Ismini Lourentzou
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Siebel Center for Computing and Data Science (Affiliate)
Electrical and Computer Engineering (Affiliate)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Director, PLAN Lab
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Siebel Center for Computing and Data Science (Affiliate)
Electrical and Computer Engineering (Affiliate)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Director, PLAN Lab
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I lead the Perception and LANguage (PLAN) Lab. My work spans multimodal machine learning, vision-language models, learning with limited supervision, and human-centric embodied AI.
My research focuses on building adaptive, compositional AI agents that perceive, reason, and interact with the world. Key directions include:
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I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on Machine Learning, Multimodal ML, and AI foundations. Recent courses include:
I recruit graduate students through the School of Information Sciences (iSchool), the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science (CS), and the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at UIUC. For more details, please check the Information for Prospective Students.
