2022 Columbia Engineering Faculty

FACULTY 2022
Transcending Disciplines
Educating Leaders
Transforming Lives

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Computer Science
Earth and Environmental Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Mechanical Engineering
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Front cover: Visual image library used
in unsupervised machine learning.
Computer vision leverages data in
order to learn to recognize patterns
and perceive their surroundings,
enabling situational awareness
across health, security, and robotics
applications. (Image courtesy of
Professor Carl Vondrick)

Engineering and applied science advancements move at a rapid pace, transcending
disciplines as we aspire to bring innovation to transform lives and take us
closer to solving the biggest challenges facing our world. We anticipate that the
breakthroughs developed at Columbia Engineering will be part of a new era of
innovation. At the same time, we recognize the ethical and practical questions
that so often arise with the emergence of new technology and our responsibility,
as engineers and applied scientists, to think deeply about these questions and to convey this
responsibility to our students.
This booklet provides a snapshot of our faculty and the wide-ranging research they
are pursuing. We are united by our school vision, Columbia Engineering for Humanity, a
vision that seeks to put engineers at the forefront of creating a sustainable, healthy, secure,
connected, and creative humanity. Our research and education efforts are inherently
interdisciplinary across our School and across the University.
Our faculty are at the forefront of the most important research initiatives of our time,
working across disciplines with our sister schools and our world-class institutes and
initiatives: the Data Science Institute, Earth Institute, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior
Institute, Columbia Nano Initiative, Precision Medicine, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics,
Columbia Entrepreneurship, and Global Columbia.
Together we are working from the macroscale to the nanoscale, discovering new materials
and methodologies for cleaner water, smarter and sustainable cities, personalized medicine,
private and secure transactions, faster networks, a host of creative possibilities enabled by
artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and so much more.
Throughout our curriculum and programming, faculty are dedicating themselves to
new ways of teaching, embedding design, hands-on learning, ethics, entrepreneurship,
and innovation into our research and education mission. Their work is bringing new ideas
and innovation to countless areas—from energy and health care to media and finance—
and increasing access to critical resources and health services for underserved areas and
communities.
I invite you to learn more about the diverse research interests of our distinguished faculty, a
truly remarkable group of thinkers, investigators, and visionaries who are translating research
for the benefit of us all.
Shih-Fu Chang
Dean of Engineering
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor
Web: engineering.columbia.edu
Faculty: engineering.columbia.edu/directory

APPLIED PHYSICS AND
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
William E. Bailey web54@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics
Magnetic materials and heterostructures, spin transport, magnetization dynamics, timeresolved
X-ray spectroscopy
Katayun Barmak katayun.barmak@columbia.edu
Philips Electronics Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Synthesis, processing, and characterization of 2D materials; metallic films;
thermodynamics and kinetics of solid-state reactions and phase transformations in
nanostructured films; grain boundaries, grain growth, and microstructural evolution
Daniel Bienstock dano@ieor.columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research)
Combinatorial optimization and integer programming, computational modeling of power grids
Simon Billinge sb2896@columbia.edu
Professor of Materials Science and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Nanoscale structure-property relationships in functional nanomaterials for sustainable
energy, environmental remediation, and health using novel X-ray, electron, and
neutron scattering techniques with data analytic and machine learning methods; the
nanostructure problem
Allen Boozer ahb17@columbia.edu
Professor of Applied Physics
Plasma theory, theory of magnetic confinement for fusion energy, theory of
magnetic reconnection
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Siu-Wai Chan sc174@columbia.edu
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (Joint appointment in Earth and Environmental
Engineering)
Nanoparticles, electronic ceramics, grain boundaries and interfaces, oxide thin films
Qiang Du qd2125@columbia.edu
Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics
Applied and computational mathematics: multiscale modeling, applied and numerical analysis,
nonlocal modeling, efficient and scalable algorithms for large-scale simulations; various
applications in science and engineering (fluids, membranes, nanostructures, machine learning)
Alexander L. Gaeta a.gaeta@columbia.edu
David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and of Materials Science (Joint appointment in
Electrical Engineering)
Quantum and nonlinear photonics, ultrafast optics, nanophotonics, nonlinear propagation
in fibers and bulk media, the generation and processing of quantum states of light
Oleg Gang og2226@columbia.edu
Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science (Joint appointment in Chemical Engineering)
Soft and biomolecular materials, programmable assembly of nanoscale systems, DNA
nanotechnology, self-assembled nanomaterials with optical and biomedical functions,
nanoscale structural methods
Irving Herman iph1@columbia.edu
Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Applied Physics
Nanocrystals, optical spectroscopy of nanostructured materials, laser diagnostics of thin
film processing, mechanical properties of nanomaterials
James Im ji12@columbia.edu
Professor of Materials Science (Joint appointment in Earth and Environmental Engineering)
Laser-induced crystallization of thin films, phase transformations and nucleation in
condensed systems
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APPLIED PHYSICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Michal Lipson ml3745@columbia.edu
Professor of Applied Physics (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering)
Silicon photonics, inventor of GHz silicon modulator, novel on-chip nanophotonics devices,
novel micron-size photonic structures for light manipulation, light-confining structures to
slow down, enhance, and manipulate light
Kyle Mandli kyle.mandli@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Finite volume methods, adaptive mesh refinement, and other computational science
approaches to geophysical flow problems, including storm surges and tsunamis
Chris Marianetti chris.marianetti@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Materials Science and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Predicting materials properties from first-principles computations; materials with energyrelated
applications; density-functional theory; dynamical mean-field theory; transitionmetal
oxides; actinides, energy storage and conversion materials
Michael Mauel mem4@columbia.edu
Professor of Applied Physics
Plasma physics, waves and instabilities, fusion and equilibrium control, space physics,
plasma processing, international energy policy
Gerald A. Navratil gan2@columbia.edu
Thomas Alva Edison Professor of Applied Physics
Plasma physics, plasma diagnostics, fusion energy science
I. Cevdet Noyan icn2@columbia.edu
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (Joint appointment in Earth and Environmental
Engineering)
Theoretical and applied X-ray and neutron scattering
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Carlos Paz-Soldan carlos.pazsoldan@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Plasma physics and fusion energy, with an emphasis on the equilibrium, stability, and
control of tokamak plasmas
Lorenzo Polvani lmp@columbia.edu
Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics
Atmospheric and climate dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical methods for
weather and climate modeling, planetary atmospheres
Kui Ren kr2002@columbia.edu
Professor
Applied and computational mathematics: inverse problems, mathematical imaging,
machine learning, fast algorithms, random networks, partial differential equations
Amir Sagiv as6011@columbia.edu
Associate Research Scientist
Differential equations, dynamical systems, optics and wave phenomena, uncertainty
quantification, mathematical analysis
Adam Sobel ahs129@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Atmospheric science, geophysical fluid dynamics, tropical meteorology, climate dynamics
Marc W. Spiegelman mspieg@ldeo.columbia.edu
Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and
Department Chair
Advanced computation for multiphysics problems with applications to coupled fluid-solid
mechanics in earth sciences (e.g., magma dynamics, carbon sequestration, ice-water
dynamics)
