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# AI Faculty

The following list presents faculty members actively engaged in AI research within the [Department of Computer Science](https://computerscience.emory.edu/people/) at Emory University.

## Professors

### **Eugene Agichtein**

* Research Areas: Information Retrieval, Web Search, Conversational AI, Natural Language Processing
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BX3vWcAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Eugene-Agichtein/1685296)
* Websites: [Personal](http://cs.emory.edu/~eugene), [Intelligent Information Access Lab](http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2006

### Yana Bromberg

* Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Protein Structure and Function, Genome Variation Analysis, Personalized Medicine, Metagenomics
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aL6XtIUAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Y.-Bromberg/34867525)
* Website: [Bromberg Lab](https://www.bromberglab.org)
* Joined Emory in Spring 2023

### Li Xiong

* Research Areas: Privacy Enhancing Technology, AI for Health, Mobility Data
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jJ8BLgsAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Li-Xiong/145719374)
* Websites: [Assured Information Management and Sharing Lab](http://www.cs.emory.edu/site/aims)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2005

## Associate Professors

### Jinho Choi

* Research Areas: Conversational AI, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xdddblAAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Jinho-D.-Choi/4724587)
* Website: [Emory NLP Research Lab](https://www.emorynlp.org)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2014

### Joyce Ho

* Research Areas: Data Mining, Healthcare Informatics
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DrUBb5sAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Joyce-Ho/152316651)
* Website: [Practical Data Mining & Exploration Lab](https://joyceho.github.io/group/)
* Joined Emory in Spring 2016

### Chinmay Kulkarni

* Research Areas: Human-AI interaction, Social Computing
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZDatV6MAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Chinmay-Kulkarni/145665851)
* Website: [https://cs.cmu.edu/\~chinmayk](https://cs.cmu.edu/~chinmayk)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2022

### Fei Liu

* Research Areas: Large Language Models, Automatic Summarization, Generative AI, Natural Langauge Processing
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=22ohn6AAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Fei-Liu/144544919)
* Website: [https://www.cs.emory.edu/\~fliu40](https://www.cs.emory.edu/~fliu40/)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2022

### Yolanda Rankin

* Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, CS Education, Gaming
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RxcQjoYAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Yolanda-A.-Rankin/2897424)
* Website: TBA
* Joined Emory in Fall 2023

### Andreas Züfle

* Research Areas: Spatial Databases, Data Mining, Geosimulation, Spatial Computing
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s-FDyf4AAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Andreas-Z%C3%BCfle/3221975)
* Website: [https://www.zuefle.org](https://www.zuefle.org)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2022

## Assistant Professors

### Wei Jin

* Research Areas: Data-Efficient Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Trustworthy AI
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eWow24EAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Wei-Jin/144767914)
* Website: [http://www.cs.emory.edu/\~wjin30](http://www.cs.emory.edu/~wjin30/)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2023

### Joon-Seok Kim

* Research Areas: Prescriptive Analytics, Spatio-temporal Databases, Data Mining, Agent Based Modeling
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cAE-vgwAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Joon-Seok-Kim/1688423)
* Website: [GeoSpatial Science](https://www.joonseok.org)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2024

### Kai Shu

* Research Areas: Data Mining, Trustworthy AI, Social Computing, Misinformation
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-6bAV2cAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Kai-Shu/145800151)
* Website: [https://www.cs.emory.edu/\~kshu5/](https://www.cs.emory.edu/~kshu5/)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2024

### Shengpu Tang

* Research Area: Reinforcement learning, Healthcare
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a_z5a5wAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Shengpu-Tang/134763925)
* Website: [https://shengpu-tang.me](https://shengpu-tang.me)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2024

### Emily Wall

* Research Areas: Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Cognitive Bias, Decision Making
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YfcphqMAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Emily-Wall/2065740541)
* Websites: [Personal](https://emilywall.github.io), [Cognition and Visualization Lab](https://cav-lab.github.io)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2021

### Kristin Williams

* Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Physical Computing
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yGtJEDsAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Kristin-Williams/144830154)
* Website: [http://www.cs.emory.edu/\~kwil271](http://www.cs.emory.edu/~kwil271/)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2022

### Carl Yang

* Research Areas: Graph Data Mining, Knowledge Graphs, Federated Learning
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mOINlwcAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Carl-Yang/1390553618)
* Website: [http://cs.emory.edu/\~jyang71](http://cs.emory.edu/~jyang71)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2020

### Liang Zhao

* Research Areas: Spatial Data Nining, Graph Neural Networks, Generative AI
* Publications: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qnvyqtwAAAAJ), [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Liang-Zhao/145927745)
* Website: [https://cs.emory.edu/\~lzhao41](https://cs.emory.edu/~lzhao41)
* Joined Emory in Fall 2020
