37 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- Ge Wang, Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor (Joint Appointment) h-index 86
Notable: “The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography” (2002) · 2,590 citations
- James Hendler, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor h-index 79
Notable: “The Semantic Web” (2001) · 8,462 citations
- Mohammed Zaki, Professor and CS Department Head h-index 67
Focus on novel data mining and machine learning techniques, particularly for learning from graph structured and textual data, with applications in bioinformatics, personal health and financial analytics. He has around 300 publications (and
Notable: “SPADE: An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Frequent Sequences” (2001) · 1,827 citations
- Chen Wang, Assistant Professor h-index 59
Mainly focus on the intersections between Theoretical Computer Science and Machine Learning. Prior to RPI, Chen was a postdoctoral researcher hosted jointly by Vladimir (Vova) Braverman at Rice University and Samson Zhou at Texas A&M Un
Notable: “Highly sensitive and selective detection of dopamine in the presence of ascorbic acid at graphene oxide modified electrode” (2013) · 326 citations
- Deborah McGuinness, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair, Professor h-index 52
. Emerging Trends in Semantic Technology This is a seminar course — not a lecture course — that will discuss emerging trends in semantic technologies. We will have many presentations and discussions throughout the course that help you to un
Notable: “Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology” (2002) · 4,649 citations
- Mark Shephard, Samuel A. Johnson Professor of Engineering (Joint Appointment) h-index 50
Scientific Computing Other Focus Areas Massively parallel simulation methods, unstructured mesh methods on parallel computers. Research Centers Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine (CEMSIM) Center for Materials, Devices
Notable: “Automatic three‐dimensional mesh generation by the finite octree technique” (1991) · 726 citations
- Jianxi Gao, Associate Professor h-index 43
Es on developing network science tools to understand complex systems’ structure and dynamics, including robustness, resilience, and control, with applications in infrastructure, society, technology, and the environment. Primary Research Foc
Notable: “Networks formed from interdependent networks” (2011) · 1,226 citations
- Bulent Yener, Associate Director IDEA, Director Data Science Research Center h-index 37
Applied machine learning in bioinformatics, medical informatics, and cyber security. I am a Fellow of the IEEE, a Senior Member of ACM, and a member of AAA. Other affililations: Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Research
Notable: “Histopathological Image Analysis: A Review” (2009) · 2,031 citations
- Malik Magdon-Ismail, Professor h-index 37
Machine Learning (theory, algorithms and applications) and Quantum Computing Other Focus Areas Computational Finance; Social and Communication Networks; Hidden Groups; Inference and Search on Volunteer Computing Platforms; Collective Wisdom
Notable: “Fast approximation of matrix coherence and statistical leverage” (2012) · 300 citations
- Yao Ma, Assistant Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Graph Neural Networks for Social Recommendation” (2019) · 1,914 citations
- Selmer Bringsjord, Professor, Lab Director (Joint Appointment) h-index 27
Logic-based AI & CogSci; Formal & Philosophical Foundations of AI & CogSci; Machine/Robot Ethics Research Centers Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) Cognitive and Immersive Systems Lab (CISL) Publications For
Notable: “Toward a General Logicist Methodology for Engineering Ethically Correct Robots” (2006) · 183 citations
- Tomek Strzalkowski, Constellation Chair Professor (Joint Appointment) h-index 26
Span a wide spectrum of human language technology including computational linguistics and sociolinguistics, socio-behavioral computing, interactive information retrieval, question-answering, human-computer dialogue, serious games, social me
Notable: “Procedure for quantitatively comparing the syntactic coverage of English grammars” (1991) · 437 citations
- Sibel Adali, Associate Dean of Science for Research and Graduate Studies h-index 24
Notable: “This Just In: Fake News Packs A Lot In Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar To Satire Than Real News” (2017) · 658 citations
- Elliot Anshelevich, Professor h-index 23
Algorithms for large decentralized networks, including networks with strategic agents. Particular interests include: social choice and voting algorithms, network formation, networked markets and matching markets, algorithmic game th
Notable: “The Price of Stability for Network Design with Fair Cost Allocation” (2008) · 538 citations
- Carlos Varela, Professor h-index 22
Safer flight systems, software verification, cloud and edge computing, middleware for adaptive distributed systems, and concurrent programming models and languages. For more information on Prof. Varela's group's research
Notable: “A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing” (2018) · 348 citations
- Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Assistant Professor h-index 20
Es on leveraging data to enhance artificial intelligence's capabilities, aiming to create systems that benefit everyone. His primary research interests include large language models, data valuation, federated learning, and deep learning. Pl
