Computer Science Faculty
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Associate Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Mass, Amherst, 1996 Research focus: Adaptive and reconfigurable multi-core and processor architectures, power- and reliability-aware computing, and high performance interconnect architectures using silicon nanophotonics | ![]() |
Professor Computer Science Ph.D., Univ of Birmingham, 1977 Research focus: Mathematical modeling, applications to medicine and biology, geometry, parametrization spaces and connectivity |
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Associate Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., M.I.T., 1999 Research focus: Computer graphics - scalable graphics; perceptually-based, realistic rendering; image-based texturing and modeling | ![]() |
Assistant Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., M.I.T., 2010 Research focus: High performance and energy-efficient parallel computer architecture and VSLI design |
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Assistant Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of California, Berkeley, 2006 Research focus: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), numerical linear algebra, finite element analysis, floating point computation and network tomography | ![]() |
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Director of MEng Program N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science Ph.D., Univ of California, Berkeley, 1981 Research focus: Reliability and security in modern networked environments |
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Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Mass, Amherst, 1994 Research focus: Developing corpus-based techniques for understanding and extracting information from natural language texts | ![]() |
Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Caltech, 1993 Research focus: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications |
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Associate Professor Information Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., M.I.T., 2004 Research focus: Systems that can learn how humans behave and interact with their environment and with each other. These systems will then be able to use this knowledge to interact with and take actions on humans to achieve some desired effect. | ![]() |
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968 Research focus: Type theory and automated reasoning |
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Assistant Professor Information Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Minnesota, 2006 Research focus: Human-computer interaction, online communities, and recommender systems | ![]() |
Principal Research Scientist Ph.D., Princeton Univ, 1975 Research focus: Database systems, database replication, and algorithms |
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Professor Psychology, CS Field Member Ph.D., Weizmann Institue of Science, 1988 Research focus: The fields of human and machine cognition (in particular, visual recognition and natural language processing). | ![]() |
Senior Lecturer Computer Science Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2001 Research focus: The application of systems analysis techniques for water resources and environmental problems |
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Assistant Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Penn, 2009 Research focus: Programming languages, data management, security, semantics, type systems, bidirectional languages, information flow, provenance, data synchronization, and mechanized proof | ![]() |
Associate Professor ORIE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of California, Berkeley, 1993 Research focus: Game theory, information technology, and cost allocation |
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Professor ECE, CS Field Member Univ Provost Ph.D., Univ of Illinois, 1985 Research focus: Diagnosis and failure analysis - CAD tools for integrated circuit testing and failure analysis. Recovery from failures - mobile computing, active networks, cluster computing | ![]() |
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D., Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999 Research focus: Database systems, data mining, and data privacy |
![]() | Carla Gomes (Sabbatical Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
Associate Professor CIS and Applied Economics and Management Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Edinburgh, 1993 Research focus: Solving hard combinatorial problems, with an emphasis on planning and scheduling problems | ![]() |
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Director, Program of Computer Graphics Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 1968 Research focus: Computer graphics and its applications in a range of disciplines, from animation to architecture to biology. |
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Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Technische Hochschule Muenchen, Munich, 1966 Research focus: Program methodology and related areas; logic; teaching in lower level courses | ![]() |
Associate Professor Information Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Stanford Univ, 2002 Research focus: The overarching goal of my research is to bring the ease of use of pen and paper interactions to computer interfaces |
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Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Stanford Univ, 1988 Research focus: Mobile and wireless communication and networks, personal communication service, and high-speed communication and protocols. | ![]() |
Professor Chair of Computer Science Department Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Harvard Univ, 1981 Research focus: Representing and reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty in multi-agent systems; security |
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Professor Emeritus Computer Science Emeritus Walter R. Read Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Turing Award Winner Ph.D., Caltech, 1955 Research focus: Computational complexity, complexity of chaotic systems | ![]() |
Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Stanford Univ, 1994 Research focus: Multirate video coding and transmission, compression specific to packet networks and other lossy networks, and psychovisual considerations. |
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Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science Turing Award Winner Ph.D., Stanford Univ, 1964 Research focus: Algorithms, social networks and access to information | ![]() |
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Dean of Computing and Info Science John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Info Science and Business Stephen H. Weiss Fellow Ph.D., M.I.T., 1988 Research focus: Computer vision, specifically the problems of model-based recognition, geometric shape comparison, and the computation of visual correspondence |
![]() | Doug James (Sabbatical Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
Associate Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of British Columbia, 2001 Research focus: Geometric and physical algorithms, computer graphics and animation, haptic rendering, deformable models, interactive physical simulation | ![]() |
