Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

New Faculty 2019

2016  |  2017  |  2018  |  2019  | 20202021

Oana  Carja

Oana Carja

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology Department

Education

  • B.Sc. Cuza University
  • Ph.D. Stanford University

Research Interests

  • Evolutionary Dynamics
  • Machine Learning and Digital Pathology
  • Cellular Spatial Structure
  • Tumor Microenvironments and Architectures
Patrick Carrington

Patrick Carrington

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • M.S. University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • Ph.D. University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Research Interests

  • Accessibility
  • Sensors
  • Wearables
  • Sports
  • Enabling Technology
Rayid Ghani

Rayid Ghani

Distinguished Career Professor

Machine Learning Department

Education

  • B.S. University of the South
  • M.S. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Analytics
  • Data Mining
  • Machine Learning
  • Social Media Analytics
  • Text Analytics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Social Networks
Marijn Heule

Marijn Heule

Associate Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • M.Sc. Delft University of Technology
  • Ph.D. Delft University of Technology

Research Interests

  • Automated Reasoning
  • Formal Verification
  • Parallel Computing
Laszlo Jeni

Laszlo Jeni

Systems Scientist

Robotics Institute

Education

  • M.Sc. Eotvos Lorand University
  • Ph.D. University of Tokyo

Research Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Computational Behavior Science
  • Emotional AI
  • Machine Learning
Daniel  Klug

Daniel Klug

Systems Scientist

Institute for Software Research

Education

  • M.A. University of Vienna
  • Ph.D. University of Basel

Research Interests

  • Open Source Software Communities
  • Socio-Technical Ecosystems
  • Societal Computing
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Educational Tools
  • Design-Based Research
Pravesh Kothari

Pravesh Kothari

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.Tech.EE. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
  • Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests

  • Meta-Algorithms
  • Distribution-Agnostic Clustering and Outlier-Robust Statistical Estimation
  • Machine Learning Theory
  • Computing Equilibria
  • Cryptography
  • Quantum Information
Yuanzhi Li

Yuanzhi Li

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department

Education

  • Ph.D. Princeton University

Research Interests

  • Theoretical Machine Learning
Changliu  Liu

Changliu Liu

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • B.S. Tsinghua University
  • M.S. UC Berkeley
  • M.A. UC Berkeley
  • Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Robotics and Human Robot Interactions
  • Control and Motion Planning
  • Optimization and Optimal Control
  • Multi-Agent System and Game Theory
Andrej  Risteski

Andrej Risteski

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department

Education

  • B.SE. Princeton University
  • Ph.D. Princeton University

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Theoretical Computer Science
Stephanie  Rosenthal

Stephanie Rosenthal

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.S. Carnegie Mellon University
  • M.S. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
Matthew  Ruffalo

Matthew Ruffalo

Systems Scientist

Computational Biology Department

Education

  • B.S. Case Western Reserve
  • Ph.D. Case Western Reserve

Research Interests

  • Cancer Informatics
  • Systems Biology
  • Network Analysis
Hirokazu Shirado

Hirokazu Shirado

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. Keio University
  • M.S. Keio University
  • M.A., M.Phil. Yale University
  • Ph.D. Yale University

Research Interests

  • Hybrid Systems of Humans and Machines
  • Social Networks
  • Collective Action Problems
  • Computational Social Science
Virginia  Smith

Virginia Smith

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department

Education

  • B.A. University of Virginia
  • Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Optimization
  • Distributed Systems
Zeynep Temel

Zeynep Temel

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • B.Sc. Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
  • M.Sc. Universitaet Siegen, Germany
  • Ph.D. Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

Research Interests

  • Biologically-Inspired Highly Dynamic Movement in Nontraditional
  • Micro-to Meso-Scale Engineered Systems
  • Unconventional Robot Design
  • Bio-Inspired Design
  • Functional Materials
Wenzhen Yuan

Wenzhen Yuan

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • B.E. Tsinghua University
  • S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

  • Robotics Perception
Ji Zhang

Ji Zhang

Systems Scientist

Robotics Institute

Education

  • Ph.D Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Robot Navigation
  • Perception and Localization
  • Lidar Mapping
  • Computer Vision
Haiyi Zhu

Haiyi Zhu

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • Ph.D Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Social Computing
  • Human-Centered AI Design