60 faculty and 15 courses in Computer Science at Cornell University.
- Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science h-index 115
Es on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other online media. His work has been supported by an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator A
Notable: “Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment” (1999) · 9,061 citations
- Joseph Halpern, Joseph C. Ford Chair, Professor of Computer Science h-index 78
Ed on the interface between game and decision theory and computer science, on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, and on causality. He also did work on security, (fault tolerant) distributed computing, and modal logic. His work
Notable: “Proceedings of the 20th conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence” (2004) · 1,548 citations
- Bharath Hariharan, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 76
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning Vision
Notable: “Densely Connected Convolutional Networks” (2017) · 44,703 citations
- Claire Cardie, John C. Ford Professor of Engineering; Associate Dean h-index 74
Human Centered Natural Language Processing Human Interaction Natural Language Processing
Notable: “Constrained K-means Clustering with Background Knowledge” (2001) · 2,421 citations
- John Hopcroft, Professor Emeritus h-index 73
Theory of Computing
Notable: “An $n^{5/2} $ Algorithm for Maximum Matchings in Bipartite Graphs” (1973) · 2,843 citations
- Ari Juels, Weill Family Foundation Professor h-index 73
Blockchains, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts, as well as applied cryptography, user authentication, and privacy. Juels was the chief scientist of RSA , director of RSA Laboratories, and a distinguished engineer at EMC (now Dell
Notable: “RFID security and privacy: a research survey” (2006) · 1,920 citations
- Thorsten Joachims, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor h-index 70
Center on a synthesis of theory and system building in machine learning from human interaction, with applications in information access, generative AI, and recommendation. His research focuses on counterfactual and causal inference, policy
Notable: “Making Large-Scale SVM Learning Practical” (2006) · 4,328 citations
- Donald Greenberg, Professor Emeritus h-index 65
Graphics
Notable: “Modeling the interaction of light between diffuse surfaces” (1984) · 813 citations
- Robert Kleinberg, Professor of Computer Science h-index 55
Theory of Computing
Notable: “Learning diverse rankings with multi-armed bandits” (2008) · 518 citations
- Ken Birman, N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science h-index 54
Machine Learning Security Software Engineering Systems + Networking
Notable: “Reliable communication in the presence of failures” (1987) · 996 citations
- Daniel Lee, Tisch University Professor of ECE (Field member) h-index 54
Notable: “Cutting Edge: Cross-Talk Between Cells of the Innate Immune System: NKT Cells Rapidly Activate NK Cells” (1999) · 851 citations
- Kavita Bala, Provost; Professor of Computer Science h-index 53
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Graphics Machine Learning Vision
Notable: “Inside-Outside Net: Detecting Objects in Context with Skip Pooling and Recurrent Neural Networks” (2016) · 1,318 citations
- Dexter Kozen, Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor Emeritus h-index 51
Span topics on the boundary of computer science and mathematics: design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity theory, complexity of decision problems in logic and algebra, and logics and semantics of programming languages. He
Notable: “Results on the propositional μ-calculus” (1983) · 1,818 citations
- Carla Gomes, Ronald C. and Antonia V. Nielsen Professor h-index 51
AI with a focus on large-scale constraint reasoning, optimization, and machine learning. Recently, Gomes has become deeply immersed in research on scientific discovery for a sustainable future and, more generally, in research in th
Notable: “Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence” (2023) · 1,605 citations
- Lillian Lee, Charles Roy Davis Professor of Computer Science h-index 47
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Human Interaction Machine Learning Natural Language Processing
Notable: “Thumbs up?” (2002) · 7,029 citations
- François Guimbretière, Professor of Information Science (Field member) h-index 45
Human-Computer Interaction and Design Fabrication Human-Robot Interaction Ubiquitous Computing
Notable: “TreeJuxtaposer” (2003) · 297 citations
- Wendy Ju, Professor of Information Science (Field member) h-index 44
Interaction with Automation, Interaction Design Research, Human Robot Interaction, Automotive Interaction Design
Notable: “Why did my car just do that? Explaining semi-autonomous driving actions to improve driver understanding, trust, and performance” (2014) · 476 citations
- Mark Campbell, John A. Mellowes '60 Professor in MAE h-index 41
Control and autonomy for robotics, aircraft and spacecraft. Research areas include machine learning, perception and sensor fusion; optimization and learning based control and planning; decentralized/distributed estimation and control across
Notable: “Pseudo-LiDAR From Visual Depth Estimation: Bridging the Gap in 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving” (2019) · 1,160 citations
- Guy Hoffman, Associate Professor of MAE (Field member) h-index 41
