1.2. Faculty Interests

Familiarize yourself with the ongoing research interests and focus areas of the faculty members at Emory CS.

Exercise

1. Go to [People → 1.2. Faculty Interests*] in Canvas and select a professor.

2. Visit the selected professor's website to ascertain one's research areas of focus.

3. Review the professor's publications to gain insights into one's ongoing research projects.

4. For each group member, identify two potential research ideas that align with the professor's areas of expertise and are of interest to you (for potential collaboration).

5. Make slides summarizing the above activities for a short presentation (one per group) and submit them to [Assignments → Exercises → 1.2. Faculty Interests] in Canvas.

AI Faculty

Professors

Eugene Agichtein

• Director of the Intelligent Information Access Lab

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: http://cs.emory.edu/~eugene

• Joined Emory in Fall 2006

Li Xiong

• Director of the Assured Information Management and Sharing Lab

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: http://cs.emory.edu/~lxiong/

• Joined Emory in Fall 2005

Associate Professors

Jinho Choi

• Director of the Natural Language Processing Lab

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: http://cs.emory.edu/~choi

• Joined Emory in Fall 2014

Joyce Ho

• Director of the Practical Data Mining & Exploration Lab

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: https://joyceho.github.io

• Joined Emory in Spring 2016

Chinmay Kulkarni

• Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: https://cs.cmu.edu/~chinmayk

• Joined Emory in Fall 2022

Fei Liu

• Research Area: Natural Language Processing

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: https://www.cs.emory.edu/~fliu40

• Joined Emory in Fall 2022

Yolanda Rankin

• Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: https://directory.cci.fsu.edu/yolanda-rankin

• Joined Emory in Fall 2023

Andreas Züfle

• Research Area: Spatio-Temporal Mining

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: https://www.zuefle.org

• Joined Emory in Fall 2022

Assistant Professors

Wei Jin

• Research Area: Data-Centric AI

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: http://cse.msu.edu/~jinwei2

• Joined Emory in Fall 2023

Emily Wall

• Director of the Cognition and Visualization Lab

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: http://emilywall.github.io

• Joined Emory in Fall 2021

Kristin Williams

• Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction Lab

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: http://www.cs.emory.edu/~kwil271

• Joined Emory in Fall 2022

Carl Yang

• Research Area: Graph Data Mining

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: http://cs.emory.edu/~jyang71

• Joined Emory in Fall 2020

Liang Zhao

• Research Area: Machine Intelligence for Complex Data

• Publications: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar

• Webpage: https://cs.emory.edu/~lzhao41

• Joined Emory in Fall 2020