Rachit Agarwal is an associate professor of computer science. His primary research interests are in systems and networking. He is also interested in theoretical problems arising out of building practical systems. Agarwal’s research has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, a Kavli Fellowship with the National Academy of Sciences, an IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize, and multiple best paper awards at SIGCOMM and Usenix Security. Agarwal loves teaching. He received the 2025 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year Award and the James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching award from Cornell Engineering for sustained excellence and innovation in engineering education.

Lorenzo Alvisi is the Tisch University Professor in Computer Science and chair of the Department of Computer Science. He is interested in the theory and practice of dependable distributed computing. His group's research aims to understand how to design and build trustworthy distributed systems. Their work investigates both foundational and applied aspects of reliable distributed computing – and at its best – leverages the former to shape the latter. Alvisi received his Laurea Summa cum Laude and Corso di Specializzazione in Physics from the University of Bologna, and his master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a Humboldt Research Award winner, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.   

Yoav Artzi is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. His research focuses on developing models and learning methods for natural language understanding and generation in interactive systems.

Hadar Averbuch-Elor is an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. Averbuch-Elor’s research interests lie in the intersection of computer graphics and computer vision, particularly in combining pixels with more structured modalities, such as natural language and 3D geometry.

Shiri Azenkot is an associate professor of information science at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Kavita Bala is the 17th provost of Cornell University and professor of computer science. Previously, she served as the inaugural dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and chair of the Department of Computer Science. In her research, she specializes in computer vision and computer graphics, leading research in visual recognition and search; and material modeling and perception. She co-founded GrokStyle, a visual recognition AI company that drew IKEA as a client, and was acquired by Facebook in 2019. Bala is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2025), an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow (2019), Fellow of the SIGGRAPH Academy (2020), and recipient of the Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2020).