Artificial Intelligence
AI in Medicine and Health Care
Researchers led by Dmitry Korkin used AI to identify predictors of suicide risk in women with certain trauma-related disorders.
AI for Robot Performance
Nitin Sanket and students are building an autonomous flying robot to collect and transfer pollen as climate change impacts bee populations.
AI in Human-Robot Interaction
Inspired by health care needs during the pandemic, Jane Li is leading an interdisciplinary team to develop robots to help workers care for patients.
AI in Education
The AI techniques of machine learning and natural language processing are critical to ASSISTments, the award-winning platform that Neil Heffernan and his wife, Cristina Heffernan, founded to improve math instruction and learning.
Faculty Experts
Faculty Profiles
Emmanuel Agu
Professor, Computer Science
Emmanuel Agu is currently the Harold L. Jurist '61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean's Professor in the computer science department at WPI having received his Masters and PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research interests are
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Berk Calli
Associate Professor, Robotics Engineering
Berk’s research primarily focuses on problems related to robotic manipulation, which is a key functionality largely missing from the current state of the art in robotics for unstructured environments, including homes, modern warehouses, and collaborative manufacturing stations. H
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Danielle Cote
Associate Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
After graduating from UNH with a chemical engineering degree in 2005, Danielle Cote worked as a researcher at Saint-Gobain in the Northboro Research and Development Center in polymer science and data automation. Cote continued working while she pursued a master’s degree at WPI
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Raghvendra Cowlagi
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Autonomous vehicles – aircraft, cars, rovers, over- and underwater vehicles that can move in the real world by themselves without human pilotage – have gained immense importance not only due to the broad spectrum of their potential military and civilian applications, but also due
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Xinming Huang
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Being a faculty member is a privilege through which I can teach and mentor many students. My area of expertise is in computer engineering. More specifically, I conduct research in the area of AI, digital health, autonomous vehicles, and wireless communications. I teach computer e
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Jean King
Philip R. and Paul S. Morgan Professor, Biology & Biotechnology
Dr. Jean King is the Philip R. and Paul S. Morgan Endowed Professor of Biology & Biotechnology, an active neuroscientist who previously served in the administrative role as the Peterson Family Dean of Arts & Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Prior to this role,
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Xiaozhong Liu
Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Xiaozhong Liu is a Professor of Data Science and Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, data science, and their applications in healthcare, with particular interests in longitudinal patient modeling, chronic disea
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Carlo Pinciroli
Associate Professor/Graduate Coordinator, Robotics Engineering
The focus of my research is designing innovative tools for swarm robotics. I am developing Buzz, a programming language specifically designed for real-world robot swarms. During my Ph.D., I have designed ARGoS, which is currently the fastest general-purpose robot simulator in the
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Elke Rundensteiner
Professor, Computer Science, Program Head, Data Science, Computer Science
As founding Head of the interdisciplinary Data Science program here at WPI, I take great pleasure in doing all in my power to support the Data Science community in all its facets from research collaborations, and new educational initiatives to our innovative industry-sponsored an
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Carolina Ruiz
Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences and Harold L. Jurist ’61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean’s Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science
Carolina Ruiz is the Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Harold L. Jurist ’61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean’s Professor of Computer Science. She joined the WPI faculty in 1997. Prof. Ruiz’s research is in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, and their
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Jacob Whitehill
Associate Professor, Computer Science
My research interests are in applied machine learning, computer vision, data science and their applications to education, affective computing, and human behavior recognition. My work is highly interdisciplinary and frequently intersects cognitive science, psychology, and educatio
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Jing Xiao
Professor, Robotics Engineering
My research spans robotics, haptics, multi-modal perception, and artificial intelligence, at the intersection of computer science and engineering. There are two highly related themes in my robotics research: one is the focus on “contact sport”, i.e., the contact and interaction b
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