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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Precision Psychiatry; Computational Neuroscience; Closed-Loop Neuromodulation
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Astronomy, Biosciences, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Computer Vision
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Prediction modeling in the pediatric ICU
Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences, Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Energy and Sustainability, Security, Engineering
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology); Director, Center for Computational and Social Sciences in Health, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Economic, Cultural); Developing methods for the capture and analysis of rich social data (dynamic, multilevel, relational/network, spatial); Systems science and population health; Transdisciplinary collaboration
Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Communication and Journalism, Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Security
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Collaborative human-AI systems; Applied NLP; Conversational interfaces; Computational media and journalism.
John D. Gray Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management
AI + X Research Areas:
Business and Decision-Making, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Business and Decision Making
Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences and Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Associate Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Biosciences, Other
AI Research Areas of Focus:
"Biologically informed" machine learning: incorporating know biological/chemical/physical constraints to improve accuracy and interpretability. Also: methods for integrating heterogeneous high-dimensional data, and algorithms for network inference and analysis.
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI-enabled engineering design, generative design, AI for materials design
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Business and Decision-Making, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
ML/AI and applications in business, marketing, materials design, medicine and social media
Jane S. and William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering, Kellogg School of Management, and School of Communication
AI + X Research Areas:
Creative and Performing Arts, Education and Learning Sciences, Communication and Journalism, Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Business and Decision-Making, Human Behavior, Engineering, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Use of AI to enable scholarship; social and behavioral impacts of AI on society.
Professor of Pathology (Experimental Pathology), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Pathology, diagnostics, medical imaging
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication
AI + X Research Areas:
Communication and Journalism, Business and Decision-Making, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI in hiring, AI in organizations
Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication
AI + X Research Areas:
Communication and Journalism, Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI, Ethics, and Society; Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency; Human-AI Interaction
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences, Security, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Data-Centric AI, AI Safety, Multi-Agent Systems, AI4Science
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Energy and Sustainability
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Environmental quality sensing data processing, satellite imagery interpretation, AI for process control, LLM processing of public comments in response to regulatory updates
Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Education and Learning Sciences, Engineering, Other
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Qualitative Reasoning, Analogy, Cognitive Architecture, Vision, Language
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Allergy and Immunology), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
single-cell foundation models; prediction of the perturbation of the immune system;
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Other
AI Research Areas of Focus:
High-dimensional probability and statistics
Bao Family Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, School of Communication
AI + X Research Areas:
Communication and Journalism, Human Behavior, Engineering, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Human-Centered AI (HCAI); AI and Human Interaction; Evaluating AI (Fairness, Transparency); Exploring the Impact of AI (Social, Cultural); Accessible AI; Human-AI Teaming
Knight Professor in Digital Media Strategy, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
AI + X Research Areas:
Communication and Journalism
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Journalism
Assistant Professor of Neurology (Comprehensive Neurology), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences
Professor of Linguistics, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI + X Research Areas:
Biosciences, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Cognitive science
Associate Professor of Pathology (Perinatal Pathology and Autopsy), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Diseases of pregnancy, placental pathology, histopathology images
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Implementation Science and Intervention Science), Preventive Medicine (Behavioral Medicine), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Mental health
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
AI + X Research Areas:
Creative and Performing Arts, Education and Learning Sciences, Medicine, Business and Decision-Making, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Human-AI Collaboration
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Human Behavior, Engineering, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI Ethics, AI Policy
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering; Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Human Behavior
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Human-centered AI for collaborative decision-making in clinical and community contexts
Director of Artificial Intelligence and Media Lab; Associate Dean for Education, Northwestern University in Qatar
AI + X Research Areas:
Education and Learning Sciences, Communication and Journalism, Business and Decision-Making, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Transformative AI; AI-Driven Digital Transformation; AI-Powered Virtual Influencer Marketing; AI-Powered Chatbots in Human-AI-Interaction; AI Ethics
Postdoctoral Fellow, NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky
AI + X Research Areas:
Astronomy
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI-accelerated simulation, inference, symbolic regression, compression
Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Director, Northwestern?s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics; Director, NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky
AI + X Research Areas:
Astronomy
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Physics-Informed Generative AI, Uncertainty Quantification, Trustworthiness
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Energy and Sustainability, Security, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI Hardware, CMOSX, Probabilistic Computing, Neuromorphic Computing
David A. and Karen Richards Sachs Professor and Chair of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Business and Decision-Making, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, causal discovery
Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Education and Learning Sciences, Medicine, Biosciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
LLMs for education and research
Director of Law and Technology Initiatives, Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Security, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI for legal reasoning and adjudication; AI for legal services; Law and Governance of AI; Evaluating AI for legal services, legal systems, and law
Research Data Analyst, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Security, Engineering, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Synthetic Data, AI Voice
