CAIDA is UBC's main AI research organization. It consists of 83 professors and their research associates, spanning 24 departments/schools/institutes/etc. The Centre's focus is the development, analysis, and application of AI systems for decision-making and action, enabled by core AI technologies such as machine learning and automated reasoning. It is part of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS).
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Aamodt, Tor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer architecture; Machine learning; Computer Architecture; graphics processor units (GPUs); Machine Learning |
| Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Artificial intelligence (AI); Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Computational Linguistics; Social Media Mining; Arabic |
| Abolmaesumi, Purang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Technologies; Cancer Imaging; Computer Assisted Interventions; Image Guided Surgery; Machine Learning; Medical Imaging; Surgical Robotics; Ultrasound Imaging |
| Alacaoglu, Ahmet | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical optimization; Machine learning; Mathematical operations research; Numerical optimization; Machine Learning; Stochastic algorithms; Min-max games; Monotone operator theory |
| Altintas, Yusuf | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Virtual Machining, Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems, CAD/CAM, CNC Design, High Speed Feed Drive Control, Real Time Interpolation and Trajectory Generation for Machine Tools, Adaptive Control, Sensor Fused Intelligent Machining, Metal Cutting Mechanics, Chatter Vibrations in Machining, Piezo -Actuator Based Precision Machining, High Speed Milling, Optimal Machining of Aerospace Parts, Dies and Molds, Automation, Precision Engineering, Electro Mechanical Systems, Modeling and Analysis of Machining Processes, Mechanics, dynamics and control of micro-machining operations |
| Aparicio, Samuel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Breast cancer, genome sequencing |
| Bashashati Saghezchi, Ali | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Computational Pathology; Cancer Genomics; Computational Biology; Digital Pathology; Image Processing; Machine Learning; Ovarian Cancer; Signal Processing; Multi-modal Learning |
| Berlinguette, Curtis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Combinatorial Chemistry; CO2 conversion and utilization; clean energy; advanced solar cells; electrochromic windows; dynamic windows; hydrogen fuels production; catalysis; robotics and automation; machine learning / artificial intelligence |
| Bloem-Reddy, Benjamin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | developing methods for evolving networks whose history is unobserved; distributional limits of preferential attachment networks; uses of symmetry in statistics, computation, and machine learning |
| Bouchard-Cote, Alexandre | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | machine/statistical learning; mathematical side of the subject as well as in applications in linguistics and biology |
| Campbell, Trevor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | automated, scalable Bayesian inference algorithms; Bayesian nonparametrics; streaming data; Bayesian theory; Probabilistic Inference; computational statistics; large-scale data |
| Carenini, Giuseppe | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural language processing |
| Cavusoglu, Hasan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | IT investment, information security, value of information technology, online product differentiation, information system security, Economics & sustainability, Management Information Systems |
| Colliander, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | hamiltonian dynamical systems; partial differential equations; harmonic analysis |
| Conati, Cristina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, affective computing, personalized interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent interface agents, virtual agent, user-adapted interaction, computer-assisted education, educational computer games, computers in education, user-adaptive interaction, Artificial intelligence, adaptive interfaces, cognitive systems, user modelling |
| Ding, Jiarui | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Basic medicine and life sciences; Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Probabilistic Deep Learning; single-cell genomics; visualization; Cancer biology; Computational Immunology; Food Allergy; neuroscience |
| Dumont, Guy A | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | biomedical engineering; automatic drug delivery; mobile health; global health; anesthesia; physiological monitoring;, Adaptive control, predictive control, control of distributed parameters systems, advanced process control, applications of wavelet analysis, biomedical applications of control, pulp and paper process control |
| Farinha Luz, Vitor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Microeconomic Theory, |
| Friedlander, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | numerical optimization, numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, Scientific computing |
| Fu, Qiang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | a multidisciplinary perspective on institutional changes, social networks and mental health over the urban space; comparative and temporal analysis of civic engagement and identity; child and youth well-being (e.g., obesity and school bullying); developing |
| Garbi, Rafeef | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Technologies; Computer Vision; Deep Learning; image analysis; Imaging; Machine Learning; Medical Image Computing |
| Gopaluni, Bhushan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Modelling and experiment design, identification for control |
| Greif, Chen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Numerical computation; Numerical analysis; scientific computing; numerical linear algebra; numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations |
| Haber, Eldad | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Scientific computing and its application to geophysical and medical imaging |
| Harvey, Nicholas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | randomized algorithms, combinatorial optimization, graph sparsification, discrepancy theory and learning theory; algorithmic problems arising in computer networking, including cache analysis, load balancing, data replication, peer-to-peer networks, and network coding. |