Human-Robot Interaction
Notable: “Effects of nonverbal communication on efficiency and robustness in human-robot teamwork” (2005) · 550 citations
- Nate Foster, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science h-index 38
Critical and humanistic approaches to computing History of Technology Philosophy of Technology Science + Technology Studies Database Systems Ethics, Law and Policy Privacy + Surveillance Tech and the law Programming Languages Security Syste
Notable: “Frenetic” (2011) · 585 citations
- David Gries, Professor Emeritus h-index 36
Notable: “An axiomatic proof technique for parallel programs I” (1976) · 1,023 citations
- Malte F. Jung, Associate Professor of Information Science (Field member) h-index 36
Human-AI interaction Critical and humanistic approaches to computing Arts and Technology Science + Technology Studies Human Interaction Human-Computer Interaction and Design Human-Robot Interaction Robotics
Notable: “Towards a Theory of Longitudinal Trust Calibration in Human–Robot Teams” (2019) · 401 citations
- Shiri Azenkot, Associate Professor of Information Science h-index 34
Es on enabling people with disabilities to have equal access to information through mobile and wearable devices. Specifically, she is interested in how current and emerging technologies (e.g., smart glasses, 3D printers) can address signifi
Notable: “Touch behavior with different postures on soft smartphone keyboards” (2012) · 213 citations
- Haym Hirsh, Professor of Computer Science h-index 33
Data Science Human-AI interaction Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning
Notable: “Recommendation as classification: using social and content-based information in recommendation” (1998) · 955 citations
- Yoav Artzi, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
Es on developing models and learning methods for natural language understanding and generation in interactive systems. Artzi’s research group at Cornell Tech is anchored in natural language processing and machine learning, and often extends
Notable: “BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT” (2019) · 2,046 citations
- David Bindel, Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
Notable: “OceanStore” (2000) · 2,027 citations
- Sorin Lerner, Dean, Cornell Bowers; Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
Notable: “ESP” (2002) · 555 citations
- Silvia Ferrari, Professor of MAE (Field member in CS) h-index 31
Active perception, robust adaptive control, learning, and approximate dynamic programming, and control of multiscale dynamical systems.
Notable: “Smooth Function Approximation Using Neural Networks” (2005) · 321 citations
- Wei-Chiu Ma, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
Scientific Computing Vision
Notable: “In-Vessel Melt Retention of Pressurized Water Reactors: Historical Review and Future Research Needs” (2016) · 122 citations
- Nathan Kallus, Assistant Professor of ORIE (Field member) h-index 31
Notable: “Data-driven robust optimization” (2017) · 595 citations
- Hadas Kress-Gazit, Professor of MAE (Field member) h-index 30
Es on formal methods for robotics and automation and more specifically on synthesis for robotics – automatically creating verifiable robot controllers for complex high-level tasks. Her group explores different types of robotic systems
Notable: “Temporal-Logic-Based Reactive Mission and Motion Planning” (2009) · 756 citations
- Nori Jacoby, Assistant Professor in Psychology (Field member) h-index 30
Es on the internal representations that support and shape our sensory and cognitive abilities, and on how those representations are themselves determined by both nature and nurture. He addresses these classic issues with new tools, both by
Notable: “Universality and diversity in human song” (2019) · 593 citations
- Michael Kim, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 30
Machine Learning Theory of Computing
Notable: “HCV-related fibrosis progression following liver transplantation: increase in recent years” (2000) · 748 citations
- Volodymyr Kuleshov, Joan Eliasoph, M.D. Assistant Professor h-index 30
Es on machine learning and its applications in science. His specific interests include generative and probabilistic methods, diffusion-based generative algorithms, and their applications in modeling language and biological sequences. Kulesh
Notable: “Data Programming: Creating Large Training Sets, Quickly” (2016) · 364 citations
- Christopher Batten, Professor of ECE h-index 28
Batten works at the intersection of computer architecture, electronic design automation, and digital VLSI including projects on parallel programming frameworks, programmable accelerator design, interconnection networks, productive VLSI chip
Notable: “Silicon-photonic clos networks for global on-chip communication” (2009) · 323 citations
- Siddhartha Banerjee, Assistant Professor of ORIE (Field member) h-index 26
Include: New data-driven approaches for online decision-making seminar Non-monetary mechanisms and information design seminar Equity and fairness in decision-making seminar Stochastic coupling techniques in control (tutorial: part 1
Notable: “Greedy sensor selection: Leveraging submodularity” (2010) · 305 citations
- Justin Hsu, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 24
Programming Languages Security Theory of Computing
Notable: “Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning” (2020) · 4,763 citations
- Udit Gupta, Assistant Professor of ECE (Field member) h-index 24
Notable: “Deep Learning Recommendation Model for Personalization and Recommendation Systems” (2019) · 390 citations
- Jayadev Acharya, Assistant Professor of ECE h-index 22
Theory of Computing
Notable: “Multilevel thresholding for image segmentation through a fast statistical recursive algorithm” (2007) · 306 citations
- Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 22
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Human Interaction Machine Learning Robotics
Notable: “Older adults’ acceptance of a robot for partner dance-based exercise” (2017) · 90 citations
- Rachit Agarwal, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 21
In systems and networking. He is also interested in theoretical problems arising out of building practical systems. Agarwal’s research has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, a Kavli Fellowship with the Nation
Notable: “Network requirements for resource disaggregation” (2016) · 225 citations
- Florentina Bunea, Professor of Statistics and Data Science h-index 19
Asymptotic Statistics Machine Learning Model Selection Statistical Optimal Transport in High Dimensions
Notable: “Aggregation for Gaussian regression” (2016) · 317 citations
- Tanya Goyal, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 18
Primarily in the field of natural language processing. Problems that she is currently excited about include: reliable and sustainable evaluation frameworks for large language models (LLMs); factuality assessment and improvement of LLMs
Notable: “Measures of Ethnicity‐Related Stress: Psychometric Properties, Ethnic Group Differences, and Associations With Well‐Being1” (2001) · 268 citations
- Kuan Fang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 18
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning Robotics Vision
Notable: “Enantioselective residues and toxicity effects of the chiral triazole fungicide hexaconazole in earthworms (Eisenia fetida)” (2020) · 72 citations
- William Arms, Professor Emeritus h-index 17
Notable: “An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries” (1997) · 97 citations
- Owolabi Legunsen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 17
Software Engineering
Notable: “D e F laker” (2018) · 165 citations
- Mohamed Abdelfattah, Assistant Professor of ECE h-index 15
Deep learning systems, automated machine learning, hardware-software codesign, reconfigurable computing, and FPGA architecture. Mohamed’s goal is to design the next generation of machine-learning-centric computer systems for both da
Notable: “Gzip on a chip” (2014) · 114 citations
- Sainyam Galhotra, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 14
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Causal Inference Database Systems Machine Learning Software Engineering
Notable: “Fairness testing: testing software for discrimination” (2017) · 399 citations
- Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 13
Notable: “Bringing portraits to life” (2017) · 199 citations
- Allison Koenecke, Assistant Professor of Information Science (Field member) h-index 12
Computational social science, algorithmic fairness, causal inference, public health
Notable: “Racial disparities in automated speech recognition” (2020) · 676 citations
- Ziv Goldfeld, Assistant Professor of ECE (Field member) h-index 11
Notable: “Semantic-Security Capacity for Wiretap Channels of Type II” (2016) · 71 citations
- Nikhil Garg, Assistant Professor of ORIE (Field member) h-index 9
Data Science
Notable: “Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes” (2018) · 1,097 citations
- Giulia Guidi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 7
Scientific Computing Systems + Networking
Notable: “LOGAN: High-Performance GPU-Based X-Drop Long-Read Alignment” (2020) · 45 citations
- Eshan Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 6
Lie in the field of theoretical computer science, with a particular focus on computational complexity theory, the role of randomness in computation, and cryptography. Eshan has received several awards for his research, including the 2025 Gö
Notable: “Non-malleable extractors and codes, with their many tampered extensions” (2016) · 85 citations
- Kyra Gan, Assistant Professor of ORIE (Field member) h-index 4
Adaptive/online algorithm design in personalized treatment (including micro-randomized trials and N-of-1 trials) under constraint settings, computerized/automated inference methods (e.g., targeted learning with RKHS), robust causal
Notable: “Awarding additional MELD points to the shortest waitlist candidates improves sex disparity in access to liver transplant in the United States” (2022) · 25 citations
- K.-Y. Daisy Fan, Teaching Professor of Computer Science h-index 2
Notable: “A Comparison And Evaluation Of Personal Response Systems In Introductory Computer Programming” (2020) · 13 citations
- Aleksandr Golovnev, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Computational complexity, algorithms, pseudorandomness, learning theory, and cryptography. He is currently an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University and a visiting professor in the Centre for Quantum Techno
- Andrew Appel, Visiting Professor of Computer Science
- Graeme Bailey, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
- Lorenzo Alvisi, Tisch University Professor of Computer Science; Chair
Systems + Networking
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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.