40 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at University of Washington.
- Matthew Golub, Assistant Professor h-index 133
Notable: “Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity” (2013) · 7,102 citations
- Dieter Fox, Professor h-index 94
In robotics, artificial intelligence, and state estimation. The goal of his research is to enable systems to interact with people and their environment in an intelligent way. A lot of his work focuses on perception and its connection to
Notable: “PoseCNN: A Convolutional Neural Network for 6D Object Pose Estimation in Cluttered Scenes” (2018) · 2,102 citations
- Michael Ernst, Professor h-index 72
Notable: “Defects4J: a database of existing faults to enable controlled testing studies for Java programs” (2014) · 1,336 citations
- Simon Shaolei Du, Assistant Professor h-index 67
Notable: “Long short-term memory neural network for traffic speed prediction using remote microwave sensor data” (2015) · 2,149 citations
- Brian Curless, Professor h-index 66
Span a number of areas in computer graphics and vision, including multi-view stereo, computational photography, range scanning, surface shape and appearance reconstruction and modeling, human shape modeling, and physics-based modeling of ob
Notable: “A volumetric method for building complex models from range images” (1996) · 3,109 citations
- Luis Ceze, Professor h-index 63
Es on the intersection of computer architecture, programming languages, machine learning (SAMPA and SAMPL research groups) and molecular biology to make better computers (Molecular Information Systems Lab). Ceze has several papers selected
Notable: “TVM: an automated end-to-end optimizing compiler for deep learning” (2018) · 915 citations
- Ali Farhadi, Professor h-index 58
Notable: “YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger” (2017) · 18,978 citations
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Associate Professor h-index 54
Notable: “Bidirectional Attention Flow for Machine Comprehension” (2016) · 1,299 citations
- James Fogarty, Professor h-index 53
In Human-Computer Interaction, User Interface Software and Technology, and Ubiquitous Computing. His focus is on developing, deploying, and evaluating new approaches to the human obstacles surrounding widespread everyday adoption of ubi
Notable: “A lived informatics model of personal informatics” (2015) · 494 citations
- Jon E. Froehlich, Professor h-index 51
Notable: “Activity sensing in the wild” (2008) · 1,124 citations
- Magdalena Balazinska, Professor & Director h-index 51
In the field of database management systems. Her current research focuses on multimodal data management as well as the intersection of AI and data management. Her earlier work made contributions in a variety of areas including stream pr
Notable: “The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine” (2005) · 1,234 citations
- Anna R. Karlin, Professor h-index 49
Notable: “Practical network support for IP traceback” (2000) · 1,133 citations
- Ruth E. Anderson, Teaching Professor h-index 47
Notable: “Nursing Homes as Complex Adaptive Systems” (2003) · 434 citations
- Dan Grossman, Professor & Vice Director h-index 40
Lie in the area of programming languages, ranging from theory to design to implementation. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of computer science, particularly computer architecture on problems at the
Notable: “Cyclone: A Safe Dialect of C” (2002) · 618 citations
- Maya Cakmak, Professor h-index 40
In human-robot interaction, end-user programming, and assistive robotics. She aims to develop robots that can be programmed and controlled by a diverse group of users with unique needs and preferences to do useful tasks. Helpful Informa
Notable: “Power to the People: The Role of Humans in Interactive Machine Learning” (2014) · 1,023 citations
- Paul Beame, Professor h-index 37
Notable: “Model checking large software specifications” (1996) · 309 citations
- Tim Althoff, Associate Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality” (2017) · 1,032 citations
- Byron Boots, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Information theoretic MPC for model-based reinforcement learning” (2017) · 446 citations
- Abhishek Gupta, Assistant Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Meta-Reinforcement Learning of Structured Exploration Strategies” (2018) · 181 citations
- Natasha Jaques, Assistant Professor h-index 26
Notable: “Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning” (2022) · 872 citations
- Tom Anderson, Professor h-index 26
Span all aspects of building practical, robust, and efficient computer systems, including distributed systems, operating systems, computer networks, multiprocessors, and security. He is the winner of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, t
Notable: “Detour: informed Internet routing and transport” (1999) · 241 citations
- Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Synthesizing Obama” (2017) · 1,072 citations
- Rene Just, Associate Professor h-index 23
In software engineering, software security, and data science, in particular static and dynamic program analysis, developer productivity, and applied statistics and machine learning. Just is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and two M
Notable: “Defects4J: a database of existing faults to enable controlled testing studies for Java programs” (2014) · 1,336 citations
- Kevin Jamieson, Associate Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Hyperband: A Novel Bandit-Based Approach to Hyperparameter Optimization” (2016) · 1,069 citations
- Baris Kasikci, Associate Professor h-index 22
Es on building efficient and trustworthy computer systems. I build techniques to improve the efficiency of datacenter applications and machine learning systems, analyze and fix failures, and improve the security of modern hardware. Building
Notable: “Foreshadow: extracting the keys to the intel SGX kingdom with transient out-of-order execution” (2018) · 687 citations
- Vikram Iyer, Assistant Professor h-index 21
Notable: “FingerIO” (2016) · 399 citations
- Leilani Battle, Associate Professor h-index 19
Focus on developing interactive data-intensive systems that can aid analysts in performing complex data exploration and analysis. Her current research is anchored in the field of databases, but utilizes research methodology and techniques f
Notable: “Building the Internet of Things Using RFID: The RFID Ecosystem Experience” (2009) · 682 citations
- Kurtis Heimerl, Associate Professor h-index 17
On the topic of improving Internet access, with a focus on cellular technologies. Their goal is to empower communities to solve their own communication issues, be those issues of agency (as in community cellular, enabling local, communit
Notable: “Greedy bidding strategies for keyword auctions” (2007) · 161 citations
- Gilbert Bernstein, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Perspectives” (2016) · 96 citations
- Andrea Coladangelo, Assistant Professor h-index 13
Notable: “All pure bipartite entangled states can be self-tested” (2017) · 207 citations
- Elba Garza, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Exploring Predictive Replacement Policies for Instruction Cache and Branch Target Buffer” (2018) · 28 citations
- Megan Hazen, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Global Optimization for Multiple Transmitter Localization” (2006) · 34 citations
- Naomi Alterman, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 4
Notable: “CloudBank: Managed Services to Simplify Cloud Access for Computer Science Research and Education” (2021) · 34 citations
- Shyam Gollakota, Professor h-index 3
Notable: “PACT: Privacy Sensitive Protocols and Mechanisms for Mobile Contact Tracing” (2020) · 169 citations
- Justin Hsia, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 2
Notable: “Teaching TAs to Teach” (2021) · 11 citations
- Lauren Bricker, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 1
Notable: “753. Screening for Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection (LTBI): A Clinical Conundrum of Public Health Concern” (2018) · 1 citations
- Jeffrey Heer, Professor
- Mitali Bafna, Assistant Professor
- Nathan Brunelle, Associate Teaching Professor
- Pang Wei Koh, Assistant Professor
In the theory and practice of building reliable machine learning systems. Koh’s research has been published in Nature and Cell, featured in media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, and recognized by the MI
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.