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Jayadev Acharya

Assistant Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2014
Research Focus: Information theory, machine learning, and algorithmic statistics
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation
Rachit Agarwal

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2013
Research Focus: Distributed systems, systems for big data analytics, networking, design and analysis of algorithms
Research Areas: Systems and Networking, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Systems, Theory of Computation
David Albonesi

Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996
Research Focus: Adaptive and reconfigurable multi-core and processor architectures, power- and reliability-aware computing, and high performance interconnect architectures using silicon nanophotonics
Research Areas: Computer Architecture & VLSI, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Lorenzo Alvisi

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member, Tisch University Professor
; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1996
Research Focus: Theory and practice of dependable distributed computing
Research Areas: Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Yoav Artzi

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2015
Research Focus: Natural language processing, situated language understanding, automated natural language interaction, machine learning
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Shiri Azenkot

Assistant Professor
; Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute; CS Field Member
; Ph.D. University of Washington, 2014
Research Focus: Human-computer Interactions and Accessibility
Research Areas: Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
Kavita Bala

Professor and Dean of CIS
; Computer Science, Chair, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 1999
Research Focus: Computer graphics—scalable graphics; perceptually-based, realistic rendering; image-based texturing and modeling
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Vision
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages and Logics, Scientific Computing and Applications
Siddhartha Banerjee
Assistant Professor
; Operations Research and Information Engineering, CS Field Member
; PhD, University of Texas - Austin, 2013
Research Focus: Stochastic Modeling, Design of Scalable Algorithms, Matching Markets and Social Computing, Control of Information-Flows, Learning and Recommendation
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Theory of Computation
Christopher Batten

Associate Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2010
Research Focus: High performance and energy-efficient parallel computer architecture and VSLI design
Research Areas: Computer Architecture & VLSI, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Serge Belongie

Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member; Associate Dean at Cornell Tech, Tisch University Professor
; Ph.D., University California, Berkeley, 2000
Research Focus: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Crowdsourcing, Human-in-the-Loop Computing
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Vision
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications
Austin Benson

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D. Stanford University, 2017
Research Focus: Methods and algorithms for network science; tensor computations and numerical linear algebra; behavioral modeling in the information sciences.
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

Joining Cornell in Ithaca, Fall 2021; Visiting Assistant Professor AY2020-2021
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017Research Focus: Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Manipulation, Haptic Perception, Assistive Robotics
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Machine Learning, Robotics
David Bindel

Associate Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Research Focus: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), numerical linear algebra, finite element analysis, floating point computation and network tomography
Research Areas: Scientific Computing
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
Ken Birman

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member; N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science
; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981
Research Focus: Reliability and security in modern networked environments
Research Areas: Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Ronald Brachman

Director; Professor
; Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute
; Ph.D., Harvard Univ, 1977
Research Focus: Artificial intelligence, information retrieval, database management
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Anne Bracy

Senior Lecturer
; Computer Science
; Ph.D., Univ of Penn, 2008
Research Focus: Computer Architecture, Instruction Fusion, Hardware Support for Thread Synchronization
Research Areas: Computer Architecture & VLSI
Mark Campbell

Professor
; Mechanical Engineering; CS Field Member
; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1996
Research Focus: Robotics, Sensor fusion, Machine learning and Perception
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Claire Cardie

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering
; Ph.D., Univ of Mass, Amherst, 1994
Research Focus: Natural language processing
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Eshan Chattopadhyay

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D. University of Texas at Ausin, 2016
Research Focus: Use of Randomness in Computation, Computational Complexity Theory and Cryptography
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Theory of Computation
Yudong Chen

Assistant Professor
; Operations Research and Information Engineering, CS Field Member
; PhD, Univ. of Texas Austin, 2013
Research Focus: Machine Learning, high dimensional and robust statistics and convex optimazation
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Tanzeem Choudhury

Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology
; Information Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2004
Research Focus: Machine learning techniques for systems that can reason about human activities, interactions, and social networks in everyday environments
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Michael Clarkson

Senior Lecturer
; Computer Science,
; PhD, Cornell, 2010
Research Focus: Security, programming languages, electronic voting
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Security
Robert Constable