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APPLIED PHYSICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Michael Tippett michael.tippett@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Predictability and variability of the climate system, with emphasis on the application of
statistical methods to data from observations and numerical models
Latha Venkataraman lv2117@columbia.edu
Lawrence Gussman Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Chemistry
Single molecule transport, electrochemistry and optoelectronic properties, scanning
tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, X-ray spectroscopy
Wen Wang wen@ee.columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering)
Ultrahigh-speed electronics, heterogeneous materials integration, semiconductor
optoelectronics, including lasers and photodetectors
Michael Weinstein miw2103@columbia.edu
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics
Applied mathematics, multiscale phenomena in partial differential equations and
dynamical systems; applications to waves in novel media, e.g., 2D quantum materials such
as graphene, nonlinear optics, and fluid dynamics
Renata M. Wentzcovitch rmw2150@columbia.edu
Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics (Joint appointment in Earth and
Environmental Sciences)
Computational quantum mechanical studies of materials at extreme conditions; planetary
materials; electronic, structural, and vibrational properties
Chris Wiggins chris.wiggins@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
Applied mathematics, mathematical biology, biopolymer dynamics, soft condensed matter,
genetic networks and network inference, machine learning
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Cheng-Shie Wuu csw6@columbia.edu
Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology, Environmental Health Sciences, and of Applied Physics
Microdosimetry, biophysical modeling, dosimetry of brachy-therapy, gel dosimetry, second
cancers induced by radiotherapy, medical physics
Yuan Yang yy2664@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Advanced materials and devices for energy storage, conversion, and management,
particularly in electrochemical energy storage and thermal energy management; structureproperty
correlations and chemical processes in energy materials and devices
Drew Youngren dcy2@columbia.edu
Lecturer in the Discipline of Applied Mathematics
Microlocal analysis, partial differential equations, mathematics education and the role of
computation in the learning of mathematics
Nanfang Yu ny2214@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Applied Physics
Nanophotonics, metasurfaces, integrated photonics, biophotonics
Lu Zhang lz2784@columbia.edu
Chu Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
Numerical studies of wave propagation phenomena
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Gerard A. Ateshian ateshian@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering)
Theoretical and experimental analysis of articular cartilage mechanics, lubrication, tissue
engineering and bioreactor design, growth and remodeling of biological tissues, cell
mechanics, mixture theory
Elham Azizi ea2690@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor; Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research
(in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and the Herbert Irving
Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Combining cutting-edge single-cell genomic technologies with statistical machine
learning techniques to characterize complex populations of interacting cells in the tumor
microenvironment, as well as their dysregulated circuitry
Tal Danino td2506@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Utilization of synthetic biology to engineer gene circuits for novel health and environmental
applications; the major application is programming bacteria as a cancer therapy
X. Edward Guo exg1@columbia.edu
Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Medical Sciences (in
Medicine) and Department Chair
Image-based microstructural and finite element analyses of skeletons; in vitro
mechanobiology of osteocytes, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts; and 3D cell mechanics
and mechanotransduction
Henry Hess hh2374@columbia.edu
Professor
Engineering at the molecular scale, in particular the design of active nanosystems
incorporating biomolecular motors, the study of enzyme cascades, active self-assembly,
and single molecule binding events
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Elizabeth M. C. Hillman elizabeth.hillman@columbia.edu
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology (Physics); Herbert and Florence Irving
Professor at the Zuckerman Institute
Advanced in vivo optical imaging and high-speed microscopy technologies to gain insight
into the function and physiology of living samples, the brain, and the interrelation between
neuronal activity and brain blood flow in health and disease
Clark T. Hung cth6@columbia.edu
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedic Sciences (in Orthopedic Surgery)
Effects of physical, mechanical, and chemical stimuli on musculoskeletal cells related to
cellular and tissue engineering
Joshua Jacobs jj2784@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Sciences (in Neurological
Surgery)
Brain signals that underlie spatial navigation and memory, direct human brain recordings,
developing brain stimulators to improve cognition
Christoph Juchem cwj2112@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Clinical potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS),
particularly for multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions
Lance C. Kam lk2141@columbia.edu
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
Micro- and nanoscale fabrication of biological systems, cell-cell and cell-matrix signaling,
engineering of immune and nervous systems, nanomedicine
Elisa E. Konofagou ek2191@columbia.edu
Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Radiology
(Physics)
Ultrasonics (imaging and therapy), elasticity imaging, signal and image processing, soft
tissue mechanics
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Andrew F. Laine laine@columbia.edu
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Radiology (Physics)
Mathematical analysis and quantification of medical images, machine and deep learning in
medicine, imaging informatics, biomarkers
Kam W. Leong kwl2121@columbia.edu
Samuel Y. Sheng Professor of Biomedical Engineering (in Systems Biology)
Design of functional and nanostructured biomaterials for applications in nucleic acid
delivery, precision medicine, and regenerative medicine
Helen H. Lu hhlu@columbia.edu
Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Dental
and Craniofacial Engineering (in Dental Medicine); Senior Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs and
Advancement
Interface tissue engineering and the formation of integrated complex tissue systems, stratified
scaffold design for multitissue regeneration and multiscale models to evaluate heterotypic
cellular interactions, composite biomaterials for orthopedic and dental applications
José L. McFaline-Figueroa jm5200@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Single-cell genomics, multiplex editing and chemical genetics, cancer biology,
computational biology
Barclay Morrison III bm2119@columbia.edu
Professor and Vice Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Mechanical injury of the central nervous system: improvement of prevention strategies
with critical biomechanical data for the brain, identification of novel treatment options by
understanding the post-traumatic pathobiology, engineering new research tools
Nandan Nerurkar nln2113@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Morphogenesis, developmental biomechanics, design principles of embryonic tissue
formation, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering
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Paul Sajda psajda@columbia.edu
Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Joint appointment in Radiology [Physics]
and in Electrical Engineering)
Noninvasive multimodal neuroimaging, brain-computer interfaces, application of machine
learning to analysis of neural data and computational modeling of large neural systems
Kenneth Shepard shepard@ee.columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering)
Bioelectronics, applications of CMOS technology to the life sciences, power electronics,
nanoscale devices for biological applications
Samuel Sia ss2735@columbia.edu
Professor; Vice Provost for the Fourth Purpose and Strategic Impact
Microfluidics, point-of-care diagnostics, 3D tissue engineering, implantable devices, and
cell therapy
J. Thomas Vaughan jtv2114@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Radiology at the Zuckerman Institute)
MR methods and technologies to advance biomedical research and clinical diagnostics,
increased access to MRI for world populations
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic gv2131@columbia.edu
University Professor; The Mikati Foundation of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of
Medical Sciences
Engineering human tissues and organs for regenerative medicine and “patient on a chip”
studies of disease
Qi Wang qi.wang@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Neural coding, brain-machine interfaces, and biomedical instrumentation for creating
engineered sensory perception
