{"id":45,"date":"2025-11-19T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ncsu.edu\/ai\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:19:10","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ncsu.edu\/ai\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<div class=\"layout-one-column is-text wp-block-ncst-link-list\">\n          <h2 class=\"link-list-section__heading\">\n        \n      <\/h2>\n        <ul class=\"link-list__container\">\n      \n<li class=\"ncst-component__bold-link-container wp-block-ncst-bold-link\">\n      <a \n      href=\"#biological-sciences\"\n      class=\"ncst-component__bold-link text-link\"\n                >\n    <span class=\"text\">Biological Sciences<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n    <\/a>\n      <\/li>\n  \n\n<li class=\"ncst-component__bold-link-container wp-block-ncst-bold-link\">\n      <a \n      href=\"#chemistry\"\n      class=\"ncst-component__bold-link text-link\"\n                >\n    <span class=\"text\">Chemistry<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n    <\/a>\n      <\/li>\n  \n\n<li class=\"ncst-component__bold-link-container wp-block-ncst-bold-link\">\n      <a \n      href=\"#marine-earth-and-atmospheric-sciences\"\n      class=\"ncst-component__bold-link text-link\"\n                >\n    <span class=\"text\">Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n    <\/a>\n      <\/li>\n  \n\n<li class=\"ncst-component__bold-link-container wp-block-ncst-bold-link\">\n      <a \n      href=\"#mathematics\"\n      class=\"ncst-component__bold-link text-link\"\n                >\n    <span class=\"text\">Mathematics<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n    <\/a>\n      <\/li>\n  \n\n<li class=\"ncst-component__bold-link-container wp-block-ncst-bold-link\">\n      <a \n      href=\"#physics-and-astronomy\"\n      class=\"ncst-component__bold-link text-link\"\n                >\n    <span class=\"text\">Physics and Astronomy<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n    <\/a>\n      <\/li>\n  \n\n<li class=\"ncst-component__bold-link-container wp-block-ncst-bold-link\">\n      <a \n      href=\"#statistics\"\n      class=\"ncst-component__bold-link text-link\"\n                >\n    <span class=\"text\">Statistics<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n    <\/a>\n      <\/li>\n  \n\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"biological-sciences\">Biological Sciences<\/h2>\n\n\n<div id=\"footable_parent_66\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_0\" data-footable_id=\"66\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"Biological Sciences AI Collaborators\"            id=\"footable_66\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_2676273688_66\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_66 ninja_table_unique_id_2676273688_66 ui table  nt_type_legacy_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_pro\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n        <thead>\n<tr class=\"footable-header\">\n                                                        <th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_0 ninja_clmn_nm_facultyname \">Faculty Name<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_1 ninja_clmn_nm_email \">Email<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_2 ninja_clmn_nm_airesearchactivities \">AI Research Activities<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n\n        <tr data-row_id=\"0\" class=\"ninja_table_row_0 nt_row_id_0\">\n            <td>Scott Belcher<\/td><td>smbelch2@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>ML\/Neural networks - used to predict PFAS toxicity. Toxicol Sci. 2025 Jan 1;203(1):67-78.<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"1\" class=\"ninja_table_row_1 nt_row_id_1\">\n            <td>Carlos Goller<\/td><td>ccgoller@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Research: Testing ML\/Neural networks for pathway prediction\/identification in microbial genomes and BED file creation for adaptive sequencing of metagenomes. Education: UNC system Claude.ai test for education and comparing to Gemini. Quality Matters AI-assisted course design aligned with SRSs.<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"2\" class=\"ninja_table_row_2 nt_row_id_2\">\n            <td>Louis-Marie Bobay<\/td><td>ljbobay@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>ML\/Neural networks - Big data and inference of population genetics parameters<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"3\" class=\"ninja_table_row_3 nt_row_id_3\">\n            <td>Bonnie Hurwitz<\/td><td>bonnie_hurwitz@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Virus detection in microbiomes<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"4\" class=\"ninja_table_row_4 nt_row_id_4\">\n            <td>Carter Clinton<\/td><td>carterclinton@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>ML to identify\/predict genetic sequences in degraded\/aDNA (human); ML - generate models of pathogen evolution in historical infectious disease outbreaks; ML - Phenotype prediction (random forests, gradient boosting, neural nets) to improve EHR-based phenotype definitions; ML - Bayesian deep learning or variational inference models for ancestry-aware fine-mapping; ML - multi-task learning models to detect pleiotropy, sharing representations across traits<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"5\" class=\"ninja_table_row_5 nt_row_id_5\">\n            <td>Stephanie Mathews<\/td><td>stephanie_mathews@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>PIT Stop program with NCSU Libraries to develop AI teaching tool; AlphaFold2: Predict phage protein structure in MB\/BIT 211; LLM to generate lecture and research focus group transcripts<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"6\" class=\"ninja_table_row_6 nt_row_id_6\">\n            <td>Chris Halweg<\/td><td>cjhalweg@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>LLM to generate course question banks compatible with Moodle bulk import based on learning outcomes and course content<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"7\" class=\"ninja_table_row_7 nt_row_id_7\">\n            <td>Jeff Yoder<\/td><td>jeff_yoder@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Leveraging protein language models to characterize immune receptor families and discover novel protein variants across vertebrate lineages. Uses ESM2 embeddings fine-tuned for deep sequence analysis, combined with ESMfold for domain prediction and structural modeling<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"8\" class=\"ninja_table_row_8 nt_row_id_8\">\n            <td>Amanda Yi-Hui Zhou<\/td><td>yzhou19@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Leads research on machine learning approaches to advance biomedical data analysis and discovery.\"<\/td>        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody><!--ninja_tobody_rendering_done-->\n    <\/table>\n    \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"chemistry\">Chemistry<\/h2>\n\n\n<div id=\"footable_parent_64\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_1\" data-footable_id=\"64\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"Chemistry AI Collaborators\"            id=\"footable_64\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_2888836581_64\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_64 ninja_table_unique_id_2888836581_64 ui table  ninja_search_right nt_type_legacy_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_pro\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n        <thead>\n<tr class=\"footable-header\">\n                                                        <th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_0 ninja_clmn_nm_facultyname \">Faculty Name<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_1 ninja_clmn_nm_email \">Email<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_2 ninja_clmn_nm_airesearchactivities \">AI Research Activities<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n\n        <tr data-row_id=\"0\" class=\"ninja_table_row_0 nt_row_id_0\">\n            <td>Phil Castellano<\/td><td>fncastel@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Used in the CAPs Phase I CCI for photoreaction optimization, selectivity, discovery, and making spectroscopic predictions based on structure\/composition<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"1\" class=\"ninja_table_row_1 nt_row_id_1\">\n            <td>Ryan Chiechi<\/td><td>ryan.chiechi@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Generative AI for data processing and coding; RAG for a contextual semantic interface to course material for undergraduate chemistry students<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"2\" class=\"ninja_table_row_2 nt_row_id_2\">\n            <td>Raja Ghosh<\/td><td>rghosh8@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Integrating Quantum Algorithms with AI-guided automation experiments for accelerating materials design and discovery<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"3\" class=\"ninja_table_row_3 nt_row_id_3\">\n            <td>Milena Jovanovic<\/td><td>mjovano@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Crystal structure prediction<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"4\" class=\"ninja_table_row_4 nt_row_id_4\">\n            <td>Jonathan Lindsey<\/td><td>jslindse@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Leveraging chatbots for fundamental concepts and measurements in photochemistry<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"5\" class=\"ninja_table_row_5 nt_row_id_5\">\n            <td>Thomas Theis<\/td><td>ttheis@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Neural Nets for image processing<\/td>        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody><!--ninja_tobody_rendering_done-->\n    <\/table>\n    \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"marine-earth-and-atmospheric-sciences\">Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences<\/h2>\n\n\n<div id=\"footable_parent_69\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_2\" data-footable_id=\"69\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"MEAS AI Collaborators\"            id=\"footable_69\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_1618885162_69\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_69 ninja_table_unique_id_1618885162_69 ui table  nt_type_legacy_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_pro\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n        <thead>\n<tr class=\"footable-header\">\n                                                        <th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_0 ninja_clmn_nm_facultyname \">Faculty Name<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_1 ninja_clmn_nm_email \">Email<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_2 ninja_clmn_nm_airesearcheducationactivities \">AI Research\/Education Activities<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n\n        <tr data-row_id=\"0\" class=\"ninja_table_row_0 nt_row_id_0\">\n            <td>Del Bohnenstiehl<\/td><td>drbohnen@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Use ML\/AI involves classification of underwater sounds, marine ecology, and remote sensing. Taught a graduate-level class in ML for Geoscientists in Spring 2024 &amp; 2025<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"1\" class=\"ninja_table_row_1 nt_row_id_1\">\n            <td>Roy