40 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at University of Washington.
- Matthew Golub, Assistant Professor h-index 133
- 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
- Michael Ernst, Professor h-index 72
- Simon Shaolei Du, Assistant Professor h-index 67
- 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
- Ali Farhadi, Professor h-index 58
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Associate Professor h-index 54
- 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
- Jon E. Froehlich, Professor h-index 51
- 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
- Anna R. Karlin, Professor h-index 49
- Ruth E. Anderson, Teaching Professor h-index 47
- 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
- Paul Beame, Professor h-index 37
- Tim Althoff, Associate Professor h-index 32
- Abhishek Gupta, Assistant Professor h-index 28
- Natasha Jaques, Assistant Professor h-index 26
- 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
- Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Professor h-index 25
- Kevin Jamieson, Associate Professor h-index 22
- 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
- Vikram Iyer, Assistant Professor h-index 21
- 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
- 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
- Gilbert Bernstein, Assistant Professor h-index 16
- Andrea Coladangelo, Assistant Professor h-index 13
- Dan Grossman, Professor & Vice Director h-index 7
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
- Naomi Alterman, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 4
- Justin Hsia, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 2
- Lauren Bricker, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 1
- Byron Boots, Professor
- Elba Garza, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Jeffrey Heer, Professor
- Luis Ceze, Professor
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
- Megan Hazen, Associate Teaching 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
- Rene Just, Associate Professor
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
- Shyam Gollakota, Professor
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.