Mohamed Abdelfattah
Assistant Professor ; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2016

Research Focus: Machine-learning-centric computer systems

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Email: mohamed@cornell.edu
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
Associate 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 and Chair of CS ; 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

Email: la13@cornell.edu
Yoav Artzi
Associate Professor ; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2015

Research Focus: Language modeling, natural language processing, automated natural language interaction, machine learning

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Hadar Averbuch-Elor
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2020

Research Focus: 3D Computer Vision, Vision and Language, Generative AI

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Vision

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications

Email: hadarelor@cornell.edu
Shiri Azenkot
Associate 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

Graeme Bailey
Adjunct Professor ; Ph.D., University of Birmingham

Research Focus: Mathematics

Kavita Bala
Professor and Provost ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., M.I.T., 1999

Research Focus: Recognition and visual search; material modeling and acquisition, physically-based rendering; and perception

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Robotics, Vision

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, 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
Professor ; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2010

Research Focus: Computer Architecture, Electronic Design Automation, Digital VLSI

Research Areas: Computer Architecture & VLSI, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Systems

Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017

Research Focus: Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Manipulation, Haptic Perception, Assistive Robotics

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Machine Learning, Robotics

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications, Systems

David Bindel
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: Security, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Systems

Florentina Bunea
Professor ; Statistics and Data Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D. University of Washington, 2000

Research Focus: Statistical Machine Learning Theory, Statistical Foundations for Data Science, High Dimensional Statistics

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation

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 and Associate Dean for Education ; 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, Natural Language Processing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Eshan Chattopadhyay
Associate 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

Sanjiban Choudhury
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2018

Research Focus: Imitation Learning, Planning and Learning, Robot Manipulation

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications

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, CS Minor Field Member ; PhD, Cornell, 2010

Research Focus: Security, programming languages, electronic voting

Research Areas: Programming Languages, Security

Robert Constable
Professor Emeritus ; 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

Alex Conway
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2020

Research Focus: Randomized algorithms and data structures and their application to memory and storage systems

Research Areas: Systems and Networking, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Systems, Theory of Computation

Email: ajhconway@gmail.com
Preston Culbertson

Starting Fall of 2025

Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2022

Research Focus: Risk-aware planning, robot learning, dynamic manipulation, robot perception

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Vision

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Email: pculbert@caltech.edu
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
Associate 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, Natural Language Processing

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

On sabbatical: AY 2024-2025

Associate 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, Systems

Sarah Dean
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science; CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2021

Research Focus: Understanding tradeoffs and limitations arising from the interplay between Control and Optimization, Machine Learning, and Dynamics in real-world systems

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Robotics

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation

Email: sdean@cornell.edu
Nicola Dell
Associate Professor ; Information Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2015

Research Focus: Human computer interaction (HCI)

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

Saikat Dutta
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2023

Research Focus: Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Software Testing of Machine Learning-based Systems, Machine Learning-based Automated Software Engineering

Research Areas: Programming Languages, Software Engineering

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages and Logics, Scientific Computing and Applications

Raaz Dwivedi
Assistant Professor ; ORIE/Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2021

Research Focus: The areas of causal inference, reinforcement learning, and distribution compression with applications in personalized decision-making and healthcare.

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Shimon Edelman
Professor ; Psychology, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Weizmann Institue of Science, 1988

Research Focus: Consciousness, computational social science, climate change

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Matthew Eichhorn
Lecturer ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Cornell University, 2024

Research Focus: Algorithm design, combinatorial optimization, causal inference

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Theory of Computation

Email: meichhorn@cornell.edu
Ahmed El Alaoui
Assistant Professor ; Statistics and Data Science, CS Field Member ; PhD UC Berkeley, 2018

Research Focus: High-dimensional statistics and probability, algorithms, statistical physics

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Theory of Computation

Kevin Ellis
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2020

Research Focus: AI, ML, Program Induction

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

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: Digital Health, Mobile systems and applications

Research Areas: Human Interaction, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Systems

K-Y. Daisy Fan
Senior Lecturer ; Computer Science ; Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2001

Research Focus: The application of systems analysis techniques for water resources and environmental problems

Kuan Fang
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2021

Research Focus: Robot Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Vision

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

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
Professor and Associate Dean of Research ; 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

Sainyam Galhotra
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2021

Research Focus: Databases, Data Science, Causal Inference, Algorithms, Responsible Analytics

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Systems

Kyra Gan
Assistant Professor ; ORIE Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon University 2022

Research Focus: artificial intelligence focusing on adaptive trial design (bandit/reinforcement learning), statistical inference, causal discovery, and interpretable LLM

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Nikhil Garg
Assistant Professor ; Operations Research and Information Engineering, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2020

