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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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; AI in Business; Business Analytics; Information Systems; Social Media Analysis; Mobile Ecosystem |
| 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 |
| Mole, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophical psychology (including moral psychology and philosophy of action); attention; Philosophy of Psychiatry; Philosophy of Literature |
| 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 |
| Pottinger, Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Computer Science and Statistics; data integration; data management; databases; metadata management |
| Robillard, Julie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Patient experience/patient engagement; social media; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health; Social robots; pediatrics |
| Rohling, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | ultrasound; Robotics; Cardiology; ultrasound, robotics |