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Researchers and Visitors

Principal Research Scientists

Alan J. DemersAlan J. Demers
Ph.D., Princeton Univ, 1975
Research focus: Database systems, database replication, and algorithms
Robbert van RenesseRobbert van Renesse
Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, 1989
Research focus: Scalable, adaptive, and secure group communication protocols

Research Associates

Theodoros DamoulasTheodoros Damoulas
Ph.D., Univ of Glasgow, 2009
Research focus: Statistical Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence
Walker WhiteWalker White
Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2000
Research focus: Database Theory, Information Privacy, Logic applications to Computer Science

Postdoctoral Associates

Aslan AskarovAslan Askarov
Ph.D., Chalmers Univ of Technology
Research focus: Programming languages: semantics, type systems, program analysis. Security: information-flow policies, declassification, programming language-based techniques for enforcement, implementation of security protocols.
Su ChangSu Chang
Research focus: Design and analysis of energy and time efficient communication protocols, design and evaluation of distributed systems and communication networks, and complexity of combinatorial algorithms
Flavio ChierichettiFlavio Chierichetti
Ph.D., Sapienza University, 2010
Research focus: Algorithms and mathematical modeling, particularly in the contexts of social networks and the Web
Kai-Min ChungKai-Min Chung
Ph.D., Harvard Univ, 2010
Research focus: Cryptography, complexity theory, and pseudorandomness
Bistra DilkinaBistra Dilkina
Research focus: Computational Sustainability, Constraint reasoning and optimization, Scheduling, Hybrid search techniques, Game theory
Shahar DobzinskiShahar Dobzinski
Ph.D., Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem, 2009
Research focus: Computational game theory, algorithmic mechanism design, approximation algorithms, theory of computer science
Daniel FreedmanDaniel Freedman
Ph.D. (Physics), Cornell Univ, 2009
Research focus: Distributed systems and networking
Michael HayMichael Hay
Ph.D., Univ of Mass, Amherst, 2010
Research focus: Knowledge discovery, data mining, database management, social network analysis, and privacy
Lucja KotLucja Kot
Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2009
Research focus: Databases, collaborative data management, and data integration
Mohammad MahmoodyMohammad Mahmoody
Ph.D., Princeton Univ, 2010
Research focus: Theoretical Computer Science in general,
Vincent Rahli
Ph.D., Heriot-Watt University, 2011
Research focus: Type error slicing, semantics of expansion, reducibility proofs, and implicit complexity
Michael Schwarz
Research focus: Real time computer graphics
Pannaga ShivaswamyPannaga Shivaswamy
Ph.D., Columbia Univ, 2010
Research focus: Machine learning and its applications including vector machine, semi-supervised learning, feature selection, dimensionality reduction, metric learning, boosting, online learning etc.
Cem YukselCem Yuksel
Ph.D., Texas A & M Univ, 2010
Research focus: Visualization, specifically hair meshes, mesh color, and parameterization of catmull-rom curves

Research Support Specialists

Megan McDonaldMegan McDonald
M.A., Cornell Univ

Visiting Professors, Fellows/Scientists

Sung-woo ChoSung-woo Cho
Research focus: Combinatorial Optimization, Approximation/Randomization Algorithm, Distributed Network System, Internet Commerce and Social Network, and Flexible Manufacturing System
David KempeDavid Kempe
Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2003
Research focus: Algorithms and theoretical computer science, specifically applications to networks, auctions and mechanisms design, algorithms on graphs, randomized algorithms, and information flow through networks
Christoph KreitzChristoph Kreitz
Ph.D., Univ of Hagen, 1984
Research focus: Program synthesis, automated deduction, program verification, and formal logics
Pinar YolumPinar Yolum
Research focus: Multiagent systems, service-oriented computer, semantic web and semantic web services, agent-based approaches to e-commerce, and design, analysis and verification of protocols