Notable: “Federated learning over wireless fading channels” (2020) · 636 citations
- Stacy Patterson, Associate Professor h-index 20
Es on distributed computing systems, machine learning, and data privacy, where she applies mathematical theory and formal verification to derive provable guarantees about practical applications spanning finance, aviation, cloud computing, a
Notable: “1Coherence in Large-Scale Networks: Dimension-Dependent Limitations of Local Feedback” (2016) · 333 citations
- Ana Milanova, Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Parameterized object sensitivity for points-to analysis for Java” (2005) · 430 citations
- Lei Yu, Assistant Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Stochastic Load Balancing for Virtual Resource Management in Datacenters” (2016) · 150 citations
- Alex Gittens, Associate Professor h-index 17
Large scale linear algebra and machine learning Other Focus Areas Kernel Methods, Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra, Large-scale Machine Learning, Low-rank approximation and Sketching Teaching I regularly teach RPI's introduction to discr
Notable: “Improved Matrix Algorithms via the Subsampled Randomized Hadamard Transform” (2013) · 118 citations
- Radoslav Ivanov, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Safe and Secure Autonomous Systems Other Focus Areas Cyber-physical systems, formal methods, machine learning, control theory and sensor fusion. Research Centers Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) Publications The follow
Notable: “Verisig” (2019) · 219 citations
- Barbara Cutler, Associate Professor h-index 15
Computer graphics, geometry processing, visualization, and design tools for architecture. Previously I was a student and then Post-Doctoral Lecturer at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science doing resea
Notable: “Stable real-time deformations” (2002) · 432 citations
- Oshani Seneviratne, Assistant Professor h-index 15
Advancing Decentralized Systems (Web, Blockchain, and Decentralized Learning technologies), and she conducts applied research in health informatics and decentralized finance. Oshani obtained her S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science
Notable: “Identifying Ingredient Substitutions Using a Knowledge Graph of Food” (2021) · 46 citations
- Thomas Ferguson, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director (Joint Appointment) h-index 13
Focus on mathematical, philosophical, computational, and practical aspects of reasoning and language, generating research that has appeared in journals including Philosophical Studies , the Journal of Philosophical Logic, the Re
Notable: “Logics of Nonsense and Parry Systems” (2014) · 71 citations
- George Slota, Associate Professor h-index 12
Notable: “BFS and Coloring-Based Parallel Algorithms for Strongly Connected Components and Related Problems” (2014) · 122 citations
- Jidong Xiao, Sr. Lecturer h-index 9
C omputer security, operating systems, cloud computing and virtualization. Back to top Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street Troy, NY USA
Notable: “Security implications of memory deduplication in a virtualized environment” (2013) · 69 citations
- Mark Gilder, Sr. Lecturer h-index 4
Notable: “Extraction of protein interaction information from unstructured text using a context-free grammar” (2003) · 186 citations
- David Goldschmidt, Professor of Practice & Executive Officer h-index 4
Notable: “A Multi-Institutional Perspective on H/FOSS Projects in the Computing Curriculum” (2018) · 44 citations
- Konstantin Kuzmin, Sr. Lecturer h-index 4
Notable: “Development of the initial concepts of metrological support of measuring and calculated operations in automating measurements” (2019) · 7 citations
- Neha Keshan, Lecturer h-index 3
Notable: “Semiautomated process for generating knowledge graphs for marginalized community doctoral-recipients” (2022) · 4 citations
- Uzma Mushtaque, Sr. Lecturer h-index 2
Are: 1) Sequential Recommender Systems: Creating efficient foundation models, 2)Improving Computing education to prepare a workforce for the future 3) Time Series Forecasting for financial data. My work experience includes working at EY as
Notable: “Random Utility Models with Cardinality Context Effects for Online Subscription Service Platforms” (2020) · 6 citations
- Chris Carothers, Chief Scientist and Center Director h-index 1
In massively parallel systems focusing on modeling and simulation systems of all sorts. Prof. Carothers is an NSF CAREER award winner and is currently active in the DOE Exascale Co-Design Program associated with designs for next generat
Notable: “Toward an End-to-End Framework for Modeling, Monitoring and Anomaly Detection for Scientific Workflows” (2016) · 18 citations
- Bolek Szymanski, Claire & Roland Schmitt Distinguished Prof., Director NeST
Cover the broad area of network science with current focus on social and computer networks. Other affililations: Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy Research Other Focus Areas network science, computer networks, Energy and the Environm
- Chuck Stewart, Professor
Notable: “WildMeOrg/wildbook-ia: Python 3.10 Support, Old Plugins Gone, Behold New Plugins” (2026)
- Clayton Thomas, Assistant Professor
- John Sturman, Lecturer
- Wes Turner, Professor of Practice
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.