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Experts on AI

Sophisticated and increasingly intertwined with daily life, artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing branch of computer science that uses computing power and algorithms to make predictions and decisions to solve problems.

The explosion of easy-to-use platforms like ChatGPT and DALL-E-2 into the public consciousness has pushed the discussion about AI from science fiction to the mainstream.

WPI experts on the cutting edge of AI technology can speak on everything from potential uses in everyday life, ethical concerns, potential impact on education, and medical and mental health breakthroughs.

Emmanuel O. Agu
  • Professor-Computer Science Computer Science
Professor Agu's research interests are in the areas of computer graphics, mobile computing, and wireless networks. He is especially interested in research into how to use a smartphone as a platform to deliver better healthcare. ... View Profile
Scott D Barton
  • Associate Professor- Arts, Communications, and Humanities Humanities & Arts
Professor Barton composes and performs electro acoustic music, designs and builds robots, and conducts psychological research. ... View Profile
Berk Calli
  • Assistant Professor-Engineering Robotics Engineering
Professor Calli's main research focus is robotic manipulation and its applications in various domains such as waste recycling, assistive feeding, within-hand manipulation. ... View Profile
Gregory S. Fischer
  • Professor Robotics Engineering
Professor Fischer develops surgical robotics, including MRI-compatible robotic devices for enhancing cancer diagnosis, add intelligent automation to telesurgery, and develop assistive robotics, including socially assistive robots and wearable physically ... View Profile
Neil Heffernan
  • Professor Computer Science
Professor Heffernan researches how smarter technologies can help K-12 classrooms use technology more effectively and optimize student learning. ... View Profile
Songbai Ji
  • Professor- Engineering Biomedical Engineering
Professor Ji's research seeks to integrate advanced neuroimaging into traumatic brain injury (TBI) biomechanics research to understand injuries to functionally important neural pathways while developing techniques to achieve near real-time response feed ... View Profile
Cagdas Onal
  • Associate Professor/Graduate Coordinator Robotics Engineering
Professor Onal conducts research in soft robotics, a largely underexplored area of robotics that has significance in medicine, manufacturing, and disaster response. ... View Profile
Carlo Pinciroli
  • Assistant Professor of Robotics Engineering and Assistant Professor of Fire Protection Engineering Robotics Engineering
Professor Pinciroli's research focuses on designing innovative tools for swarm robotics. ... View Profile
Carolina Ruiz
  • Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences Computer Science
Professor Ruiz's research interests are in machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mining. ... View Profile
Elke A. Rundensteiner
  • Professor Computer Science
Professor Rundensteiner's research focuses on how to make use of data and information in an effective manner, towards achieving goals in business, scientific discovery, and digital health. ... View Profile
Gillian Margaret Smith
  • Associate Professor-Computer Science Computer Science
Professor Smith is an award-winning game designer. ... View Profile
Erin Solovey
  • Associate Professor Computer Science
Much of Professor Solovey's work explores effective human interaction with complex and autonomous systems and vehicles. ... View Profile
Alexander Wyglinski
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor Wyglinski's work focuses on devising new, reliable, and robust wireless communications using artificial intelligence and machine learning.Given society's growing reliance on wireless connectivity, it is important that wireless communications a ... View Profile
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Haichong Zhang
  • Assistant Professor Robotics Engineering
Professor Zhang is the founding director of the Medical Frontier Ultrasound Imaging and Robotic Instrumentation (Medical FUSION) Laboratory. ... View Profile