CAIDA is UBC's main AI research organization. It consists of 83 professors and their research associates, spanning 24 departments/schools/institutes/etc. The Centre's focus is the development, analysis, and application of AI systems for decision-making and action, enabled by core AI technologies such as machine learning and automated reasoning. It is part of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS).
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Aamodt, Tor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | computer architecture, optimizing compilers, Computer architecture, Microarchitecture and programming models for energy efficient computer accelerators |
| Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Artificial intelligence (AI); Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Computational Linguistics; Social Media Mining; Arabic |
| Abolmaesumi, Purang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Technologies; Cancer Imaging; Computer Assisted Interventions; Image Guided Surgery; Machine Learning; Medical Imaging; Surgical Robotics; Ultrasound Imaging |
| Altintas, Yusuf | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Virtual Machining, Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems, CAD/CAM, CNC Design, High Speed Feed Drive Control, Real Time Interpolation and Trajectory Generation for Machine Tools, Adaptive Control, Sensor Fused Intelligent Machining, Metal Cutting Mechanics, Chatter Vibrations in Machining, Piezo -Actuator Based Precision Machining, High Speed Milling, Optimal Machining of Aerospace Parts, Dies and Molds, Automation, Precision Engineering, Electro Mechanical Systems, Modeling and Analysis of Machining Processes, Mechanics, dynamics and control of micro-machining operations |
| Aparicio, Samuel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Breast cancer, genome sequencing |
| Bashashati Saghezchi, Ali | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Computational Pathology; Cancer Genomics; Computational Biology; Digital Pathology; Image Processing; Machine Learning; Ovarian Cancer; Signal Processing; Multi-modal Learning |
| Berlinguette, Curtis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Combinatorial Chemistry; CO2 conversion and utilization; clean energy; advanced solar cells; electrochromic windows; dynamic windows; hydrogen fuels production; catalysis; robotics and automation; machine learning / artificial intelligence |
| Bloem-Reddy, Benjamin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | developing methods for evolving networks whose history is unobserved; distributional limits of preferential attachment networks; uses of symmetry in statistics, computation, and machine learning |
| Bouchard-Cote, Alexandre | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | machine/statistical learning; mathematical side of the subject as well as in applications in linguistics and biology |
| Campbell, Trevor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | automated, scalable Bayesian inference algorithms; Bayesian nonparametrics; streaming data; Bayesian theory; Probabilistic Inference; computational statistics; large-scale data |
| Carenini, Giuseppe | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Artificial intelligence, user modeling, decision theory, machine learning, social issues in computing, computational linguistics, information visualization |
| Cavusoglu, Hasan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | IT investment, information security, value of information technology, online product differentiation, information system security, Economics & sustainability, Management Information Systems |
| Colliander, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | hamiltonian dynamical systems; partial differential equations; harmonic analysis |
| Conati, Cristina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, affective computing, personalized interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent interface agents, virtual agent, user-adapted interaction, computer-assisted education, educational computer games, computers in education, user-adaptive interaction, Artificial intelligence, adaptive interfaces, cognitive systems, user modelling |
| Currie, Leanne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nursing; Health Care Technologies; Health information systems; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Technologies; decision making; Computer Architecture; Software Development; Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare; Biomedical and Health Informatics; data science; Human Computer Interaction and Design |
| Ding, Jiarui | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Basic medicine and life sciences; Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Probabilistic Deep Learning; single-cell genomics; visualization; Cancer biology; Computational Immunology; Food Allergy; neuroscience |
| Dumont, Guy A | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | biomedical engineering; automatic drug delivery; mobile health; global health; anesthesia; physiological monitoring;, Adaptive control, predictive control, control of distributed parameters systems, advanced process control, applications of wavelet analysis, biomedical applications of control, pulp and paper process control |
| Farinha Luz, Vitor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Microeconomic Theory, |
| Friedlander, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | numerical optimization, numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, Scientific computing |
| Fu, Qiang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | a multidisciplinary perspective on institutional changes, social networks and mental health over the urban space; comparative and temporal analysis of civic engagement and identity; child and youth well-being (e.g., obesity and school bullying); developing |
| Garbi, Rafeef | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Technologies; Computer Vision; Deep Learning; image analysis; Imaging; Machine Learning; Medical Image Computing |
| Gopaluni, Bhushan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Modelling and experiment design, identification for control |
| Greif, Chen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Numerical computation; Numerical analysis; scientific computing; numerical linear algebra; numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations |
| Haber, Eldad | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Scientific computing and its application to geophysical and medical imaging |
| Harvey, Nicholas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | randomized algorithms, combinatorial optimization, graph sparsification, discrepancy theory and learning theory; algorithmic problems arising in computer networking, including cache analysis, load balancing, data replication, peer-to-peer networks, and network coding. |
| Hein, Jason | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | discovery, design and study of new organometallic and organocatalytic reactions; investigating complex systems where multiple pathways compete, partitioning the active catalyst among many possible pathways |
| Hu, Alan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; formal methods; formal verification; model checking; nonce to detect automated mining of profiles; post-silicon validation; security; software analysis |
| Kingstone, Alan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognitive sciences; Brain mechanisms of human perception, attention, and behaviour in experimental & everyday situations |
| Lakshmanan, Laks | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | data management and data cleaning; data warehousing and OLAP; data and text mining; analytics on big graphs and news; social networks and media; recommender systems |
| Lee, Gene | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Economics and business administration; Management information systems; Applied Machine Learning; Business Analytics; Computer Science and Statistics; Cybersecurity; Information Systems; Mobile Ecosystem; Social Media Analysis; Text Mining |
| Lemieux, Guy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | vector processors, parallel programming, programmable logic devices (PLDs, FPGAs), computer architecture, computer arithmetic, custom computing hardware, computer engineering, Programmable logic and computing systems, multiprocessor and computer architecture |
| Leyton-Brown, Kevin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; theoretical computer science; Resource Allocation; Computer Science and Statistics; Auction theory; game theory; Machine Learning |
| Loewen, Philip | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical optimization; Calculus of Variations; Optimal Control; optimization; Machine Learning |
| MacLean, Karon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Information Systems; design of user interfaces; haptic interfaces; human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction |
| Marti, Jose | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer modelling of response to disasters, Infrastructures Interdependencies Simulation (I2Sim) project, electric power, Energy systems |
| McGrenere, Joanna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; computer science; computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); human-computer interaction; interactive technologies for older users and people with cognitive disorders; personalized user interfaces; universal usability |
| Miller, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Occupational therapy |
| Miskovic, Sanja | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mining engineering; Mineral Processing; multiphase systems; Production and Process Optimization; Optimization, Control and Operations Research; Prefeasibility and Pilot Scale; R&D and Innovation; Technological Innovations; Sensors and Devices; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Critical Elements Extraction; Embedded Sensors; Experimental Fluid Dynamics; High performance computing; IIoT; Industrial Big Data; Minerals Processing; Multiphase Flows |
| Miskovic, Ilija | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Multi-physics of Geo-materials, Big Data |
| Mitchell, Ian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | safety critical systems, assistive technology (mobility), robotics, scientific computing, cyber-physical systems, Mathematical software, computational science and engineering, hybrid and cyber-physical systems, verification and validation, reproducible research, level set methods, robotic path, planning |
| Munzner, Tamara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human-centered computing; visualization; information visualization; visual analytics; data science |
| Murphy, Gail | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Programming languages and software engineering; Software Development; knowledge worker productivity; software design; software engineering; software evolution |
| Nan, Ning | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Economics and business administration; Management information systems; blockchain governance; complex adaptive systems; digital business; evolvable information systems; Information Systems; Management; online community |
| Ng, Raymond Tak-yan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Data mining and analysis, health informatics, text summarization, text mining |
| Peters, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | micro theory, especially the theory of competing mechanisms, and the theory of directed search |
| Pleiss, Geoffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Computational methods in statistics; Spatial statistics; Numerical analysis; Machine Learning; neural networks; Gaussian processes; Bayesian optimization; reliable deep learning |
| Poole, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Decision Analysis; Knowledge Representation; Machine Learning; Preference Elicitation; Probabilistic Graphical Models; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Relational Learning |
| Pottinger, Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Computer Science and Statistics; data integration; data management; databases; metadata management |
| Rhodin, Helge | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Shape Recognition and Computer Graphics; Virtual Reality; Neuronal Systems; computer graphics; Computer Vision; Machine Learning |
| Robillard, Julie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Patient experience/patient engagement; eHealth; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health; Social robots; pediatrics |