Leadership Team
Principal Investigators
Narayana Prasad Santhanam (Principal Investigator), Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: Statistical Learning
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: Statistical Learning
June Zhang (Co-Principal Investigator), Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: Knowledge Graphs
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: Knowledge Graphs
Nori Tarui (Co-Principal Investigator), Professor
Department of Economics, College of Social Sciences, UH Mānoa
Department of Economics, College of Social Sciences, UH Mānoa
Dan Port (Co-Principal Investigator), Associate Professor
Department of Information Technology Management, Shidler College of Business, UH Mānoa
Department of Information Technology Management, Shidler College of Business, UH Mānoa
Program Coordinator
Amy Doyel
DESCARTES, NSF AI Research and Traineeship, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
DESCARTES, NSF AI Research and Traineeship, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
External Evaluator
Mary Lee, Executive Director
Pacific Policy Research Center, UH Mānoa
Pacific Policy Research Center, UH Mānoa
Cooperating Faculty
Gurdal Arslan, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Andras Bratincsak, Associate Professor
Department of Pediatric Cardiology / Cardiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, UH Mānoa
Department of Pediatric Cardiology / Cardiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, UH Mānoa
Daisy Green, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: signal processing, estimation, machine learning and control for condition monitoring and energy management
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: signal processing, estimation, machine learning and control for condition monitoring and energy management
Igor Molybog, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: large language models (LLM)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: large language models (LLM)
Yuanzhang Xiao, Associate Professor
Hawaii Advanced Wireless Technologies Institute, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: Reinforcement learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Wireless Communications, Smart Grids
Hawaii Advanced Wireless Technologies Institute, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: Reinforcement learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Wireless Communications, Smart Grids
Yao Zheng, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH Mānoa
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UH Mānoa
Liuwan Zhu, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: cybersecurity and AI
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa
Research Topics: cybersecurity and AI