71 faculty and 22 courses in Computer Science at Columbia University.
- Brian A Smith, Associate Professor h-index 121
Notable: “Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq” (2016) · 5,250 citations
- Shree K Nayar, T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science h-index 95
Notable: “Visual learning and recognition of 3-d objects from appearance” (1995) · 1,891 citations
- Shih-Fu Chang, Richard Dicker Professor of Electrical Engineering (Joint) h-index 94
Notable: “VisualSEEk” (1996) · 1,745 citations
- Jae Woo Lee, Senior Lecturer in Discipline h-index 93
Notable: “Secure program execution via dynamic information flow tracking” (2004) · 746 citations
- Xi Chen, Professor h-index 90
Notable: “TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding” (2020) · 1,639 citations
- Mihalis Yannakakis, Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science h-index 86
Design and analysis of algorithms, complexity theory, combinatorial optimization, game theory, databases, and modelling, verification and testing of reactive systems. For a more detailed vita and list of publications see here
Notable: “Optimization, approximation, and complexity classes” (1991) · 1,662 citations
- David Blei, Professor, Joint with Statistics h-index 82
Notable: “Latent dirichlet allocation” (2003) · 27,051 citations
- Christos H Papadimitriou, The Donovan Family Professor h-index 75
Notable: “Latent semantic indexing” (1998) · 874 citations
- Vladimir Vapnik, Professor h-index 70
Support Vector Machine Brief BiographyProfessor Vapnik gained his Masters Degree in Mathematics in 1958 at Uzbek State University, Samarkand, USSR. From 1961 to 1990 he worked at the Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow, where he became
Notable: “Support-vector networks” (1995) · 40,480 citations
- Julia B. Hirschberg, Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science h-index 68
Notable: “Advances in natural language processing” (2015) · 1,698 citations
- Steven K Feiner, Wang Family Professor of Computer Science h-index 67
Human–computer interaction, augmented reality and virtual reality, 3D and 2D user interfaces, automated design of graphics and multimedia, mobile and wearable computing, health applications, computer games, and information visualization. Prof. Feiner i
Notable: “Recent advances in augmented reality” (2001) · 4,122 citations
- Richard Zemel, Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering and Applied Science h-index 66
Notable: “Prototypical Networks for Few-shot Learning” (2017) · 5,206 citations
- Kathleen McKeown, Henry and Gertrude Rothschilds Professor of Computer Science h-index 65
Text summarization, natural language generation, multi-media explanation, question-answering and multi-lingual applications. In 1985 she received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, in 1991 she received a National Scien
Notable: “Predicting the semantic orientation of adjectives” (1997) · 1,439 citations
- Salvatore J Stolfo, Morysa Engineering Professor for a Connected Humanity h-index 63
Notable: “Data Mining Approaches for Intrusion Detection” (2000) · 1,191 citations
- Henning G Schulzrinne, Julian Clarence Levi Professor h-index 61
Internet real-time and multimedia services and protocols; Interneteconomics and policy; ubiquitous computing; mobile systems; quality ofservice; modeling and analysis of computer-communication networks;operating
Notable: “RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications” (2003) · 5,756 citations
- Tim Roughgarden, Professor h-index 60
Design, analysis, applications, and limitations of algorithms.Game theory and microeconomics, especially as applied to networks, auctions, and blockchains/web3. Address : Department of Computer ScienceColumbia University500 West 1
Notable: “How bad is selfish routing?” (2002) · 1,622 citations
- Eugene Wu, Associate Professor h-index 58
Notable: “LINGO-1 antagonist promotes spinal cord remyelination and axonal integrity in MOG-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis” (2007) · 487 citations
- Peter N Belhumeur, Professor h-index 57
Lies somewhere in the mix of computer vision and machine learning. He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the National Science Foundation Career Award. He received both the Siemens Best Paper Award at
Notable: “Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: recognition using class specific linear projection” (1997) · 11,755 citations
- Luis Gravano, Professor h-index 55
Notable: “Snowball” (2000) · 1,170 citations
- Itsik G Pe'er, Professor h-index 54
Notable: “Efficiency and power in genetic association studies” (2005) · 1,697 citations
- Daniel Bauer, Senior Lecturer in Discipline h-index 52
Computer science education include integrating functional programming into the CS curriculum, understanding how pre-college computing experience shapes performance and attitudes in introductory CS courses, and techniques for improving student engagement and
Notable: “Computational Tools for Probing Interactions in Multiple Linear Regression, Multilevel Modeling, and Latent Curve Analysis” (2006) · 5,015 citations
