Center Leadership

  • Anna Rumshisky is an Assistant Professor at UMass Lowell.
    Anna Rumshisky

    Director
    LLMs, efficient training, mechanistic interpretability, applied NLP, clinical AI, educational AI
  • Ming Shao.
    Ming Shao

    Associate Director
    Computer vision, visual domain adaptation, transfer learning, few-shot learning

Core Faculty

  • Reza Ahmadzadeh
    Reza Azadeh

    Reinforcement learning, imitation learning, robotics, and autonomous systems. NSF CAREER Award recipient.
  • TINGJIAN GE, COMPUTER SCIENCE Associate Professor
    Tingjian Ge

    Graph machine learning, dynamic networks, retrieval-based LLMs, continual learning. NSF CAREER Award.
  • Neil Shortland is the Director, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies and an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at UMass Lowell.
    Neil Shortland

    AI in human decision-making, trust in human-AI teams, military and defense AI applications. DARPA funded.
  • Ann Kronrod
    Ann Kronrod

    Conversational AI, human-machine interaction, consumer trust and privacy with AI agents.
  • Vinod Vokkarane is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UMass Lowell.
    Vinod Vokkarane
    Software-defined networks, edge AI, distributed AI training infrastructure. DOE CyberCARE Co-Director.
  • Stephen Lam is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass Lowell.
    Stephen Lam
    Physics-informed AI, materials discovery, uncertainty quantification, generative AI for inverse design. DOE Early Career Award.
  • IMAGE OF Kshitij Jerath. Kshitij is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at UMass Lowell.
    Kshitij Jerath
    Collective behavior in multi-agent AI systems, autonomous vehicles, online learning algorithms.
  • Ruize Ma
    Ruizhe Ma
    Statistical modeling, temporal knowledge graphs, multimodal ML, time series analysis, space weather AI.
  • Sashank Narain is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and the iSAFER research center at UMass Lowell.
    Sashank Narain
    Privacy-preserving ML, AI-driven security, explainable AI for intrusion detection, deep RL for networking. DARPA YFA.
  • Sam Reig
    Samantha Reig
    Human-computer and human-robot interaction, autonomy trust, personalized AI agents in services. PhD, CMU HCI.