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Leadership and Research Associates

Baylor University

  • Dr. Michael “Jeff” Donahoo (BU lead) is a professor of computer science. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1998. Dr. Donahoo specializes in security and networking.
  • Dr. Robert J. Marks II (BU ALT lead) is a professor of electrical and computer engineering. Dr. Marks is the Director and a Senior Fellow of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He was Chair of the IEEE Neural Networks Committee and served as the first President of the IEEE Neural Networks Council (now a Society). He also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  • Dr. Greg Hamerly is an associate professor of computer science. His research interests include ML, unsupervised learning, and efficient learning
  • Dr. Liang Dong is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. He specializes in deep learning for signal processing and communications, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Dong’s research related to collaborative and fair allocation of the spectrum is key for the CSEAI
  • Dr. Tomas Cerny is an assistant professor of computer science specializing in software engineering, context-awareness, and aspect-oriented programming, which is key for any technology-transfer
  • Dr. Javier Orduz is a postdoctoral associate in the CS department. He focuses on quantum machine learning and quantum fairness, and is mentored and supervised by Dr. Rivas (PI)

Rutgers University

  • Dr. Jorge Ortiz (RU lead) is an assistant professor in ECE and associate CS faculty at Rutgers University. He studies how to build sensing systems that learn from interaction with humans. At Rutgers, he leads the Cyber-Physical Intelligence Lab and is a faculty member of the WINLAB. Before joining Rutgers in 2018, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research, working on machine learning and the internet of things. There he was awarded 12 patents and helped commercialize two research projects. Dr. Ortiz also has extensive industry experience, including several years at Oracle Corporation, and has worked at and led multiple startups. He is currently serving as-TPC chair for Buildsys 2020. He has published articles in top venues and has been awarded in ACM/IEEE IPSN, ACM Buildsys, ICISSP ’18, and ACM IoTDI ’19. Dr. Ortiz holds a B.S. in CS.
  • Dr. Jie Gao (RU ALT lead) is a Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. She received Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science, Stanford University in 2004, under the guidance of Professor Leonidas Guibas and B.S. degree from the Special Class for the Gifted Young at University of Science and Technology of China in 1999. She spent the academic year 2004-2005 at Center for the Mathematics of Information, California Institute of Technology. She currently serves on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications
  • Dr. Yuqian Zhang is an assistant professor in the ECE Department. Yuqian was a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. Yuqian received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2018, and her BS in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2011. Her research leverages physical models in data-driven computations, convex and nonconvex optimization, solving problems in computer vision, machine learning, and signal processing. She has been invited to the EECS Rising Stars Workshop at Stanford University, and the Young Investigator Lecture Series at California Inst. of Technology
  • Dr. Dario Pompili joined the ECE faculty at Rutgers in 2007, where he is the director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CPS Lab); in 2009-2015 he served as site co-director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC). He received a PhD degree in ECE from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. In 2011, Dr. Pompili received the NSF CAREER Award to design efficient communication solutions for underwater multimedia applications. His research includes deep learning algorithms and reinforcement learning on multimodal data

University of Miami

  • Dr. Daniel Andres Diaz-Pachon (UM lead) is a Research Assistant Professor at the Division of Biostatistics of the University of Miami. His research interests include theoretical and philosophical concepts in probability, statistics, machine learning, and information theory. His recent research in maximum entropy and active information has been used in areas as different as cosmology, the COVID-19 pandemic (correcting biases in sampling), population genetics (measuring the addition of information when comparing neutral to non-neutral models), statistics theory (developing a new family of hypothesis tests), and machine learning (mode hunting through semi-supervised learning algorithms). Dr. Diaz-Pachon has been a reviewer for diverse journals in Probability, Statistics, Complexity, and Man/Computer Interaction for IEEE journals.
  • Dr. J. Sunil Rao (UM ALT lead) has been Professor and Director of the Division of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine since 2010. From 2016 (June) – 2019 (December), he was also Interim Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Rao works on problems in medicine and biology
  • Dr. Kenneth W. Goodman is founder and director of the UM Miller School of Medicine’s Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy and director of the university’s Ethics Programs Prof. Goodman is a Professor of Medicine at the UM with appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Nursing and Health Studies and Department of Public Health Sciences. He chairs the Ethics Committee of American Medical Informatics Association. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and past chair of its Ethics Committee.

External Collaborators

  • Dr. Pamela Harper will be our expert in ethical aspects related to management practice in industry and government. Dr. Harper is an Associate Professor in Marist’s School of Management. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Strategy from the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Dr. Harper’s experience includes both the for-profit and not-for-profit business sectors.