- Toniann Pitassi, Jeffrey L. and Brenda Bleustein Professor of Engineering h-index 50
Notable: “Fairness through awareness” (2012) · 3,386 citations
- Daniel J Hsu, Associate Professor h-index 49
Notable: “Reconciling modern machine-learning practice and the classical bias–variance trade-off” (2019) · 1,518 citations
- Gail E Kaiser, Professor h-index 48
Notable: “An information retrieval approach for automatically constructing software libraries” (1991) · 448 citations
- Kenneth A Ross, Professor h-index 47
Touch on various aspects of database systems, including query processing, query language design, data warehousing, and architecture-sensitive database system design. He also has an interest in computational biology, including the analysis of large genomic data
Notable: “The well-founded semantics for general logic programs” (1991) · 1,688 citations
- Jeannette M Wing, Executive Vice President for Research, Professor of Computer Science h-index 46
Foundations of trustworthy computing, especially security and privacy; software specification and verification; concurrent and distributed systems
Notable: “Computational thinking” (2006) · 7,095 citations
- Tal G Malkin, Professor h-index 46
Cryptography. Much of my work is on the foundations of cryptography, and as such I fit right in with our Theory\ Group. I also work on practical aspects and applications of cryptography, and am
Notable: “Parameterized Complexity and Approximation Algorithms” (2007) · 287 citations
- Zhou Yu, Associate Professor h-index 46
I design algorithms for real-time intelligent interactive systems that coordinate with user actions that are beyond spoken languages, including non-verbal behaviors to achieve effective and natural communications. In particular, I optimize human-machine co
Notable: “SEED: Semantics Enhanced Encoder-Decoder Framework for Scene Text Recognition” (2020) · 315 citations
- Clifford Stein, Professor, Joint with IEOR h-index 45
The design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operations research, network algorithms, scheduling, algorithm engineering and computational biology. Professor Stein has published many influential papers in the leading conferences an
Notable: “A new approach to the minimum cut problem” (1996) · 495 citations
- Dan Rubenstein, Professor h-index 45
Dan is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University whose research traditionally focuses on the resilience, performance, and security of complex networked systems. Recent interes
Notable: “SOS” (2002) · 478 citations
- Rocco A. Servedio, Professor h-index 44
Lie in computational complexity theory, computational learning theory, property testing, and the role of randomness in computation. Papers Breaking News Regular Fall 2013
Notable: “Agnostically Learning Halfspaces” (2008) · 202 citations
- Luca Carloni, Professor and Department Chair h-index 43
Notable: “Photonic Networks-on-Chip for Future Generations of Chip Multiprocessors” (2008) · 924 citations
- David Knowles, Associate Professor h-index 40
Notable: “Predicting Splicing from Primary Sequence with Deep Learning” (2019) · 2,925 citations
- Suman Jana, Associate Professor h-index 39
At the intersection of computer security and machine learning. More specifically, I am interested both in using machine learning to improve software security and in improving security and reliability of the machine learning models themselves. I also occasi
Notable: “DeepXplore” (2017) · 1,250 citations
- Jason Nieh, Professor h-index 39
Notable: “The design and implementation of Zap” (2002) · 408 citations
- Zhuo Zhang, Assistant Professor h-index 39
Notable: “Analysis and Verification of the Doubly Salient Brushless DC Generator for Automobile Auxiliary Power Unit Application” (2014) · 135 citations
- Vishal Misra, RKS Family Professor of Computer Science h-index 37
Notable: “Analytic evaluation of RED performance” (2002) · 395 citations
- Augustin Chaintreau, Associate Professor h-index 34
I design algorithms and mathematical analysis of networks. The goal of my research is to reconcile the benefits of leveraging personal data and social networks with a commitment to fairness and privacy. Latest results of my research address transparency in per
Notable: “Impact of Human Mobility on Opportunistic Forwarding Algorithms” (2007) · 1,037 citations
- Changxi Zheng, Associate Professor h-index 34
Notable: “Dielectric Metasurfaces for Complete and Independent Control of Optical Amplitude and Phase” (2019) · 490 citations
- Carl Vondrick, YM Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 32
Notable: “AVA: A Video Dataset of Spatio-Temporally Localized Atomic Visual Actions” (2018) · 999 citations
- Xia Zhou, Associate Professor h-index 32
Lies broadly in mobile computing and its intersection with other disciplines. Most of my current projects center on light - a ubiquitous medium around us. We explore a range of projects that turn light into a powerful medium for data communication and object/b
Notable: “StudentLife” (2014) · 1,122 citations
