Faculty Directory


Since 2022, Emory’s AI.Humanity initiative has attracted nearly 50 new faculty members to the university. Together with other new recruits and long-term faculty with expertise in AI, they are part of Emory's robust and growing community of AI.Humanity faculty scholars. These faculty members engage in AI-related research and teaching within disciplines where Emory has significant strength. Scholars span across seven of eight schools at Emory, representing expertise in these general areas: business and enterprise, human health, law and social justice, arts and humanities, ethics, and foundational AI.

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Panagiotis Adamopoulos

Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise

Research focus: Studies how information systems and technological artifacts affect user behavior and transform business and society.

padamop@emory.edu

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Panagiotis Adamopoulos

Ifeoma Ajunwa

AI.Humanity Professor of Law and Ethics

Emory University School of Law

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice , Ethics

Research focus: The intersection of law and technology with an emphasis on the ethical governance of workplace technologies.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

iajunwa@emory.edu

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Ifeoma Ajunwa

Weihua An

Professor, QTM and Sociology

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Advancing network analysis and causal inference through computational enhancement with Bayesian analysis, machine learning, and AI and substantive studies of inequality and social policy, health, and organizations.

weihua.an@emory.edu

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Weihua An

Sunil S Badve

Professor and Vice Chair, Pathology Cancer Programs and laboratory Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Primarily on breast cancer including a wide range of topics from diagnostics to basic science and clinical trials. The lab is funded through funds from NCI, DOD and Komen grants

sbadve@emory.edu

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Sunil S Badve

Tucker Balch

Professor in the Practice and Research of Finance

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Ethics

Research focus: Intersection of AI and finance including novel time series prediction methods, high-fidelity market simulation, synthetic financial data generation, behavior modeling, and secure cryptographic trading systems.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

tucker.balch@emory.edu

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Tucker Balch

Alejandro Sanchez Becerra

Assistant Professor, Quantitative Theory and Methods (QTM)

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Econometrics, causal inference, machine learning, and network analysis. Dedicated to developing statistical tools to improve the evaluation of poverty-alleviation programs.

alejandro.sanchez.becerra@emory.edu

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Alejandro Sanchez Becerra

Ira Bedzow

Associate Professor, Executive Director of the Emory Purpose Project, Center for Ethics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Human Health , Arts and Humanities , Ethics

Research focus: Understanding the ethical implications of technology and policy changes, as well as how to create an ethical culture through values-driven leadership. Making a values-driven decision and implementing it consists of different skills.

ira.jay.bedzow@emory.edu

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Ira Bedzow

Marcela Benítez

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Interested in the evolution of primate social cognition, the mechanisms that influence social choices, and the context in which these decisions are adaptive. 

marcela.benitez@emory.edu

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Marcela Benítez

Anandhi Bharadwaj

Goizueta Endowed Chair and Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management, ISOM

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise

Research focus: AI and future of work, AI and occupations, AI and Business Value.

a.bharadwaj@emory.edu

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Anandhi Bharadwaj

Manoj Bhasin

Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Development of advanced single-cell omics approaches, bioinformatics, and AI algorithms to understand disease pathophysiology for identifying biomarkers. Our main areas of interest are immune landscape mapping of cancers, diabetic foot ulcers, precision medicine, and drug repurposing.

mbhasi3@emory.edu

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Manoj Bhasin

Siva Bhavani

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Applying AI to match critically ill patients with individualized treatment strategies.

sbhava2@emory.edu

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Siva Bhavani

Laurie Blank

Clinical Professor of Law

Emory University School of Law

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice

Research focus: Exploring legal issues stemming from the use and potential future use of artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities in armed conflict, focusing on both the application of the law and the challenges presented for the future evolution and interpretation of the law.

lblank@emory.edu

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Laurie Blank

Jesse Bockstedt

Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Information Systems and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Foundations of AI

Research focus: The relationships between AI technologies and economic issues that impact consumers and markets. Expertise in AI and machine learning techniques, IT applications in business, randomized experiments, applied statistics and econometrics, economic theory, and technology business models.

bockstedt@emory.edu

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Jesse Bockstedt

Monique Bovier

Assistant Professor, Center for Data Science

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Understanding how AI can assist nurses with their workflow. Implementing predictive analytics, large language models, bidirectional video inpatient virtual care, message management in outpatient, and other AI modalities in the health system.  

