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William Arms Professor
Ph.D. University of Sussex, 1973.
Research focus: Digital libraries, electronic publishing.
Kavita Bala Assistant Professor
Ph.D. MIT, 1999
Research focus:
  Computer graphics, especially interactive high-quality rendering, image-based modeling, rendering and texturing, inverse rendering, and augmented reality.
Graeme Bailey Professor
Ph.D.Univ. of Birmingham, U.K., 1977.
Research focus: Mathematical modeling, applications to medicine and biology, geometry, parametrization spaces and connectivity.
Kenneth P. Birman Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1981.
Research focus: reliability and security in modern networked environments.
Claire Cardie Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994.
Research focus: developing corpus-based techniques for understanding and extracting information from natural language texts.
Rich Caruana

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
Research focus: machine learning and data mining, medical decision making and bioinformatics, feature selection, missing values, inductive transfer, artificial neural networks, memory-based learning.


Thomas F. Coleman
Professor and Director, Cornell Theory Center, and CTC-Manhattan
Ph.D. University of Waterloo, 1979.
Research focus: design and understanding of practical and efficient numerical algorithms for continuous optimization problems. Primarily on the development of algorithms for large-scale optimization.
Robert L. Constable Professor and Dean of CIS
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968.
Research focus: type theory and automated reasoning.
Alan Demers Professor
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1975.
Research focus: Database systems, database replication, and algorithms.
Ron Elber Professor
Ph.D. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1984.
Research focus: Computational molecular biology, genomics.
Paul Francis Associate Professor
Ph.D. University College London, 1994
Research focus: Peer-to-peer applications, overlay networks, network host proximity, Internet scaling, and IP mobility.
Daisy Fan Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2001
Research focus: the application of systems analysis techniques for water resources and environmental problems.
Johannes Gehrke Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999.
Research focus: Database systems, data mining, mining and monitoring evolving data.

Donald P. Greenberg
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science; Director, Program of Computer Graphics; Founding Director, NSF Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization.
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1968.
Research focus: developing physically based lighting models and perceptually based rendering procedures to produce images that are visually and measurably indistinguishable from real world images.
David Gries Professor, Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Programs
Dr. rer. nat. Technische Hochschule Muenchen, Munich, Germany, 1966.
Research focus: Program methodology and related areas; logic; teaching in lower level courses.

Joseph Y. Halpern
Professor; Co-Director, Cognitive Studies Program.
Ph.D. Harvard, 1981.
Research focus: representing and reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty in multi-agent systems; security.

Juris Hartmanis
Emeritus Walter R. Read Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Turing Award Winner.
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1955.
Research focus: computational complexity, complexity of chaotic systems.
John E. Hopcroft Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering Turing Award Winner; Professor of Computer Science.
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1964.
Research focus: robust geometric algorithms, modeling and simulation, and information capture and access.
Daniel P. Huttenlocher

John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business, and Stephen H. Weiss Fellow
Ph.D. MIT, 1988.
Research focus: computer vision, specifically the problems of model-based recognition, geometric shape comparison, and the computation of visual correspondence.


Thorsten Joachims
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Dortmund, 2001
Research focus:  Machine learning and statistical learning theory, with its main application in the fields of text mining and intelligent information agents.
Klara Kedem Professor
Ph.D.  Tel Aviv University, 1989
Research focus: computational geometry
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Uri Keich Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Courant Institute, 1996
Research focus:  Statistical and algorithmic problems that arise in the areas of bioinformatics, such as motif finding, seed design for similarity search, sequence assembly, and mass spectrometry.
Jon Kleinberg Associate Professor
Ph.D. MIT, 1996.
Research focus: design of efficient algorithms, with an emphasis on combinatorial optimization, discrete algorithms for networks, and problems in high-dimensional geometry.
Dexter Kozen Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor in Engineering.
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1977.
Research focus: theory of computational complexity, especially complexity of decision problems in logic and algebra, program logics and semantics, and computational algebra.
Lillian Lee Associate Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University 1997.
Research focus: natural language processing.
Steve Marschner

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Cornell, 1998
Research focus: computer graphics, focusing on realistic rendering, material properties, and high-resolution geometric modeling.

Jeanna Matthews Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Berkeley, 2000
Research focus: file systems, storage systems and more generally operating systems and distributed systems.
J. Gregory Morrisett Associate Professor
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1995.
Research focus: Programming languages, security, type systems, and compilers.
Andrew Myers Assistant Professor
Ph.D. MIT, 1999.
Research focus: Security, programming language design and implementation, persistent and distributed object systems.
Keshav K. Pingali Professor
Ph.D. MIT, 1986.
Research focus: programming languages and compilers for high-performance architectures, specifically generating efficient code for engineering and scientific simulations, starting from high-level descriptions of the computations to be performed.
Radu Rugina Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001
Research focus:
Pointer analysis, parallelizing compilers, parallel computing.
Fred B. Schneider Professor
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1978.
Research focus: Concurrent and distributed systems; computer and network security.
David Schwartz Assistant Professor
Ph.D. State University of NY at Buffalo, 1999.
Research focus: Computational mechanics, applied mathematics and educational technology.
Bart Selman Associate Professor
Ph.D. University 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.

Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 2001
Research focus: Internet data management, database systems, query-processing in emerging system architectures.
David B. Shmoys Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1984.
Research focus: design and analysis of efficient algorithms for discrete optimization problems, in particular approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems.
E. Gun Sirer Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington, 2002
Research focus: : Secure distributed systems, extensible operating systems, language-based security, automated testing.
Eva Tardos Professor
Ph.D. Eotvos University, Hungary, 1984.
Research focus: design and analysis of algorithms, with an emphasis on problems in combinatorial optimization and network problems.
Tim Teitelbaum Associate Professor
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1975.
Research focus: incremental algorithms for programming languages and development environments.
Charles Van Loan John C. Ford Professor of Engineering; Chair, CS
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1973.
Research focus: numerical linear and multilinear algebra
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Stephen A. Vavasis Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1989.
Research focus: design and analysis of efficient algorithms to solve large-scale scientific problems.
Golan Yona Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1999.
Research focus: Computational Molecular Biology, Machine Learning
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Ramin Zabih Associate Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1994.
Research focus: computer vision, both basic research issues and new applications. Research issues include, image restoration, visual correspondence, and motion-based tracking. The new application work focuses on content-based access to image databases
Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
Shai Ben-David  
Greg Buzzard
Ron DiNapoli Electronic software delivery
David Gries
Stephanie Weirich

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