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Scott Banta sbanta@columbia.edu
Professor and Department Chair
Protein engineering, synthetic biology, and biotechnology
Kyle Bishop kyle.bishop@columbia.edu
Professor
Developing colloidal machines, using expertise in colloidal interactions, self-assembly, and
nonequilibrium phenomena
Chris Boyce cmb2302@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
MRI and computational modeling to investigate multiphase flows for applications in
energy, pharmaceuticals, mining, and filtration industries
Jingguang Chen jc3972@columbia.edu
Thayer Lindsley Professor of Chemical Engineering
Experimental and theoretical studies of metal carbides and bimetallic alloys as catalysts
and electrocatalysts for energy applications and carbon dioxide mitigation
Christopher Durning cjd2@columbia.edu
Professor
Transport phenomena, soft materials systems (especially polymers and colloids),
membrane science, separations technologies
Daniel Esposito de2300@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Solar energy conversion, solar fuels, catalysis, high-throughput screening of materials,
interfacial phenomena, and in situ micro/nanoscale analysis techniques
Oleg Gang og2226@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics)
Soft and biomolecular materials, programmable assembly of nanoscale systems, DNA
nanotechnology, self-assembled nanomaterials with optical and biomedical functions,
nanoscale structural methods
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Jingyue Ju dj222@columbia.edu
Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering
Genomic science and technology, molecular engineering and chemical biology
Sanat Kumar sk2794@columbia.edu
Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering
Theoretical and experimental programs to design polymer-inorganic hybrid materials with
relevance to membrane for gas and ion separation, water purification, biomimetic materials;
inverse design (starting from specifications and designing materials that comply)
Lauren Marbella lem2221@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Molecular-level characterization of materials for energy storage and conversion
V. Faye McNeill vfm2103@columbia.edu
Professor
Atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, environmental chemical engineering, air quality
Aaron Moment ajm2293@columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice
Next-generation manufacturing processes for fine chemical, pharmaceutical, and
biopharmaceutical products. Applying advances in sensing, imaging, visualization,
modeling, simulation, and materials for more efficient, sustainable, and safer processes
Allie Obermeyer aco2134@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Hybrid protein and polymer-based materials for biomedical applications
Ben O’Shaughnessy bo8@columbia.edu
Professor
Quantitative cell biology, molecular computational methods, neurotransmission, neural
networks, viral infection, cell division, cell mechanosensing, active gel theory
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Mijo Simunovic ms6051@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Interface of engineering and developmental biology, with particular interest in building
experimental models to elucidate the mechanisms of human embryo development and
organ formation
Dan Steingart dan.steingart@columbia.edu
Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Metallurgy (Joint appointment in Earth and
Environmental Engineering)
Systematic behaviors of material deposition, conversion, and dissolution in electrochemical
reactors with a focus on energy storage devices
Alexander Urban au2229@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Electrochemical energy storage and conversion using a combination of atomic-scale
modeling and data science techniques, batteries for electric vehicles, grid-level storage,
recycling of battery materials
Venkat Venkatasubramanian venkat@columbia.edu
Samuel Ruben–Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering
Risk analysis and management in complex engineered systems, cyberinfrastructure
and “big data” analytics for molecular products design and discovery, complex adaptive
teleological systems
Alan C. West acw17@columbia.edu
Samuel Ruben–Peter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry
Electrochemical metallization process, batteries and fuel cells
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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND
ENGINEERING MECHANICS
Raimondo Betti rb68@columbia.edu
Professor
Structural mechanics, structural dynamics, system identification of linear and nonlinear
structures, damage detection, health monitoring of structures, earthquake engineering,
computational mechanics, bridge engineering
Julius Chang jc1041@columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Construction Engineering and Management
Construction engineering and management
Gautam Dasgupta dasgupta@civil.columbia.edu
Professor
Engineering mechanics–continuum mechanics, viscoplastic wave propagation, stochastic
analysis, bioengineering growth, symbolic computation, civil engineering–live design:
mitigating extreme disasters
George Deodatis deodatis@columbia.edu
Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor of Civil Engineering (Joint appointment in
Earth and Environmental Engineering)
Probabilistic mechanics, Monte Carlo simulation techniques, infrastructure risk analysis
and risk mitigation arising from sea level rise and coastal storms, structural safety and
reliability, hazards analysis, uncertainty quantification
Sharon Di sharon.di@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
AI-guided travel and driving behavior modeling and prediction, game theory, self-driving cars
Maria Q. Feng mfeng@columbia.edu
Renwick Professor of Civil Engineering
Sustainability of civil infrastructural systems through multidisciplinary research on sensors,
data analytics, smart structures, and structural health monitoring and system control for
intelligent maintenance to minimize life-cycle cost and enhance system resiliency to hazards
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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS
Jacob Fish fishj@columbia.edu
Robert A. W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering and Department Chair
Multiscale science and engineering with applications to aerospace, automotive industry,
civil engineering, and biological and material sciences
Marco Giometto marco.giometto@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, with a focus on atmospheric boundarylayer
flows and nonequilibrium effects in turbulence, flow in urban canopies, and thermally
driven slope flows
Shiho Kawashima s-kawashima@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Rheological behavior and fresh-state microstructure of concrete, nanomodification and
nanocharacterization of cementitious materials, sustainable infrastructural materials
Addis Kidane aak2234@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Experimental solid mechanics, dynamic behavior of materials
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou ikougioum@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Nonlinear stochastic dynamics, computational stochastic mechanics, uncertainty
quantification methodologies, signal processing techniques, fractional calculus modeling,
energy harvesting, nanomechanics, reliability assessment of complex dynamical systems
Upmanu Lall ula2@columbia.edu
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering (Joint appointment in Earth and
Environmental Engineering); Director, Columbia Water Center in the Earth Institute
Hydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; natural hazards, water
systems, and risk management; decentralized water networks; major research initiatives:
global flood risk, global water sustainability, America’s water
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Hoe Ling ling@civil.columbia.edu
Professor
Geotechnical engineering, geosynthetics, centrifuge modeling, soil behavior, seismic performance
Richard Longman rwl4@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering)
Iterative learning control design for high-precision control in repetitive operations,
repetitive control for eliminating influence of repeating disturbances, system identification
generating state space models from input-output data, damage detection
Ibrahim S. Odeh odeh@columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Construction Management, Strategy,
and Business Development
Construction business agility; strategy management of innovative practices; business and
program development; market analysis and technological trends; and construction management
Thomas Panayotidi ttp16@columbia.edu
Lecturer in the Discipline of Structural Engineering and Mechanics
Computational mechanics, earthquake engineering, blast-resistant design, finite elements
in concrete and steel structures
Feniosky Peña-Mora feniosky@columbia.edu
Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (Joint
appointments in Computer Science and in Earth and Environmental Engineering)
IT support for collaboration in preparedness, response, and recovery during disasters
involving critical physical infrastructures; sustainable construction, visualization,
augmented reality, and processes integration for large-scale civil engineering systems
Andrew Smyth smyth@civil.columbia.edu
Robert A.W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Structural dynamics, analytical dynamics, structural health monitoring and control,
nonlinear system identification, random vibrations
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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS
Steve WaiChing Sun wsun@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Computational mechanics, poromechanics, geomechanics, machine learning applications
for engineering mechanics
Haim Waisman waisman@civil.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Computational mechanics, finite element methods, brittle and ductile fracture modeling,
mechanics of materials, multiscale and multiphysics modeling, structural topology
optimization and inverse problems, iterative solvers and parallel computing
Huiming Yin yin@civil.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Modern, energy-efficient infrastructure systems; characterization and modeling of
composite materials through theoretical and experimental approaches; civil engineering
materials for optimized life-cycle cost
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
Josh Alman ja3570@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Theoretical computer science, algorithm design and complexity theory
Alexandr Andoni andoni@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Algorithmic foundations of massive data, sublinear algorithms (streaming and property
testing), high-dimensional computational geometry, metric embeddings, and machine learning
Elias Bareinboim eb@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Causal and counterfactual inference and their applications to data-driven fields in the
health and social sciences, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
Daniel Bauer bauer@cs.columbia.edu
Lecturer in the Discipline of Natural Language Processing
Natural language processing/computational linguistics, lexical and computational
semantics, syntactic and semantic parsing, machine learning, computer science
education research
Peter N. Belhumeur belhumeur@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Computer vision, deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Steven Bellovin smb@cs.columbia.edu
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science
Security, networks, privacy, public policy
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
Paul S. Blaer pblaer@cs.columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer; Director of Computing Research Facilities
Computer science, education, robotics, vision
David M. Blei david.blei@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Statistics)
Statistical machine learning; Bayesian statistics; applications to text, images, music, social
networks, user behavior, and scientific data
Adam Cannon cannon@cs.columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning
Computer science education, machine learning, statistical pattern recognition
Luca Carloni luca@cs.columbia.edu
Professor and Department Chair
Heterogeneous computing, system-on-chip platforms, hardware-software integration,
computer-aided design, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems
Augustin Chaintreau augustin@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Networked algorithms, stochastic analysis, fairness of big data, computer system
measurement, education in computing ethics
Shih-Fu Chang shih.fu.chang@columbia.edu
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering) and Dean of
Columbia Engineering
Computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, multimodal knowledge extraction
Xi Chen xichen@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Algorithmic game theory and economics, complexity theory
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Lydia Chilton lc3251@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Human-computer interaction with AI design tools for creative online advertising
Michael Collins mcollins@cs.columbia.edu
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Natural language processing, machine learning
Tony Dear tony.dear@columbia.edu
Lecturer in Discipline
Motion planning and machine learning for robotic locomotion
Eleni Drinea eleni@cs.columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in Discipline (Joint appointment in Industrial Engineering and Operations
Research)
Information theory; network coding; randomized, online, and approximation algorithms;
network analysis; and dimensionality reduction techniques
Stephen A. Edwards sedwards@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Compilers, embedded systems, VLSI, computer-aided design, digital systems, languages
Steven Feiner feiner@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Human-computer interaction, augmented reality and virtual reality, 3D and 2D user
interfaces, automated design of graphics and multimedia, mobile and wearable computing,
health applications, computer games, information visualization
Roxana Geambasu roxana@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Computer systems with focus on security and privacy challenges in emerging technologies,
including mobile devices, cloud computing, and machine learning
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
Luis Gravano gravano@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Databases, information retrieval, web search, social media, information extraction
Ronghui Gu rg3123@columbia.edu
Tang Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Programming languages and operating systems, blockchain systems, language-based
support for safety and security, certified system software, certified programming and
compilation, formal methods, concurrency reasoning
Julia Hirschberg julia@cs.columbia.edu
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science
Computational linguistics/natural language processing, prosody, emotional speech, spoken
dialogue systems, deceptive speech, entrainment/alignment in dialogue, text-to-scene
generation, speech summarization, code-switching
Daniel Hsu djhsu@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Algorithmic statistics and machine learning
Suman Jana suman@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Computer security and privacy, security and privacy issues in machine learning, and
program analysis
Gail Kaiser kaiser@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Static and dynamic program analysis, software testing, software security, applications of AI
to software engineering and vice versa
John Kender jrk@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Computer vision, video understanding, visual user interfaces, artificial intelligence
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Martha Kim martha@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Computer architecture, parallel systems, hardware-software integration, code generation
and optimization
David A. Knowles dak2173@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Machine learning methods for genomics, how cellular mechanisms like RNA splicing are
altered in human genetic disease
Jae Woo Lee jae@cs.columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in Discipline
Computer science education, networks, software engineering, cloud computing
Tal Malkin tal@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Cryptography, complexity theory, security, randomized algorithms
Kathleen McKeown kathy@cs.columbia.edu
Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science
Natural language processing, text summarization of disaster updates, personalized
messaging to reduce energy use, identifying sentiment in social media, natural language
generation, multimedia explanation, question-answering, multilingual applications
Vishal Misra vishal.misra@columbia.edu
Professor
Networking, data science, and causal inference
Shree Nayar nayar@cs.columbia.edu
T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science
Computer vision, computer graphics, robotics, human-computer interfaces
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Jason Nieh nieh@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Operating systems, mobile computing, cloud computing, networking, security
Christos Papadimitriou christos@columbia.edu
The Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science
Computational complexity and algorithms applied to biology, economics, game theory,
artificial intelligence, evolution, databases, robotics, networks, the internet, the brain
Itsik Pe’er itsik@cs.columbia.edu
Professor of Computer Science and Systems Biology
Computational and machine learning methods for high-throughput genomics; probabilistic
models for temporal data in germline genetics, somatic lineages, and microbiome dynamics
Feniosky Peña-Mora feniosky@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and in Earth and
Environmental Engineering)
IT support for collaboration in preparedness, response, and recovery during disasters
involving critical physical infrastructures; sustainable construction, visualization,
augmented reality, and processes integration for large-scale civil engineering systems
Toniann Pitassi tp2684@columbia.edu
Jeffrey L. and Brenda Bleustein Professor of Engineering
Computational complexity with a focus on communication complexity and proof complexity
Baishakhi Ray rayb@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Software reliability and security; tools to automate program development, bug detection,
