{"id":83,"date":"2026-02-19T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:08:04","slug":"faculty-engaged-in-interdisciplinary-ai-teaching-and-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/ai\/faculty-engaged-in-interdisciplinary-ai-teaching-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Engaged in Interdisciplinary AI Teaching and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Faculty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Lucas<\/div>

Lucas Bang<\/h2>

Associate Professor of Computer Science<\/span>Research areas: Combining combinatorics and information theory to software analysis problems. Recent work has been in synthesizing adaptive side-channel exploits.<\/span>bang@hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Jim<\/div>

Jim Boerkoel<\/a><\/h2>

Csilla and Walt Foley Professor of Computer Science<\/span>Chair, Department of Computer Science<\/span>Research areas: Human-robot teams, scheduling and planning, artificial intelligence.<\/span>McGregor 309<\/span>909.607.4522<\/a><\/span>boerkoel@cs.hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Joshua<\/div>

Joshua Brake<\/a><\/h2>

AI Experimentation Laboratory (AXL) and Imaginative Prototyping Laboratory<\/span>Associate Professor of Engineering – on Sabbatical 2025-2026<\/span>PhD, California Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering<\/span>Research areas: Optical technologies to probe and measure brain activity, mind\/body\/machine interfaces (MBMI) to improve and expand human cognition.<\/span>Parsons 2364<\/span>909.621.8553<\/a><\/span>jbrake@hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Kenneth<\/div>

Kenneth Fandell<\/h2>

AI Experimentation Laboratory (AXL)<\/span>Professor of Art<\/span>fandell@hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Nancy<\/div>

Nancy Lape<\/h2>

AI Experimentation Laboratory (AXL)<\/span>Professor of Engineering<\/span>Interim Chair, Department of Engineering<\/span>Research areas: Energy-efficient composite gas separation membranes, chemical transport across human skin, and engineering education.<\/span>lape@hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Rachel<\/div>

Rachel Mayeri<\/h2>

Professor of Media Studies<\/span>Research areas: Visual arts, media studies, biological imagery<\/span>mayeri@hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Julie<\/div>

Julie Medero<\/a><\/h2>

AI Experimentation Laboratory (AXL)<\/span>Associate Professor of Computer Science<\/span>Research areas: Natural Language Processing, especially its applications to literacy education.<\/span>McGregor 317<\/span>909.621.8072<\/a><\/span>julie@cs.hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"George<\/div>

George Monta\u00f1ez<\/a><\/h2>

Associate Professor of Computer Science<\/span>Research areas: Machine learning and why it works.<\/span>McGregor 301<\/span>909.607.9945<\/a><\/span>montanez@cs.hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"David<\/div>

David Seitz<\/h2>

Assistant Professor of Cultural Geography<\/span>dseitz@hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Xanda<\/div>

Xanda Schofield \u201913<\/a><\/h2>

Associate Professor of Computer Science<\/span>Research areas: Natural Language Processing, with applications to text analysis for the humanities and social sciences.<\/span>McGregor 330<\/span>909.607.2105<\/a><\/span>xanda@cs.hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Erin<\/div>

Erin Talvitie<\/a><\/h2>

Associate Professor of Computer Science<\/span>Research areas: Applications of machine learning to artificial intelligence, creation of artificial autonomous agents that can act flexibly and competently in unknown environments.<\/span>McGregor 323<\/span>909.607.1381<\/a><\/span>erin@cs.hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Josh<\/div>

Josh Jones ’98<\/h2>

Prototype-First Programming Laboratory<\/span>Entrepreneurship Faculty<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Benson<\/div>

Benson Tsai ’06<\/h2>

Prototype-First Programming Laboratory<\/span>Entrepreneurship Faculty<\/span>btsai@hmc.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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