Three members of the computer science faculty have been named to endowed professorships.
Mark Braverman has been named the Deaton Family Professor of Computer Science. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty in 2011, Braverman was a faculty member at the University of Toronto, where he also received his doctoral degree.
Braverman works on theoretical computer science and its connections to other disciplines, especially information theory, mathematical analysis and economics. In 2022, he received an Abacus Medal, awarded by the International Mathematical Union, and in 2019 he received an Alan T. Waterman award from the National Science Foundation. He has also been the recipient of a Packard Foundation Fellowship and a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship.
Arvind Narayanan has been named the Bertram and Carole Siegel Professor of Computer Science. Narayanan joined the Princeton faculty in 2012 and completed his doctorate at the University of Texas-Austin. He is the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy.
Narayanan researches the societal impact of digital technologies, particularly AI. He is a co-author of the book "AI Snake Oil," published by Princeton University Press in 2024. He previously co-authored the textbooks "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies" (2016) and "Fairness in Machine Learning" (2023). In 2023, Narayanan was named to TIME's 100 most influential people in AI. In 2019, he was the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
David Walker has been named the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, for a term of five years. Walker joined the Princeton faculty in 2002 after receiving his doctoral degree from Cornell University.
Walker studies programming language theory, design and implementation, with an emphasis on the design of domain-specific languages. His work has been recognized with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship.