Principal Investigator

Prof. Sang (“Peter”) Chin — Research Professor

Professor Chin is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Boston University and director of the LISP (Learning, Intelligence + Signal Processing) lab. Since completing his PhD in differential geometric methods to understand Einstein’s field equations, he has been passionate about developing geometric and topological methods to learn and understand information in general – signals (neural, RF, images, videos, hyper-spectral, etc.), graphs (social networks, communication networks, etc.) and human interactions via game theory. Recently, he has been interested in developing sparse deep networks to extract information and developing intelligence from large data sets. Most of his research is being (and has been) supported by AFOSR, DARPA, NSF, NIH, ODNI, ONR, OSD, and others.

Current Members

Graduate Students

Xiao (Kieran) Wang

PhD Student
Research Interests: machine learning, control theory and operations research

Craig Einstein

PhD Student
Research Interests: machine learning, computer vision, networking, operating systems, graphics

Xiao Zhou

PhD Student
Research Interests: artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning

Gavin Brown

PhD Student
Research Interests: machine learning, graph theory, information theory and its applications to data analysis

Laura Greige

PhD Student
Research Interests: social decision making, game theory, reinforcement learning

Andy Huynh

PhD Student
Research Interests: machine learning, data mining, computational neuroscience, recommender systems, high-performance computing

Louis Jensen

PhD Student
Research Interests: machine learning, dimensionality in data, data science, time-dependent data sets, game theory

Yida Xin

PhD Student
Research Interests: human and computer intelligence

Peilun Dai

PhD Student
Research Interests: computational neuroscience, machine learning

Hieu Le

PhD Student
Research Interests: artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing

Allison Mann

PhD Student
Research Interests: machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence

Ryan Yu

PhD Student
Research Interests: machine learning, graph theory, computational linguistics

Andrew Wood

PhD Student
Research Interests: machine learning, reinforcement learning, graph theory, computational neuroscience

Trung Dang

PhD Student
Research Interests: computational topology, speech recognition, NLP

Mengnan Zhao

PhD Student
Research Interests: data science, machine learning, space recovery

Fabian Heinrichn

Master's Student
Research Interests: machine learning, signal processing

Yu-Hsuan (Eric) Huang

Master's Student
Research Interests: machine learning, topology

Past Members

Graduate Students

  • Jacob Harer – Ph.D. Student, graduated July 2019
  • Ken Zhou – Master's Student, graduated May 2018
  • Tianyi Zhang
  • Gautam Bhat
  • Zhi Dou
  • Kathryn Heal
  • Nicole Provenza
  • Ravi Kailasam Rajendran
  • Rex Wang
  • Yiteng (Ivan) Xu