Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems
Research in the fields of machine learning and intelligent systems addresses the fundamental problem of developing computer algorithms that can harness the vast amounts of digital data available in the 21st century and then use this data in an intelligent way to solve a variety of real-world problems. Examples of research activities in the Center…
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UCI’s Center for Legal Philosophy was launched in 2017 as an initiative of the School of Humanities in partnership with the School of Law. It serves as official home to the collaborative activities of the growing community of scholars working at the intersection of law and philosophy, as well as related fields in the humanities.…
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The Center for Language Science is under the direction of Gregory Hickok in the Department of Cognitive Sciences. Both the Center and the Department are part of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Read MoreCenter for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources (CLEANR)
The mission of the Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources (CLEANR) is to promote innovative research and catalyze concrete policy action in environmental and land use law. Image of UCI campus and surrounding environment Through interdisciplinary research, education, dialogue, and public programming, CLEANR facilitates engagement with environmental issues among leading policymakers, practitioners, activists, scientists,…
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The Center for Knowledge, Technology and Society is devoted to research that approaches epistemological questions from an applied and interdisciplinary angle, with a particular focus on the application of epistemology to technological and societal issues. This includes such topics as social epistemology, intellectual virtue, political epistemology, epistemology of law, medical epistemology, epistemology of cognitive science,…
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The mission of the Center for Jewish Studies is to serve as the hub for the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Jewish and Israeli culture and society at UCI and in Orange County; to engage the wider community through public programs and lectures; to support cutting-edge research and to inspire undergraduate scholarship in Jewish and…
Read MoreCenter for Integrative Movement Sciences (CIMS)
Movement science encompasses a wide range of traditionally separate research fields, including muscle biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics, materials science, neuroscience, biomechanics, kinesiology, exercise physiology and sports science, rehabilitation medicine, rehabilitation engineering, mechatronics, and bio-inspired robotics. We aim to bridge the gaps between ‘top-down’ approaches that focus on whole-organism behavior and ‘bottom-up’ approaches that characterize…
Read MoreCenter for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS)
As and informal interdisciplinary group, the center currently brings together faculty and researchers from the departments civil and environmental engineering and earth system science in the university of California, Irvine. Our group jointly conducts research aiming to advance the knowledge of the water and energy cycle at scales ranging from the local watersheds to continental…
Read MoreCenter for Evidence-Based Corrections
In an effort to put science before politics when managing state correctional populations, the UCI Center for Evidence-Based Corrections taps the research power of the University of California to evaluate juvenile and adult prison programs – including rehabilitation, parole and reentry programs – and provide information that helps corrections officials make policy decisions based on…
Read MoreCenter for Ethnography
The Center for Ethnography supports continuing innovation in the practice, expression and theorization of ethnography, the signature method and genre of cultural anthropology with ever widening uptake in other disciplines and beyond the university. Since established in 2006, the Center has hosted a diverse array of projects and seminars – experimenting with ethnographic “para-sites,” for…
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