Since the early 1990's, the Cornell CS department has developed one of the leading AI groups in the world, as can be seen by our record of awards, press mentions, and other recognition. Yet, our relatively small size makes for a collaborative and cooperative environment within which a broad set of research groups flourish.
Some research groups
Terminology notes: a "CS field member" is a Cornell faculty member who can serve as the official PhD advisor (in Cornell lingo, "Special Committee chair") of Cornell CS PhD students.
Combinatorial search, connections to operations research and statistical physics
- CS field members: Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, David Shmoys
Computational sustainability
- Group page: Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS)
- CS field members: Carla Gomes, John Hopcroft, Bart Selman, David Shmoys
- Affiliated faculty: (many across Cornell and other institutions --- see ICS homepage link above)
Game and decision theory, connections to economics
- CS field members: Arpita Ghosh, Joe Halpern, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg, Rafael Pass, Eva Tardos
- Affiliated faculty: Larry Blume (economics), David Easley (economics)
Knowledge representation and reasoning
- CS field members: Robert L. Constable, Joe Halpern, Bart Selman
Machine learning
- Group page: Machine learning homepage
- CS field members: Claire Cardie, Tanzeem Choudhury, Shimon Edelman, Carla Gomes, Dan Huttenlocher, Thorsten Joachims, Bobby Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, Ping Li, Hod Lipson, Ashutosh Saxena, Adam Siepel
- Affiliated faculty: Florentina Bunea (stats), Morten Christiansen (psychology), Peter Frazier (ORIE), John Hale (linguistics), Giles Hooker (biological statistics and computational biology), David Mimno (information science, joining Fall 2013), Mats Rooth (linguistics), David Ruppert (ORIE), Paat Rusmevichientong (ORIE), Dawn Woodard (ORIE)
Natural language processing, computational linguistics and information retrieval
- Group pages: NLP homepage, Computational linguistics lab
- CS field members: Claire Cardie, Shimon Edelman, Thorsten Joachims, Lillian Lee
- Affiliated faculty: Morten Christiansen (psychology), Paul Ginsparg (physics, information science), John Hale (linguistics), Sue Hertz (linguistics), David Mimno (information science, joining Fall 2013), Mats Rooth (linguistics)
Robotics
- Group pages: Robotics homepage, Personal Robotics Lab
- CS field members: Tsuhan Chen, Dan Huttenlocher, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Hod Lipson, Ashutosh Saxena
- Affiliated faculty: Mark Campbell (mechanical engineering), Ephrahim Garcia (mechanical engineering), Andy Ruina (mechanical engineering)
Vision
- Group pages: Computer vision homepage, Cornell medical imaging group
- CS field members: Tsuhan Chen, Shimon Edelman, Sheila Hemami, Dan Huttenlocher, Ashutosh Saxena, Noah Snavely, Ramin Zabih
- Affiliated faculty: Anthony Reeves (ECE)