Ismini Lourentzou

Ismini Lourentzou
Ismini Lourentzou she/her/hers
  • Assistant Professor
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Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign, 2019

Academic Positions

  • 2024-present, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2024-present, Affiliate faculty, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2024-present, Affiliate faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2024-present, Affiliate faculty, NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2021-2023, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
  • 2019-2020, Research Scientist, IBM Research, Almaden Research Center

Research Interests

  • Multimodal Embodied Agents
  • Computer Vision for Robotics
  • Interactive AI Agents
  • Embodied AI
  • Generative AI
  • Multimodal Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision

Research Areas

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Data Analytics and Human Centered Data
  • Data Science
  • Health, Medical, and Bio-Informatics
  • Information Retrieval
  • Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Text Analysis, Computational Linguistics

Recent Courses Taught

  • IS 327 - Concepts of Machine Learning
  • IS 557 - Appd Machine Learn: Team Proj
  • IS 567 - Text Mining