37 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- Ge Wang, Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor (Joint Appointment) h-index 86
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Yao Ma, Assistant Professor h-index 31
- 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
- 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
- Sibel Adali, Associate Dean of Science for Research and Graduate Studies h-index 24
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ana Milanova, Professor h-index 19
- Lei Yu, Assistant Professor h-index 19
- 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
- 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
- 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
- George Slota, Associate Professor h-index 12
- 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
- Konstantin Kuzmin, Sr. Lecturer h-index 4
- Neha Keshan, Lecturer h-index 3
- 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
- Barbara Cutler, Associate Professor
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
- 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
- Chris Carothers, Chief Scientist and Center Director
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
- Chuck Stewart, Professor
- Clayton Thomas, Assistant Professor
- David Goldschmidt, Professor of Practice & Executive Officer
- Deborah McGuinness, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair, Professor
. 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
- Elliot Anshelevich, Professor
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
- James Hendler, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor
- John Sturman, Lecturer
- Mark Gilder, Sr. Lecturer
- Thomas Ferguson, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director (Joint Appointment)
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
- 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 2026-07-01.