mbouvie@emory.edu

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Monique Bovier

Selen Bozkurt

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Applying AI and natural language processing to real-world health data analytics; clinical decision support; data-centric AI; bias mitigation strategies and algorithmic fairness;  AI governance and ethics.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

selen.bozkurt@emory.edu

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Yana Bromberg

Professor, Biology and Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Bioinformatics and machine learning approaches to protein function prediction and genome variation analysis. Precision medicine, microbiome, origins of life.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

yana.bromberg@emory.edu

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Yana Bromberg

Natalia Bueno

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Public policy, housing policy, elections, and misinformation, with a focus on experimental methodological and machine learning tools.

natalia.bueno@emory.edu

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Natalia Bueno

Tankut Can

Assistant Professor, Physics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Computation and learning in brains and machines. Research involves bringing techniques and formalism from theoretical physics and mathematics to tackle problems in machine learning, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

tankut.uzay.can@emory.edu

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Rodrigo M. Carrillo Larco

Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Leverage statistics, data science, and machine learning to advance population health in the field of cardiometabolic diseases. Develop risk stratification tools, digital biomarkers, and metrics for disease surveillance.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

rodrigo.martin.carrillo.larco@emory.edu

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Rodrigo M. Carrillo Larco

Tian Chan

Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Studying the effects of collaboration, group decision dynamics, and task characteristics on innovation outcomes. The work on product design leans on computer vision (that is, the ability of machines to recognize and interpret images).

tian.chan@emory.edu

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Tian Chan

Howard Chang

Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Development and application of methods for analyzing complex spatial-temporal exposure and health data, particularly for health effect estimation and impact assessment leveraging large databases.

howard.chang@emory.edu

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Howard Chang

Ike Choi

Professor, Center for Data Science

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Integrating AI, virtual reality, and biosensing technologies into learning science to develop solutions to enhance human cognition, emotion, and behavior for health outcomes; pedagogical innovations for health professions and public health education.

ike.choi@emory.edu

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Ike Choi

Jinho Choi

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Quantitative Theory and Methods, Linguistics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Natural language processing and conversational AI, with applications across multiple domains, including health care. Develop advanced conversational AI models to support individuals with mental health challenges such as PTSD, Alzheimer's Disease, and autism spectrum disorders.

jinho.choi@emory.edu

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Jinho Choi

Julianne Chung

Associate Professor, Mathematics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Numerical methods and software for computing solutions to large-scale inverse problems, such as those that arise in medical imaging applications. Numerical analysis and scientific computing, inverse problems and uncertainty quantification, computational image processing, numerical linear algebra, optimization, data science, machine learning.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

jmchung@emory.edu

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Julianne Chung

Matthias Chung

Associate Professor, Mathematics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Numerical analysis and scientific computing, inverse problems, computational biology, applied linear algebra, machine learning, parameter estimation, dynamical systems and optimization.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

matthias.chung@emory.edu

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Matthias ChungAssociate Professor, Mathematics

Ruomeng Cui

Goizueta Foundation Term Chair Associate Professor, Information System and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise

Research focus: Causal-driven decision-making in platforms, retail, and supply chains. Identify-then-optimize models, causal inference, causal machine learning, and economics.

ruomeng.cui@emory.edu

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Ruomeng Cui

Katherine Davis

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: The Davis Lab focuses on the development and application of physical methods to elucidate the structure and mechanisms of metal-containing enzymes important for human health and medicine.

katherine.davis@emory.edu

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Katherine Davis

Carlo DeCecco

Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatica

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Development and testing of AI solutions to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and follow-up of cardiac disease.

carlo.dececco@emory.edu

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Carlo DeCecco

Todd Everson

Associate Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Perinatal exposures, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and children's health and development. The effects of PFAS, adversity and maltreatment, and substance use, or on molecular markers in children that were born very preterm.

todd.m.everson@emory.edu

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Todd Everson

Alex Fedorov

Assistant Research Professor, Center for Data Science

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Trustworthy medical AI systems, representation learning, multimodal learning, medical imaging, neuroimaging, electronic health records, physiological time series, neurodegenerative diseases, neuropsychiatric disorders, cardiovascular health.

avfedor@emory.edu

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Alex Fedorov

Farzad Fereidouni

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Development of imaging instrumentation and computational methods for tissue and cellular microscopy applications. Creating novel imaging approaches with direct application in pathology and patient care.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

fereidouni@emory.edu

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Farzad Fereidouni

Rajiv Garg

Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Ethics , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Examining the flow of information in digital platforms, utilizing economic and statistical methods. Exploring human-machine interactions in business applications, emphasizing the responsible use of AI to harness the potential of emerging technologies.

rajiv.garg@emory.edu

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Rajiv Garg

Judy Gichoya

Associate Professor, Radiology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics

Research focus: Working in 4 areas - building diverse datasets for machine learning (for example, the Emory Breast dataset); evaluating AI for bias and fairness; validating AI in the real-world setting and training the next generation of data scientists (both clinical and technical students) through hive learning and village mentoring.

judywawira@emory.edu

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Judy Gichoya

Michael J. A. Girard

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Ophthalmic engineering/artificial intelligence, biomedical imaging, ocular biomechanics and ophthalmic devices.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

michael.girard@emory.edu

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Michael Girard

Manuela Girotti

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Theoretical machine learning, deep learning theory, optimization; integrable systems, random matrix theory, partial differential equations.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

manuela.girotti@emory.edu

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Manuela Girotti

Adam Glynn

Professor, Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice , Ethics

Research focus: Causal inference and bias measurement for social science and policy. 

aglynn@email.edu

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Adam Glynn

Jo Guldi

Professor, Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Improving AI approaches to understanding our past. History of property rights, origins of eminent domain, and the story of rent control.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

jo_guldi@emory.edu

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Jo Guldi

Madeleine Hackney

Associate Professor of Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Design and study the effects of music—and dance-based exercise on improving motor, cognitive, and psychosocial function in people with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. 

mehackn@emory.edu

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Madeleine Hackney

Jo Hanjoong

Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: How blood flow regulates vascular biology and disease, especially atherosclerosis and aortic valve disease, by regulating expression of flow-sensitive genes and proteins. The flow-sensitive genes/proteins are targeted to develop novel therapeutics to prevent and treat vascular disease. 

hjo@emory.edu

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Jo Hanjoong

Ellen Hess

Professor, Pharmacology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Pathophysiology of movement disorders.

ejhess@emory.edu

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Ellen Hess

Peter F. Hitchcock

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Clarifying when and why learning and decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety disorders and developing potent and scalable translational interventions.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

peter.hitchcock@emory.edu

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Peter F. Hitchcock

Joyce Ho

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics

Research focus: Developing advanced machine learning techniques for health care data—subtyping diseases, enhancing clinical predictions, and integrating social determinants of health into predictive models.

joyce.c.ho@emory.edu

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Joyce Ho

Andre Holder

Associate Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics

Research focus: Successfully deploying advanced data-driven algorithms to forecast and phenotype critical illness. Other areas of interest include early sepsis resuscitation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and hemodynamic monitoring.

andre.holder@emory.edu

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Andre Holder

Jian Hu

Assistant Professor, Human Genetics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: A methodological component focusing on developing novel statistical methods for biomedical data and an applied component focusing on applying these methods for clinical and biological studies.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

jian.hu@emory.edu

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Jian Hu

Xiao Hu

Professor and Asa Griggs Candler Chair of Nursing Data Science, Center for Data Science

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Development and application of novel signal processing, machine learning, deep learning, and multimodality AI techniques in a variety of clinical specialties: neurology, critical and neurocritical care, cardiology, oncology and across the life span.

xiao.hu@emory.edu

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Xiao Hu

Xiao Huang

Assistant Professor, Environmental Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Computational geography, human mobility and network sciences, disaster mitigation and resilience, human-environment interaction, urban informatics, and geo-artificial intelligence (GeoAI).

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

xiao.huang2@emory.edu

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Xiao Huang

Anke Huels

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Using quantitative epidemiologic methods to better understand the interplay between the environment, (epi) genetics and cognitive health. Elucidate the complex relationship between air pollution, social and molecular factors, and cognitive health across the lifespan.

anke.huels@emory.edu

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Anke Huels

Marat Ibragimov

Assistant Professor, Marketing

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise

Research focus: Improving firms' core business strategies by using machine learning, econometrics, and mathematical modeling. Product returns management, customer search, and personalized promotions.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

marat.ibragimov@emory.edu

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Marat Ibragimov

Azra Ismail

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Law and Social Justice

Research focus: Design of data/AI-driven systems that target health equity for marginalized communities and care workers. Gender and wellbeing, participatory and community perspectives, future of care work, human-computer interaction for development (HCI4D), global health.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

azra.ismail@emory.edu

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Azra Ismail

Dieter Jaeger

Professor, Biology

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):

Research focus: Computational neuroscientist figuring out neural coding in the mouse motor system. Emphasis on thalamocortical interactions, basal ganglia, and cerebellum using physiological and biophysically realistic modeling approaches.

