For the mutual progress of humanity and science, we must be able to use AI, not as mere tools but as our able teammates. In the Human, Hybrid AI, and Machines (HAIM, rhymes with "time") laboratory, directed by Dr. Shreya Banerjee, our overarching research goal is to make progress in this direction, using hybrid artificial intelligence methods. Hybrid AI combines connectionist AI with computational logic and reasoning to render safe and trustworthy methods for real-world problem-solving.

HAIM Lab at LBRN

HAIM Lab at the LBRN Annual Conference

3 Research Areas
7+ Lab Members
2 Active Grants
LSU New Orleans New Orleans, LA

Announcements

2026

2026
Paper

Our paper, Thinking Fast and Planning Slow: Language-Guided Latent Control with Hierarchical Value Functions, was accepted to AGI 2026 for poster presentation.

2026
Poster

Henry presented a poster on Facial Expression Recognition as a Step Towards Multimodal Behavior Analysis of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the LBRN Annual Meeting in Baton Rouge.

2026
Poster

Gabe's paper, Designing Safe, Responsive AI Agents for Gamified Social-Emotional Learning presented as a poster at LauRa in Baton Rouge.

2026
Paper

Gabe's paper, Designing Safe, Responsive AI Agents for Gamified Social-Emotional Learning, was accepted to HHAI-KEML 2026

2026
Event

Dr. Banerjee co-organized the HHAI-KEML 2026 workshop at HHAI 2026 in Brussels, Belgium.

2026
Visit

The HAIM Lab hosted Ole-Christopher for a research visit focused on Tsetlin Machines and initiated a new research collaboration.

2025

Aug 2025
Paper

Our paper, An Interactive Game-based Multi-Agent AI System for Children's Social and Emotional Development has been accepted at the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Jun 2025
Event

Dr. Banerjee co-organizes the HHAI-KEML 2025 workshop at the HHAI 2025 conference.

Jun 2025
Paper

Our paper, Small Vision-Language Models on Qualitative Mechanical Problems has been accepted at the 38th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning of the 34th IJCAI.

2024

Dec 2024
Award

HAIM Lab students Nhi, Soheil, and Jenny win the Startup UNO Challenge 2024.

Aug 2024
New Member

PhD student Henry Ansah joins the lab, working on human-AI collaboration and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning.