Artificial Intelligence

Our faculty are recognized leaders in the study of systems that exhibit intelligent behavior. 

This includes artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine listening, natural language processing, machine learning, and robotics. Illinois boasts a top-five ranked program and a decades-long legacy of breakthroughs in AI research and applications. Our strong, diverse, and growing AI group is dramatically accelerating efforts in research and industry digital transformations.

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The Grainger College of Engineering

CS alum Bowen Jin receives 2026 ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

2026 AICE Fall Symposium reflects center's continued success

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Research for Good 

Our advanced research infrastructure and talented faculty, students and researchers drive groundbreaking discoveries that change the world. The ideas we cultivate here enhance human life and lead to transformative advancements.

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Faculty & Affiliate Faculty 

Edge AI, AIoT, Machine Learning for IoT/CPS Applications

Immersive computing

Reasoning, NLP, Applications to Agriculture

AI in Education. Conversational AI. Systems for AI

Robot Motion and Task Planning, Multi-Agent Systems, XR, Smart Manufacturing

Machine Learning Methods for Imaging Science, Image Reconstruction, Deep Learning for Inverse Problems

Large Language Models, natural language processing, evaluation, human-centered AI

Machine learning, generative models, reinforcement learning, optimization, privacy, world models, geospatial AI

Motion Planning and Control

Graph Learning, Explainable ML

Knowledge acquisition, large language model, information extraction, information integration, question answering, natural language processing, machine learning 

Control, Autonomy and Decision Making, Vision and LIDAR Based Perception, GPS Denied Navigation

Computational Statistics, Reproducible Research, Statistics Education, Machine Learning

Social Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Signal Processing, Computational Imaging, Machine Perception, Data Science

Societal impact of AI, algorithmic game theory, human-AI collaboration

Autonomous Vehicles, Validating Autonomous Systems, Interactive Control Policies for Intelligent Systems in Multi-Agent Settings

Computational linguistics

Computer Vision

Computational Linguistics

Computer Vision Analytics for Building and Construction Performance Monitoring

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics

Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning

Conversational agents, dialogue systems, language understanding, language modeling

Machine Learning, Natural language Processing, Large Language Models

Motion Planning, Optimal Control, Integrated Planning and Learning, Robot Systems

Natural Language Processing

Computer vision, machine learning, robotics

Responsible AI, Game Theory, Reinforcement Learning, Adaptive Dynamic Programming, Learning from Demonstration, Machine Learning Systems Research

Probabilistic Graphical Models; Deep Learning; Data Science; Health Analytics; Safety, Reliablity and Security of Autonomous Systems; Reinforcement Learning

Code reasoning, agentic software engineering, analyzing agentic systems 

Natural language processing, multimodal knowledge acquisition, foundation models, AI for science 

Reinforcement learning, theory

AI Agents, Reinforcement Learning, Data

Human-centered AI, Generative AI

Audio and Speech AI, Model Compression, Personalized AI, Data Augmentation, Neural Speech and Audio Coding

Cyberinfrastructure for Machine Learning, Machine Learning Systems Research, Deep Learning Applications

AI analysis for performance, workload and reliability understanding

Machine Learning Efficiency, Machine Learning Systems

Computer vision, AI

Trustworthy AI, agents, NLP

Trustworthy AI; Agent Safety

Generative AI, diffusion, multimodal, RL, geometric deep learning

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Continual Learning, Online Learning, 3D Generative Models 

 Code Agents, Code LLMs, AI for SE, SE for AI, AI&Security

Multimodal Machine Learning, 2D/3D Generative AI, Vision-Language Models, Embodied AI

Data-Centric AI, Data Attribution, Generative AI, Large Language Models, AI for Science

Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Preservation, Auto-Curation, and Managing Unstructured Digital Collections 

Bayesian Machine Learning, Path Planning, Safety, Human Robot Interaction

Multi agent systems, Fair machine learning, strategic analysis

Robotics, Machine Learning

AI systems,  AI Quantum, Reinforcement learning for resource management, agentic systems

Scientific machine learning, machine learning in numerical methods

Planning, Learning, Sequential Decision-Making, AI-Based Robotics, Hallucinations

AI for programming, AI for verified programs, AI for theorem proving, verification of AI based systems 

LLMs, NLP

ML for Mobile health, Reinforcement learning for just-in-time intervention, 

Neural networks 

Computer Vision, AI for Child Development, Health AI, Generative AI, AI Safety, Machine Learning

Embodied AI in agriculture, construction, and marine applications

AI for Math, AI for Formal Proof, Autoformalization

Applied machine learning, data science, cognitive science, causal models, longitudinal data, graph data

Machine Translation, Computational Morphology & Syntax

Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Trustworthy AI, Reinforcement Learning, Training with Logic

Machine Learning for Audio, Speech and Music; Signal Processing; Source Separation; Sound Recognition and Classification

Tensor decomposition, empirical Bayesian models

Political and Social side of AI and its implications

AI for healthcare and life science

Graph Algorithm, Generative Models, AI safety, Trustworthy AI

Conversational AI

Human-centered AI, Generative AI, AI for Social Good, Fairness and Privacy in AI

Computer Vision; Robotics; Generative Models

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics

Bioinformatics

ML for Systems, Systems for ML, Agentic AI

LLMs, Agents

Robotics

Agentic AI, Multi-Modality, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning

Large language models (for coding and reasoning

Agentic AI, Multi-Modality, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning, Theory, Generative AI, Robustness

Trustworthy machine learning; learning theory; probabilistic models

AI agents, LLM Cost and Adoption, Open-weight Model Evaluation and Reproducible AI for Science

Adjunct Faculty

Machine Learning, Automatic Reasoning

Machine Learning, Neuroimaging, Biomedical Imaging

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning