Computer Science
Field Description
The Field of Computer Science is intended for students who are primarily interested in the general aspects of computational processes, both theoretical and practical. Areas of research in the field include architecture, artificial intelligence, computational biology, database systems, graphics, human interaction, machine learning, natural language processing, programming languages, robotics, scientific computing, security, systems and networking, theory of computation, and vision.
Contact Information
Website: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Email: phd@cs.cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-8593
110C Gates Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Field Manual
Subject and Degrees
Computer Science
- Computer Science (M.Eng.) (Cornell Tech (NYC))
- Computer Science (M.Eng.) (Ithaca)
- Computer Science (M.S.) (Ithaca)
- Computer Science (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)
Robotics
Concentrations by Subject
Computer Science
- artificial intelligence
- computer science
- programming languages and logics
- scientific computing and applications
- systems
- theory of computation
Robotics
- robotics
Faculty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Machine Learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: information theory, machine learning, algorithmic statistics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems; theory of computation
- Research Interests: distributed systems, systems for big data analytics, networking, design analysis of algorithms
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems
- Research Interests: computer science; operating systems; information organization and retrieval
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems
- Research Interests: theory and practice of dependable distributed computing
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: I work in the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, vision, and robotics. My current main research focus is algorithms for natural language understanding with specific interest in situated interactions.
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: human-computer interactions
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; programming languages and logics; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: interactive rendering; global illumination algorithms; image-based modeling and rendering
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: Stochastic Modeling, Design of Scalable Algorithms, Matching Markets and Social Computing, Control of Information-Flows, Learning and Recommendation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: high performance and energy efficient parallel; computer architecture; VSLI design
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; scientific computing and applications; systems
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Machine Learning, Robotics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: numerical analysis; numerical linear algebra; modeling microelectromechanical systems; numerical software engineering
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems
- Research Interests: distributed computing; fault-tolerant network systems; distributed systems security; large-scale network applications
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems
- Research Interests: Architecture and VLSI
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning Theory, Statistical Foundations for Data Science, High Dimensional Statistics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: robotics, sensor fusion, machine learning and perception
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: natural language processing; machine learning; artificial intelligence
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: use of randomness in computation, computational complexity theory and cryptography
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: systems that can learn how humans behave and interact with their environment and each other
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: programming languages and logics
- Research Interests: Programming Languages, Security
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems; theory of computation
- Research Interests: algorithms
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: Development of algorithms in applied and computational mathematics (e.g. numerical linear algebra, computational quantum chemistry, and spectral clustering)
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: Understanding and modeling complex human social behavior using large scale textual data.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: computer graphics; computer vision; human-computer interaction; computational photography
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; systems
- Research Interests: Developing and understanding algorithmic, software, and hardware techniques for high-performance machine learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Machine Learning, Robotics
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: human computer interaction(HCI) and information and communication technologies for development with a focus on designing and evaluating systems that improve the lives of underserved populations in low-income regions
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: programming languages and logics; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: PL, Software engineering
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: vision; computational biology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: High-dimensional statistics and probability, algorithms, statistical physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; programming languages and logics
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: AI, Graphics, Computer vision, Robotics
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems
- Research Interests: mobile systems and applications, participatory sensing, health applications, privacy
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; Robotics: robotics
- Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Distributed systems, computer vision, and robotics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; programming languages and logics; systems
- Research Interests: intersection between programming languages, databases and formal methods
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; systems
- Research Interests: Databases, Responsible Data Science, and Causal Inference
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Mechanism/Market design and data science, with a focus on design of democracy, markets, and other societal systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: optimal transport theory, statistical machine learning, information theory, high-dimensional statistic, applied probability and interacting particle systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Processes for group decision-making that serve the public good
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: AI, Natural Language Processing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: realistic image synthesis; modeling; scientific visualization; computer-aided design; image processing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: Computational Biology, Scientific Computing, systems and Networking
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems
- Research Interests: systems; computer science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: Systems, Machine Learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; programming languages and logics; theory of computation
- Research Interests: logic; artificial intelligence; distributed computing; reasoning about uncertainty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: Rich visual understanding (object recognition, object detection, segmentation and beyond), machine learning (deep learning, convolutional networks)
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: machine learning;data mining; info retrieval, & AI, esp. targeting questions that integrally involve both people & computing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: human-robot interaction, human-robot teamwork and collaboration in particular with respect to interaction fluency
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: programming languages and logics; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Programming Languages, Theory of Computing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: machine learning; text-mining; statistical learning theory; information access
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: Interaction with automation; interaction design research; human robot interaction; automotive interaction design
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: human interaction, security
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: robotics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: casual inference, machine learning, personalization, optimization in statistics, data-driven optimization under uncertainty, online decision making, decision making and operations in health care
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Theory of computation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; theory of computation
- Research Interests: theory of computation and computer science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; theory of computation
- Research Interests: algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computational geometry; computational biology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Machine Learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: robotics; motion planning; task planning; language for robotics; human-robot interaction
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational genomics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: natural language processing
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: machine learning, robotics, computational neuroscience
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: programming languages and logics; systems
- Research Interests: software engineering, applied formal methods
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: AI, Scientific computing, Vision
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: machine learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: appearance models for natural materials; 3D scanning; processing scanned geometric data; image-based appearance measurements for 3D objects
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems
- Research Interests: multithreaded and multiprocessor architectures for high performance and programmability; microarchitecture; hardware-software interaction
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Mathematical Foundations of Data Science, Data Science in Science, Machine Learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: Machine learning, text mining, digital humanities
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, Machine Learning, Vision
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; programming languages and logics; systems
- Research Interests: programming languages; compilers; distributed systems; runtime systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; programming languages and logics; systems
- Research Interests: programming languages
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: Social media, data mining, human-computer interaction, computational social science, interactive systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: wireless networking, Mobile Systems and Mobile Health.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; programming languages and logics; systems; theory of computation
- Research Interests: logic; applied mathematics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; systems
- Research Interests: human-computer interaction; information and communication technologies for development; computer science education
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Theory of Computing, Artificial Intelligence
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: theory; computer science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: design and coordination of bio-inspired robot collectives and their natural counterparts
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Machine Learning
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Software Security, applied and theoretical cryptography
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: Digital Fabrication, Human-Computer Interaction
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: natural language processing, machine learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: computer vision, data mining, machine learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: programming languages and logics; systems
- Research Interests: hardware-software abstractions,including computer architecture, compilers, software engineering
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; programming languages and logics; systems
- Research Interests: distributed systems security and fault-tolerance; mobile code; concurrent programming; operating systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: Theory of Computation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: artificial intelligence and experimental computer science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: culturally embedded computing; human-computer interaction; everyday computing; affective computing; interactive art; autonomous agents
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; systems
- Research Interests: computer security and privacy
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; scientific computing and applications; theory of computation
- Research Interests: scheduling; computational complexity
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: programming languages and logics; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Programming Languages, Theory of Computing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: Security, Systems and networking
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: computer graphics; computer vision
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: Security, theory
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; theory of computation
- Research Interests: Machine Learning, Statistical Learning Theory, Online Learning and Decision Making, Optimization, Empirical Process Theory, Concentration Inequalities, Game Theory
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: lattices, cryptography, and theoretical computer science more broadly
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: machine learning, reinforcement learning, decision making under uncertainty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: AI, Machine Learning, Vision
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems; theory of computation
- Research Interests: computer networks; large-scale complex networks; stochastic networks and processes; optimization theory; control theory and applications; game theory
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; theory of computation
- Research Interests: combinatorics; complexity theory; communication networks; QoS and data flow
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: Scientific Computing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: databases; data science; optimization
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; systems
- Research Interests: distributed computing; fault-tolerance; distributed multimedia systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: natural language processing, machine learning, cognitive modeling
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Human-computer interaction
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: information theory especially compression, feedback communication, security and quantum information
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: data mining, machine learning, health data science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: information systems; distributed systems; network systems; peer-to-peer systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science
- Research Interests: Machine Learning: high dimensional data analysis, machine learned web-search ranking, sentiment analysis, metric learning, multitask- and transfer-learning settings and bio-medical applications
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: Quantum computation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: computer science; theory of computation
- Research Interests: algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computer science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; scientific computing and applications
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Computing and Applications
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; theory of computation
- Research Interests: theory of computation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: scientific computing and applications
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: theory of computation
- Research Interests: theory of computing, artificial intelligence (machine learning), scientific computing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computer science; theory of computation
- Research Interests: computer vision
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: artificial intelligence
- Research Interests: ubiquitous computing, wearable computing, human computer interaction
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Computer Science: systems
- Research Interests: computer-aided design methodologies, optimization algorithms, compilers & computer architectures of gigascale integrated systems, esp. systems-on-chips