- Stephen A. Edwards, Associate Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics in Programming” (2015) · 315 citations
- Lydia B Chilton, Associate Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Design Guidelines for Prompt Engineering Text-to-Image Generative Models” (2022) · 553 citations
- Andrew Blumberg, Professor, Joint with Mathematics h-index 30
Notable: “Clonal evolution of glioblastoma under therapy” (2016) · 790 citations
- Simha Sethumadhavan, Professor h-index 30
Computer Architecture, Computer Security Research Overview My research is in computer architecture and computer security, and how computer architecture can be used to improve computer security. I have been professing the hardware-up method for securing c
Notable: “FANCI” (2013) · 352 citations
- Elias Bareinboim, Associate Professor h-index 30
Span artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, robotics, cognitive science, and the philosophy of science. My work focuses on the foundations of causal inference and its applications to artificial intelligence as well as to data science (including
Notable: “Causal inference and the data-fusion problem” (2016) · 631 citations
- Alexandr Andoni, Associate Professor h-index 29
Notable: “Near-optimal hashing algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor in high dimensions” (2008) · 1,458 citations
- Bjarne Stroustrup, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “What is object-oriented programming?” (1988) · 226 citations
- Yunzhu Li, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 22
Notable: “Learning the signatures of the human grasp using a scalable tactile glove” (2019) · 1,131 citations
- Roxana Geambasu, Associate Professor h-index 21
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Notable: “Vanish: increasing data privacy with self-destructing data” (2009) · 341 citations
- Ronghui Gu, Tang Family Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 16
Notable: “CertiKOS: an extensible architecture for building certified concurrent OS kernels” (2016) · 162 citations
- Nakul Verma, Senior Lecturer h-index 14
Notable: “Cortical pattern generation during dexterous movement is input-driven” (2019) · 338 citations
- Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi, Senior Lecturer in Discipline h-index 14
Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, real-world applications, medical informatics, CS education. More... Teaching COMS 3203 Discrete Mathematics CO
Notable: “Machine Learning for the New York City Power Grid” (2011) · 264 citations
- Henry Yuen, Srivani Family Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 14
Es on the theoretical foundations of quantum computing, with a focus on complexity theory and cryptography. Current Teaching Spring 2026 : COMS 6998 Machine Assisted Mathematics Advising Graduate studen
Notable: “MIP* = RE” (2021) · 167 citations
- James Bartusek, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 12
Notable: “Affine Determinant Programs: A Framework for Obfuscation and Witness Encryption” (2020) · 24 citations
- Kostis Kaffes, Assistant Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Centralized Core-granular Scheduling for Serverless Functions” (2019) · 106 citations
- Tony Dear, Senior Lecturer in Discipline h-index 9
Notable: “Locomotion of a multi-link non-holonomic snake robot with passive joints” (2020) · 26 citations
- Paul S Blaer, Senior Lecturer in Discipline h-index 7
Notable: “Data acquisition and view planning for 3-D modeling tasks” (2007) · 92 citations
- Yining Liu, Lecturer in the Discipline of Data Science h-index 4
Notable: “scvi-tools: a library for deep probabilistic analysis of single-cell omics data” (2021) · 73 citations
- Adam H Cannon, Teaching Professor of Computer Science h-index 4
In: Computer Science Education Machine Learning Statistical Pattern Recognition Fall 2026 Teaching COMS W1002 Computing in Context COMS W2702 AI in Context Teaching Professor Department of Computer Science
Notable: “Approximation Algorithms for the Class Cover Problem” (2004) · 48 citations
- Adam Block, Assistant Professor
- Aleksander Holynski, Assistant Professor
- Baishakhi Ray, Associate Professor
- Brian S. Borowski, Senior Lecturer in Discipline
- Chris Murphy, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science
Ed on software testing. Before that, I worked as a professional software developer in Boston, San Francisco, and London after earning a BS in Computer Engineering from Boston University. Somewhere along the way, I also spent two years teaching English in Seoul
- Eleni Drinea, Senior Lecturer in Discipline
Lie in theoretical computer science, and include randomized and graph algorithms, information theory, algorithms for big data, and dimensionality reduction techniques. She has served as the director of the Master in Data Science program at Columbia for more th
- John Hewitt, Assistant Professor
- Josh Alman, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Junfeng Yang, Professor
- Martha A Kim, Associate Professor
- Silvia Sellán, Assistant Professor
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.