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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
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
Associate 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.


Department Affiliations: EE

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

Christopher Clark
Kenan Trust Visiting Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004

Phone:(609) 258-0558
E-mail: cmclark
Office:410 Computer Science
 Research Interests:
Autonomous Robots, Multi-Robot Systems, Underwater Robotics, Motion Planning, Localization & Mapping, and Distributed Control.
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.


Department 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.


Department 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.


Department Affiliations: WWS

Other Affiliations: 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.


Department 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 (on leave)
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

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


Department Affiliations: EE

Other Affiliations: PicSciE PRISM

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

E-mail: xiaoyan
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.


Department Affiliations: EE

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

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

Jennifer Rexford
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
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.


Department Affiliations: EE

Other Affiliations: CITP Keller Center

Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Associate 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 (on leave)
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

Jeremiah Ostriker
Associated Faculty

Department of Astrophysical Sciences

Warren Powell
Associated Faculty

Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering

Paul Seymour
Associated Faculty

Department of Mathematics

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.


Department 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.


Department Affiliations: EE

Andrew Yao
Professor Emeritus

E-mail: yao

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