WHO WE ARE...


Nikolay Atanasov
University of California, San Diego. Robotics team. Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Member, Contextual Robotics Institute. NSF CAREER award, NSF CRII award. Associate Editor of IEEE RA-L, IEEE ICRA, IEEE/RSJ IROS. (Related Publications)

Esmaeil Atashpaz-Gargari
National University. Education team. Assistant Professor of Engineering and Computing. (Related Publications)

Mikhail Belkin
University of California, San Diego. Foundations team. Professor, The Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. (Related Publications)

Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti
University of Pennsylvania. Networks team. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. NSF CAREER award, NSF CRII award. (Related Publications)

Henrik I. Christensen
University of California, San Diego. Co-PI and Robotics team co-lead. Qualcomm Chancellor’s Chair of Robot Systems and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Director of Contextual Robotics Institute. Fellow of IEEE and AAAS. (Related Publications)

Fan Chung Graham
University of California, San Diego. Foundations team. Paul Erdos Professor in Combinatorics, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of AMS and SIAM. Euler Medal. (Related Publications)

Sicun Gao
University of California, San Diego. Chips team. Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. NSF Career Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, Kurt Godel Research Fellowship Prize Silver Medal. (Related Publications)

Hamed Hassani
University of Pennsylvania. Foundations Team. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Intel Rising Star Award, Thomas Cover Dissertation Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, Jack Wolf Student Paper Award. (Related Publications)

Tara Javidi
University of California, San Diego. Co-PI and Networks team co-lead. Jacobs Family Scholar and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Founding co-director for the Center for Machine Intelligence, Computing, and Security. Fellow of IEEE. Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Faculty Fellow. (Related Publications)

Shatha Jawad
National University. Education team. Associate Professor of Engineering and Computing. (Related Publications)

Stefanie Jegelka
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Foundations team and chair of Ethics/Early Career Committee. Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Sectional Speaker at ICM, Action Editor for JMLR, Program chair of ICML 2022. (Related Publications)

Andrew B. Kahng
University of California, San Diego. PI and Director; Chips team co-lead. Distinguished Professor of CSE and ECE, endowed chair in high-performance computing. Fellow of ACM and IEEE. 2019 Ho-Am Prize laureate in Engineering. (Related Publications)

Amin Karbasi
Yale University. Foundations Team. Associate professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Statistics & Data Science. NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, MICCAI Young Scientist Award, NAE Grainger Award. (Related Publications)

Farinaz Koushanfar
University of California, San Diego. Chips team and Networks team. Henry Booker Scholar and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Founding co-director for the Center for Machine Intelligence, Computing, and Security. Fellow of IEEE and of NAS-Kavli Frontiers. (Related Publications)

Vijay Kumar
University of Pennsylvania. Robotics team co-lead and Associate Director, Translation; chair of Translation Committee. Nemirovsky Family Dean and Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science. Founder of Exyn Technologies, Fellow of the ASME and IEEE, Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering, American Philosophy Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Engelberger Robotics Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Pioneer and Field Awards. (Related Publications)

Melvin Leok
University of California, San Diego. Foundations team. Professor of Mathematics. Co-Director, Computational Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Graduate Program. DoD Newton Award for Transformative Ideas, NAS-Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, NSF CAREER Award, SciCADE New Talent Award, SIAM Student Paper Prize, Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis. (Related Publications)

Yian Ma
University of California, San Diego. Foundations team. Assistant Professor, The Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Computer Science and Engineering. (Related Publications)

Arya Mazumdar
University of California, San Diego. Co-PI and Foundations team co-lead. Associate Professor, The Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. NSF CAREER Award, Jack K. Wolf Paper Award, EURASIP JASP Best Paper Award, Distinguished Dissertation Award. Area Editor of Now Publishers Foundation and Trends Series, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (Related Publications)

Leslie Morsek
University of California, San Diego. Project Manager.

Saura Naderi
University of California, San Diego. K-14 Outreach Director, The Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. Co-founder of Thinkabit Lab at Qualcomm, founder of the mylab program at UC San Diego.

David Pan
University of Texas at Austin. Chips team co-lead. Professor and Silicon Laboratories Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering. Director, UT Design Automation (UTDA) Lab. SRC Technical Excellence Award, 19 Best Paper Awards from DAC, ICCAD, ASP-DAC, DATE, ISPD, HOST, IBM Research, SRC, etc. Fellow of IEEE and SPIE. (Related Publications)

Yusu Wang
University of California, San Diego. Foundations team and Associate Director, Research. Professor, The Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. Faculty co-lead for Foundations of Data Science CoP at Translational Data Analytics Institute at the Ohio State University from 2018-2020. NSF CAREER Award and DOE ECPI Award. Member of the Computational Geometry Steering Committee and SIGACT CATCS Committee. (Related Publications)

Jodi Reeves
National University. Associate Director for Education and chair of Education Committee. Associate Dean of the College of Professional Studies. Academic Program Director of Data Science in the Department of Engineering and Computing. (Related Publications)

Alejandro Ribeiro
University of Pennsylvania. Networks team co-lead. Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering. Paper awards at ICASSP 2020, EUSIPCO 2019, CDC 2017, and ACC 2013. 2017 Lindback teaching award and 2012 S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award teaching award. Fulbright scholar class of 2003. Penn Fellow class of 2015. (Related Publications)

Tajana Rosing
University of California, San Diego. Chips team and Networks team. Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Fratamico Endowed Chair. Director of the System Energy Efficiency Lab http://seelab.ucsd.edu. Fellow of IEEE.

Daniel Spielman
Yale University. Foundations team. Sterling Professor of Computer Science. Professor of Statistics & Data Science and of Mathematics. Founding co-director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. Fellow of the ACM. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. (Related Publications)

Suvrit Sra
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Foundations team. Edgerton Associate Professor of EECS. Core faculty Institute of Data Systems and Society (IDSS), Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC), MIT ML Group, OPTML group. NSF CAREER Award, SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, ICML, ECML, SDM, Best Papers. Senior Area Chair NeurIPS, ICML, COLT; Associate Editor JMLR. (Related Publications)

Hao Su
University of California, San Diego. Robotics team. Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Founding faculty of The Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. (Related Publications)

Camillo J. (CJ) Taylor
University of Pennsylvania. Robotics team and Associate Director, Diversity and Outreach; chair of Diversity and Outreach Committee. Raymond S. Markowitz President’s Distinguished Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department. Member of the GRASP Laboratory. Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. (Related Publications)

Nisheeth Vishnoi
Yale University. Co-PI and Foundations team co-lead; chair of Institute Culture Committee. A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science. Co-founder of the Computation and Society Initiative at Yale. Fellow of ACM. (Related Publications)

Xiaolong Wang
University of California, San Diego. Robotics team. Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Affiliated faculty of Computer Science and Engineering. Member of Contextual Robotics Institute, Center for Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Group. (Related Publications)