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Andrew Appel
Eugene Higgins Professor and Department Chair
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 (on leave)
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
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


David Blei
Associate Professor (on leave)
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 (on leave)
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
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
Assistant 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
M.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1986

Phone:(609) 258-6484
E-mail: maia
Office:205 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:212 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) 258-0558
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
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1985

Phone:(609) 258-6077
E-mail: llp
Office:208 Computer Science
Research Interests:
Networked systems, communication protocols, operating systems.


Other Affiliations: CITP


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

Phone:(609) 258-0558
E-mail: dp6
Office:410 Computer Science

Jennifer Rexford
Professor (on leave)
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
Professor
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
Associate 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
Associate 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
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999

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

Associated Faculty


Mung Chiang
Associated Faculty

Department of Electrical Engineering


Leonid Kruglyak
Associated Faculty

Department of Molecular Biology


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


Paul Seymour
Associated Faculty

Department of Mathematics


John Storey
Associated Faculty

Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics


Dan Trueman
Associated Faculty

Department of Music


Robert Vanderbei
Associated Faculty

Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering


Emeritus Faculty


Forman Acton
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1949

Phone:(609) 258-4617
E-mail: acton
Office:107 Computer Science

Perry Cook
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1991

E-mail: prc
Research Interests:
Computer Music; Simulation of Musical Acoustics and Voice; Real-Time Expressive Computer Control, Human-Computer Interfacing.


Other Affiliations: Music


Richard Lipton
Professor Emeritus

E-mail: rjl

Kenneth Steiglitz
Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus
Eng. Sc.D., New York University, 1963

Phone:(609) 258-4629
E-mail: ken
Office:421 Computer Science
Research Interests:
Agent-based simulation of economies, computing with solitons, auctions and barter mechanisms.


Other Affiliations: EE


Andrew Yao
Professor Emeritus

E-mail: yao

Note: all email addresses are at cs.princeton.edu