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968
Research Focus: Type theory and automated reasoning
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics
Anil Damle

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member, Ph.D., Stanford University, 2016
Research Focus: Development of algorithms in applied and computational mathematics (e.g. numerical linear algebra, computational quantum chemistry, and spectral clustering)
Research Areas: Scientific Computing
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Assistant Professor
; Information Science, CS Field Member
; PhD, Cornell University, 2012
Research Focus: Computational Social Science, Social Computing, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Abe Davis

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
Research Focus: Computer Graphics, Vision, HCI
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Human Interaction, Vision
Christopher De Sa

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member, PhD., Stanford University, 2017
Research Focus: Developing and understanding algorithmic, software, and hardware techniques for high-performance machine learning
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Christina Delimitrou

Assistant Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2015
Research Focus: Computer Architecture, Computer Systems, Datacenter Systems, Cloud Computing, Applied Data Mining
Research Areas: Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Nicola Dell

Assistant Professor
; Information Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2015
Research Focus: Human computer interaction (HCI) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)
Research Areas: Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Alan Demers

Principal Research Scientist (Retired)
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Princeton Univ, 1975
Research Focus: Database systems, database replication, and algorithms
Research Areas: Database Systems
Shimon Edelman

Professor
; Psychology, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Weizmann Institue of Science, 1988
Research Focus: Human and machine cognition (in particular, visual recognition and natural language processing)
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Kevin Ellis

Joining Cornell in Ithaca, Fall 2021
Assistant Professor ; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2020Research Focus: AI, ML, Program Induction
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Deborah Estrin

Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member; Associate Dean for Impact at Cornell Tech; Robert V. Tishman Founder's Chair
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 1985
Research Focus: Mobile systems and applications, participatory sensing, health applications, privacy
Research Areas: Human Interaction, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
K-Y. Fan

Senior Lecturer
; Computer Science
; Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2001
Research Focus: The application of systems analysis techniques for water resources and environmental problems
Silvia Ferrari

Professor
; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D. Princeton University, 2002
Research Focus: Distributed systems, computer vision, and robotics
Research Areas: Robotics
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Nate Foster

Associate Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Penn, 2009
Research Focus: Programming languages, data management, and security
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Security, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Systems
Ziv Goldfeld

Assistant Professor
; ECE, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Ben Gurion University,
Research Focus: Optimal transport theory, Statistical machine learning, information theory, high-dimensional statistic, applied probability and interacting particle systems
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Carla Gomes

Professor
; CIS and Applied Economics and Management; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Ronald C. and Antonia V. Nielsen Professor
; Ph.D., Univ of Edinburgh, 1993
Research Focus: Solving hard combinatorial problems, with an emphasis on planning and scheduling problems
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Donald Greenberg

Professor
; Architecture, Computer Science, , CS Field Member; Director, Program of Computer Graphics; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science
; Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 1968
Research Focus: Computer graphics and its applications in a range of disciplines, from animation to architecture to biology
Research Areas: Graphics
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
David Gries

Professor Emeritus
; Computer Science
; Ph.D., Technische Hochschule Muenchen, Munich, 1966
Research Focus: Program methodology and related areas; logic; teaching in lower level courses
Francois Guimbretiere

Professor
; Information Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002
Research Focus: Computer Interfaces
Research Areas: Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Systems
Joseph Halpern

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member, Joseph C Ford Professor of Engineering
; Ph.D., Harvard Univ, 1981
Research Focus: Reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, distributed computing, causality, security, game theory
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Security, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages and Logics, Theory of Computation
Bharath Hariharan

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Research Focus: Rich visual understanding (object recognition, object detection, segmentation and beyond), machine learning (deep learning, convolutional networks)
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing, Vision
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications
Juris Hartmanis

Professor Emeritus
; Computer Science; Emeritus Walter R. Read Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Turing Award Winner
; Ph.D., Caltech, 1955
Research Focus: Computational complexity theory
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Haym Hirsh

Professor
; Computer Science, Information Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989
Research Focus: Artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, data mining, human computation, information retrieval, machine learning
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Guy Hoffman