djaeger@emory.edu

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Dieter Jaeger

Ram Jagannathan

Dr, Global Diabetes Research Center

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: To investigate factors linked to early and late AD/ADRD stages and apply AI and machine learning for early risk assessment. Improve understanding of AD/ADRD progression, enabling personalized disease prediction and advancing prevention and management strategies.

ram.jagannathan@emory.edu

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Ram Jagannathan

Jie Jiang

Associate Professor, Cell Biology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: The study of two deliberating neurodegenerative diseases, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia, using model organisms, AI tools, and patient material.

jie.jiang@emory.edu

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Jie Jiang

Wei Jiang

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance, Finance

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise

Research focus: In pursuit of “economics/finance of technology,” applying the principles of financial economics to the setup, action, and consequences of AI and re-assessing the governance of corporations and financial markets/systems.

wei.jiang@emory.edu

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Wei Jiang

Peng Jin

Professor and Chair, Human Genetics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: The study of Genome Dynamics and Neuroepigenetics.

peng.jin@emory.edu

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Peng Jin

Wei Jin

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Deep learning on graphs, data-centric AI, data mining with applications in single-cell analysis, transportation, social science.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

wei.jin@emory.edu

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Wei Jin

Nasim Katebi

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Law and Social Justice

Research focus: Unsupervised learning, probabilistic graphical models, Bayesian deep learning, signal processing, time-frequency analysis and dynamical system.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

nkatebi@emory.edu

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Nasim Katebi

Diwas KC

Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Human Health , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Teach and conduct research in areas of data analytics, technology, and health care. Research topics include workforce productivity, capacity management, technology adoption, policy formulation, and the design and organization of health care delivery.

diwas.kc@emory.edu

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Diwas KC

Shella Kielholz

Professor, BME

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Studying the systems-level organization of intrinsic brain activity using AI. Some of the mechanisms uncovered may be useful for future AI systems.

skeilho@emory.edu

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Shella Kielholz

Minsu Kim

Associate Professor, Physics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: The phenotypic resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. 

minsu.kim@emory.edu

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Minsu Kim

Lauren Klein

Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor, Quantitative Theory & Methods and English

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities , Ethics

Research focus: Applications of AI/ML to humanities data. Humanistic and justice-oriented approaches to AI/ML. 

lauren.klein@emory.edu

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Lauren Klein

Ami Klin

Director, Professor, Chief, Department of Pediatrics, Marcus Autism Center, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Developmental aspects of autism in infants and toddlers, social neuroscience, and novel tools for diagnosis and treatment monitoring. 

ami.klin@emory.edu

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Ami Klin

Elizabeth Krupinski

Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Radiology and Imaging Sciences

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics

Research focus: Medical image perception, observer performance, decision making, human factors, and the interface between humans and computers and how that impacts clinical decision-making efficacy.

ekrupin@emory.edu

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Elizabeth Krupinski

Chinmay Kulkarni

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Human-computer interaction, learning at scale and social computing, AI-enabled future of work.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

chinmay.kulkarni@emory.edu

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Chinmay Kulkarni

Hyunjung Gloria Kwak

Assistant Professor

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Dedicated to advancing equitable AI in healthcare, tackling algorithmic bias, and addressing social determinants of health to improve patient care. Research spans clinical decision support, health care disparities, and the development of fair and inclusive AI models.

hkwak30@emory.edu

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Hyunjung Gloria Kwak

SeJung Kwan

Assistant Professor

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Human experiences with AI-enabled tools for learning and health outcomes.

sj.kwon@emory.edu

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SeJung Kwan

Hyeok Kwon

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Neurological disorders, mental health, human activity recognition, computer vision, machine learning, edge computing, wearables, ubiquitous computing.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

hyeokhyen.kwon@emory.edu

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Hyeok Kwon

Max Lau

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Develop innovative statistical, mathematical, and computational methods—including machine learning and deep learning models—to advance the understanding and prediction of infectious disease transmission dynamics, supporting effective public health interventions for emerging infectious threats.

msy.lau@emory.edu

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Max Lau

Nealen Laxpati

Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Epilepsy, movement disorders, brain-machine interfaces, neuromodulation, Bayesian learning, digital signal processing, time-frequency analysis, dynamical systems, control optimization, clinical translation.

nlaxpat@emory.edu

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Nealen Laxpati

Hai Le

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Oxford College of Emory University

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Agent-based simulation and modeling, steering behaviors, AI integration in simulation models, user-simulation model interaction, Wineinformatics.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

hai.le@emory.edu

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Hai Le

Dorothy Lerit

Associate Professor, Cell Biology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: How centrosomes are regulated in development and disease.

