People

Leadership

Heng Ji Heng Ji
Director

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Kathleen Allen Kathleen Allen
Principal, Academic Partnerships

Amazon

Funded Project

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Ruhi Sarikaya Ruhi Sarikaya
Vice President and AICE Liaison

Amazon

Funded Project

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Rajiv Dhawan Rajiv Dhawan
Principal, Business Development

Amazon

Funded Project

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Akshay Mulera Akshay Mulera
Project Manager

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Andrea Whitesell Andrea Whitesell
Center Manager

Grainer College of Engineering

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Thesis Advisor

Advisory Board

Julia Hockenmaier Julia Hockenmaier
Advisory Board Member

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Derek Hoiem Derek Hoiem
Advisory Board Member

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Angeliki Metallinou Angeliki Metallinou
Advisory Board Member

Amazon

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Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Pradeep Natarajan Pradeep Natarajan
Advisory Board Member

Amazon

Funded Project

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Thesis Advisor

Kevin Small Kevin Small
Advisory Board Member

Amazon

Funded Project

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Lav Varshney Lav Varshney
Advisory Board Member

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Thesis Advisor

Funded Projects

Vikram Adve Vikram Adve
Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Multi-Agent LLM-Based Reasoning, Computation and Data Discovery for Decision Services

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Romit Roy Choudhury Romit Roy Choudhury
Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering & Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
MapFill: Learning Indoor Maps using Wireless Signals

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Liangyan Gui Liangyan Gui
Research Assistant Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Synergizing LLM and World Model for Zero-Shot 3D Human-Object Interaction Generation

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Dilek Hakkani-Tur Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Multi-Agent LLM-Based Reasoning, Computation and Data Discovery for Decision Services

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Bin Hu Bin Hu
Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Funded Project
Building AI Engineers via Integrating LLMs and Domain Knowledge

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Volodymyr Kindratenko Volodymyr Kindratenko
Assistant Director

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Funded Project
From Personalized Education to Scientific Discovery with AI: Rapid Deployment of AI Domain Experts

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Yunzhu Li Yunzhu Li
Assistant Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Actionable Conversational AI via Language-Grounded Dynamic Neural Fields

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Hao Peng Hao Peng
Assistant Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Advancing Long Context Reasoning in Open LLMs

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Gagandeep Singh Gagandeep Singh
Assistant Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Efficient Fairness Certification of Large Language Models

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Gokhan Tur Gokhan Tur
Research Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Multi-Agent LLM-Based Reasoning, Computation and Data Discovery for Decision Services

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Shenlong Wang Shenlong Wang
Assistant Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Integrating Spatial Perception into Conversational AI for Real-World Task Assistance

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Yuxiong Wang Yuxiong Wang
Assistant Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Mastering Extensive Environmental Interactions: Building Agentic Foundation Models with Reinforcement Learning & Long-form Video Understanding via Active Token Compression

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Han Zhao Han Zhao
Assistant Professor

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project
Responsible Conversational AI: Monitoring and Improving Safe Foundation Models

Ares of Research

Thesis Advisor

Amazon Fellows

Chi Han Chi Han
PhD Student

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project

Ares of Research
Physiology of Language Models

Thesis Advisor
Heng Ji

Kung-Hsiang (Steeve) Huang Kung-Hsiang (Steeve) Huang
PhD Student

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project

Ares of Research
Data and Efficient Learning for Conversational AI Applications

Thesis Advisor
Heng Ji

Chunqui (Steven) Xia Chunqui (Steven) Xia
PhD Student

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project

Ares of Research
Transforming Software Development Using LLMs

Thesis Advisor
Lingming Zhang

Ming Zhong Ming Zhong
PhD Student

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Funded Project

Ares of Research
Data and Efficient Learning for Conversational AI Applications

Thesis Advisor
Jiawei Han