Assistant Professor
; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2007
Research Focus: Human-Robot Interaction; human-robot teamwork and collaboration; robotic personal companions; non-anthropomorphic robot design; embodied cognition in probots
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
John Hopcroft

Professor Emeritus
; Computer Science, CS Field Member, IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science; Turing Award Winner
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1964
Research Focus: Algorithms, information capture and access, random graphs and spectral methods
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation
Thorsten Joachims

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Dortmund, 2001
Research Focus: Machine learning and learning theory, with a focus on problems arising in information retrieval and natural language understanding
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Wendy Ju

Assistant Professor
; Information Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2008
Research Focus: Interaction with Automation; Interaction Design Research; Human Robot Interaction; Automotive Interaction Design
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Ari Juels

Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech (Jacobs Inst), CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University California, Berkeley, 1996
Research Focus: Big Data, Security Analytics, Cybersecurity, Cloud security, User authentication, Privacy, Medical-device security, Biometric security, and RFID / NFC security
Research Areas: Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Malte Jung

Assistant Professor
; Information Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2011
Research Focus: Computer-supported cooperative work, teamwork, emotion, human-robot interaction, design
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Nathan Kallus

Assistant Professor
; Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2015
Research Focus: Causal inference; Machine learning; Personalization; Optimization in statistics; Data-driven optimization under uncertainty; Online decision making; Decision making and operations in healthcare.
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Alon Keinan

Assistant Professor
; Comp Biology, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2006
Research Focus: Human genetic variation in evolutionary history; theoretical tools applied to genomic data sets; theoretical population genetics and empirical studies
Research Areas: Computational Biology, Scientific Computing
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
Jon Kleinberg

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Tisch Univ Professor
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 1996
Research Focus: Algorithm design, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other on-line media
Research Areas: Human Interaction, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation
Robert Kleinberg

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member, Director of Graduate Studies
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2005
Research Focus: Design and analysis of algorithms, especially randomized and on-line algorithms for networked systems and electronic markets
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation
Dexter Kozen

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Director of Masters of Engineering Program; Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor in Engineering
; Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 1977
Research Focus: Computational complexity, program logic and semantics, computational algebra
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Theory of Computation
Hadas Kress-Gazit

Associate Professor
; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania, 2008
Research Focus: Robotics, motion planning, task planning, language for robotics and human robot interaction
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Robotics
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Volodymyr Kuleshov

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2017
Research Focus: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational genomics
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing
Daniel Lee

Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 1995
Research Focus: Machine Learning, Robotics, Computational Neuroscience
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Lillian Lee

Professor
; Computer Science, Director of Undergraduate Studies; CS Field Member; Charles Roy Davis Professor
; Ph.D., Harvard Univ, 1997
Research Focus: Natural language processing
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Owolabi Legunsen

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
Research Focus: Software Engineering, Applied Formal Methods
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Systems
Steve Marschner

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 1998
Research Focus: Computer graphics, realistic rendering and simulation, material models for surfaces, volumes, and deformable objects
Research Areas: Graphics, Vision
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
Jose Martinez

Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Illinois, 2002
Research Focus: Reconfigurable and self-optimizing multicore architectures, architectural implications of disruptive technologies
Research Areas: Computer Architecture & VLSI, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
David Mimno

Assistant Professor
; Information Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ. Mass. Amherst, 2012
Research Focus: Machine learning, text mining, digital humanities
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Greg Morrisett

Professor and Dean and Vice Provost Cornell Tech
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1995
Research Focus: Programming languages, software security, formal methods
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Systems
Andrew Myers

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 1999
Research Focus: Security, programming language design and implementation, persistent and distributed object systems
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Security, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics
Mor Naaman

Associate Professor
; Information Science, Cornell Tech, CS field member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005
Research Focus: Social media, data mining, human-computer interaction, computational social science, interactive systems
Research Areas: Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Systems
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar

Assistant Professor
; Information Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D. University of Washington, 2020
Research Focus: Wireless networking, Mobile Systems and Mobile Health.
Research Areas: Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Anil Nerode