and program repair for large-scale software; novel program analysis techniques to extract
code properties and apply machine learning models to learn from those properties
Kenneth Ross kar@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Database systems, query processing, declarative languages, genetics
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Tim Roughgarden tr@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Design, analysis, applications, and limitations of algorithms, game theory, and
microeconomics, especially as applied to networks, auctions, and blockchains
Dan Rubenstein danielr@columbia.edu
Professor
Computer networks, network robustness and security, multimedia networking,
performance evaluation, algorithms
Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi ansaf@cs.columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in Discipline
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, clinical informatics, and machine learning for education
Henning Schulzrinne hgs@cs.columbia.edu
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science (Joint
appointment in Electrical Engineering)
Computer networks, multimedia systems, mobile and wireless systems, Internet of Things,
ubiquitous and pervasive computing, cybersecurity, public policy for communications
Rocco Servedio rocco@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Theoretical computer science, computational complexity theory, computational learning
theory, randomness in computation
Simha Sethumadhavan simha@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Computer architecture, cybersecurity
Brian Smith brian@cs.columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Human-computer interaction (HCI), AI, sensing, vision, design (including game design),
and accessibility
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
Shuran Song shurans@cs.columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Computer vision and robotics; algorithms that enable intelligent systems to learn from
their interactions with the physical world and to autonomously acquire the perception and
manipulation skills necessary to execute complex tasks and assist people
Clifford Stein cliff@ieor.columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research); Interim
Director, Data Science Institute
Design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, scheduling, massively
parallel algorithms, green computing, big data, network algorithms, algorithm engineering
Salvatore Stolfo sal@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Computer security, intrusion and anomaly detection, embedded device security, data
mining/machine learning
Vladimir Vapnik vv2116@columbia.edu
Professor
Machine learning, empirical inference, statistical learning theory
Nakul Verma verma@cs.columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in Discipline
Machine learning and high-dimensional statistics, using intrinsic structure in data to design
effective learning algorithms
Carl Vondrick cv2428@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Computer vision and machine learning, interpretable models, high-level reasoning, and
perception for robotics
Omri Weinstein omri@cs.columbia.edu
Adjunct Associate Professor
Information theory, data structures, complexity theory
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Jeannette Wing wing@columbia.edu
Professor; Executive Vice President for Research at Columbia University
Trustworthy AI, trustworthy computing, cybersecurity and privacy, formal methods,
programming languages, correctness conditions
Rebecca N. Wright rwright@barnard.edu
Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science, Barnard College
Computer and communications security, particularly in the areas of privacy, cryptographic
protocols, and fault-tolerant distributed computing
Eugene Wu ew2493@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Improving the interface between users and data, and techniques borrowed from fields such
as data management, systems, crowd sourcing, visualization, and HCI
Junfeng Yang junfeng@cs.columbia.edu
Professor
Computer systems, specifically the robustness, security, and performance of software and
machine learning
Mihalis Yannakakis mihalis@cs.columbia.edu
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science
Algorithms, complexity theory, combinatorial optimization, databases, testing, and verification
Zhou Yu zy2461@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Multimodal sensing and analysis, speech and natural language processing, machine learning
and human-computer interaction
Henry Yuen hsy2116@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Quantum computing, complexity theory, cryptography, and information theory
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
Richard Zemel rz2548@columbia.edu
Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
Machine learning: robust learning systems, generalization to new environments and
distributions, neural representations, and algorithmic fairness
Changxi Zheng cxz@cs.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Computer graphics, physically based multisensory animation, computational acoustics,
scientific computing, robotics
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EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING
Thanos Bourtsalas ab3129@columbia.edu
Lecturer in the Discipline of Sustainable Materials and Energy
Systems for sustainable development, urban mining: energy and metal/mineral recovery
from urban and industrial residues, public health policy, environmental economics
Siu-Wai Chan sc174@columbia.edu
Professor of Materials Science (Joint appointment in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Nanoparticles, electronic ceramics, grain boundaries and interfaces, oxide thin films
Kartik Chandran kc2288@columbia.edu
Professor
Environmental microbiology and biotechnology, reengineering the global nitrogen cycle,
sustainable sanitation, public health microbiology, water and wastewater treatment,
bioenergetics (including biofuels), biorefining
Xi Chen xichen@columbia.edu
Professor
Carbon dioxide capture and utilization; flexible energy storage, conversion, and actuation
materials; green mining; water harvesting; morphogenesis; mechanobiology; soft materials
and robots; nano- and micromechanics; material genomics
George Deodatis deodatis@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics)
Probabilistic mechanics, Monte Carlo simulation techniques, infrastructure risk analysis
and risk mitigation arising from sea level rise and coastal storms, structural safety and
reliability, hazards analysis, uncertainty quantification
Raymond S. Farinato rsf2106@columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice
Surface and colloid science
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EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
eee.columbia.edu
Robert Farrauto rf2182@columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice
Heterogeneous catalytic processes for establishing a sustainable environment; dual function
materials for the conversion of carbon dioxide to useful fuel using hydrogen from renewable
energy sources; catalytic materials and processes for the emerging hydrogen economy
Pierre Gentine pg2328@columbia.edu
Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics and Professor of Earth and
Environmental Sciences and of Climate; Director, Science and Technology
Terrestrial carbon and water cycle
James Im ji12@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics)
Laser-induced crystallization of thin films, phase transformations and nucleation in
condensed systems
Upmanu Lall ula2@columbia.edu
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering (Joint appointment in Civil Engineering and
Engineering Mechanics); Director, Columbia Water Center in the Earth Institute
Hydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; natural hazards, water
systems, and risk management; decentralized water networks; major research initiatives:
global flood risk, global water sustainability, America’s water
D. R. Nagaraj drn2112@columbia.edu
Henry Krumb Professor of Professional Practice of Mining
Flotation chemistry
I. Cevdet Noyan icn2@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics)
Theoretical and applied X-ray and neutron scattering
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Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park ap2622@columbia.edu
Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Climate Change and Department Chair
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and sustainable energy extraction and
conversion from wastes, biomass, and shale based on novel hybrid nanomaterials and
advanced carbonate chemistry
Feniosky Peña-Mora feniosky@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and in
Computer Science)
IT support for collaboration in preparedness, response, and recovery during disasters
involving critical physical infrastructures; sustainable construction, visualization,
augmented reality, and processes integration for large-scale civil engineering systems
Ponisseril Somasundaran ps24@columbia.edu
LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering
Surface/colloid chemistry of materials/nanoparticles, greener chemicals, sustainability
in underground resources exploration, polymers/surfactants/proteins, flocculation/
dispersion, biosurfaces, polymers for water treatment, synthesis of fuels from CO 2
/water
Dan Steingart dan.steingart@columbia.edu
Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Metallurgy (Joint appointment in Chemical
Engineering)
Systematic behaviors of material deposition, conversion, and dissolution in electrochemical
reactors with a focus on energy storage devices
Bolun Xu bx2177@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Sustainable energy and power systems, electricity markets, and energy storage
Ngai Yin Yip n.y.yip@columbia.edu
LaVon Duddleson Krumb Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Novel technologies for the sustainable production of energy and water
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Dimitris Anastassiou anastas@ee.columbia.edu
Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Systems Biology
Systems biology: data mining of biomolecular data to discover signatures and diseaseassociated
biological mechanisms with diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic applications
in personalized medicine
James Anderson ja3451@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Optimal and robust control theory, convex optimization, data privacy/sensitivity, and the
mathematical foundations of cyber-physical systems; applications of interest include
power networks, smart grids, and biochemical reaction networks
Keren Bergman bergman@ee.columbia.edu
Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering; Scientific Director, Center for Integrated
Science and Engineering
Optical interconnection networks for advanced computing systems, data centers, and
nanophotonic networks-on-chip
Shih-Fu Chang shih.fu.chang@columbia.edu
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor (Joint appointment in Computer Science) and Dean of
Columbia Engineering
Computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, multimodal knowledge extraction
Asaf Cidon asaf.cidon@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Distributed storage systems, machine learning for systems, and cybersecurity
Alexander L. Gaeta a.gaeta@columbia.edu
David M. Rickey Professor (Joint appointment in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics)
Quantum and nonlinear photonics, ultrafast optics, nanophotonics, nonlinear propagation
in fibers and bulk media, the generation and processing of quantum states of light
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Javad Ghaderi jghaderi@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Algorithms, optimization, and stochastic processes with application to communication
networks and data centers
Christine Hendon chendon@ee.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Optical coherence tomography, near-infrared spectroscopy, cardiovascular imaging,
cardiac electrophysiology, medical image and signal analysis
Predrag Jelenkovic predrag@ee.columbia.edu
Professor
Mathematical foundations of complex information networks and systems, wireless
networks, biological networks, information ranking, average case analysis of algorithms,
heavy tails, queueing theory, applied probability
Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang jiang@ee.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Cyber-physical systems, mobile and embedded systems, connected health and fitness, and
building energy
Ethan Katz-Bassett ethan@ee.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Computer networking: internet reliability and performance, internet-scale distributed
systems, internet measurement, routing, content delivery, system design, and deployment
Dion Khodagholy dk2955@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Novel electronic devices for interaction with biological substrates, specifically neural
networks and the brain
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
ee.columbia.edu
Peter Kinget kinget@ee.columbia.edu
Bernard J. Lechner Professor of Electrical Engineering
Analog, RF, and power-integrated circuits and the applications they enable in wireless
communications, sensing, energy harvesting, and power management; focus on lowvoltage
and low-power techniques for nanoscale devices
Zoran Kostic zk2172@ columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice
Applications of deep learning and parallel computing, smart cities, mobile data systems,
wireless communications, signal processing, multimedia, system-on-chip development
Harish Krishnaswamy harish@ee.columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Theory, implementation, and experimental verification of RF, millimeter-wave, and
terahertz devices, circuits, and systems, with applications in communications, radar,
imaging, and sensing
Ioannis (John) Kymissis johnkym@ee.columbia.edu
Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering and Department Chair
Investigations into thin film devices performance, fabrication, and applications
Aurel A. Lazar aurel@ee.columbia.edu
Professor
Neural computing engines and massive parallel neural computation (in silico), reverse
engineering the fruit fly brain (in vivo), big data in neuroscience
Michal Lipson ml3745@columbia.edu
Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering (Joint appointment in Applied Physics and
Applied Mathematics)
Silicon photonics, inventor of GHz silicon modulator, novel on-chip nanophotonics devices,
novel micron-size photonic structures for light manipulation, light-confining structures to
slow down, enhance, and manipulate light
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Nima Mesgarani nima@ee.columbia.edu
Associate Professor; Member, Zuckerman Institute
Speech neurophysiology, neural engineering, speech and audio signal processing
John Paisley jpaisley@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
General area of statistical machine learning, probabilistic modeling and inference
techniques, Bayesian nonparametric methods, dictionary learning and topic modeling
Matthias Preindl matthias.preindl@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Design and control of power electronic and motor drive systems with primary focus on
electrified transportation and innovative energy storage
Paul Sajda psajda@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Radiology [Physics] and in Biomedical Engineering)
Noninvasive multimodal neuroimaging, brain-computer interfaces, application of machine
learning to analysis of neural data and computational modeling of large neural systems
Henning Schulzrinne hgs@cs.columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Computer Science)
Computer networks, multimedia systems, mobile and wireless systems, Internet of Things,
ubiquitous and pervasive computing, cybersecurity, public policy for communications
Mingoo Seok ms4415@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
VLSI, integrated circuits, ultralow power, power management, machine learning hardware
Kenneth Shepard shepard@ee.columbia.edu
Lau Family Professor of Electrical Engineering (Joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering)
Bioelectronics, applications of CMOS technology to the life sciences, power electronics,
nanoscale devices for biological applications
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
ee.columbia.edu
Yannis Tsividis tsividis@ee.columbia.edu
Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Electrical Engineering
Analog and mixed-signal (analog-digital) integrated circuits, signal processing, and computing
David Vallancourt dv82@columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Circuits and Electronics
Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design for communications applications
Wen Wang wen@ee.columbia.edu
Thayer Lindsley Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (Joint appointment in
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics)
Ultrahigh-speed electronics, heterogeneous materials integration, semiconductor
optoelectronics, including lasers and photodetectors
Xiaodong Wang wangx@ee.columbia.edu
Professor
Statistical signal processing, machine learning, wireless communications, information
theory, bioinformatics
John Wright jw2966@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Robust modeling and analysis of high-dimensional data, efficient data representations,
signal and image processing and computer vision
Charles Zukowski caz@columbia.edu
Professor
Design and analysis of digital VLSI circuits, circuit simulation, communication circuits
Gil Zussman gil.zussman@columbia.edu
Professor
Wireless and mobile networks and systems, including experimentation in the COSMOS
testbed (cosmos-lab.org), full-duplex wireless (flexicon.ee.columbia.edu), and video/VR
over wireless; resilience of power grids to cyberattacks; learning in/for networks
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Shipra Agrawal sa3305@columbia.edu
Cyrus Derman Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Sequential decision making under uncertainty, multiarmed bandits, online learning, and
reinforcement learning, prediction markets, and game theory
Eric Balkanski eb3224@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Machine learning and algorithms
Daniel Bienstock dano@ieor.columbia.edu
Liu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Joint appointment in
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics)
