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Faculty
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- Viktor K. Prasanna, Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering
- Director, Center for Energy Informatics (CEI)
- Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering Division
and Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D.Students
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- Gangda Deng, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Graph Machine Learning, CPU/GPU-based Acceleration
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- Nikunj Gupta, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: (Single-agent) (Multi-agent) (Deep) Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning
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- Yuhong Liu, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Communication Network, Machine Learning
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- Yuxin Yang, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Graph Representation Learning
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- Xu Wang, Ph.D. Student
- Research Focus: Adversarial AI, Data Mining