Professor
; Mathematics, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Chicago, 1956
Research Focus: Mathematical logic, computational theory, recursive mathematics, nonstandard logics, nonmontonic logics, AI, applied mathematics.
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Tapan Parikh

Associate Professor
; Information Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2007
Research Focus: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD), Computer Science Education
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Systems
Rafael Pass

Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2006
Research Focus: Cryptography and its interplay with computational complexity and game theory.
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation
Kirstin Petersen

Assistant Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Harvard, 2014
Research Focus: Design and coordination of bio-inspired robot collectives and their natural counterparts
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Emma Pierson

Joining Cornell Tech, Summer 2021
Assistant Professor ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2020Research Focus: Data Science and Machine Learning
Research Areas: Machine Learning
Martha E. Pollack

Cornell University President; Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1986
Research Focus: Artificial intelligence
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Tom Ristenpart

Associate Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Research Focus: Software security, applied and theoretical cryptography
Research Areas: Systems and Networking, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Systems, Theory of Computation
Alexander "Sasha" Rush

Associate Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014
Research Focus: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Mert Sabuncu

Assistant Professor
; Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Princeton, 2006
Research Focus: biomedical image analysis, with an emphasis on neuroimaging. My group works at the intersection of computer vision, applied machine learning, and biomedical imaging
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Adrian Sampson

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2015
Research Focus: Hardware-software abstractions,computer architecture, programming languages, compilers, and software engineering
Research Areas: Computer Architecture & VLSI, Programming Languages, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics
Katya Scheinberg

Professor
; Operations Research and Information Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D. Columbia University; 1997
Research Focus: continuous optimization, stochastic optimization, optimization in machine learning, complexity analysis
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications, Theory of Computation
Fred Schneider

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science
; Ph.D., Stony Brook Univ, 1978
Research Focus: Concurrent and distributed systems; computer and network security
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Security, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Systems
Bart Selman

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Joseph C Ford Professor of Engineering
; Ph.D., Univ 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
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Phoebe Sengers

Associate Professor
; Information Science and Science & Technology Studies, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1998
Research Focus: Designing technology for social impact, rural infrastructure, critical data studies
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Elaine Shi

On leave: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Associate Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 2008Research Focus: Security, cryptography, programming languages, and systems, with applications to cryptocurrency, cloud computing, and privacy
Research Areas: Systems and Networking, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Systems, Theory of Computation
Vitaly Shmatikov

Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2000
Research Focus: Reseach focus: Computer Security and privacy
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
David Shmoys

Professor
; Operations Research and Information Engineering; Computer Science; and Director, Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society
; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1984
Research Focus: Data Science; Design and analysis of efficient algorithms for discrete optimization problems, in particular approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems
Research Areas: Computational Biology, Scientific Computing, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
Alexandra Silva

Visiting Professor (shifting to Professor July 1, 2021)
; Radboud University Nijmegen, 2010
Research Focus: Programming language semantics and verification
Research Areas: Programming Languages, Theory of Computing
Emin Gün Sirer

On leave: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Associate Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2002Research Focus: Secure distributed systems, extensible operating systems, language-based security, automated testing
Research Areas: Security, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Noah Snavely

Associate Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2008
Research Focus: Computer vision and computer graphics, specifically 3D reconstruction and rendering from large community photo collections
Research Areas: Graphics, Human Interaction, Vision
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications
Karthik Sridharan

On sabbatical: Spring 2021
Associate Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 2012Research Focus: Machine learning with a focus on theoretical analysis and design of learning algorithms. Online learning, statistical learning theory, stochastic optimization and empirical process theory
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., New York University, 2017
Research Focus: Theoretical Computer Science, Security, Cryptography
Research Areas: Security, Theory of Computing
G. Edward Suh

Associate Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2005
Research Focus: Architectural support for security, reliability, and programmability; field extensible/repairable architecture; non-volatile microprocessors for highly embedded systems; intelligent on-chip networks
Research Areas: Security, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Wen Sun

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2019
Research Focus: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Decision Making under Uncertainty
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
A. Kevin Tang

Associate Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Caltech, 2006
Research Focus: Management and optimization of computer networks; non-convex optimization
Research Areas: Systems and Networking, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Systems, Theory of Computation
Eva Tardos

Professor and Chair of CS
; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science and CIS Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
; Ph.D., Eotvos University, Hungary, 1984
Research Focus: Algorithm Design and Algorithmic Game Theory
Research Areas: Human Interaction, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Theory of Computation
Tim Teitelbaum

Professor Emeritus
; Computer Science
; Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1976
Research Focus: Automatic Program Analysis
Immanuel Trummer

Assistant Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., EPFL, 2016
Research Focus: Databases, data science, optimization
Research Areas: Database Systems, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Madeleine Udell

Assistant Professor
; ORIE, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2015
Research Focus: Optimization and machine learning for large scale data analysis and control
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications, Theory of Computation
Charles Van Loan

Professor Emeritus
; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Dean of Faculty; John C. Ford Professor of Engineering
; Ph.D., Univ of Michigan, 1973
Research Focus: Numerical linear and multilinear algebra
Research Areas: Scientific Computing
Robbert van Renesse

Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, 1989
Research Focus: Scalable, adaptive, and secure group communication protocols
Research Areas: Security, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Marten van Schijndel

Assistant Professor
; Linguistics, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., The Ohio State University; 2017
Research Focus: Natural language processing, machine learning, cognitive modeling
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Anke van Zuylen

Senior Lecturer
; Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008 (Operations Research)
Research Focus: Theory of Computation, Computational Biology, Discrete Optimization, Operations Research
Research Areas: Computational Biology, Theory of Computing
Aaron Wagner

Associate Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering; CS Field Member
; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Research Focus: information theory, especially compression, feedback communication, security, and quantum information.
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Theory of Computation
Fei Wang

Associate Professor
; Weill Medical, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Tsinghua University, 2008
Research Focus: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Health Data Science, Clinical Decision Support, Computational Drug Discovery
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Hakim Weatherspoon

On sabbatical: Spring 2021, Fall 2021
Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006Research Focus: Fault-tolerance, reliability, security, and performance of Internet-scale systems
Research Areas: Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
Kilian Weinberger

On leave: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Associate Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; PhD, UPenn, 2007Research Focus: Machine Learning with a focus on real-world problems
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
Walker White

Senior Lecturer
; Computer Science
; Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2000
Research Focus: Database Theory, Information Privacy, Logic applications to Computer Science
Research Areas: Database Systems, Human Interaction
Stephen Wicker

Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Southern California, 1987
Research Focus: Artificial intelligence, game theory and wireless information networks
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation
Amy Williams

Assistant Professor
; Biological Statistics and Comp. Biology, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2010
Research Focus: Algorithms for large scale genetic data, inference of demographic history, population and individual relationships, and studies of recombination and mutation.
Research Areas: Computational Biology
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
David Williamson

Professor
; Operations Research and Information Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., M.I.T., 1993
Research Focus: Algorithms, combinatorial optimization, computer science
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Theory of Computation
Christina Lee Yu

Assistant Professor
; ORIE, CS Field Member
; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Focus: Theory of Computing, Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning), Scientific Computing
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Theory of Computation
Haiyuan Yu

Professor
; Biological Statistics & Computational Biology, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Yale, 2005
Research Focus: Biomedical systems biology, machine learning, algorithm development, with an emphasis on network analysis, to understand human disease and evolution of species
Research Areas: Computational Biology
Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications
Ramin Zabih

Professor
; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994
Research Focus: Computer vision and its applications, especially in medical imaging, with an emphasis on the use of combinatorial optimization algorithms
Research Areas: Human Interaction, Vision
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation
Cheng Zhang

Assistant Professor
; Information Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018
Research Focus: Ubiquitous Computing, Wearable Computing, Human Computer Interaction
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Systems
Zhiru Zhang

Assistant Professor
; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of California, LA, 2007
Research Focus: Computer-aided design methodologies, optimization algorithms, compilers, and computer architectures of gigascale integrated systems; esp. system-on-chips
Research Areas: Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems