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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.
AI, ethics, and policy
- Group pages: Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice (AIPP); Ethical and Social Issues in AI
- CS field members: Sarah Dean, Nikhil Garg, Joe Halpern, Jon Kleinberg, Allison Koenecke, Bart Selman
- Affiliated faculty: Karen Levy (Information Science), Helen Nissenbaum (Information Science)
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, Bart Selman, David Shmoys
- Affiliated faculty: (many across Cornell and other institutions --- see ICS homepage link above)
Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society
This new Center aims to unify programs and curricula in data science with an initial emphasis on questions grounded in data that are generated by human activity, including computational social science (e.g., sociology and government), the economics/computer science interface, the aspects of digital agriculture in the production and management of agriculture, digital platforms supporting urban infrastructure (e.g., the sharing economy), and as a theme that is cross-cutting in many of these areas, the corresponding issues of privacy, security, and fairness; more generally, the Center will enhance other programmatic areas associated with data science in an entrepreneurial and opportunistic fashion.
Webpage: https://datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/
Director: David Shmoys
Executive Committee: David Matteson, David Mimno, Francesca Molinari
Game and decision theory, connections to economics
- CS field members: Siddhartha Banerjee, Paul Gölz, Joe Halpern, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg, Francesca Parise, Rafael Pass, Eva Tardos
- Affiliated faculty: Larry Blume (economics), David Easley (economics)
Knowledge representation and reasoning
- CS field members: Joe Halpern, Bart Selman
Machine learning
Group page: Machine learning homepage
- CS field members: Jayadev Acharya, Yoav Artzi, Kavita Bala, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Claire Cardie, Yudong Chen, Sanjiban Choudhury, Tanzeem Choudhury, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Christopher De Sa, Raaz Dwivedi, Shimon Edelman, Kevin Ellis, Silvia Ferrari, Kuan Fang, Carla Gomes, Haym Hirsch, Thorsten Joachims, Nathan Kallus, Bobby Kleinberg, Jon Kleinberg, Michael Kim, Volodymyr Kuleshov, Daniel Lee, Lillian Lee, Wei-Chiu Ma, David Matteson, David Mimno, Kristina Monakhova, Emma Pierson, Alexander M. Rush, Karthik Sridharan, Jennifer J. Sun, Wen Sun, John Thickstun, Marten van Schijndel, Kilian Weinberger, Christina Lee Yu,
- Affiliated faculty: Sumanta Basu (stats), Florentina Bunea (stats), Morten Christiansen (psychology),Peter Frazier (ORIE), Giles Hooker (stats), Yang Ning (stats), Mats Rooth (linguistics), David Ruppert (ORIE/stats), Mert Rory Sabuncu (ECE, biomedical engineering), Martin Wegkamp (stats), Qing Zhao (ECE)
Natural language processing, computational linguistics and information retrieval
- Group pages: NLP homepage, Computational linguistics lab
- CS field members: Yoav Artzi, Claire Cardie, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Shimon Edelman, Tanya Goyal, Thorsten Joachims, Lillian Lee, Emaad Manzoor, David Mimno, Alexander M. (Sasha) Rush, John Thickstun, Immanuel Trummer, Marten van Schijndel, Kilian Weinberger
- Affiliated faculty: Morten Christiansen (psychology), Paul Ginsparg (physics, information science), Mats Rooth (linguistics)
Robotics
- Group pages: Robotics homepage
- CS field members: Yoav Artzi, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Mark Campbell, Sanjiban Choudhury, Kuan Fang, Silvia Ferrari, Guy Hoffman, Wendy Ju, Malte Jung, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Daniel Lee, Wei-Chiu Ma, Kirstin Peterson, Wen Sun, Angelique Taylor
- Affiliated faculty: Andy Ruina (mechanical and aerospace engineering), Robert Shepherd (mechanical and aerospace engineering)
Vision
- Group pages: Computer vision homepage
- CS field members: Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Kavita Bala, Shimon Edelman, Kuan Fang, Bharath Hariharan, Wei-Chiu Ma, Kristina Monakhova, Noah Snavely, Jennifer J. Sun, Ramin Zabih
- Affiliated faculty: Anthony Reeves (ECE)