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Andrew Appel
Eugene Higgins Professor and Department Chair (on leave)
Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1985

Phone:	(609) 258-4627
E-mail:	appel
Office:	219 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Programming languages, compilers, computer security.

Other Affiliations: CITP

Sanjeev Arora
Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994

Phone:	(609) 258-3869
E-mail:	arora
Office:	307 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Uses of randomness in complexity theory and algorithms; Efficient algorithms for finding approximate solutions to NP-hard problems (or proving that they don't exist); Cryptography.

David August
Professor (on leave)
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, 2000

Phone:	(609) 258-2085
E-mail:	august
Office:	209 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computer Architecture and Compilers.

Other Affiliations: EE

Sandra Batista
Lecturer

Phone:	(609) 258-6943
E-mail:	sbatista
Office:	215 Computer Science

David Blei
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2004

Phone:	(609) 258-9907
E-mail:	blei
Office:	419 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Machine learning, graphical models, computational statistics, information retrieval, natural language processing.

Other Affiliations: CITP PACM PNI

Mark Braverman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2008

Phone:	(609) 258-8130
E-mail:	mbraverm
Office:	411 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Complexity theory, algorithms, game theory, machine learning, and applications of computer science in healthcare and medicine.

Moses Charikar
Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001

Phone:	(609) 258-7477
E-mail:	moses
Office:	305 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Design and analysis of algorithms, particularly approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms and efficient algorithms for dealing with large volumes of data.

Other Affiliations: PACM

Bernard Chazelle
Eugene Higgins Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1980

Phone:	(609) 258-5380
E-mail:	chazelle
Office:	404 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computational Geometry, Sublinear Algorithms, Clustering, Discrepancy Theory, Lower Bounds.

Other Affiliations: PACM

Douglas Clark
Professor
Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1976

Phone:	(609) 258-6314
E-mail:	doug
Office:	309 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computer architecture and organization; architecturally-focused performance analysis.

Other Affiliations: EE

David Dobkin
Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor and Dean of the Faculty
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973

E-mail:	dpd
Office:	9 Nassau Hall

Research Interests:

Visualization, pervasive computing, software engineering.

Other Affiliations: PACM

Robert Dondero
Lecturer
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2008

Phone:	(609) 258-2211
E-mail:	rdondero
Office:	206 Computer Science

Zeev Dvir
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science,

Phone:	(609) 258-0255
E-mail:	zdvir
Office:	405 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computational complexity, pseudo-randomness, coding theory and discrete mathematics.

Other Affiliations: Math

Christiane Fellbaum
Senior Research Scholar
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1980

Phone:	(609) 258-2824
E-mail:	fellbaum
Office:	412 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Lexical semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, syntactic alternations, computational linguistics, large-scale lexical resources, idioms, ontology.

Edward Felten
Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1993

Phone:	(609) 258-5906
E-mail:	felten
Office:	302 Sherrerd Hall

Research Interests:

Computer security; network software; technology law and policy.

Other Affiliations: WWS CITP

Rebecca Fiebrink
Assistant Professor (on leave)
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2011

Phone:	(609) 258-8118
E-mail:	fiebrink
Office:	408 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computer music, human-computer interaction, real-time expressive computer control, applied machine learning.

Other Affiliations: Music

Adam Finkelstein
Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996

Phone:	(609) 258-5756
E-mail:	af
Office:	424 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computer graphics, animation.

Michael Freedman
Associate Professor
Ph.D., New York University, 2007

Phone:	(609) 258-9179
E-mail:	mfreed
Office:	308 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Distributed systems, security, networking, applied cryptography.

Other Affiliations: CITP

Thomas Funkhouser
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993

Phone:	(609) 258-1748
E-mail:	funk
Office:	422 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Structural bioinformatics and computer graphics.

Donna Gabai
Lecturer

Phone:	(609) 258-1978
E-mail:	dgabai
Office:	205 Computer Science

Maia Ginsburg
Lecturer (on leave)
M.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1986

Phone:	(609) 258-6484
E-mail:	maia
Office:	205 Computer Science

Ananda Gunawardena
Lecturer

Phone:	(609) 258-6253
E-mail:	guna
Office:	208 Computer Science

Joshua Hug
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2011

Phone:	(609) 258-5379
E-mail:	jhug
Office:	312 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Dynamics of Biological Systems, Visualization

Judith Israel
Lecturer

Phone:	(609) 258-9300
E-mail:	jlisrael
Office:	208 Computer Science

Brian Kernighan
Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1969

Phone:	(609) 258-2089
E-mail:	bwk
Office:	311 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Application-specific languages, document preparation, user interfaces, software tools, programming methodology.

Other Affiliations: CITP

Shiva Kintali
Lecturer
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011

Phone:	(609) 258-0839
E-mail:	kintali
Office:	312 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computational Complexity, Algorithmic Game Theory, Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization.

Andrea LaPaugh
Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980

Phone:	(609) 258-4568
E-mail:	aslp
Office:	304 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Search and retrieval of information; data mining, particularly clustering; combinatorial algorithms.

Kai Li
Paul M. and Marcia R. Wythes Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1986

Phone:	(609) 258-4637
E-mail:	li
Office:	321 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Parallel architectures and systems; distributed systems; operating systems.

Other Affiliations: EE PicSciE PRISM

Xiaoyan Li
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2006

Phone:	(609) 258-7844
E-mail:	xiaoyan
Office:	410 Computer Science

Margaret Martonosi
Professor
Ph.D., Stanford, 1994

Phone:	(609) 258-1912
E-mail:	mrm
Office:	204 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computer Architecture, Power-Aware Computing, and Mobile Computing.

Other Affiliations: EE

Christopher Moretti
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2010

Phone:	(609) 258-5388
E-mail:	cmoretti
Office:	206 Computer Science

Arvind Narayanan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2009

Phone:	(609) 258-9302
E-mail:	arvindn
Office:	308 Sherrerd Hall

Research Interests:

privacy, security, tech policy, cryptography, social networks

Other Affiliations: CITP

Vivek Pai
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Rice University, 2000

Phone:	(609) 258-2086
E-mail:	vivek
Office:	322 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Network/Web servers, operating systems, high-performance applications.

Other Affiliations: CITP

Larry Peterson
Robert E. Kahn Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1985

Phone:	(609) 258-6077
E-mail:	llp
Office:	105 221 Nassau Street

Research Interests:

Networked systems, communication protocols, operating systems.

Other Affiliations: CITP

Iasonas Petras
Lecturer

Phone:	(609) 258-1794
E-mail:	ipetras
Office:	215 Computer Science

David Pritchard
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 2010

Phone:	(609) 258-6617
E-mail:	dp6
Office:	410 Computer Science

Jennifer Rexford
Acting Chair
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996

Phone:	(609) 258-5182
E-mail:	jrex
Office:	306 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Networking, network virtualization, Internet measurement, network management, network troubleshooting.

Other Affiliations: EE CITP Keller Center

Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Professor and Associate Chair
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001

Phone:	(609) 258-7479
E-mail:	smr
Office:	406 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computer graphics; acquisition of 3D shape, reflectance, and appearance of real-world objects.

Robert Schapire
David M Siegel '83 Professor (on leave)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991

Phone:	(609) 258-7726
E-mail:	schapire
Office:	407 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Machine learning.

Other Affiliations: PACM

Robert Sedgewick
William O. Baker '39 Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975

Phone:	(609) 258-4345
E-mail:	rs
Office:	319 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Scientific analysis of algorithms, Analytic combinatorics.

Other Affiliations: CITP

Jaswinder Singh
Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993

Phone:	(609) 258-5329
E-mail:	jps
Office:	423 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Parallel computing systems and applications: parallel applications and their implications for software and architectural design; system software and programming environments for multiprocessors. Special interest in applications of computing in computational biology, especially protein structure determination and simulating the immune system.

Other Affiliations: PACM PicSciE

Mona Singh
Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995

Phone:	(609) 258-2087
E-mail:	mona
Office:	420 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Computational molecular biology, as well as its interface with machine learning and algorithms.

Other Affiliations: Genomics

Robert Tarjan
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1972

Phone:	(609) 258-4797
E-mail:	ret
Office:	324 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Data structures; graph algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computational complexity; computational geometry; parallel algorithms.

Olga Troyanskaya
Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

Phone:	(609) 258-1749
E-mail:	ogt
Office:	320 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Bioinformatics; analysis of large-scale biological data sets (genomics, gene expression, proteomics, biological networks); algorithms for integration of data from multiple data sources; visualization of biological data; machine learning methods in bioinformatics.

Other Affiliations: Genomics PACM PicSciE

David Walker
Professor and Undergraduate Department Representative
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2001

Phone:	(609) 258-7654
E-mail:	dpw
Office:	211 Computer Science

Research Interests:

Programming languages, type systems, compilers, data processing and security.

Kevin Wayne
Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Senior Lecturer (on leave)
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999

Phone:	(609) 258-4455
E-mail:	wayne
Office:	207 Computer Science

Jianxiong Xiao
Professor

Phone:	(609) 258-1203
E-mail:	xj
Office:	409 Computer Science

Associated Faculty

Mung Chiang
Associated Faculty

Department of Electrical Engineering

Paul Lansky
Associated Faculty

Department of Music

Ruby Lee
Associated Faculty

Department of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests:

Computer Security; Computer Architecture; Secure Cloud Computing; Trustworthy Mobile Computing; Secure Smartphones; Secure Sensor Nets; Security Verification; Distributed Denial of Service Mitigation.

Warren Powell
Associated Faculty

Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering