A multidisciplinary research laboratory working on novel machine-learning research problems

Dr. Ricardo Vilalta

Research Director

Associate Professor

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston and director of the Pattern Analysis Laboratory.

Michael M. Meskhi

Research Assistant

Ph.D. Candidate

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. My research is primarily focused on metalearning and self-adaptive systems.

Zhenyu Dai

Research Assistant

Ph.D. Candidate

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics at the University of Houston. My research is primarily focused on physics informed machine learning.

Farzana Yasmin

Research Assistant

Ph.D. Candidate

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. My research is primarily focused on computer vision and machine learning.

Michail Koumpanakis

Research Assistant

Ph.D. Candidate

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. My research is primarily focused on physics-informed machine learning and deep learning.

Chad Weatherly

Ph.D. Candidate

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. My research is primarily focused on machine learning.

Andrew Kim

Ph.D. Candidate

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. My research is primarily focused on machine learning.

Kishansingh Rajput

Ph.D. Candidate

I am a Computer Scientist at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. My research interests are machine learning based optimization, anomaly detection, uncertainty quantification, reinforcement learning and physics informed machine learning.

Melis Irmak

Master's Candidate

I am a master's student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. My research is primarily focused on machine learning applied to astrophysics.