Yi Lu Murphey is the Paul K. Trojan Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. She received her M.S. degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She has served as Chair of the ECE Department, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and Associate Provost for Research, all at the University of Michigan–Dearborn.
Her research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and computer vision, with applications in automated driving, connected vehicles, optimal vehicle power management, driver behavior analysis and prediction, and vehicle position and trajectory prediction. She has authored more than 200 publications in leading refereed journals and conference proceedings, primarily in IEEE venues.
Dr. Murphey has been an Associate Editor of the journal Pattern Recognition since 1995 and has served on technical committees as well as in roles such as session chair and symposium chair for many AI- and ML-related conferences. Her research has been funded by NSF, NIH, DOE, U.S. Army TARDEC, the State of Michigan, Ford Motor Company, ZF TRW, Nissan, and others. She is a Senior Life Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Speaker for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE Vehicle Technology Society, and an IEEE Life Fellow.