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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
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
; 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
On sabbatical: AY 2022-2023
Associate Professor ; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2015Research Focus: Natural language processing, situated language understanding, automated natural language interaction, machine learning
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
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 Dean of Cornell Bowers 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
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
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
; 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
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, CS Minor Field Member
; Ph.D., Univ of Penn, 2008
Research Focus: Computer Architecture, Instruction Fusion, Hardware Support for Thread Synchronization
Research Areas: Computer Architecture & VLSI
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
On sabbatical: AY 2022-2023
Professor and Associate Dean for Education ; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering ; Ph.D., Univ of Mass, Amherst, 1994Research 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
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
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
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, 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
Nicola Dell
Associate 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: Consciousness, computational social science, computational linguistics
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence
Research Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
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: Mobile systems and applications, participatory sensing, health applications, privacy
Research Areas: Human Interaction, Systems and Networking
Research Concentration: Systems
K-Y. Daisy Fan
On leave Fall 2022
Senior Lecturer ; Computer Science ; Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2001Research 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
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
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 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: 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
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
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
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
Assistant 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
On sabbatical: AY 2022-2023
Professor and Associate Dean for Research ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Univ of Dortmund, 2001Research 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
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: Human Interaction
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: 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
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
On sabbatical: AY 2022-2023
Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2005Research 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; 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, 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, 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
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, Software Engineering, 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 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
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
; 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
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
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
On leave: Spring 2023 & Fall 2023
Professor ; Computer Science, Cornell Tech, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., M.I.T., 2006Research 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
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
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: 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
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
Professor
; 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
On sabbatical: AY 2022-2023
Associate Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member ; Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2015Research 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
On sabbatical: Spring 2023
Professor ; Computer Science, CS Field Member; Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science ; Ph.D., Stony Brook Univ, 1978Research 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
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
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
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
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
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, 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 and Chair of CS
; 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
Tim Teitelbaum
Professor Emeritus
; Computer Science
; Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1976
Research Focus: Automatic Program Analysis
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
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
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
Professor
; Computer Science, CS Field Member, Director of Graduate Studies
; 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
; 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
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
Hakim Weatherspoon
On leave: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023
Professor and Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) ; 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: 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
; Computer Science, CS Field Member
; Ph.D. , University of Southern California, 2008
Research Focus: Quantum computation
Research Areas: Theory of Computing
Research Concentration: Theory of Computation
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
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
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