Faculty
Anjali Adukia
Assistant professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Research Interests: AI and Data-Driven Social Science, Economics of Education
Bryon Aragam
Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar
Research Interests: Causal Machine Learning, Deep Generative Models
Yali Amit
Professor, Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the College
Research Interests: Image Analysis, Shape Recognition
Xuechunzi Bai
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Social Cognition, Dynamic Social Minds
Marc G. Berman
Professor, Chair, Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Brain network efficiency, multivariate analysis
Avrim Blum
Professor and Chief Academic Officer, TTIC
Research Interests: Machine Learning Theory, Game Theory, Societal Issues in ML
Yuxin Chen
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Interactive Learning Systems, Machine Learning, Machine Teaching
Aloni Cohen
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science
Research Interests: Cryptography, Law, Policy
Aaron Dinner
Assistant professor, Computer Science and Data Science
Research Interests: Molecular Dynamics, ML for Physics-Based Modeling
Claire Donnat
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and the College
Research Interests: Graphs and Networks
Nick Feamster
Neubauer Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Network performance, security, and privacy, Internet censorship and access
Rina Foygel Barber
Associate Professor, Departments of Statistics
Research Interests: Developing and Analyzing Estimation, Inference
Michael Franklin
Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor, Faculty Co-Director, Data Science Institute
Research Interests: Systems, Architecture & Networking
David Freedman
Stahl Professor of Neurobiology in the Wallman Society of Fellows, Department of Neurobiology and the College, Chair, Department of Neurobiology
Member, Neuroscience Institute, Faculty Affiliate, Data Science institute
Research Interests: Neuroscience-Inspired AI/ML, Continual Learning, Categorical Decision Making, Vision
Giulia Galli
Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, in Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Research Interests: Computational modeling, Quantum Information Technologies
Chao Gao
Professor, Department of Statistics
Research Interests: Network Analysis, Bayes Theory, Robust Statistics.
Margaret Gardel
Horace B. Horton Professor, Physics and Molecular Engineering, Director, James Franck Institute & Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
Research Interests: Cell and Tissue Mechanics, Polymer Physics
Shiry Ginosar
Assistant Professor, TTIC
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Artificial Social Intelligence
Robert Grossman
Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Computer Science
Research Interests: Data & Database, Scientific & High Performance Computing
Rana Hanocka
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer graphics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Grant Ho
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Data, AI & Machine Learning for Security
Henry Hoffmann
Liew Family Chair of Computer Science
Research Interests: Self-aware & Adaptive Computing, Computer Systems, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems
Junchen Jiang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Networked Systems
Adrian Johns
Allan Grant Maclear Distinguished Service Professor of History
Research Interests: Intellectual Property & Piracy, Science & Information Studies
Alex Kale
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science
Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, Data Visualization
Yuehaw Khoo
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Research Interests: Convex and Non-convex Optimization, Neural-Network Methods
Frederic Koehler
Research Interests: Computational Learning Theory
Bernard Koch
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: AI Ethics, Computational Social Science
Risi Kondor
Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science, Statistics
Research Interests: Methodological Developments in Machine Learning
Sanjay Krishnan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Data Science, Databases, Machine Learning
Mina Lee
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science
Research Interests: Writing with AI, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction.
Tian Li
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science
Research Interests: AI & Machine Learning, Data & Databases
Zhiyuan Li
Tengyuan Liang
JP Gan Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Wallman Society of Fellows
Research Interests: Inference, Learning, & Optimization
Lek-Heng Lim
Professor, Department of Statistics (CAMI) and the College
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics
Karen Livescu
Hoyt Long
Professor of Japanese Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research Interests: History of Media & Communication, Cultural Analytics
Pedro Lopes
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, Virtual + Augmented Reality, Wearable Computing
Cong Ma
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and the College
Research Interests: Transfer Learning, Reinforcement Learning, High-Dimensional Statistics, Signal Processing
Jason Maclean
Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests: Graph Theory, Local Circuitry, Machine Learning
Michael Maire
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Deep Learning
Sanjog Misra
Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI
Research Interests: Marketing, AI
David McAllester
Ramon Nogueira Manas
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Geometry of Representations, Cognition
Lorenzo Orecchia
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Convex Optimization, Spectral Methods, Graph Algorithms
Stephanie Palmer
Associate Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Professor of Neuroscience Institute
Research Interests: Neural Population Coding, Predictive Coding
Alexander T Pearson
Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Medical, Head and Neck Cancer, Mathematical Model
Kexin Pei
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Program Analysis, Software Security & Reliability
Arjun Raman
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Research Interests: Neural Networks (Computer), Statistical Data Analysis, Systems Biology
Veronika Rockova
Bruce Lindsay Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Wallman Society of Fellows
Research Interests: Bayesian Computation, Variable Selection, Hierarchical Modeling
Jason Salavon
Associate Professor, Visual Arts
Research Interests: Computational Art, Data Visualization, Digital Media
Daniel Sanz-Alonso
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Research Interests: Inverse Problems, Data Assimilation, Mathematical Foundations of Data Science and Machine Learning
Aaron Schein
Department of Statistics and the College; Data Science Institute (DSI)
Research Interests: Bayesian Statistics, Causal Inference, Machine Learning
Greg Shakhnarovich
Professor, TTIC
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Image Understanding, Vision & Language
Allison Squires
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical Devices, Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Imaging
Nathan Srebro
Matthew Stephens
Ralph W. Gerard Professor, Departments of Statistics, Human Genetics, and the College
Research Interests: Sparsity, Shrinkage, Factor Analysis, Clustering Methods,
Chenhao Tan
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Data Science
Research Interests: Alignment, Human-AI Complementarity, Scientific Discovery, Governance and Democratic Processes
Suri Vaikuntanathan
Victor Veitch
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and the College, and the Data Science Institute
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Causal System, Safe and Credible AI Systems
Matthew Walter
Associate Professor, TTIC
Research Interests: Robotics, Computer Vision, Natural Language Understanding
Jingshu Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and the College
Research Interests: Computational Biology, Genetic Epidemiology, Causal Inference, Integrative Analysis
Rebecca Willett
Professor, Statistics and Computer Science
Research Interests: Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Large-Scale Data Science
Haifeng Xu
Assistant professor in Computer Science and Data Science at UChicago
Research Interests: Agentic AI, Data-driven Decision Making
Ce Zhang
Neubauer Associate Professor of Computer Science, Data Science
Research Interests: AI & Machine Learning
Ben Y. Zhao
Neubauer Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Adversarial Machine Learning, Networking, Security & Privacy
Heather Zheng
Neubauer Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Security & Privacy, Data & Databases, Architecture & Networking
Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Sciences, at the University of Chicago trains scholars who seek to advance and accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the natural sciences. The rise of AI in science and engineering presents both a remarkable opportunity and a profound challenge to human-centered modes of inquiry, including not only data analysis, but also the design of experiments, the formulation of new hypotheses, and the revelation of natural laws. Given the cross-disciplinary nature of AI research in science, Fellows will be offered freedom and independence in pursuing their disciplinary research integrating AI methods, including the flexibility to change or expand their research focus and to work with multiple research groups while at the University.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Postdoctoral Scholars Program at the Data Science Institute
The Postdoctoral Scholars Program at the Data Science Institute offers fellowships for Postdoctoral Scholars who wish to deepen their knowledge of cutting-edge data science and computing research while developing additional expertise in a specific, applied problem domain. For more information about how to apply to the program, please visit the Fellowships page.
Alumni
Learn more about our alumni
- Mladen Kolar, Professor of Data Sciences and Operations,USC Marshall School of Business. Read more
- Greg Ongie, Professor, Department Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Marquette University Milwaukee. Read more
- Daren Wang, Assistant Professor Department of ACMS University of Notre Dame. Read more
- Fan Yao is to join UNCChapel Hill STOR as a tenure-track assistant professor from this July
- Jibang Wu is to join NYU (Shanghai) Business School as a tenure-track assistant professor from this July
- Minbiao Han is to join Microsoft as a scientist
- Nedelina Teneva (July 2017) now at Amazon
- Qinqing Zheng (July 2017) now at Meta
- Gustav Larsson (June 2017) now at Apple
- Nikita Mishra (June 2017) now at Solvvy
- Dinah Shender (July 2015) now at Google
- Lian Huan Ng (July 2015) now at Zillow
- Maia Fraser (August 2013) now at the University of Toronto
- Ankan Saha (July 2013) now at LinkedIn
- Morgan Sonderegger (August 2012) now at McGill