Research Focus: Mechanism/Market design and data science, with a focus on design of democracy, markets, and other societal systems

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation

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: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation

Paul Gölz
Assistant Professor ; ORIE, CS Field Member ; Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon University 2022

Research Focus: Processes for group decision-making that serve the public good

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing

Email: paulgoelz@cornell.edu
Carla Gomes

On sabbatical: AY 2024-2025

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

Tanya Goyal
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin, 2023

Research Focus: Natural Language Processing

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing

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

Giulia Guidi
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2022

Research Focus: Parallel and Distributed Programming and Systems for Computational Sciences (e.g. Computational Biology), Combinatorics, Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications

Research Areas: Computational Biology, Scientific Computing, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications, Systems

Francois Guimbretiere
Professor ; Information Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002

Research Focus: Computer Interfaces

Research Areas: Human Interaction

Research Concentration: Systems

Udit Gupta
Assistant Professor: ECE Cornell Tech ; CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2022

Research Focus: Discovering and demonstrating new ways to design systems and hardware to improve the performance, efficiency, and environmental sustainability of next-generation computing platforms and emerging applications.

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Systems and Networking

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
Associate 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

Haym Hirsh
Professor ; Computer Science, Information Science, CS Field Member, Director CS M.Eng Program ; 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

Justin Hsu

On sabbatical: AY 2024-2025

Associate Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2017

Research Focus: Programming languages, formal verification, algorithms, differential privacy.

Research Areas: Programming Languages, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Theory of Computation

Thorsten Joachims
Professor and Interim Dean of Cornell Bowers CIS ; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science and Information 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, Machine Learning

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Wendy Ju
Associate 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, Scientific Computing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications

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: Security, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Systems

Malte Jung
Associate 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

Michael Kim
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2020

Research Focus: Foundations of Responsible Machine Learning, Algorithmic Fairness, Multi-calibration, Learning Theory

Research Areas: Machine Learning, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Theory of Computation

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 ; 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

Allison Koenecke
Assistant Professor: Info Science ; CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2021

Research Focus: Research interests lie broadly at the intersection of economics and computer science, and her projects focus on fairness in algorithmic systems and causal inference in public health.

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Dexter Kozen
Professor Emeritus ; Computer Science, CS Field Member; 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
Professor ; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania, 2008

Research Focus: Robotics, task planning, formal methods 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, Computational Biology, Scientific Computing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Lee
Professor ; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell Tech, 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, computational social science

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Natural Language Processing

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, Software Engineering, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Systems

Andrea Lodi
Professor ; Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, ORIE Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of Bologna, 2000

Research Areas: Programming Languages, Scientific Computing

Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Scientific Computing and Applications

Wei-Chiu Ma
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023

Research Focus: 3D Computer vision, robot perception

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing, Vision

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications

Emaad Manzoor
Assistant Professor, Marketing ; CS Field Member ; Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon University, 2021

Research Focus: Human-algorithm interaction, co-creation, and alignment; causal inference and natural language processing.

Research Areas: Machine Learning

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Steve Marschner
Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member, Director of Graduate Studies ; 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

Josè 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 Matteson
Associate Professor ; Statistics and Data Science, CS Field Member ; PhD University of Chicago, 2008

Research Focus: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

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

Kristina Monakhova
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2022

Research Focus: Computational imaging: making better, smarter cameras, microscopes, and telescopes by co-designing hardware and algorithms

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, Machine Learning, Vision

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, Security, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Systems

Curran Muhlberger
Lecturer ; Computer Science ; Ph.D. Cornell University, 2014

Research Areas: Scientific Computing, Software Engineering

Andrew Myers
Professor ; Class of 1912 Professor of Engineering, 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, Systems

Mor Naaman
Professor ; Information Science, Cornell Tech, CS field member ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005

Research Focus: Social computing, human-computer interaction, computational social science, AI-mediated communication, trustworthiness of information

Research Areas: Human Interaction

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

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

Francesca Parise
Assistant Professor ; Electrical and Computer Engineering; CS Field Member ; Ph.D., ETH, Zurich , 2016

Research Focus: Network Systems, Game Theory, Control Theory, Social and Economics Networks

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation

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

On leave: AY 24-25

Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, Cornell Tech; CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2020

Research Focus: Data Science and Machine Learning, Healthcare, Inequality, and Algorithmic Fairness

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Machine Learning

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Tom Ristenpart
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: Security, Systems and Networking, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Systems, Theory of Computation

Thijs Roumen
Assistant Professor, IS ; Cornell Tech, CS field member ; Ph.D. , Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany 2022

Research Focus: Digital Fabrication, Human-Computer Interaction

Research Areas: Human Interaction

Research Concentration: Systems

Email: tjr92@cornell.edu
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, Natural Language Processing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Mert Sabuncu
Professor ; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell Tech, 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
Associate 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

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

Ziv Scully
Assistant Professor: ORIE ; CS Field Member ; Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon University, 2022

Research Focus: The theory of decision making under uncertainty, including stochastic control, resource allocation, and performance evaluation. A particular emphasis of his work is scheduling and load balancing in queueing systems, as motivated by the needs of cloud comp

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Theory of Computation

Bart Selman

On sabbatical: AY 2024-2025

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

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, Security, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Systems

David Shmoys
Professor ; Operations Research and Information Engineering; Computer Science; CS Field Member, 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, Theory of Computation

Alexandra Silva

On sabbatical: AY 2024-2025

Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Radboud University Nijmegen, 2010

Research Focus: Programming language semantics and verification

Research Areas: Programming Languages, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Programming Languages and Logics, Theory of Computation

Rachee Singh
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2021

Research Focus: Computer systems and networking, dynamic optical networks, network security

Research Areas: Security, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Systems

Noah Snavely
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

Nick Spooner
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2020

Research Focus: Theoretical computer science, quantum computing, cryptography, complexity theory

Research Areas: Security, Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Theory of Computation

Karthik Sridharan
Associate Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 2012

Research 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

Research Concentration: Theory of Computation

Jennifer Sun
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2023

Research Focus: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI for Science, Expert-in-the-loop, Neurosymbolic Modeling

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Machine Learning, Vision

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Email: jjs533@cornell.edu
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, Theory of Computation

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 ; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science and CIS Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, CS Field Member ; 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

Angelique Taylor
Assistant Professor ; Information Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D. , University of California, San Diego, 2021

Research Focus: Human-robot interaction (HRI)

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Email: amt298@cornell.edu
Tim Teitelbaum
Professor Emeritus ; Computer Science ; Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1976

Research Focus: Automatic Program Analysis

John Thickstun
Assistant Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of Washington, 2021

Research Focus: Controllable generative models; Interplay of discrete and continuous modeling; Music technology

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Alex Townsend
Associate Professor ; Mathematics; CS Field Member ; Ph.D. University of Oxford, 2014

Research Focus: Scientific Computing

Research Areas: Scientific Computing

Research Concentration: Scientific Computing and Applications

Immanuel Trummer

On sabbatical: Spring 2025

Associate 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

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

Research Focus: Numerical linear and multilinear algebra

Research Areas: Scientific Computing

Robbert van Renesse

On sabbatical: Fall 2024 & Fall 2025

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, Natural Language Processing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Anke van Zuylen
Senior Lecturer ; Computer Science , CS Minor Field Member ; 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

Aditya Vashistha
Assistant Professor: Info Science ; CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of Washington, 2019

Research Focus: My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, ICT & Development, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

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: Security, 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

Jian-Xun Wang
Associate Professor ; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2017

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence

Hakim Weatherspoon
Professor, Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA), and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006

Research Focus: Fault-tolerance, reliability, security, and performance of Internet-scale systems

Research Areas: Security, Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Systems

Kilian Weinberger
Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; PhD, UPenn, 2007

Research 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

Mark Wilde
Associate Professor ; ECE, CS Field Member ; Ph.D. , University of Southern California, 2008

Research Focus: Quantum computation

Research Areas: Theory of Computing

Research Concentration: Theory of Computation

Email: wilde@cornell.edu
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

Qian Yang
Assistant Professor ; Information Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 2020

Research Focus: Create interactive tools that make AI more accessible for human-centered design innovation

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications

Yunan Yang
Assistant Professor ; Mathematics, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2018

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Scientific Computing

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications

Fengqi You
Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Cornell University ; Chair of Ph.D. Studies in Cornell Systems Engineering, Co-director of the Cornell University AI for Science Institute, Associate Director of Cornell Energy Systems Institute, Co-lead of Schmidt AI in Science Program at Cornell, ; CS Field Member, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 2009

Research Focus: Fundamental theory and methods in systems engineering and artificial intelligence, as well as their applications to materials informatics, smart manufacturing, digital agriculture, quantum computing, energy systems, and sustainability

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence

Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Applications

Email: fengqi.you@cornell.edu
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: Artificial Intelligence, Systems

Zhiru Zhang
Professor ; Electrical and Computer Engineering, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Univ of California, LA, 2007

Research Focus: computer-aided design methodologies, optimization algorithms, compilers & computer architectures of gigascale integrated systems, esp. systems-on-chips

Research Areas: Systems and Networking

Research Concentration: Systems