Research Project: Predicting Future Ozone Concentration Changes and Associated Health Impacts in California under SSP Scenarios Using Deep Learning

Research Project: Understanding the Role of Noise in the Simplicity Bias of Neural Networks

Research Project: Use of LLMs to detect wildlife trafficking on social media.

Research Project: Exploring “human-like” attributes in text generated by LLMs and the effects of LLM sycophancy, anthropomorphization and personalization

Research Project: Developing a novel portable Long-range Wireless Methane Gas Sensors to detect leaks in urban oil wells

Research Project: Identifying and evaluating key social and environmental challenges affecting Los Angeles for the Haynes project

Research Project: Developing artificial intelligence models and applications to support emerging “hospital at home” care models, with a focus on patient monitoring, personalized treatment, and clinical decision-making.

Research Project: Developing artificial intelligence models and applications to support emerging “hospital at home” care models, with a focus on patient monitoring, personalized treatment, and clinical decision-making.

Research Project: Cultural Personalization of LLMs using the five big traits of personality (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism).

Research Project: Training a Deep Learning Mordel to Predict Temporal Population Density from Points of Interests data in a city

Research Project: Build probability distributions from geospatial data from GPS mobility data, including inferring data when there’s a lack of it using diffusion models to compute probability distributions and taking time into account.

Research Project: Evaluating Fine-grained Disengagement Behavior Classification with video-understanding VLMs

Research Project: Programming of a socially assistive robot in order to teach kindergarten through 2nd grade students social and emotional learning skills.

Research Project: Learning Therapist-Aligned Facilitation Policies via multi-agent simulation for support groups

Research Project: Socially Assistive Robots for Personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Creating a social robot (SAR) that can guide college students with generalized anxiety disorder through their daily Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) at-home exercises

Research Project: Socially Assistive Robots for Personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Creating a social robot (SAR) that can guide college students with generalized anxiety disorder through their daily Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) at-home exercises

Research Project: Socially Assistive Robot-Guided At-Home Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises: Deploying Blossom robots in student dorms to guide CBT exercises while collecting physiological data during natural stressors like midterms and finals.

Research Project: Predicting Future Cognitive Impairment: Multimodal Machine-Learning Models for Early Detection of MCI and Alzheimer’s Disease

Research Project: Using AI and Machine Learning to analyze MRI scans and deduce local brain age

Research Project: Examining how current AI systems are reshaping student–teacher relationships

Research Project: Implementing and evaluating Behavioral Cloning (BC) and Dagger algorithms on benchmark environments (CartPole-v1)

Research Project: Machine Learning Empowered Database Systems: Envisioning a more holistic approach to build an end-to-end machine learning empowered database system that custom-tailors its performance towards user workloads and data distributions.

Research Project: Embedding an LLM/model inside the internal to optimize the behaviors of database management systems, focusing on index selection, knob tuning, and query optimization.

Research Project: Research and develop path-planning algorithms for unmanned aerial vehicles.

Research Project: Temporal Analysis of Ambient Vibrations for Seismic Site Response Modeling / Ensemble ML Modeling of Biocemented Characteristics

Research Project: Regional hippocampal radiomics analysis reflects memory impairment in patients with early onset multiple sclerosis

Research Project: Find LLM security loopholes in KV caches, current LLM designs, and server systems and explore how hardware and software loopholes can expose user privacy and data security

Research Project: RL and LLM based Lane-Changing Framework to Optimize Weaving Ramp Congestion in Mixed-Autonomy Conditions

Research Project: RL-based Management Mechanism of AV Operators in Mixed-Autonomy Networks: Exploring how ride-sourcing companies with autonomous vehicles can adapt their pricing and fleet decisions in a competitive market