49 faculty and 83 courses in Computer Science at Northwestern University.
- Aggelos Katsaggelos, Joseph Cummings Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering h-index 80
Notable: “Digital image restoration” (1997) · 1,683 citations
- Alok Choudhary, Harold Washington Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering h-index 65
Notable: “A general-purpose machine learning framework for predicting properties of inorganic materials” (2016) · 1,703 citations
- Yan Chen, Professor of Computer Science h-index 60
Notable: “OceanStore” (2000) · 868 citations
- Noshir Contractor, Jane S. and William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences h-index 52
Notable: “Computational Social Science” (2009) · 3,308 citations
- Peter Dinda, Professor of Computer Science h-index 39
Notable: “A case for grid computing on virtual machines” (2004) · 375 citations
- Michael Horn, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence h-index 38
Notable: “Defining Computational Thinking for Mathematics and Science Classrooms” (2015) · 1,555 citations
- Matthew Kay, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 35
Notable: “Unequal Representation and Gender Stereotypes in Image Search Results for Occupations” (2015) · 520 citations
- Jessica Hullman, Ginni Rometty Professor of Computer Science h-index 32
Notable: “Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects in Narrative Visualization” (2011) · 498 citations
- Elizabeth Gerber, Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 32
Notable: “Crowdfunding” (2013) · 710 citations
- Ming-Yang Kao, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science h-index 32
Notable: “Hamsa: fast signature generation for zero-day polymorphic worms with provable attack resilience” (2006) · 275 citations
- Fabian Bustamante, Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
Notable: “Taming the torrent” (2008) · 406 citations
- Kristian Hammond, Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science h-index 28
Notable: “CHEF: a model of case-based planning” (1986) · 348 citations
- Brenna Argall, Professor of Computer Science h-index 27
Notable: “A survey of robot learning from demonstration” (2008) · 3,258 citations
- Benjamin Golub, Professor of Economics h-index 21
Es on social and economic networks, particularly in models of social learning, local public goods, peer effects, and the formation of social capital. A recurring theme is capturing aspects of networks through theory-based summary statistics that can be useful
Notable: “Financial Networks and Contagion” (2014) · 1,221 citations
- Nikos Hardavellas, Professor of Computer Science h-index 20
Notable: “Reactive NUCA” (2009) · 382 citations
- Simone Campanoni, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 16
Notable: “Voltage Smoothing: Characterizing and Mitigating Voltage Noise in Production Processors via Software-Guided Thread Scheduling” (2010) · 88 citations
- Emma Alexander, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 15
Notable: “Compact single-shot metalens depth sensors inspired by eyes of jumping spiders” (2019) · 196 citations
- Christos Dimoulas, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 12
Notable: “Run your research” (2012) · 63 citations
- Annie Liang, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 10
Es on three themes: (1) the welfare implications of machine learning algorithms, (2) using machine learning to improve economic modeling, and (3) dynamic information acquisition. Back to Top
Notable: “Predicting and Understanding Initial Play” (2019) · 62 citations
- Nivedita Arora, Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design h-index 8
Notable: “SATURN” (2018) · 95 citations
- Mohammed Alam, Assistant Professor of Instruction h-index 6
Notable: “FAK inhibition radiosensitizes pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells in vitro” (2020) · 24 citations
- Robby Findler, Professor of Computer Science h-index 3
Notable: “Revised 6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme” (2009) · 325 citations
- Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Professor of Computer Science
- Anastasia Kurdia, Professor of Instruction
- Andrew Crotty, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Andrew Fano, Clinical Professor
- Anjali Agarwal, Lecturer
- Branden Ghena, Assistant Professor of Instruction
- Connor Bain, Assistant Professor of Instruction
- David Demeter, Assistant Professor of Instruction
- Dietrich Geisler, Assistant Professor of Instruction
- Douglas Downey, Professor of Computer Science
- Edith Elkind, Ginni Rometty Professor of Computer Science
- Huiling Hu, Assistant Professor of Instruction
- Ian Horswill, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Izzy Grosof, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Jason Hartline, Professor of Computer Science
- Joseph Hummel, Professor of Instruction
- Julia Gaudio, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Karan Ahuja, Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Ken Forbus, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science
- Larry Birnbaum, Professor of Computer Science
- Maia Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Manling Li, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Michael Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering
- Russell Joseph, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Sam Kriegman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Samir Khuller, Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science, Professor of Computer Science
- Sruti Bhagavatula, Assistant Professor of Instruction
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.