dlerit@emory.edu

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Dorothy Lerit

Allan Levey

Robert W. Woodruff Professor, Goizueta Brain Health Institute

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Precision brain health.

alevey@emory.edu

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Allan Levey

Donghai Liang

Associate Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Characterizing the human exposome and elucidating the molecular mechanisms accounting for the complex health responses to diverse environmental exposures using cutting-edge exposure assessment, AI, and high throughput single- and multi-omics technologies.

donghai.liang@emory.edu

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Donghai Liang

Fei Liu

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Natural language processing and deep learning, with special emphasis on automatic summarization.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

fei.liu@emory.edu

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Fei Liu

Yang Liu

Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: AI/ML applications in air pollution monitoring and satellite data applications in public health.

yang.liu@emory.edu

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Yang Liu

Abigail Powers Lott

Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: A trauma and PTSD clinician and researcher, currently studying the feasibility of automating trauma-related diagnosis using AI for a civilian sample.

Abigail Powers Lott

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Jiaying Lu

Assistant Professor, Center for Data Science

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Large foundation models, multimodal learning, and knowledge graphs, with special emphasis on health care data.

jiaying.lu@emory.edu

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Jiaying Lu

Anant Madabhushi

Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Applying AI, radiomics, computational pathology, medical image analysis and computer vision for diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of treatment response for different types of cancers, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and ophthalmology.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

anantm@emory.edu

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Anant Madabhushi

Babak Mahmoudi

Associate Professor, Associate Professor

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Developing AI systems for automated precision diagnostics and therapeutics.

b.mahmoudi@emory.edu

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Babak Mahmoudi

Andrew Miller

Professor, Psychiatry

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: The impact of inflammation on the brain as it relates to depression and other psychiatric disorders. Actively developing treatments to reverse the negative consequences of inflammation on the brain and behavior.

amill02@emory.edu

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Andrew Miller

Svjetlana Miocinovic

Associate Professor, Neurology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Human electrophysiology of the basal ganglia and cortical circuits in Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. We study motor and non-motor networks and deep brain stimulation (DBS) mechanisms with intraoperative recordings or in-clinic EEG, EMG and wearables.

svjetlana.miocinovic@emory.edu

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Svjetlana Miocinovic

Pablo Montagnes

Associate Professor, Political Science, Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Algorithmic market and organizational design, algorithmic delegation, and AI governance.

pablo.montagnes@emory.edu

Faculty Profile
Pablo Montagnes

Greg Myer

Professor, Director, Emory Sports Performance And Research Center (SPARC), Orthopaedics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Sports injury prevention and exercise training for performance, rehabilitation, and health. The scientific impact is highlighted in translating scientific discoveries into clinically viable tools that can be widely disseminated to benefit targeted populations.

greg.myer@emory.edu

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Greg Myer

Samaneh Nasiri

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: AI, mathematics, computation and medical knowledge to develop solutions to sleep problems as well as predict neurological and cardiovascular diseases.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

snasiri@emory.edu

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Samaneh Nasiri

Ilya Nemenman

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Physics and Biology

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Theory of AI; Use of AI in analysis of modern biological experiments.

ilya.nemenman@emory.edu

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Ilya Nemenman

Elizabeth Newman

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Multidimensional algebra, numerical linear algebra, machine learning, deep neural networks and optimization.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

elizabeth.newman@emory.edu

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Elizabeth Newman

John Nickerson

Professor Emeritus, Ophthalmology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Using AI to segment cells from one another in complex tissues.

litjn@emory.edu

Faculty Profile
John Nickerson

Jaqueline Nikpour

Assistant Professor

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Examining the impact of new primary care delivery models on achieving equitable health outcomes for patients. Especially interested in the organization, delivery, and financing of nursing care in health centers and other community-based settings.

janikpour@emory.edu

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Jaqueline Nikpour

Prasanna Parasurama

Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Law and Social Justice

Research focus: Algorithmic hiring, algorithmic bias and fairness, and human-AI interaction.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

pparasurama@emory.edu

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Prasanna Parasurama

Ravi Parikh

Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Law and Social Justice , Ethics

Research focus: Prospective evaluations of AI decision support; human-machine collaboration; prognosis and prediction of outcomes in oncology; in silico trials and digital twins; patient-generated health data; wearables; trustworthy AI; AI policy and regulation.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

ravi.bharat.parikh@emory.edu

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Ravi Parikh

Francisco Pasquel

Associate Professor, Medicine/Endocrinology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Diabetes technologies, predictive modeling, and metabolic phenotyping with a focus on advancing cardiometabolic health.

