General Areas of Research

Algorithms and Theory

Primary:
Yu Cheng, Lorenzo De Stefani, Pedro F Felzenszwalb, Shahrzad Haddadan, Ellis Hershkowitz, Sorin Istrail, Serdar Kadioglu, Philip Klein, Franco Preparata, Benjamin J Raphael, Roberto Tamassia, Eli Upfal
Secondary:
Tim Nelson, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Artificial Intelligence

Primary:
Alper Ahmetoglu, Stephen Bach, Eugene Charniak, Thomas L Dean, Carsten Eickhoff, Pedro F Felzenszwalb, Amy R Greenwald, Serdar Kadioglu, George D Konidaris, Michael L. Littman, David Paulius, Ellie Pavlick, Daniel C Ritchie, Ankit J Shah, Srinath Sridhar, Chen Sun, Stefanie A Tellex
Secondary:
Nora Ayanian, Eli Upfal

Computational Biology

Primary:
Thomas L Dean, Sorin Istrail, David H. Laidlaw, Mark E Nadel, Franco Preparata, Sohini Ramachandran, Benjamin J Raphael, Ritambhara Singh
Secondary:
Eli Upfal

Computer Systems

R. Iris Bahar, Theophilus A Benson, Thomas W Doeppner, Rodrigo Fonseca, Vasileios Kemerlis, Sherief Reda, Malte Schwarzkopf, Alan M Usas, Nikos Vasilakis

Computer Vision

Thomas L Dean, Pedro F Felzenszwalb, Daniel C Ritchie, Srinath Sridhar, Chen Sun, Gabriel Taubin, James H Tompkin

Computing Education

Primary:
Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Tim Nelson, Alexander Steinmaurer, Alan M Usas, Milda Zizyte
Secondary:
Robert Y. Lewis

Data Science

Primary:
Stephen Bach, Karianne Bergen, Bruce Donald Campbell, Ugur Cetintemel, Andrew Crotty, Carsten Eickhoff, Pedro F Felzenszwalb, Jeff Huang, Serdar Kadioglu, David H. Laidlaw, Ellie Pavlick, Sohini Ramachandran, Matteo Riondato, Roberto Tamassia, Eli Upfal
Secondary:
Shahrzad Haddadan, Tom Sgouros

Database Systems

Primary:
Carsten Binnig, Ugur Cetintemel, Andrew Crotty, Tim K Kraska, Stanley B Zdonik
Secondary:
Malte Schwarzkopf

Distributed Systems

Theophilus A Benson, Ugur Cetintemel, Rodrigo Fonseca, Maurice P Herlihy, Malte Schwarzkopf, Nikos Vasilakis, Stanley B Zdonik

Geometric Modeling

Gabriel Taubin

Graphics and Visualization

Bruce Donald Campbell, John F Hughes, David H. Laidlaw, Joseph J Laviola, Barbara J. Meier, Steven P Reiss, Daniel C Ritchie, Gabriel Taubin, James H Tompkin, Andries van Dam

Human-Computer Interaction

Primary:
Adam Blumenthal, Bruce Donald Campbell, Thomas L Dean, Jeff Huang, Jose James, Shriram Krishnamurthi, David H. Laidlaw, Joseph J Laviola, Steven P Reiss, Donald L Stanford, James H Tompkin, Ernesto Zaldivar
Secondary:
Norm Meyrowitz, Srinath Sridhar

Machine Learning

Primary:
Stephen Bach, Karianne Bergen, Eugene Charniak, Yu Cheng, Thomas L Dean, Carsten Eickhoff, Pedro F Felzenszwalb, Serdar Kadioglu, George D Konidaris, Michael L. Littman, Ellie Pavlick, Sohini Ramachandran, Daniel C Ritchie, Ritambhara Singh, Srinath Sridhar, Chen Sun, Stefanie A Tellex, Eli Upfal
Secondary:
Lorenzo De Stefani, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Networking

Primary:
Theophilus A Benson, Rodrigo Fonseca, Shriram Krishnamurthi
Secondary:
Tim Nelson

Programming Languages

Primary:
Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Robert Y. Lewis, Nikos Vasilakis
Secondary:
Tim Nelson

Robotics

Alper Ahmetoglu, Nora Ayanian, R. Iris Bahar, Thomas L Dean, Ian Gonsher, George D Konidaris, Joseph J Laviola, Michael L. Littman, David Paulius, Ankit J Shah, Srinath Sridhar, Stefanie A Tellex, Milda Zizyte

Security

Primary:
Vasileios Kemerlis, Nikos Vasilakis, Ernesto Zaldivar
Secondary:
Eli Upfal

Security and Cryptography

Seny F Kamara, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Anna A Lysyanskaya, Peihan Miao, Tarik Moataz, Bernardo Palazzi, Steven P Reiss, Donald L Stanford, Roberto Tamassia, Alan M Usas

Software Engineering

Primary:
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Norm Meyrowitz, Tim Nelson, Steven P Reiss, Tom Sgouros, Milda Zizyte
Secondary:
Vasileios Kemerlis

Theory

Primary:
Peihan Miao, Eli Upfal
Secondary:
Robert Y. Lewis, John E Savage

Specialized Areas of Research

3D Photography

Gabriel Taubin

3D Scanning

Gabriel Taubin

Algorithmic Fairness

Primary:
Tom Sgouros, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Secondary:
Shahrzad Haddadan, Michael L. Littman

Algorithmic Game Theory

Amy R Greenwald

Computational Geosciences

Karianne Bergen

Computer Architecture

R. Iris Bahar, Sherief Reda, Donald L Stanford

Deep Learning

Primary:
Alper Ahmetoglu, Eugene Charniak, Thomas L Dean, Carsten Eickhoff, Sherief Reda, Daniel C Ritchie, Ritambhara Singh, Srinath Sridhar, Chen Sun
Secondary:
Eli Upfal

Design

Adam Blumenthal, Ian Gonsher, Jeff Huang, David H. Laidlaw, Steven P Reiss

Digital Geometry Processing

Gabriel Taubin

Formal Methods

Primary:
Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Robert Y. Lewis, Tim Nelson, Steven P Reiss, Milda Zizyte
Secondary:
Mark E Nadel

Haptics

Jose James

Multi-Agent Systems

Primary:
Amy R Greenwald
Secondary:
Nora Ayanian

Natural Language Processing

Primary:
Adam Blumenthal, Thomas L Dean, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick
Secondary:
David Paulius

Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis

Primary:
Eli Upfal
Secondary:
Lorenzo De Stefani, Matteo Riondato

Reinforcement Learning

Thomas L Dean, Amy R Greenwald, Michael L. Littman

Security Policy

Timothy H Edgar, John E Savage, Ernesto Zaldivar

Signal Processing

Karianne Bergen

Virtual Reality

Adam Blumenthal, Jose James