Our Team
AICIL brings together a diverse group of talented individuals from around the world, united by their passion for advancing artificial intelligence.
Faculty
Research leaders and principal investigators
Prof. Michael Chen
Lab Director & Professor
Prof. Michael Chen is a renowned expert in artificial intelligence with over 20 years of research experience. He founded AICIL in 2017 with a vision to advance AI research that benefits society. His research interests span machine learning theory, neural architecture search, and transfer learning. Before joining the university, he was a senior researcher at MIT CSAIL and spent five years at Google Brain working on foundational AI technologies.
Dr. Sarah Johnson
Associate Director & Associate Professor
Dr. Sarah Johnson is an expert in computer vision and medical image analysis. She joined AICIL in 2019 after completing her postdoc at Stanford. Her research focuses on developing AI systems for healthcare applications, particularly in early disease detection and diagnosis. She has published over 40 papers in top-tier venues and her work has been adopted by several hospitals for clinical use.
Research Scientists
Postdoctoral researchers and senior scientists
Dr. Emily Rodriguez
Senior Research Scientist
Dr. Emily Rodriguez leads our natural language processing research. She specializes in large language models, multilingual NLP, and low-resource languages. Her work has been published in ACL, EMNLP, and other top NLP venues.
Dr. James Wilson
Senior Research Scientist
Dr. James Wilson leads our reinforcement learning and robotics research group. His work focuses on developing autonomous agents that can learn complex manipulation and navigation skills.
Dr. Rachel Green
Research Scientist
Dr. Rachel Green's research focuses on AI fairness, ethics, and safety. She works on developing methods to detect and mitigate bias in machine learning systems.
Graduate Students
PhD and Master's students pursuing cutting-edge research
PhD Students
Alex Kim
PhD Student (4th Year)
3D Computer Vision
Alex is working on self-supervised learning for 3D object detection. His research has been published at CVPR and ICCV.
Maria Garcia
PhD Student (3rd Year)
Medical Image Analysis
Maria is developing AI systems for early cancer detection from medical imaging.
David Park
PhD Student (2nd Year)
Natural Language Processing
David works on efficient fine-tuning methods for large language models.
Master's Students
Lisa Zhang
Multilingual NLP
Advisor: Dr. Emily Rodriguez
Notable Alumni
Our alumni have gone on to successful careers in academia, industry, and startups.
Dr. Anna Martinez
PhD • 2022
Advances in Self-Supervised Learning
Dr. Robert Kim
PhD • 2021
Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving AI
Jessica Lee
Master's • 2023