He<\/td><td>rhe@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES). Co-developed OceanNet and OceanAI. Applies AI\/ML techniques to oceanography and ocean forecasting, combining physics-informed modeling with deep learning<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"2\" class=\"ninja_table_row_2 nt_row_id_2\">\n            <td>Gary Lackmann<\/td><td>gary@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>ML for sorting and categorization, exploring predictive methods (e.g., random forests). See papers such as Chase et al. 2022, 2023; Radford and Lackmann 2022a,b<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"3\" class=\"ninja_table_row_3 nt_row_id_3\">\n            <td>Paul Liu<\/td><td>jpliu@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Conducts research on AI-LLM applications in geoscience. Co-developed OceanAI, OceanGPT-autocoding, DeltaGPT, and TradeAI systems. Taught DSC 595-002: Generative AI for Science. Delivered multiple Two-day intensive, hands-on AI-LLM training workshopsAuthor of [How to Build and Fine-Tune a Small Language Model], [Generative AI for Science (coming soon)]<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"4\" class=\"ninja_table_row_4 nt_row_id_4\">\n            <td>Zhen Qu<\/td><td>zqu5@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Applies machine learning to predict air pollutants and greenhouse gases<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"5\" class=\"ninja_table_row_5 nt_row_id_5\">\n            <td>Lian Xie<\/td><td>xie@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>ML for hurricane-related forecast<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"6\" class=\"ninja_table_row_6 nt_row_id_6\">\n            <td>Sandra Yuter<\/td><td>seyuter@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Machine learning for big data analysis<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"7\" class=\"ninja_table_row_7 nt_row_id_7\">\n            <td>Xiangdong Zhang<\/td><td>xzhan238@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Deep learning for reconstructing polar region climate data<\/td>        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody><!--ninja_tobody_rendering_done-->\n    <\/table>\n    \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mathematics\">Mathematics<\/h2>\n\n\n<div id=\"footable_parent_71\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_3\" data-footable_id=\"71\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"Mathematics AI Collaborators\"            id=\"footable_71\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_2676149120_71\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_71 ninja_table_unique_id_2676149120_71 ui table  nt_type_legacy_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_pro\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n        <thead>\n<tr class=\"footable-header\">\n                                                        <th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_0 ninja_clmn_nm_facultyname \">Faculty Name<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_1 ninja_clmn_nm_email \">Email<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_2 ninja_clmn_nm_airesearchactivities \">AI Research Activities<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n\n        <tr data-row_id=\"0\" class=\"ninja_table_row_0 nt_row_id_0\">\n            <td>Bojko Bakalov<\/td><td>bnbakalo@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Quantum Machine Learning<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"1\" class=\"ninja_table_row_1 nt_row_id_1\">\n            <td>Zixuan Cang<\/td><td>zcang@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Geometric and topological data analysis, with applications in biology<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"2\" class=\"ninja_table_row_2 nt_row_id_2\">\n            <td>Chao Chen<\/td><td>cchen49@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Fast algorithms for training neural networks<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"3\" class=\"ninja_table_row_3 nt_row_id_3\">\n            <td>Patrick Combettes<\/td><td>pcombet@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Non-smooth and convex optimization<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"4\" class=\"ninja_table_row_4 nt_row_id_4\">\n            <td>Kevin Flores<\/td><td>kbflores@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Data science for mathematical biology<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"5\" class=\"ninja_table_row_5 nt_row_id_5\">\n            <td>Mikhail Gilman<\/td><td>mgilman@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>CNN for classification of radar images<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"6\" class=\"ninja_table_row_6 nt_row_id_6\">\n            <td>Ilse Ipsen<\/td><td>ipsen@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Mathematics underlying LLMs (low-rank approximation, quantization, etc.)<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"7\" class=\"ninja_table_row_7 nt_row_id_7\">\n            <td>Hangjie Ji<\/td><td>hji5@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Scientific Machine Learning<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"8\" class=\"ninja_table_row_8 nt_row_id_8\">\n            <td>Rachel Levy<\/td><td>rlevy@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Lead Data Science and AI Academy and Campus-wide AI Advisory group. Interest in literacy to expertise workforce development, education, policy<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"9\" class=\"ninja_table_row_9 nt_row_id_9\">\n            <td>Ryan Murray<\/td><td>rwmurray@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Develop theory for data science algorithms<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"10\" class=\"ninja_table_row_10 nt_row_id_10\">\n            <td>Yeonjong Shin<\/td><td>yshin8@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Scientific Machine Learning, Fundamental understanding and new developments of AI algorithms. Applications to physical sciences and engineering<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"11\" class=\"ninja_table_row_11 nt_row_id_11\">\n            <td>Jordan Snyder<\/td><td>jasnyde2@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Data Science Education<\/td>        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody><!