fpasque@emory.edu

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John Patty

Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice , Ethics , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Analytical models of social, political, and economic institutions. 

jpatty@emory.edu

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John Patty

Maggie Penn

Professor, QTM / Political Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Law and Social Justice , Ethics

Research focus: Study the social and behavioral consequences of classification algorithms and how these algorithms can be an important source of inequality across groups.

empenn@emory.edu

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Maggie Penn

Zachary Peskowitz

Associate Professor, Political Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice

Research focus: Public opinion on general AI attitudes and the government's use of AI, public policy, and elections.

zachary.f.peskowitz@emory.edu

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Zachary Peskowitz

Zhaohui Qin

Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Bioinformatics, using statistics, machine learning, and AI to study genetics, genomics, and other omics data.

zhaohui.qin@emory.edu

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Zhaohui Qin

Kevin Quinn

Acting Professor of Law

Emory University School of Law

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice

Research focus: Empirical legal studies, judicial behavior, law and politics, election law.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

kevin.michael.quinn@emory.edu

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Kevin Quinn

Sundaresh Ram

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Develop foundational theories, tools, techniques, and systems combining ideas from multidimensional signal processing/analysis, image science, information theory, detection and estimation theory, pattern recognition and machine learning for applications in various imaging technologies including conventional and medical imaging, biological sciences, and data science.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

sundaresh.ram@emory.edu

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Sundaresh Ram

Gordon Ramsay

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Developing vocal biomarkers for early detection of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders, applying machine learning and mathematical models of speech production to naturalistic home recordings of infant vocal behavior and infant-caregiver interaction.

gordon.ramsay@emory.edu

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Gordon Ramsay

Saima Rathore

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Neuroimaging of neurodegenerative diseases to apply advanced imaging technology for discovery of multi-modal biomarkers to facilitate earlier detection and predict progression of neurodegenerative pathologies.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

saima.rathore@emory.edu

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Saima Rathore

Matthew Reyna

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics

Research focus: Combines approaches from mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering to address biological and clinical questions in a principled and meaningful way.

matthew.a.reyna@emory.edu

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Matthew Reyna

Benjamin Risk

Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Research in neurodevelopment, autism, ADHD, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Driven by scientific questions and statistical training to navigate the complexities of the brain.

benjamin.risk@emory.edu

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Benjamin Risk

Jessica Roberts

Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science

Emory University School of Law

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Law and Social Justice

Research focus: Legal and ethical issues related to genetics and other emerging health technologies, disability rights, and antidiscrimination law.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

jessica.lynn.roberts@emory.edu

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Jessica Roberts

Lars Ruthotto

Winship Distinguished Research Associate Professor, Mathematics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Ethics , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Intersecting applied mathematics and data science. Creating mathematical insights and more efficient machine learning algorithms and applying them to problems in science, engineering, medicine, and other domains.

lruthotto@emory.edu

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Lars Ruthotto

Safdar Nabile

Interim Chief AI Officer, Emory Digital; Radiology and Imaging Sciences

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Implementation of AI in healthcare at scale. Developing and implementing AI in clinical imaging. 

nabile.m.safdar@emory.edu

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Safdar Nabile

Matthew Sag

Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science

Emory University School of Law

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice

Research focus: The fair-use doctrine in copyright law and its implications for researchers in the fields of text data mining, machine learning and AI.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

msag@emory.edu

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Matthew Sag

Kim Sangmi

Assistant Professor

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Chronic stress and trauma in pregnant women and those affected by intimate partner violence, with a specific emphasis on health equity. Employing data science applied to interdisciplinary research driving innovative solutions for women's health equity.

sangmi.kim@emory.edu

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Kim Sangmi

Pedro Sant’Anna

Associate Professor, Economics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Develop, better understand, and improve causal inference methods by leveraging advances in econometrics, machine learning, and AI.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

pedro.santanna@emory.edu

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Pedro Sant’Anna

Abeed Sarker

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics , Foundations of AI

Research focus: The intersection of natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and health informatics. Engaged in the R&D of data-centric NLP systems that can convert free text from sources such as clinical notes, social media, and published literature, into actionable knowledge.

abeed.sarker@emory.edu

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Abeed Sarker

David Schweidel

Goizueta Chair of Business Technology and Professor of Marketing

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Arts and Humanities , Ethics , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Applications of AI to business operations with a focus on marketing; Consumer perceptions and reaction to AI.

