Immanuel Trummer is an associate professor of computer science. In his research, he makes data analysis more efficient and more user-friendly, often leveraging methods from the area of machine learning. His papers were selected for “Best of VLDB,” “Best of SIGMOD,” the ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, and for publication in CACM as a CACM Research Highlight. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and multiple Google Faculty Research Awards. Trummer obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a French-German double diploma in computer science and engineering.

Professor Emeritus; Computer Science; Ph.D., Univ of Michigan, 1973

Robbert van Renesse is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is a member of the Systems and Networking group and is interested in distributed systems, particularly in their  fault tolerance and scalability aspects. He is co-editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions on Computing Systems. He also plays jazz guitar and banjo in various bands, including the Ageless Jazz Band, the The JazzHappensBand, and Soda Ash Six. Van Renesse received his M.Sc. in mathematics and computer science and his Ph.D. in computer science, both from the Vrije Universiteit under the supervision of Andrew S. Tanenbaum. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery.

Anke van Zuylen is a teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science. Her research interests are in combinatorial optimization. She designs and analyzes algorithms for optimization problems arising in areas such as: information science, in particular, aggregating inconsistent structured information; network design, scheduling and logistics, and computational biology.