--ninja_tobody_rendering_done-->\n    <\/table>\n    \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"physics-and-astronomy\">Physics and Astronomy<\/h2>\n\n\n<div id=\"footable_parent_74\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_4\" data-footable_id=\"74\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"Physics and Astronomy AI Collaborators\"            id=\"footable_74\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_4282523883_74\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_74 ninja_table_unique_id_4282523883_74 ui table  nt_type_legacy_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_pro\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n        <thead>\n<tr class=\"footable-header\">\n                                                        <th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_0 ninja_clmn_nm_facultyname \">Faculty Name<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_1 ninja_clmn_nm_email \">Email<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_2 ninja_clmn_nm_airesearchactivities \">AI Research Activities<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n\n        <tr data-row_id=\"0\" class=\"ninja_table_row_0 nt_row_id_0\">\n            <td>Harald Ade<\/td><td>hwade@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Working on automated identification of thermal transition temperatures from in-situ spectroscopy using combined statistical models; high-throughput data analysis of in situ X-ray scattering. Toward the use of supervised machine learning for classification, decision making for applications in conjugated polymer-based thin films. (With Brendan O'Connor)<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"1\" class=\"ninja_table_row_1 nt_row_id_1\">\n            <td>Brendan O'Connor<\/td><td>btoconno@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Working with Harald Ade on automated identification of thermal transition temperatures and supervised machine learning for classification<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"2\" class=\"ninja_table_row_2 nt_row_id_2\">\n            <td>Rongmon Bordoloi<\/td><td>rbordol@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Used deep learning methods to study evolution of the intergalactic medium when the Universe was very young. Applied novel Bayesian deep learning techniques to estimate rigorous model uncertainties<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"3\" class=\"ninja_table_row_3 nt_row_id_3\">\n            <td>Bill Ditto<\/td><td>wditto@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Physics Informed Neural Networks, Improvement of AI approaches through nonlinear dynamics and adaption. Working on commercialization of Chaos Aware AI (patent issuing soon) and Adaptive and Growing network AI<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"4\" class=\"ninja_table_row_4 nt_row_id_4\">\n            <td>Nathan Ennist<\/td><td>nmennist@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Uses ML-based methods of computational protein design to develop new, genetically-encodable photosynthetic pathways for high-efficiency solar energy conversion<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"5\" class=\"ninja_table_row_5 nt_row_id_5\">\n            <td>Paschalis Gkoupidenis<\/td><td>pgkoupi@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Emulating and interfacing biological systems with organic neuromorphic electronics for physical and physiological AI<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"6\" class=\"ninja_table_row_6 nt_row_id_6\">\n            <td>Hans Hallen<\/td><td>hallen@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Used ML to forecast upcoming blockages in wireless communications systems. Address the problem of expensive\/insufficient measured data to train AI for real world use<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"7\" class=\"ninja_table_row_7 nt_row_id_7\">\n            <td>Chueng-Ryong Ji<\/td><td>crji@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>QCD global analysis of meson and nucleon parton distribution functions using ML\/DL<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"8\" class=\"ninja_table_row_8 nt_row_id_8\">\n            <td>Sebastian Koenig<\/td><td>skoenig@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Working on the development of novel AI\/ML techniques within the STREAMLINE Collaboration. Focus on application of eigenvector continuation to quantum resonance states<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"9\" class=\"ninja_table_row_9 nt_row_id_9\">\n            <td>Xingcheng Lin<\/td><td>xlin35@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>Collaborates with UNC-Chapel Hill and Texas A&amp;M to develop AI models that integrate dynamic information from MD simulations for improved predictions of protein function<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"10\" class=\"ninja_table_row_10 nt_row_id_10\">\n            <td>Robert Riehn<\/td><td>rriehn@ncsu.edu<\/td><td>DNN-based annotation of ant poses in video data. 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