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C3 Director, Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science

Expertise:: I build systems that give machines human capabilities, turning raw data into the narratives and conversations people need to make sense of it. My work also examines the safety, transparency, and ethics of machine intelligence, and how AI is reshaping work, journalism, law, and education.
Email:: Kristian.Hammond@northwestern.edu
Website:: Faculty Page

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Deputy Director of MSAI

PhD Candidate

Expertise:: I work on conversational systems that help non-technical users derive insights about their data.
Email:: cameron.barrie@u.northwestern.edu
Website:: barrieca.github.io

PhD Candidate

Expertise:: I develop human-centered AI systems that help domain experts teach models and make reliable decisions when labeled data is scarce. My work spans interactive foundation models for retinal imaging and neurosymbolic tools that turn complex datasets into accessible, machine-readable knowledge.
Email:: donna.hooshmand@northwestern.edu
Website:: donnahooshmand.com

Research Associate

PhD Student

Expertise:: Working in Generative & Agentic AI Systems, Applied AI in Data Semantics & EdTech along with Human-AI Interaction.
Email:: shubham.shahi@northwestern.edu
Website:: LinkedIn

PhD Candidate

Expertise:: My research advances AI systems’ ability to reason over structured data. This work spans neurosymbolic reasoning and planning techniques for answering questions and generating contextualized reports, the creation of high-quality synthetic training data, and improved reinforcement learning techniques that strengthen large language models’ tabular reasoning capabilities.
Email:: marko.sterbentz@u.northwestern.edu
Website:: markosterbentz.com

MSAI Student

Expertise:: My work explores adaptive and efficient machine learning through curriculum learning, state-space models, and CLIP-style vision-language architectures. I study multimodal representation learning and resource-aware inference to build scalable, reliable AI systems.
Email:: aryandwivedi2026@u.northwestern.edu
Website:: LinkedIn