Faculty
Parastoo Abtahi (appointment starts September 1, 2023)
Ryan Adams
Research Interests: I am interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computational statistics, with applications across science and engineering. I have broad interests but often work on probabilistic methods and approximate Bayesian inference.
Andrew Appel
Research Interests:
Software verification, computer security, programming languages, compilers
ACM Fellow, 1998; SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, 2002
Sanjeev Arora (on leave)
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
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2018; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015; Fulkerson Prize, 2012; Gödel Prize, 2010 and 2001; ACM Fellow, 2009
David August
Research Interests: Computer Architecture and Compilers
Lennart Beringer
Suma Bhat
Jack Brassil
Mark Braverman
Research Interests:
Complexity theory; algorithms; game theory; machine learning; applications of computer science in healthcare and medicine
Abacus Medal, 2022; Presburger Award, 2016; SFCM Stephen Smale Prize, 2014; Packard Fellow, 2013
Bernard Chazelle
Research Interests:
Natural Algorithms, Dynamical Systems, Dynamic Networks, Computational Geometry, Discrepancy Theory
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004; ACM Fellow, 1996
Danqi Chen
Research Interests: My research is in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. I am particularly interested in the intersection of text understanding and knowledge representation & reasoning and applications in question answering, information extraction, and conversational systems.
Adji Bousso Dieng
Research Interests: Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence for Science (AI4Science)
Robert Dondero
Christiane Fellbaum
Research Interests:
Natural Language Processing, Lexical semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, syntactic alternations, computational linguistics, large-scale lexical resources, idioms, ontology
Humboldt Foundation Wolfgang Paul Award, 2001; LREC Antonio Zampolli Prize, 2006
Adam Finkelstein (on leave)
Research Interests:
Computer graphics, animation
ACM Fellow, 2014
Robert Fish
Research Interests: Networking and Telecommunications, Computer-Human Interaction, Online Learning and MOOCs, R&D Innovation Methodologies
Michael Freedman
Research Interests:
Distributed systems, security, networking
ACM Fellow, 2019; ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 2018; Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), 2011; ONR Young Investigator, 2009
Tom Griffiths
Aarti Gupta (on leave)
Research Interests:
Formal verification, program analysis, logic decision procedures
ACM Fellow, 2017
Elad Hazan
Research Interests: Theoretical foundations of machine learning, design and analysis of efficient algorithms for machine learning and mathematical optimization.
Felix Heide
Research Interests: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Optics
Kyle Jamieson
Research Interests: Networking, Wireless Systems, Internet of Things
Alan Kaplan
Research Interests: Mobile software, middleware and protocols, communication and networking for consumer applications and services, software engineering
Brian Kernighan
Research Interests:
Application-specific languages, document preparation, user interfaces, software tools, programming methodology
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019; Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2002; USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 1997
Zachary Kincaid
Research Interests: programming languages, program analysis, program verification, automated reasoning
Gillat Kol
Aleksandra Korolova
Research Interests: Societal impacts of algorithms and AI; privacy; fair and privacy-preserving machine learning; algorithm auditing; targeted advertising; technology policy
Daniel Leyzberg
Kai Li
Research Interests:
Parallel architectures and systems; distributed systems; operating systems
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2012; ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame, 2012; IEEE Fellow, 2011; ACM Fellow, 1998
Xiaoyan Li
Wyatt Lloyd
Research Interests: Distributed Systems
Alex Lombardi (appointment starts September 1, 2023)
Jérémie Lumbroso
Research Interests: Probabilistic algorithms, data streaming, data structures, analysis of algorithms, analytic combinatorics
Margaret Martonosi
Research Interests:
Computer Architecture in Classical and Quantum Systems
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019; IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2018; Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award, 2013; IEEE Fellow, 2010; ACM Fellow, 2009
Jonathan Mayer
Research Interests: Technology law and policy, with emphasis on national security, criminal procedure, consumer privacy, network management, and online speech.
Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Christopher Moretti
Research Interests: Distributed systems, computer science education
Radhika Nagpal
Research Interests: Robotics
Karthik Narasimhan (on leave)
Research Interests: Natural language processing, reinforcement learning
Arvind Narayanan (on leave)
Research Interests: Information privacy, fairness in machine learning, cryptocurrencies, tech policy
Ravi Netravali
Research Interests: Systems, networking, distributed systems
Pedro Paredes
Research Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, Spectral Algorithms, Complexity Theory, Combinatorics, Probability and Computation
Larry Peterson
Research Interests:
Networked systems
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2010; IEEE Kobayashi Computer & Communication Award, 2010;
ACM SIGCOMM Award, 2013; ACM Fellow, 2000; IEEE Fellow, 2009
Iasonas Petras
Research Interests: Quantum computation, Information-Based Complexity
Yuri Pritykin
Research Interests: Computational biology, functional genomics, single-cell technologies, regulation of gene expression, immunology, cancer
Ben Raphael
Research Interests: Computational biology
Jennifer Rexford
Research Interests:
Networking, network virtualization, Internet measurement, network management, network troubleshooting.
SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Contribution, 2018; ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award, 2016; National Academy of Engineering, 2014; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013; Member, ACM Fellow, 2008
Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Research Interests: Computer graphics; acquisition of 3D shape, reflectance, and appearance of real-world objects.
Olga Russakovsky
Research Interests: I work on developing artificially intelligent systems that are able to reason about the visual world. My primary research area is computer vision, closely integrated with machine learning, human-computer interaction and fairness, accountability and transparency.
Shimon Schocken
Research Interests: Computer architecture, systems, computer science education
Sebastian Seung (on leave)
Research Interests:
Machine learning, computational biology
Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, 2008; McKnight Scholar Award, 2000
Jaswinder Singh
Research Interests:
Parallel computing systems and applications: parallel applications and their implications for software and architectural design; system software and programming environments for multiprocessors
Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), 1997
Mona Singh (on leave)
Research Interests:
Computational molecular biology, as well as its interface with machine learning and algorithms.
Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), 2001; ACM Fellow, 2019; ISCB Fellow, 2018
Robert Tarjan
Research Interests:
Data structures; graph algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computational complexity; computational geometry; parallel algorithms
ACM Turing Award, 1986; Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1985; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1987; Member National Academy of Engineering, 1988; Member American Philosophical Society, 1990; ACM Fellow, 1994; SIAM Fellow, 2009
Olga Troyanskaya
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
ISCB Overton Prize, 2011; GSA Ira Herskowitz Award, 2014
David Walker
Research Interests: Programming languages, type systems, compilers, domain-specific languages, software-defined networking
Kevin Wayne
Research Interests:
Algorithms and data structures; computer science education
ACM Distinguished Educator, 2014
Matthew Weinberg
Huacheng Yu
Research Interests: Data structures, streaming algorithms, communication complexity
Ellen Zhong
Research Interests: Machine learning, computational and structural biology, 3D computer vision, biological imaging
