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

Phone:(609) 258-4617
E-mail: acton
Office:122 Computer Science

Andrew Appel
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
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


Boaz Barak
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, 2004

Phone:(609) 258-0255
E-mail: boaz
Office:405 Computer Science
Research Interests:
Cryptography, Complexity Theory, Randomness and Computation.

David Blei
Assistant 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


Moses Charikar
Associate 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


Mung Chiang
Associated Faculty

Department of Electrical Engineering


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


Perry Cook
Professor (on sabbatical)
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1991

Phone:(609) 258-4951
E-mail: prc
Office:408 Computer Science
Research Interests:
Computer Music; Simulation of Musical Acoustics and Voice; Real-Time Expressive Computer Control, Human-Computer Interfacing.


Department Affiliations: Music


Ingrid Daubechies
Associated Faculty

Department of Mathematics


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

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


Adam Finkelstein
Associate 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
Associate Professor
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

Brian Kernighan
Professor and Undergraduate Department Representative
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


Leonid Kruglyak
Associated Faculty

Department of Molecular Biology


Paul Lansky
Associated Faculty

Department of Music


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.

Ruby Lee
Associated Faculty

Department of Electrical Engineering


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


Richard Lipton
Professor Emeritus

E-mail: rjl

Margaret Martonosi
Associated Faculty

Department of Electrical Engineering

E-mail: mrm

Jeremiah Ostriker
Associated Faculty

Department of Astrophysical Sciences


Vivek Pai
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
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


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
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 (on sabbatical)
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


Paul Seymour
Associated Faculty

Department of Mathematics


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
Associate 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


Kenneth Steiglitz
Eugene Higgins Professor
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


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 (on sabbatical)
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


Dan Trueman
Associated Faculty

Department of Music


Robert Vanderbei
Associated Faculty

Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering


David Walker
Associate Professor (on sabbatical)
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

Andrew Yao
Professor Emeritus

E-mail: yao

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