Combinatorial optimization and integer programming, computational modeling of power grids
Agostino Capponi ac3827@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Financial engineering: Fintech, systemic risk, financial stability, market microstructure
Rachel Cummings rac2239@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Data privacy, with applications to machine learning, algorithmic economics, optimization,
statistics, and public policy
Emanuel Derman ed2114@columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice
Quantitative finance, derivatives valuation, volatility models, risk management, philosophy
of modeling
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Ton Dieker dieker@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Computer simulation techniques, design of service systems
Christopher Dolan cjd2119@columbia.edu
Lecturer in the Discipline of Operations Research
Applied statistics
Eleni Drinea eleni@cs.columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in Discipline (Joint appointment in Computer Science)
Information theory; network coding; randomized, online, and approximation algorithms;
network analysis; and dimensionality reduction techniques
Adam Elmachtoub ae2516@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Machine learning and algorithm design for e-commerce, pricing, supply chains, service
systems, and logistics
Yuri Faenza yf2414@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Mathematical programming, operations research, integer programming, combinatorial
optimization, matching theory and its applications, polyhedral combinatorics
Donald Goldfarb gold@ieor.columbia.edu
Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Algorithms for linear, quadratic, semidefinite, convex, and nonlinear programming; firstorder
methods for large-scale structured optimization, network flows, and application to
machine learning; robust optimization, imaging, and tensor models
Vineet Goyal vineet.goyal@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Dynamic optimization under uncertainty, robust optimization, combinatorial optimization,
applications in electricity markets and revenue management
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Ali Hirsa ah2347@columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice
Machine learning, deep learning, algorithmic trading, data mining, computational/
quantitative finance, and optimization
Garud Iyengar garud@ieor.columbia.edu
Tang Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Senior Vice Dean of
Research and Academic Programs
Convex optimization, robust optimization, combinatorial optimization, computational
finance, complex systems, systemic risk, information theory
Hardeep Johar hj2203@columbia.edu
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and in the
Discipline of Business
Operations research, text mining, machine learning
Cédric Josz cj2638@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Modern techniques for non-convex optimization, encompassing many challenging
problems in operations research and data science; techniques for power grids; new
approaches to overcome non-convexity in large-scale machine learning problems
Soulaymane Kachani kachani@columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice and Senior Vice Provost of Columbia University
Pricing, supply chain management, business analytics, algorithmic trading, optimization,
and machine learning
Christian Kroer christian.kroer@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Intersection of operations research, computer science, and economics; algorithmic game
theory, sequential decision making, market design, optimization and online learning
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Daniel Lacker dl3133@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Applied probability, stochastic analysis and financial mathematics with a focus on mean
field games, interacting particle systems, and stochastic control
Henry Lam khl2114@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Monte Carlo simulation, risk analysis, stochastic optimization
Hyoseon Sophia Lee hl3266@columbia.edu
Lecturer in the Discipline of Professional Development and Leadership
Second-language writing anxiety, affective domains in second-language learning, language
learning in higher education, English for specific purposes
Jay Sethuraman jay@ieor.columbia.edu
Professor and Department Chair
Discrete optimization, market design, scheduling, applied probability
Karl Sigman karl.sigman@columbia.edu
Professor
Queueing theory, stochastic networks, point processes, insurance risk, economics,
stochastic simulation, modeling of U.S. presidential elections
Clifford Stein cliff@ieor.columbia.edu
Wai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Joint appointment in
Computer Science); Interim Director, Data Science Institute
Design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, scheduling, massively
parallel algorithms, green computing, big data, network algorithms, algorithm engineering
Wenpin Tang wt2319@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Financial engineering, stochastic processes and applications, and theory of machine
learning
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Van-Anh Truong vt2196@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Optimization methods for health care and business analytics; capacity planning for
semiconductor manufacturing and health care facilities; replenishment of vaccines in
public stockpiles; product assortments in e-commerce; mobile commerce; viral marketing
Kaizheng Wang kw2934@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Statistics, machine learning, and optimization
Harry West hw2599@columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice (Joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering)
Human-centered design
Ward Whitt ww2040@columbia.edu
Wai T. Chang Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Applied probability, queueing systems, stochastic networks, stochastic-process limits,
performance approximations and numerical transform inversion with applications to
communications, computer, production, and service systems
David Yao yao@columbia.edu
Piyasombatkul Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Stochastic systems and applied probability, resource control in stochastic networks,
financial systemic risk, risk hedging in production systems, health care operations, hospital
resource planning
Yi Zhang yz3558@columbia.edu
Associate in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Economics of information systems, data science education, active learning
Xunyu Zhou xz2574@columbia.edu
Liu Family Professor of Financial Engineering; Director, Financial Engineering Program
Intelligent wealth management using stochastic control and machine learning, quantitative
behavioral finance models
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Sunil Agrawal sunil.agrawal@columbia.edu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
Rehabilitation robotics, functional rehabilitation, training for neural impaired adults and children,
gait and balance of elderly, intelligent machines, kinematics, dynamics, control, design
Gerard A. Ateshian ateshian@columbia.edu
Andrew Walz Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Joint appointment in
Biomedical Engineering)
Theoretical and experimental analysis of articular cartilage mechanics, lubrication, tissue
engineering and bioreactor design, growth and remodeling of biological tissues, cell
mechanics, mixture theory
Mary C. Boyce deanboyce@columbia.edu
Professor and Provost of Columbia University
Mechanics of materials, molecular and nanomechanics of man-made and natural polymers
and soft composites
Michael P. Burke mpburke@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Mixed-experimental-and-computational investigations of advanced combustion and
energy systems that utilize multiscale modeling, automation, and data sciences
Matei Ciocarlie matei.ciocarlie@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Interactive, intelligent robots: manipulation and grasping, interactive or human-in-the-loop
robotics, dynamic simulators and virtual environments, perception and modeling
James C. Hone jh2228@columbia.edu
Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Center for Precision Assembly of
Superstratic and Superatomic Solids (Columbia MRSEC); and Department Chair
Fundamental science and applications of two-dimensional (2D) materials; assembly of 2D
materials into layered heterostructures; nanofabricated structures for cellular mechanobiology
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Karen Kasza karen.kasza@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Investigating the mechanics of morphogenesis, how cells work together to build tissues,
how cells generate forces and control tissue mechanics, new approaches for manipulating
cell behavior and tissue structure
Jeffrey Kysar jk2079@columbia.edu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Theory, computations, and experiments related to the mechanics and mechanical
properties of small-scale materials: 2D materials (graphene), 2D material composites,
biological tissues, polymeric materials for prosthetic heart valves; surgical tools for inner
ear disorders
Qiao Lin qlin@columbia.edu
Professor
Controlling, sensing, and characterizing biomolecules and cells by micro-electromechanical
systems (MEMS) technology
Hod Lipson hl2891@columbia.edu
James and Sally Scapa Professor of Innovation
Automatic design, fabrication, and adaptation of virtual and physical machines,
evolutionary robotics, multimaterial functional rapid prototyping, machine self-replication,
and programmable self-assembly
Richard Longman rwl4@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics)
Iterative learning control design for high-precision control in repetitive operations,
repetitive control for eliminating influence of repeating disturbances, system identification
generating state space models from input-output data, damage detection
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
me.columbia.edu
Michael J. Massimino mmassimino@columbia.edu
Professor of Professional Practice
Human-machine systems, space robotics, and human space flight
Vijay Modi modi@columbia.edu
Professor
Engineering software solutions to help make development planning smarter and to improve
the delivery of critical services like health and energy in the developing world
Kristin Myers kmm2233@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Experimental and theoretical soft tissue mechanics, growth and remodeling of the
uterus and cervix during pregnancy, finite element models of pregnancy, mechanics of
collagenous materials
Arvind Narayanaswamy an2288@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Theoretical and experimental investigations of nanoscale and microscale effects in thermofluid
transport phenomena
P. James Schuck p.j.schuck@columbia.edu
Associate Professor
Sensing and engineering quantum and optoelectronic phenomena emerging from
nanostructures and interfaces, advanced nano-optical probes and plasmonic devices
Vijay Vedula vv2316@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor
Computational fluid dynamics, fluid structure interaction (FSI), cardiovascular
biomechanics, cardiac development and multiphysics modeling, optimization and
uncertainty quantification
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Sinisa Vukelic sv2147@columbia.edu
Lecturer in Discipline
Ultrafast laser processing of transparent dielectrics, mechanical response of transparent
dielectrics, material properties of biomaterials, spectroscopic analysis for optical
diagnostics and analysis of targeted molecular pathways
Harry West hw2599@columbia.edu
Professor (Joint appointment in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research)
Human-centered design
Y. Lawrence Yao yly1@columbia.edu
Professor
Manufacturing and design; laser materials processing; laser-assisted material removal,
shaping, joining, and property modification; laser applications in renewable energy,
biomedical, and art restoration; robotics in industry and health care
Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy yy3040@columbia.edu
Lecturer in the Discipline of Innovation and Design
Engineering design, dynamics and control, legged robotics, optimization, mechatronics,
and engineering education
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INDEX
Agrawal, Shipra (IEOR) 39
Agrawal, Sunil (MechE) 44
Alman, Josh (CS) 21
Anastassiou, Dimitris (EE) 34
Anderson, James (EE) 34
Andoni, Alexandr (CS) 21
Ateshian, Gerard A. (BME, MechE) 10, 44
Azizi, Elham (BME) 10
Bailey, William E. (APAM) 4
Balkanski, Eric (IEOR) 39
Banta, Scott (ChE) 14
Bareinboim, Elias (CS) 21
Barmak, Katayun (APAM) 4
Bauer, Daniel (CS) 21
Belhumeur, Peter N. (CS) 21
Bellovin, Steven (CS) 21
Bergman, Keren (EE) 34
Betti, Raimondo (CEEM) 17
Bienstock, Daniel (APAM, IEOR) 4, 39
Billinge, Simon (APAM) 4
Bishop, Kyle (ChE) 14
Blaer, Paul S. (CS) 22
Blei, David M. (CS) 22
Boozer, Allen (APAM) 4
Bourtsalas, Thanos (EEE) 31
Boyce, Chris (ChE) 14
Boyce, Mary C. (MechE) 44
Burke, Michael P. (MechE) 44
Cannon, Adam (CS) 22
Capponi, Agostino (IEOR) 39
Carloni, Luca (CS) 22
Chaintreau, Augustin (CS) 22
Chan, Siu-Wai (APAM, EEE) 5, 31
Chandran, Kartik (EEE) 31
Chang, Julius (CEEM) 17
Chang, Shih-Fu (CS, EE) 22, 34
Chen, Jingguang (ChE) 14
Chen, Xi (CS) 22
Chen, Xi (EEE) 31
Chilton, Lydia (CS) 23
Cidon, Asaf (EE) 34
Ciocarlie, Matei (MechE) 44
Collins, Michael (CS) 23
Cummings, Rachel (IEOR) 39
Danino, Tal (BME) 10
Dasgupta, Gautam (CEEM) 17
Dear, Tony (CS) 23
Deodatis, George (CEEM, EEE) 17, 31
Derman, Emanuel (IEOR) 39
Di, Sharon (CEEM) 17
Dieker, Ton (IEOR) 40
Dolan, Christopher (IEOR) 40
Drinea, Eleni (CS, IEOR) 23, 40
Du, Qiang (APAM) 5
Durning, Christopher (ChE) 14
Edwards, Stephen A. (CS) 23
Elmachtoub, Adam (IEOR) 40
Esposito, Daniel (ChE) 14
Faenza, Yuri (IEOR) 40
Farinato, Raymond S. (EEE) 31
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Farrauto, Robert (EEE) 32
Feiner, Steven (CS) 23
Feng, Maria Q. (CEEM) 17
Fish, Jacob (CEEM) 18
Gaeta, Alexander L. (APAM, EE) 5, 34
Gang, Oleg (APAM, ChE) 5, 14
Geambasu, Roxana (CS) 23
Gentine, Pierre (EEE) 32
Ghaderi, Javad (EE) 35
Giometto, Marco (CEEM) 18
Goldfarb, Donald (IEOR) 40
Goyal, Vineet (IEOR) 40
Gravano, Luis (CS) 24
Gu, Ronghui (CS) 24
Guo, X. Edward (BME) 10
Hendon, Christine (EE) 35
Herman, Irving (APAM) 5
Hess, Henry (BME) 10
Hillman, Elizabeth M. C. (BME) 11
Hirsa, Ali (IEOR) 41
Hirschberg, Julia (CS) 24
Hone, James C. (MechE) 44
Hsu, Daniel (CS) 24
Hung, Clark T. (BME) 11
Im, James (APAM, EEE) 5, 32
Iyengar, Garud (IEOR) 41
Jacobs, Joshua (BME) 11
Jana, Suman (CS) 24
Jelenkovic, Predrag (EE) 35
Jiang, Xiaofan (Fred)(EE) 35
Johar, Hardeep (IEOR) 41
Josz, Cédric (IEOR) 41
Ju, Jingyue (ChE) 15
Juchem, Christoph (BME) 11
Kachani, Soulaymane (IEOR) 41
Kaiser, Gail (CS) 24
Kam, Lance C. (BME) 11
Kasza, Karen (MechE) 45
Katz-Bassett, Ethan (EE) 35
Kawashima, Shiho (CEEM) 18
Kender, John (CS) 24
Khodagholy, Dion (EE) 35
Kidane, Addis (CEEM) 18
Kim, Martha (CS) 25
Kinget, Peter (EE) 36
Knowles, David A. (CS) 25
Konofagou, Elisa E. (BME) 11
Kostic, Zoran (EE) 36
Kougioumtzoglou, Ioannis (CEEM) 18
Krishnaswamy, Harish (EE) 36
Kroer, Christian (IEOR) 41
Kumar, Sanat (ChE) 15
Kymissis, Ioannis (John) (EE) 36
Kysar, Jeffrey (MechE) 45
Lacker, Daniel (IEOR) 42
Laine, Andrew F. (BME) 12
Lall, Upmanu (CEEM, EEE) 18, 32
Lam, Henry (IEOR) 42
Lazar, Aurel A. (EE) 36
Lee, Hyoseon Sophia (IEOR) 42
Lee, Jae Woo (CS) 25
Leong, Kam W. (BME) 12
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INDEX
Lin, Qiao (MechE) 45
Ling, Hoe (CEEM) 19
Lipson, Hod (MechE) 45
Lipson, Michal (APAM, EE) 6, 36
Longman, Richard (CEEM, MechE) 19, 45
Lu, Helen H. (BME) 12
Malkin, Tal (CS) 25
Mandli, Kyle (APAM) 6
Marbella, Lauren (ChE) 15
Marianetti, Chris (APAM) 6
Massimino, Michael J. (MechE) 46
Mauel, Michael (APAM) 6
McFaline-Figueroa, José L. (BME) 12
McKeown, Kathleen (CS) 25
McNeill, V. Faye (ChE) 15
Mesgarani, Nima (EE) 37
Misra, Vishal (CS) 25
Modi, Vijay (MechE) 46
Moment, Aaron (ChE) 15
Morrison, Barclay, III (BME) 12
Myers, Kristin (MechE) 46
Nagaraj, D. R. (EEE) 32
Narayanaswamy, Arvind (MechE) 46
Navratil, Gerald A. (APAM) 6
Nayar, Shree (CS) 25
Nerurkar, Nandan (BME) 12
Nieh, Jason (CS) 26
Noyan, I. Cevdet (APAM, EEE) 6, 32
Obermeyer, Allie (ChE) 15
Odeh, Ibrahim S. (CEEM) 19
O’Shaughnessy, Ben (ChE) 15
Paisley, John (EE) 37
Panayotidi, Thomas (CEEM) 19
Papadimitriou, Christos (CS) 26
Park, Ah-Hyung (Alissa) (EEE) 33
Paz-Soldan, Carlos (APAM) 7
Pe’er, Itsik (CS) 26
Peña-Mora, Feniosky (CEEM, CS, EEE) 19, 26, 33
Pitassi, Toniann (CS) 26
Polvani, Lorenzo (APAM) 7
Preindl, Matthias (EE) 37
Ray, Baishakhi (CS) 26
Ren, Kui (APAM) 7
Ross, Kenneth (CS) 26
Roughgarden, Tim (CS) 27
Rubinstein, Dan (CS) 27
Sagiv, Amir (APAM) 7
Sajda, Paul (BME, EE) 13, 37
Salleb-Aouissi, Ansaf (CS) 27
Schuck, P. James (MechE) 46
Schulzrinne, Henning (CS, EE) 27, 37
Seok, Mingoo (EE) 37
Servedio, Rocco (CS) 27
Sethumadhavan, Simha (CS) 27
Sethuraman, Jay (IEOR) 42
Shepard, Kenneth (BME, EE) 13, 37
Sia, Samuel (BME) 13
Sigman, Karl (IEOR) 42
Simunovic, Mijo (ChE) 16
Smith, Brian (CS) 27
Smyth, Andrew W. (CEEM) 19
Sobel, Adam (APAM) 7
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Somasundaran, Ponisseril (EEE) 33
Song, Shuran (CS) 28
Spiegelman, Marc W. (APAM) 7
Stein, Clifford (CS, IEOR) 28, 42
Steingart, Dan (ChE, EEE) 16, 33
Stolfo, Salvatore (CS) 28
Sun, Steve WaiChing (CEEM) 20
Tang, Wenpin (IEOR) 42
Tippett, Michael (APAM) 8
Truong, Van-Anh (IEOR) 43
Tsividis, Yannis (EE) 38
Urban, Alexander (ChE) 16
Vallancourt, David (EE) 38
Vapnik, Vladimir (CS) 28
Vaughan, J. Thomas (BME) 13
Vedula, Vijay (MechE) 46
Venkataraman, Latha (APAM) 8
Venkatasubramanian, Venkat (ChE) 16
Verma, Nakul (CS) 28
Vondrick, Carl (CS) 28
Vukelic, Sinisa (MechE) 47
Vunjak-Novakovic, Gordana (BME) 13
Waisman, Haim (CEEM) 20
Wang, Kaizheng (IEOR) 43
Wang, Qi (BME) 13
Wang, Wen (APAM, EE) 8, 38
Wang, Xiaodong (EE) 38
Weinstein, Michael (APAM) 8
Weinstein, Omri (CS) 28
Wentzcovitch, Renata (APAM) 8
West, Alan C. (ChE) 16
West, Harry (IEOR, MechE) 43, 47
Whitt, Ward (IEOR) 43
Wiggins, Chris (APAM) 8
Wing, Jeannette (CS) 29
Wright, John (EE) 38
Wright, Rebecca (CS) 29
Wu, Eugene (CS) 29
Wuu, Cheng-Shie (APAM) 9
Xu, Bolun (EEE) 33
Yang, Junfeng (CS) 29
Yang, Yuan (APAM) 9
Yannakakis, Mihalis (CS) 29
Yao, David (IEOR) 43
Yao, Y. Lawrence (MechE) 47
Yesilevskiy, Yevgeniy (MechE) 47
Yin, Huiming (CEEM) 20
Yip, Ngai Yin (EEE) 33
Youngren, Drew (APAM) 9
Yu, Nanfang (APAM) 9
Yu, Zhou (CS) 29
Yuen, Henry (CS) 29
Zemel, Richard (CS) 30
Zhang, Lu (APAM) 9
Zhang, Yi (IEOR) 43
Zheng, Changxi (CS) 30
Zhou, Xunyu (IEOR) 43
Zukowski, Charles (EE) 38
Zussman, Gil (EE) 38
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