Faculty Hires
Since 2022, Emory’s AI.Humanity initiative has attracted 45 new faculty members to the university. These faculty members engage in AI-related research and teaching within disciplines where Emory has significant strength. New hires span across seven of the nine schools at Emory, representing expertise in four general areas: business and enterprise, human health, law and social justice, and arts and humanities.
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.
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Tucker Balch
Professor in the Practice and Research of Finance
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Faculty Profile
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Marat Ibragimov
Assistant Professor, Marketing
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.
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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.
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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.
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Emma Jingfei Zhang
Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prasanna Parasurama
Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jessica Roberts
Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science
Emory University School of Law
jessica.lynn.roberts@emory.edu
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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