People of the AI Lab
AI Lab Director
Hsinchun Chen
UA Regents' Professor of MIS
Thomas R. Brown Chair in Management and Technology
Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Director, AZSecure Cybersecurity Program
Areas of Expertise
Cybersecurity and cyber threat intelligence
Data mining, text mining and web mining
Digital library and search engines
Health analytics and mobile health
Health informatics and security informatics
Knowledge management and business intelligence
Associate Director
Matthew J. Hashim
Associate Professor of MIS
Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Eller Fellow
Interim MIS Department Head
Affiliated Faculty
Mark W. Patton
Senior Lecturer in Management Information Systems
Program Administrator, AZSecure Cybersecurity Program
Affiliated Staff
Brandi Gaulin
Assistant Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Program Manager, AZSecure Cybersecurity Program
AZSecure Cybersecurity ProgramClass of 2026 | ||
| Joseph Chen | josephchen@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Kyle deGuzman | kyledeguzman@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Theodore Lowell | tslowell@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Jizell Quijada | jizellquijada@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Kayla Redwing | kredwing@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Noah Abdellatif | nabdellatif@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Luis Galaz | lmgalaz@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| James White | jameswhite@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Class of 2025 | ||
| Zachary Garcia | zachg0705@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Carson Chapman | carsonchap@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Cade Dacosta | cdacosta16@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Lauren Ortiz | renortiz@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Adam Sutherland | adamsutherland1@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| "Tony" Qi Zhang | zhangqi@arizona.edu | Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
| Class of 2024 | ||
| Jody Askren | jodyaskren@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| James Hu | jameshu@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Dalton Thompson | daltonthompson@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Dalton Arford | daltonarford@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Ronald Kirklin | rkirklin@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Michael Baluyot | mbbaluyot@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Wyatt Kershaw | wjkershaw1@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Class of 2023 | ||
| Brian Etter | etterb@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Ryan Ott | rott@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Tam Nguyen | tamn@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Jessica Diep | jessicadiep@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Alice Martin | alicemartin@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Thomas O'Kane | okane1@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Raul Reyes | raulreyes@arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Class of 2022 | ||
| Matthew D'Vertola | mdvertola@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Emmet Gormican | emmetg@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) Program |
| Kaeli Otto | kaeliotto@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Payton Rudnick | paytonrudnick@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Michael Pesce | mpesce@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| Tala Vahedi | talavahedi@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |
| David Hall | drhall@email.arizona.edu | AZSecure Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Program |