dschweidel@emory.edu

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David Schweidel

Alyasah Ali Sewell

Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor of Sociology

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Law and Social Justice

Research focus: An interdisciplinary expert on the intersections of housing, policing, and health inequities. By merging social surveys with administrative data, their research leverages quantitative analysis to consider how systemic racism works over and beyond the individual.

alyasah.ali.sewell@emory.edu

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Alyasah Ali Sewell

Hui Shao

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Predictive modeling, using advanced machine learning, microsimulation and econometrics method to build valid predictive models to resolve real-world issues. Causal AI, diabetes, precision medicine, precision public health, health economics, health policy.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

HSHAO24@emory.edu

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Hui Shao

Dan Sinykin

Associate Professor, English

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Focusing on data creation, collection, and dissemination using AI.

daniel.sinykin@emory.edu

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Dan Sinykin

Heeju Sohn

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Social demographer, revealing how social structures create and reinforce health inequities between classes, races/ethnicities, and genders. Demographic methods to model dynamics across geographies and time.

heeju.sohn@emory.edu

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Heeju Sohn

Sharon Soneblum

Associate Research Professor, Center for Data Science

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Technology-enabled pressure injury detection and monitoring, wound assessment across diverse skin tones, soft tissue biomechanics, disability and mobility outcomes, mixed methods research, assistive technology assessment.

sharoneve@emory.edu

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Sharon Soneblum

Sandeep Soni

Assistant Professor, Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Natural language processing, computational social science, cultural analytics.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

sandeep.soni@emory.edu

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Sandeep Soni

Chang Su

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Single cell genomics and genetics; gene network inference.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

chang.su@emory.edu

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Chang Su

Ryan Sulk

Assistant Professor, SON & HPM (RSPH)

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Decision modeling, AI-driven decision aids, and economic evaluation. Optimizing resources and their allocation by efficiently developing various AI-driven, community-engaged decision support tools for HPV-associated cancer prevention and control.

ryan.suk@emory.edu

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Ryan Sulk

Yan Sun

Professor, Epidemiology

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Novel study designs and advanced informatics/AI applications of multi-omics and EHR data to understand risk factors and functional mechanisms of human diseases in multi-ancestral populations. The goal is to improve the prediction, prevention and treatment of human diseases.

yan.v.sun@emory.edu

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Yan Sun

Vaidy Sunderam

Professor and Chair, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Arts and Humanities , Ethics

Research focus: Foundational aspects of Computer Science that enable AI, including data mining and machine learning, data privacy, AI education, high-end computing, and generative AI.

vss@emory.edu

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Vaidy Sunderam

Joe Sutherland

Assistant Professor, Director of the Center for AI Learning, Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Arts and Humanities , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Methodological innovations that improve the ability of AI, ML, and data science techniques to make causal inferences. Popular understanding of AI's impact on opportunity and productivity in the workforce.

Joseph.lyons.sutherland@emory.edu

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Joe Sutherland

Vilma Todri

Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise

Research focus: Exploring AI-driven advancements and digital disruptions reshape business strategies in the Internet economy, influence online consumer behavior, and redefine firm-consumer interactions in technology-mediated environments.

vtodri@emory.edu

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Vilma Todri

Alexander Tolbert

Assistant Professor, Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Philosophical foundations of machine learning, causal inference and uncertainty quantification in machine learning, algorithmic fairness and game theory.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

alexander.tolbert@emory.edu

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Alexander Tolbert

Hari Trivedi

Associate Professor, Radiology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Curation of large-scale multi-modal datasets for training, validation, and commercialization of radiology AI models. Breast cancer is the primary focus.

hari.trivedi@emory.edu

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Hari Trivedi

Umpierrez Guillermo

Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Mechanisms for beta-cell dysfunction in minority populations, prevention of acute and chronic diabetic complications, and hospital management of diabetes. 

geumpie@emory.edu

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Umpierrez Guillermo

Marly Van Assen

Assistant Professor, Radiology and Imaging Sciences

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: New technologies in cardiothoracic imaging, computed tomography, artificial intelligence, heart disease, early detection and prevention.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

marly.van.assen@emory.edu

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Marly Van Assen

Jithin Sam Varghese

Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Integrate precision medicine and public health surveillance. Technology solutions for cardiometabolic disease management among underserved populations in US and globally.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

jithin.sam.varghese@emory.edu

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Jithin Sam Varghese

Lance Waller

Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Research involves the development of statistical methods for geographic data with applications in epidemiology, disease surveillance, and disease ecology.

lwaller@emory.edu

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Lance Waller

Yun Wang

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Developing cutting-edge multi-modal AI methods to study brain development, integrating neuroimaging, multi-omics, and clinical data, and applying AI to advance perinatal maternal mental health.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

yun.wang2@emory.edu

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Yun Wang

David Weiss

Professor, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Combatting antimicrobial resistance in bacteria and fungi. Studying heteroresistance, where only a minor subpopulation of cells is phenotypically resistant. Integrating AI into a new diagnostic platform technology to detect heteroresistance and other forms of resistance.

david.weiss@emory.edu

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David Weiss

Kristin Williams

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Law and Social Justice , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Upcycled IoT (Internet-of-Things), turning everyday objects into IoT devices; human-computer interaction; physical computing; participatory design for marginalized populations.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

kristin.williams@emory.edu

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Kristin Williams

Drew Williamson

Assistant Professor, Pathology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Application of deep learning techniques to pathology data with a focus on multimodal approaches integrating histology, genomics, and natural language.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

drew.williamson@emory.edu

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Phillip Wolf

Professor, Psychology and Linguistics

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Using natural language data to identify biomarkers of psychosis, major depression, neurodegenerative diseases, and cognitive processes. Applying AI, NLP, and machine learning advances digital phenotyping and explores conceptual patterns across language communities.

pwolff@emory.edu

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Phillip Wolf

Julia Wrobel

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Rollins School of Public Health

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: End-to-end data science pipelines for wearable device and biomedical imaging data, and statistical methods related to functional data analysis, spatial point processes, and statistical computing.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

julia.wrobel@emory.edu

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Julia Wrobel

Ran Xiao

Assistant Professor

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Applying biomedical engineering principles, machine learning and data science to health care research. Acute coronary syndrome, early brain development, predictive analytics.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

ran.xiao@emory.edu

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Ran Xiao

Li Xiong

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Ethics , Foundations of AI

Research focus: Privacy-enhancing and trustworthy AI methods, including differential privacy, federated learning, data synthesization, and machine unlearning, with applications in health care, public health, and spatial intelligence.

lxiong@emory.edu

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Li Xiong

Ruoxuan Xiong

Assistant Professor, Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: The intersection of causal inference and machine learning, design of digital experiments, and financial statistics. 

ruoxuan.xiong@emory.edu

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Ruoxuan Xiong

Huiwen Xu

Associate Professor, Academic Advancement

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: To understand the interaction of federal and state policies with nursing home operations and how this interaction may improve or unintendedly compromise the quality of care or health equity, using large Medicare data and advanced statistical and machine learning methods.

huiwen.xu@emory.edu

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Huiwen Xu

Runze Yan

Assistant Professor, Center for Data Science

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Foundations of AI

Research focus: The application of AI in health care. Extensive experience in developing machine learning and deep learning methods for wearable and mobile devices aimed at modeling human behavior and predicting health and well-being outcomes.

ryan30@emory.edu

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Runze Yan

Shan Ping Yu

Endowed Professor, Anesthesiology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Investigating the mechanism of cell death and regeneration in brain injuries and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and developing new treatments for these disorders.

spyu@emory.edu

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Emma Jingfei Zhang

Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management

Goizueta Business School

Focus area(s):
Business and Enterprise , Human Health

Research focus: Point processes and their applications, statistical analysis of networks, graphs and tensor data, with applications in business, neuroscience and social science.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

jingfei.zhang@emory.edu

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Emma Jingfei Zhang

Wenhui (Vivian) Zhang

Assistant Research Professor, Nursing

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Aging, geriatrics, and data science. Currently working on projects on multimorbidity, expressive writing, and nursing quality indicators. 

wenhui.zhang@emory.edu

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Wenhui (Vivian) Zhang

Liang Zhao

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Spatiotemporal, textual, and network data mining, deep learning on graphs, nonconvex optimization, interpretable machine learning, large language models, and multimodal foundation models, as well as their applications in health and sciences.

liang.zhao@emory.edu

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Liang Zhao

James Zheng

Professor, Department of Cell Biology

Emory University School of Medicine

Focus area(s):
Human Health

Research focus: Employ machine learning and AI-based tracking to analyze age-dependent emergence and progression of neurodegenerative deficits. Current animal model is Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies), which enables us to perform lifelong interrogation of neurodegeneration after environmental stress.

james.zheng@emory.edu

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James Zheng

Andreas Züfle

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Focus area(s):
Human Health , Arts and Humanities

Research focus: Mining spatiotemporal data with applications in transportation, epidemiology, social science and urban computing.

Hired through the AI.Humanity initiative.

azufle@emory.edu

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Andreas Züfle