Associate Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Director of Undergraduate Studies Ph.D., Univ of Dortmund, 2001 Research focus: Machine learning and learning theory, with a focus on problems arising in information retrieval and natural language understanding |
![]() | Jon Kleinberg (Sabbatical Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Tisch Univ Professor Ph.D., M.I.T., 1996 Research focus: Algorithm design, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other on-line media | ![]() |
Assistant Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., M.I.T., 2005 Research focus: Design and analysis of algorithms, especially randomized and on-line algorithms for networked systems and electronic markets |
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Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor in Engineering Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 1977 Research focus: Theory of computational complexity, especially complexity of decision problems in logic and algebra, program logics and semantics, and computational algebra | ![]() |
Assistant Professor MAE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania, 2008 Research focus: Robotics, motion planning, task planning, language for robotics and human robot interaction |
![]() | Lillian Lee (Sabbatical Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Harvard Univ, 1997 Research focus: Natural language processing | ![]() |
Assistant Professor Statistical Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Stanford Univ, 2007 Research focus: Machine learning, datamining, High-dimensional data, ranking, signal & image processing |
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Associate Professor MAE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Technion, 1998 Research focus: Robotics, Design Automation, Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life, Computational Synthesis and Inference of Complex Systems | ![]() |
Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Caltech, 1998 Research focus: Self-timed systems, VLSI design, formal methods |
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Associate Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 1998 Research focus: Computer graphics, realistic rendering and simulation, material models for surfaces, volumes, and deformable objects | ![]() |
Associate Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Illinois, 2002 Research focus: Reconfigurable and self-optimizing multicore architectures, architectural implications of disruptive technologies |
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Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., M.I.T., 1999 Research focus: Security, programming language design and implementation, persistent and distributed object systems | ![]() |
Professor Mathematics, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Chicago, 1956 Research focus: Mathematical logic, computational theory, recursive mathematics, nonstandard logics, nonmontonic logics, AI, applied mathematics. Control theory, hybrid systems, and complex system design. |
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Assistant Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., M.I.T., 2006 Research focus: Cryptography | ![]() |
Assistant Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Stanford Univ, 2009 Research focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision |
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Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science Ph.D., Stony Brook Univ, 1978 Research focus: Concurrent and distributed systems; computer and network security | ![]() | Bart Selman (Sabbatical Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Toronto, 1991 Research focus: Knowledge representation, reasoning and search, algorithms and complexity, planning, machine learning, cognitive science, software agents, and connections between computational complexity and statistical physics |
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Associate Professor Science and Tech Studies, CS Field Member Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon Univ, 1998 Research focus: Ecological Media, or interactive media devices which shape our experience of the environment in our everyday lives | ![]() |
Professor ORIE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of California, Berkeley, 1984 Research focus: Design and analysis of efficient algorithms for discrete optimization problems, in particular approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems |
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Assistant Professor Biological Statistics & Computational Biology, CS Field Member Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz, 2005 Research focus: Computational applications in comparative and evolutionary genomics | ![]() |
Associate Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2002 Research focus: Secure distributed systems, extensible operating systems, language-based security, automated testing |
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Assistant Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2008 Research focus: Computer vision and computer graphics, specifically 3D reconstruction and rendering from large community photo collections | ![]() |
Assistant Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., M.I.T., 2005 Research focus: Architectural support for security, reliability, and programmability; field extensible/repairable architecture; non-volatile microprocessors for highly embedded systems; intelligent on-chip networks |
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Assistant Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Caltech, 2006 Research focus: Systems and Theory of Computation | ![]() |
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science Ph.D., Eotvos Univ, Hungary, 1984 Research focus: Algorithm Design and Algorithmic Game Theory |
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Professor Emeritus Computer Science Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon Univ, 1975 Research focus: Incremental algorithms for programming languages and development environments | ![]() | Charles Van Loan (Sabbatical Spring 2012)
Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member John C. Ford Professor of Engineering Ph.D., Univ of Michigan, 1973 Research focus: Numerical linear and multilinear algebra |
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Principal Research Scientist Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, 1989 Research focus: Scalable, adaptive, and secure group communication protocols | ![]() |
Assistant Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of California, Berkeley, 2006 Research focus: Fault-tolerance, reliability, security, and performance of Internet-scale systems |
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Professor ECE, CS Field Member Ph.D., Univ of Southern California, 1987 Research focus: Artificial intelligence, game theory and wireless information networks | ![]() |
Professor ORIE, CS Field Member Ph.D., M.I.T., 1993 Research focus: Algorithms, combinatorial optimization, computer science. |
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Professor Computer Science, CS Field Member Ph.D., Stanford Univ, 1994 Research focus: Computer vision and its applications, especially in medical imaging, with an emphasis on the use of combinatorial optimization algorithms |



























































