60 faculty and 15 courses in Computer Science at Cornell University.
- Wei-Chiu Ma, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 134
Scientific Computing Vision
- 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
- Claire Cardie, John C. Ford Professor of Engineering; Associate Dean h-index 74
Human Centered Natural Language Processing Human Interaction Natural Language Processing
- John Hopcroft, Professor Emeritus h-index 73
Theory of Computing
- 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
- 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
- Donald Greenberg, Professor Emeritus h-index 65
Graphics
- Robert Kleinberg, Professor of Computer Science h-index 55
Theory of Computing
- Ken Birman, N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science h-index 54
Machine Learning Security Software Engineering Systems + Networking
- Kavita Bala, Provost; Professor of Computer Science h-index 53
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Graphics Machine Learning Vision
- 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
- Michael Kim, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 50
Machine Learning Theory of Computing
- Lillian Lee, Charles Roy Davis Professor of Computer Science h-index 47
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Human Interaction Machine Learning Natural Language Processing
- Bharath Hariharan, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 46
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning Vision
- Wendy Ju, Professor of Information Science (Field member) h-index 44
Interaction with Automation, Interaction Design Research, Human Robot Interaction, Automotive Interaction Design
- David Gries, Professor Emeritus h-index 36
- 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
- David Bindel, Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
- Sorin Lerner, Dean, Cornell Bowers; Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
- 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.
- Nathan Kallus, Assistant Professor of ORIE (Field member) h-index 31
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mohamed Abdelfattah, Assistant Professor of ECE h-index 27
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
- Justin Hsu, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 24
Programming Languages Security Theory of Computing
- Udit Gupta, Assistant Professor of ECE (Field member) h-index 24
- Jayadev Acharya, Assistant Professor of ECE h-index 22
Theory of Computing
- K.-Y. Daisy Fan, Teaching Professor of Computer Science h-index 22
- Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 22
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Human Interaction Machine Learning Robotics
- 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
- 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
- Owolabi Legunsen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 17
Software Engineering
- Sainyam Galhotra, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 14
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Causal Inference Database Systems Machine Learning Software Engineering
- Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 13
- Nikhil Garg, Assistant Professor of ORIE (Field member) h-index 13
Data Science
- Allison Koenecke, Assistant Professor of Information Science (Field member) h-index 12
Computational social science, algorithmic fairness, causal inference, public health
- Yoav Artzi, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 12
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
- Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science h-index 12
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
- Ziv Goldfeld, Assistant Professor of ECE (Field member) h-index 11
- Giulia Guidi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 7
Scientific Computing Systems + Networking
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Daniel Lee, Tisch University Professor of ECE (Field member)
- Dexter Kozen, Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor Emeritus
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
- Florentina Bunea, Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Asymptotic Statistics Machine Learning Model Selection Statistical Optimal Transport in High Dimensions
- François Guimbretière, Professor of Information Science (Field member)
Human-Computer Interaction and Design Fabrication Human-Robot Interaction Ubiquitous Computing
- Graeme Bailey, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
- Guy Hoffman, Associate Professor of MAE (Field member)
Human-Robot Interaction
- Haym Hirsh, Professor of Computer Science
Data Science Human-AI interaction Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning
- Kuan Fang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning Robotics Vision
- Lorenzo Alvisi, Tisch University Professor of Computer Science; Chair
Systems + Networking
- Malte F. Jung, Associate Professor of Information Science (Field member)
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
- Mark Campbell, John A. Mellowes '60 Professor in MAE
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
- Nate Foster, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
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
- Siddhartha Banerjee, Assistant Professor of ORIE (Field member)
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
- William Arms, Professor Emeritus
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 2026-07-01.