennis Bernstein | James E Knott Professor | Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering | Linear and nonlinear systems, identification, optimal, robust and adaptive control |
Anthony Bloch | Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor | Mathematics, LSA | Control, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Systems, gradient flows |
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly | Assistant Professor | Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering | AI for social impact (especially health and conservation) |
Christopher Brooks | Research Assistant Professor | School of Information Director, Learning Analytics and Research in the Office of Digital Education & Innovation | Visualizing the interaction between learners and learning technology |
Ceren Budak | Assistant Professor | School of Information | Computational social science |
Dallas Card | Assistant Professor | School of Information | Natural language processing, and computational social science, machine learning |
Neil Carter | Associate Professor | Environment, School for Environment and Sustainability | Addressing challenging local to global wildlife conservation issues in the Anthropocene |
Timothy Cernak | Associate Professor | Medicinal Chemistry | Computational design of chemical reactions and synthesis |
Joyce Chai | Professor | Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering | Artificial Intelligence, Natural language processing, situated communication |
Yang Chen | Assistant Professor | Statistics, LSA | Statistical inference and applied statistics in biology and astronomy |
Cynthia Chestek | Associate Professor and Associate Chair | Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Medical School, EECS, College of Engineering | Brain machine interface (BMI) systems |
Mosharaf Chowdhury | Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor | EECS (Computer Science and Engineering Division), College of Engineering | Large-scale systems for emerging machine learning and big data workloads |
Kevyn Collins-Thompson | Associate Professor | School of Information, EECS, College of Engineering | Intelligent information systems that help people learn and discover |
William Currie | Associate Dean of Research and Engagement, Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Professor of Environment | Research and Engagement, School for Environment and Sustainability, LSA | Ecosystem modeling, sustainability, water quality, knowledge representation |
Matias del Campo | Associate Professor | Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning | Research on Architecture Design and Artificial Intelligence |
Michał Dereziński | Assistant Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Scalable randomized algorithms with robust statistical guarantees for machine learning, data science and optimization |
Ivo D. Dinov | Professor | Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics | Mathematical modeling, statistical analysis and data visualization |
Karthik Duraisamy | Associate Professor | Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering | Data-driven modeling of computational physics problems |
August (Gus) Evrard | Professor | Physics and Astronomy, LSA | Computational cosmology |
Salar Fattahi | Assistant Professor | Industrial and Operations Engineering, College of Engineering | Developing efficient and scalable computational methods for structured problems |
Jeff Fessler | Professor | EECS, College of Engineering Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Radiology, Michigan Medicine | Large-scale inverse problems in image reconstruction |
Danny Forger | Professor | Mathematics, LSA Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Center for Systems Biology | Computer simulation and mathematical modeling of biological clocks |
Johann Gagnon-Bartsch | Assistant Professor | Statistics, LSA | High-throughput and high-dimensional data analysis |
Vikram Gavini | Professor | Mechanical Engineering | Ab-initio calculations, DFT, electronic structure, exchange-correlation approximation, numerical methods |
Alex Gorodetsky | Associate Professor | Department of Aerospace Engineering | Bayesian Inference, Decision making under uncertainty, Tensor Networks, Uncertianty Quantification |
Robert Gregg | Associate Professor and Director of Locomotor Control Systems Laboratory | Robotics, EECS (ECE Division), and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering | Control mechanisms of bipedal locomotion with applications to wearable and autonomous robots |
Yuanfeng Guan | Professor | Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Internal Medicine; Medical School | Developing novel and high-accuracy algorithms that integrate these data for predicting gene functions and networks |
Emanuel Gull | Assistant Professor | Physics, LSA | Computational condensed matter physics |
Yongqun Oliver He | Professor | Laboratory Animal Medicine and Veterinarian, Medical School | AI Expertise: Knowledge representation and reasoning; Ontology; Semantic Web. |
Libby Hemphill | Research Associate Professor | School of Information | digital data, justice, social media |
Alfred Hero | Professor | EECS, College of Engineering Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Statistics, LSA | Theory and algorithms for data collection, analysis and visualization |
Wei Hu | Assistant Professor | Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering | Deep Learning, Representation Learning, machine learning, optimization, theory |
Xun Huan | Associate Professor | Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering | Uncertainty quantification, and numerical optimization, data-driven modeling |
Edward Ionides | Professor | Statistics, LSA | Time series analysis for ecology, epidemiology, health economics and biology |
Abigail Jacobs | Assistant Professor | Information, School of Information Complex Systems, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts | Computational social science, empirical design, governance, observational data, social networks, statistical inference |
H. V. Jagadish | Edgar F Codd Distinguished University Professor and Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor; MIDAS Director | EECS, College of Engineering | Database systems, query models and analytics processes for reliable insight |
David Jurgens | Assistant Professor | School of Information | computational social science and natural language processing |
Danai Koutra | Assistant Professor | Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering | Mining and making sense of interconnected or graph data |
Elizaveta Levina | Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor | Statistics, LSA | Statistical inference on realistic models for network |
Max Li | Assistant Professor | Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering | Air transportation; Air traffic management; Machine learning and optimization |
Rebecca Lindsey | Assistant Professor | Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering | Machine Learning & Simulation for Accelerated Materials Design & Discovery |
Wei Lu | Professor | Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering | Energy storage and electrochemistry; machine learning; simulation of nano/microstructure evolution; mechanics in nano/micro systems; advanced manufacturing; mechanical properties and performance of advanced materials and relation to microstructures |
Rada Mihalcea | Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Natural language processing, and applied machine learning, information retrieval |
Emily Mower Provost | Assistant Professor | Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering | Emotion modeling and assistive technology |
Raj Rao Nadakuditi | Associate Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Statistical signal processing and random matrix theory |
Long Nguyen | Professor | Statistics, LSA EECS, College of Engineering | Statistical inference in richly structured data |
Samet Oymak | Assistant Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Optimization methods and statistical learning theory to design efficient algorithms/architectures. |
Necmiye Ozay | Assistant Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Heterogeneous data from sensor and information-rich networked dynamical systems |
Atul Prakash | Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Design of operating systems and database mechanisms for sensitive data, Security, and adversarial machine learning., privacy |
Qing Qu | Assistant Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Deep Learning, Inverse Problems, Nonconvex Optimization, Representation Learning |
Majdi Radaideh | Assistant Professor | Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering | Autonomous Control, Nuclear Reactor Design, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Uncertainty quantification, optimization |
Venkat Raman | Associate Professor | Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering | Simulation of large scale combustion systems |
Jeffrey Regier | Assistant Professor | Statistics, LSA | Bayesian models and deep learning for scientific applications |
Alexander Rodriguez | Assistant Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | The intersection of ML, time series, multi-agent systems, uncertainty quantification, and scientific modeling. |
Daniel Romero | Associate Professor | Information, School of Information, Complex Systems, LSA, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering | Empirical and theoretical analysis of social and information networks |
Sarita Schoenebeck | Professor | School of Information | Human-Computer Interaction, issues in digital society, social computing, social media |
Clayton Scott | Associate Professor | EECS, College of Engineering Statistics, LSA | Quantitative predictions and inferences about large, complex data |
Kerby Shedden | Professor | Statistics, LSA Biostatistics, School of Public Health Director of Consulting for Statistics, Computing, and Analytics Research (CSCAR) | Applied statistics, data science and computing with data |
Katie Skinner | Assistant Professor | Robotics, College of Engineering | Robot vision and perception, field robotics |
Vijay Subramanian | Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Stochastic modeling, decision and control theory and applications to networks |
Misha Teplitskiy | Assistant Professor | School of Information | AI for social science (idea generation, evaluation, synthesis) |
Jonathan Terhorst | Associate Professor | Statistics, LSA | Computational population genetics |
Ambuj Tewari | Assistant Professor | Statistics, LSA EECS, College of Engineering | Statistical methods for sequential decision making in personalized health |
Dawn Tilbury | Professor and Chair, Robotics | Robotics | Modeling and control for smart manufacturing, human-robot teaming |
Sabina Tomkins | Assistant Professor | School of Information | Computational social science, Political science, education, sustainability |
Shravan Veerapaneni | Associate Professor | Mathematics, LSA | Fast and scalable algorithms for differential and integral equations on complex moving geometries |
Venkat Viswanathan | Associate Professor | Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering | Programming languages, formal methods, software engineering, and artificial intelligence |
Lu Wang | Assistant Professor | Computer Science and Engineering, EECS | Natural language processing |
Xinyu Wang | Assistant Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Programming languages, formal methods, software engineering, and artificial intelligence |
Yixin Wang | Assistant Professor | Statistics, LSA | Large-scale probabilistic machine learning, causal inference, machine learning for science |
Michael P. Wellman | Richard H Orenstein Division Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, Lynn A Conway Collegiate Professor | EECS (Computer Science and Engineering division), College of Engineering | Artificial Intelligence, electronic commerce |
Jenna Wiens | Associate Professor | Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering | Machine learning and data mining for healthcare data |
Kevin Wood | Associate Professor | Biophysics and Physics; LSA | Spatiotemporal dynamics in microbial communities |
Zhenke Wu | Associate Professor | Biostatistics, School of Public Health | AI for affordable and equitable individualized healthcare; computational and interventional digital health. |
Gongjun Xu | Assistant Professor | Statistics, LSA | cognitive diagnosis modeling, high-dimensional statistics, latent variable models, psychometrics, semiparametric statistics |
Bing Ye | Professor | Life Sciences Institute | How neurons assemble into neural networks and how defects in this process lead to brain disorders |
Lei Ying | Professor | EECS, College of Engineering | Complex stochastic systems and big-data, and large-scale graph mining, private data marketplaces |
Y Z (Yang Zhang) | Professor | Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering | Far-from-equilibrium physics, extreme robots, liquid state physics, long timescale phenomena, neutron scattering, rare events, soft robots, statistical mechanics, swarm robots |
Xiang Zhou | Professor | Biostatistics, School of Public Health | Statistical and computational methods for genetic and genomic studies |
Ji Zhu | Professor | Statistics, LSA EECS, College of Engineering | analysis of high-dimensional data, and their applications in health sciences, biology, finance and marketing., machine learning, statistical network analysis |
Kai Zhu | Associate Professor | School for Environment and Sustainability | Global change biology, ecological modeling, and environmental data science |