CIS Graduate Group Faculty
Below is an alphabetical list of faculty who are members of the CIS Graduate Group. Our graduate group faculty have research activities across many areas of computer science and are from schools throughout Penn, including Penn Engineering and the School of Arts and Sciences. By clicking the name of the faculty member, you can view their profile information.
For faculty listings sorted by research topic, or to learn more about each area of research, please visit the CIS Research Areas page. To see only faculty with academic appointments within the department, view our departmental faculty list.
Name | Rank | Dept. | Research Area(s) |
Shivani Agarwal | Associate Professor | CIS | Machine Learning |
Rajeev Alur | Professor | CIS | Hardware and Software Systems: Real-Time, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems; Theory: Algorithms and Complexity |
Sebastian Angel | Assistant Professor | CIS | Distributed Systems, Security and Privacy, Computer Networks |
Norm Badler | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Computer Graphics and Animation |
Ruzena Bajcsy | Professor Emeritus | CIS | Computer Vision, AI, Robotics, Assistive Technologies, Human Modeling, Tele-immersion, Sensor Networks |
Ryan Baker | Associate Professor | CIS | Learning Analytics |
Yoseph Barash | Assistant Professor | Genetics | Intelligent Systems: Machine Learning; Information Systems: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics |
Matt Blaze | Adjunct Professor | CIS | Networks: Security and Privacy |
Peter Buneman | Adjunct Professor | CIS | Database Systems |
Chris Callison-Burch | Associate Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Natural Language Processing |
Pratik Chaudhari | Assistant Professor | CIS | Machine Learning and Computer Vision: Deep Learning, Statistical Physics, Stochastic Processes, Reinforcement Learning, Partial Differential Equations, Distributed Algorithms, Robotics and Control: Urban Autonomous Navigation, Formal Verification, Motion Planning |
Kostas Daniilidis | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Computer Vision |
Susan Davidson | Professor | CIS | Information Systems: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Databases and Database Management |
Anindya De | Assistant Professor | CIS | Algorithms and Complexity |
Andre DeHon | Associate Professor | ESE | Hardware and Software Systems: Computer Architecture |
Joseph Devietti | Assistant Professor | CIS | Hardware and Software Systems: Computer Architecture |
David Farber | Professor Emeritus | CIS | |
Eric Fou | Assistant Professor | CIS | Computer Science Education, Learning Technologies and Learning Analytics |
Jean Gallier | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Computer Vision; Computer Graphics and Animation |
Jacob Gardener | Assistant Professor | CIS | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence |
James Gee | Associate Professor | Radiologic Science | Information Systems: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics |
Justin Gottschlich | Adjunct Assistant Professor | CIS | Machine programming, Machine learning, Anomaly detection, Real-time systems |
Andreas Haeberlen | Associate Professor | CIS | Networks: Networked Systems, Networks: Security and Privacy |
William Hanson, III | Professor | Anesthesiology | Anesthesiology, Surgery, Internal Medicine |
Hamed Hassani | Assistant Professor | CIS, ESE | Coding and Information Theory, Machine Learning, Theory and Applications of Graphic Models |
Nadia Heninger | Assistant Professor | CIS | Networks: Security and Privacy; Theory: Algorithms and Complexity |
Zachary Ives | Professor | CIS | Information Management: Databases and Data Management, Systems: Networks and Distributed Systems |
Ali Jadbabaie | Professor | ESE | Networks: Networked Systems |
Dinesh Jayaraman | Assistant Professor | CIS, ESE | Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning |
Chenfanfu Jiang | Assistant Professor | CIS | : Computer graphics, 3D animation, Artificial life, Scientific Computing, Computational Solids and Fluids, Virtual Reality etc |
Yasmin Kafai | Professor | Learning Sciences | Constructionism | Learning Sciences | Computer Science Education | Equity and Diversity | Serious Gaming |
Sampath Kannan | Professor | CIS | Information Systems: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Theory: Algorithms and Complexity |
Ladislav Kavan | Assistant Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Computer Graphics and Animation; Computer Vision |
Michael Kearns | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Machine Learning; Networks: Security and Privacy; Theory: Algorithms and Complexity |
Sanjeev Khanna | Professor | CIS | Information Management: Databases and Data Management; Theory: Algorithms and Complexity |
Junhyong Kim | Professor | Biology | Information Systems: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics |
Daniel Koditschek | Professor | ESE | Intelligent Systems: Robotics |
Konrad Kording | Professor | CIS, BE | Data Science, Neuroscience, Medicine, Rehabilitation, Statistics, Machine Learning, Science of science |
Vijay Kumar | Professor | MEAM | Intelligent Systems: Robotics; Hardware and Software Systems: Real-Time, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems |
Stephen Lane | Professor | CIS | Robotics, physically-based character animation, embodied intelligent agents, virtual reality user interfaces |
Benjamin C. Lee | Professor | CIS, ESE | Computer architecture and systems, Statistical machine learning, Algorithmic economics |
Dan Lee | Professor | ESE | Intelligent Systems: Robotics |
Insup Lee | Professor | CIS | Hardware and Software Systems: Real-Time, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems; Theory: Formal Methods and Logic |
Jing (Jane) Li | Associate Professor | CIS, ESE | Architecture and Compilers, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, VLSI, Microelectronics |
Mingyao Li | Associate Professor | Biostatistics | Statistical Genetics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology |
Mark Liberman | Professor | Linguistics | Intelligent Systems: Natural Language Processing |
Vincent Liu | Assistant Professor | CIS | Distributed Systems, Computer Networks |
Boon Thau Loo | Professor | CIS | Information Systems: Databases and Data Management; Networks: Network Systems |
Rahul Mangharam | Associate Professor | ESE | Hardware and Software Systems: Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems |
Mitch Marcus | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Natural Language Processing |
Max Mintz | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Robotics |
Jason Moore | Professor | Biostatistics & Epidemiology | Genomics, Computational Biology |
Chris Murphy | Associate Professor | CIS | Computer Science Education, Software Engineering |
Mayur Naik | Professor | CIS | Programming Languages, Formal Methods, Software Engineering |
Ani Nenkova | Associate Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Natural Language Processing |
George Pappas | Professor | ESE | Intelligent Systems: Robotics; Hardware and Software Systems: Real-Time, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems |
Richard P. Paul | Professor Emeritus | CIS | |
Robin Pemantle | Professor | Mathematics | Intelligent Systems: Machine Learning |
Linh Thi Xuan Phan | Assistant Professor | CIS | Hardware and Software Systems: Real-Time, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems |
Benjamin Pierce | Professor | CIS | Information Systems: Databases and Information Management; Theory: Formal Methods and Logic; Programming Languages and Program Analysis |
Joshua Plotkin | Professor | Biology | Information Systems: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics |
Michael Posa | Assistant Professor | CIS | Robotics, Control Systems, Dynamics |
Noah Prywes | Professor Emeritus | CIS | |
Alexander Rakhlin | Assistant Professor | Statistics | Intelligent Systems: Machine Learning |
Aaron Roth | Associate Professor | CIS | Information Systems: Databases and Data Management; Theory: Algorithms and Complexity |
Dan Roth | Professor | CIS | Computational foundations of intelligent behavior, Natural language understanding, Machine learning, Reasoning |
Harvey Rubin | Professor | Medicine | Information Systems: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics |
Saswati Sarkar | Professor | ESE | Communication Systems, Wireless Networks |
Andre Scedrov | Professor | Mathematics | Theory: Formal Methods and Logic |
Swapneel Sheth | Associate Professor | CIS | Computer Science Education, Software Engineering, Privacy |
Jianbo Shi | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Computer Vision |
Jonathan Smith | Professor | CIS | Networks: Networked Systems; Security and Privacy |
David Srolovitz | Professor | MSE/MEAM | Information Systems: Databases and Information Management |
Mark Steedman | Adjunct Professor | CIS | Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science |
Cynthia Sung | Assistant Professor | CIS, MEAM | Computational Design, Robotics, Mechanical Systems |
Val Tannen | Professor | CIS | Information Systems: Databases and Data Management; Theory: Formal Methods and Logic |
Camillo Jose Taylor | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Robotics; Computer Vision; Hardware and Software Systems: Real-Time, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems |
Lyle Ungar | Professor | CIS | Intelligent Systems: Machine Learning; Information Systems: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics |
Rakesh Vohra | Professor | ESE | Theory: Algorithms and Complexity |
Li-San Wang | Associate Professor | Pathology & Lab Medicine | Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia, Computational Methods in Genomics Research |
Duncan Watts | Professor | CIS | Computational Social Science, Network Science |
Bonnie Webber | Adjunct Professor | CIS | |
Scott Weinstein | Professor | Philosophy | Theory: Formal Methods and Logic |
Stephanie Weirich | Professor | CIS | Theory: Formal Methods and Logic; Programming Languages and Program Analysis |
Charles Yang | Associate Professor | Linguistics | Intelligent Systems: Natural Language Processing |
Mark Yim | Professor | CIs, MEAM, ESE | Robotics, Mechanical Systems, Mechanical Design |
Christopher Yoo | Professor | Law | Networks: Security and Privacy |
Steve Zdancewic | Professor | CIS | Networks: Security and Privacy; Theory: Programming Languages and Program Analysis |