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication
AI + X Research Areas:
Creative and Performing Arts, Education and Learning Sciences, Communication and Journalism
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI literacy, AI and creativity, human-AI interaction, speculating AI futures
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication
AI + X Research Areas:
Communication and Journalism, Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Human Behavior, Security, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI and political communication
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Business and Decision-Making, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Machine Learning Theory, AI for physics, Optimization, Generative Models
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Center for Robotics and Biosystems, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Robotics
Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Biosciences, Energy and Sustainability, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Data-driven Mathematical Model learning for Dynamical Systems
Emma Ann Reynolds Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Education and Learning Sciences, Medicine, Energy and Sustainability, Engineering
Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Other
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Ethics
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI + X Research Areas:
Astronomy
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Energy and Sustainability, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
optimization; reinforcement learning
Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Communication and Journalism, Business and Decision-Making
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Health Care, Marketing
Research Professor, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute and Center for Developmental Therapeutics
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Digital image analysis and drug discovery
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
AI + X Research Areas:
Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Business and Decision-Making, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
John P. Gallagher Research Professor of Rheumatology, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Disease registries
Associate Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Education and Learning Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
natural language understanding (not processing), case-based reasoning
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Integration of ML with first-principles methods for materials discovery
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Engineering
Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Mentoring and Professional Learning Co-Chair, NSF-Simons SkAI Institute
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Astronomy, Biosciences
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Clinical prediction models and clinical phenotypes
William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Professor of Law, Pritzker School of Law
AI + X Research Areas:
Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Business and Decision-Making, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
judicial decision-making, patents
Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition, Bienen School of Music
AI + X Research Areas:
Creative and Performing Arts, Human Behavior
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI and the Arts and Humanities; the History of AI and the Arts
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Biosciences, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Generative AI, representation learning, optimization, AI for manufacturing
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Business and Decision-Making, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Reinforcement learning, data-driven decision making
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Energy and Sustainability, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Machine learning and data science for materials development
Lecturer and Director of Teach for Chicago Journalism Program, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
AI + X Research Areas:
Education and Learning Sciences, Communication and Journalism
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Media literacy, cognition, media, journalism
Research Associate Professor, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Business and Decision-Making, Human Behavior, Engineering, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
computational ethics, AI fairness and anti-discrimination, agent-based modeling, bayesian state estimation, autonomous systems, social interaction
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI + X Research Areas:
Astronomy
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Machine Learning, Vision/Image Processing, Reasoning and Inference, AI applications in astrophysics, Analyzing large and complex datasets.
Assistant Professor of Surgery (Trauma and Critical Care), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Clinical informatics for prediction and allocation of escalation of surgical and critical care to provide high value care
Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering; Faculty Fellow at the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
AI + X Research Areas:
Law, Policy, and Geopolitics, Human Behavior, Security, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Foundations of AI, AI & Cybersecurity, AI & National Security
User Experience Librarian, Northwestern University Libraries
AI + X Research Areas:
Other
AI Research Areas of Focus:
User Experience research and design
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Biosciences, Engineering
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI + X Research Areas:
Astronomy
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Using AI emulators to accelerate the simulations of black hole accretion
Research Associate Professor of Radiology (Basic and Translational Radiology Research), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Oncologic imaging, tumor response assessment, tumor heterogeneity. radiomics
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Medical Social Sciences, Microbiology-Immunology, and Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
computational phenotyping and surveillance for immunologic disease using real world clinical data
Kellogg Chair of Technology; Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management; Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Business and Decision-Making, Human Behavior, Social Sciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
AI for science; AI agents;
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AI + X Research Areas:
Astronomy
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Model
Associate Professor of Instruction, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Business and Decision-Making
AI Research Areas of Focus:
I focus on explaining the field of AI to business leaders. From a business leader's point-of-view, the term "AI" is used to refer to more than just LLMs. My focus is to help business leaders sort through the different defintions and understand how they can be used to make better decisions.
John G. Searle Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Professor of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Biological Signal Transduction, Therapeutic Development
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Astronomy, Energy and Sustainability
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Large Scale Optimization
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering
AI + X Research Areas:
Creative and Performing Arts, Education and Learning Sciences, Medicine, Biosciences, Human Behavior, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
computer vision, machine learning, robotics, image/video analytics, multimedia, medical imaging
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics
AI + X Research Areas:
Astronomy
AI Research Areas of Focus:
big data analytics, inverse problem, and high-performance computing
Assistant Professor of Radiology (Basic and Translational Radiology Research), Feinberg School of Medicine
AI + X Research Areas:
Medicine, Biosciences, Engineering
AI Research Areas of Focus:
Biomedical Imaging, Medical Physics, Health