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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) research explores the nature of intelligence and the ways in which computation can be used to explain and engineer it. Work in AI combines the scale afforded by machine learning with the expressive and organizational power of semantic information-processing and knowledge-based reasoning. Our faculty research programs include work in machine learning, cognitive modeling, language understanding and generation, planning and reasoning, robotics and human-robot interaction, computational journalism, social media analysis, computer audition, computers and education, computational creativity, and legal reasoning.

Faculty

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Mohammed Alam

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Deputy Director of the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence Program

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Emma Alexander

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Brenna Argall

Professor of Computer Science

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Larry Birnbaum

Professor of Computer Science

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Douglas Downey

Professor of Computer Science

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Ken Forbus

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science

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Kristian Hammond

Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science

Director, Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence Program

Director, Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)

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Thomas Hinrichs

Research Associate Professor

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Ian Horswill

Associate Professor of Computer Science

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Han Liu

Orrington Lunt Professor of Computer Science

Professor of Statistics

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Bryan Pardo

Professor of Computer Science

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Chris Riesbeck

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Director, Master of Science in Computer Science Program

Co-Director, Center for Computer Science and Learning Sciences

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Michael Rubenstein

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director of Graduate Admissions in Computer Science

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Sara Owsley Sood

Professor of Instruction

Chookaszian Family Teaching Professor

Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education

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V.S. Subrahmanian

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science

Faculty Fellow at the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

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Uri Wilensky

Professor of Computer Science

Professor of Education and Social Policy

Lorraine Morton Professor

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Marcelo Worsley

Karr Family Associate Professor of Computer Science

Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, School of Education and Social Policy

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