Featured academics
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Rada Mihalcea
Natural language processing pioneer who directs Michigan's Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research spans computational social science, multimodal understanding of human behaviour and misinformation detection, including widely covered work on spotting fake news. A champion of NLP for social good, she co-founded the ACL Year Round Mentorship programme to widen access to the field.
Mingyan Liu
Seventeenth dean of Michigan Engineering and an authority on large scale networked systems. Her research combines sequential decision theory, game theory and incentive design to quantify cybersecurity risk, work that has shaped data driven cyber insurance and internet scale security measurement. As dean she oversees one of the largest engineering colleges in the United States.
H. V. Jagadish
Database systems pioneer holding Michigan's highest professorial honour. His work on big data usability, data equity and responsible data science sets the agenda for fair data integration across the database research community, connecting computer science with bioinformatics and public policy. He has long led collaborative efforts to make data science trustworthy and accessible.