Sriraam Natarajan

Sriraam Natarajan is a Professor and Director of the Center for Machine Learning at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas. He previously served as an Associate Professor at Indiana University (on leave since 2017) and Wake Forest School of Medicine. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their biomedical applications, particularly in relational learning, reinforcement learning, and graphical models. He leads the StaRLing Lab and holds fellowships from hessian.AI and RBCDSAI.

Education: PhD in Computer Science from Oregon State University (2007), advised by Prasad Tadepalli. Postdoctoral research at University of Wisconsin-Madison under Jude Shavlik and David Page.

Research interests span statistical relational AI, causal inference, and healthcare applications. Notable awards include AAAI Fellow (2025), UTD Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, and roles as AAAI Program Co-Chair and CODS-COMAD 2024 co-chair.

Students supervised include over 20 PhD/MS graduates and current advisees in AI and machine learning. Active in editorial roles for JAIR, Machine Learning Journal, and conference PCs (ICML, AAAI, NIPS).