Department Directory

Steve Marschner is a professor of computer science, and currently serves as the associate dean for research in the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information science. His research and teaching are in computer graphics and vision, centered around how optics and mechanics determine the appearance of materials, with interests in realistic rendering, material models (optical and mechanical), appearance capture, simulation, and computational photography. Some questions that run through his work are “How can we get objects to appear to be made from exactly the right kind of material?” and “How can we cleverly use cameras to help us measure the information we need to make great images?” 

David S. Matteson is a professor of statistics and data science at Cornell University and director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. He is also director of graduate studies in data science, and founding executive committee member for the Cornell Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. His research centers on statistical methods for modeling complex human and natural processes and systems, with expertise in dynamic, spatial, functional, and network data science and machine learning. He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities from the State University of New York, the inaugural Ann S. Bowers Research Excellence Award, Faculty Research Awards from the Xerox/PARC Foundation and LinkedIn, and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). He has served as lead PI and director for several National Science Foundation-funded collaborative institutes, and he founded and serves as editor-in-chief for the new open access ASA journal Data Science in Science.

David Mimno is a professor and chair of the Department of Information Science. He holds a Ph.D. from UMass Amherst and was previously the head programmer at the Perseus Project at Tufts and a researcher at Princeton University. His work has been supported by the Sloan foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation.

Kristina Monakhova is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell. She works on co-designing optics and algorithms to create better, smaller, and more capable cameras and microscopes.

Greg Morrisett is the Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech, Cornell University’s state-of-the-art campus in New York City that develops leaders and technologies for the AI era through foundational and applied research, graduate education, and new ventures. As the second dean of Cornell Tech, he has led the campus since 2019 and is responsible for the academic quality and direction of its degree programs as well as for efforts to recruit faculty, researchers, and students from around the world. His efforts have built pathways to expand access to the field as well as to engage industry partners and early-stage investors, further accelerating Cornell Tech’s contribution to New York City’s innovation economy.

Andrew Myers is the Class of 1912 Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1999, advised by Barbara Liskov.

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science department at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Washington in Computer Science and Engineering in 2019. Her research focuses on developing wireless sensing technologies that enable novel applications in various domains including mobile health, user interfaces and IoT networks. She developed the first contactless smartphone-based sleep apnea diagnosis system that was licensed by ResMed Inc. and now used by millions of users for sleep staging. She was recognized with the UW Medicine Judy Su Clinical Research award, Paul Baran Young Scholar award by the Marconi Society and also named as the rising star in EECS by MIT.

Andrew Owens is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. His research aims to create multimodal systems that learn to see, hear, and touch without human-labeled training data. Instead, these systems learn from co-occurring sensory signals, such as the correlations between the visual and audio streams of a video. His work has enabled applications that include producing soundtracks for silent videos, robotic manipulation with vision and touch, detecting AI-generated images, and generating visual illusions.

Rafael Pass is a Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. He obtained his bachelor’s in Engineering Physics and a master’s in Computer Science, both from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 2006. He has been on the faculty of Cornell University since 2006 and joined Cornell Tech in 2013.

Thomas Ristenpart is a professor at Cornell Tech and a member of the computer science department at Cornell University. Before joining Cornell Tech in May 2015, he spent four and a half years as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, in 2010, and his M.S. at the University of California, Davis, in 2005.

Thijs Roumen is an assistant professor of information science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. He also directs the Matter of Tech lab at Cornell Tech. His lab focuses on digital fabrication, a subfield of technical human-computer interaction (HCI). The lab’s goal is to enable personal fabrication, e.g., making digital fabrication relevant to everyone, as opposed to industrialists and hobbyists currently using fabrication machines. Besides fabrication, the lab is interested in accessibility, primarily focusing on speech accessibility.

Adrian Sampson is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He works on programming languages, computer architecture, and the abstractions that separate them. He is especially excited about languages and compilers that make it easy for anyone to construct and exploit specialized hardware accelerators. In a different era, he worked on approximate computing, the idea that we should design computers that compute worse answers.