
Daniel Anderson
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science Department
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Education
- B. Comp. Sc., Monash University
- B.S. (Hons) Applied Mathematics, Monash University
- M.S. Computer Science Research, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ph.D. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests
- Parallel Algorithms
- Parallel Programming

Andrea Bajcsy
Assistant Professor
Robotics Institute
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Education
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Research Interests
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Safety Analysis
- Optimal Control
- Game Theory
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Dan DeBlasio
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computational Biology Department
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Education
- B.S. Computer Science, University of Central Florida
- M.S. Computer Science, University of Central Florida
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Arizona
Research Interests
- Sequence Analysis
- Multiple Sequence Alignment
- Machine Learning
- Genomics
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Mona Diab
Director
Language Technologies Institute
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Education
- B.Sc. The American University, Cairo
- M.Sc. George Washington University
- Ph.D. University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
- Postdoc Stanford University
Research Interests
- Natural Language Processing
- Computational Linguistics
- Cross Lingual Multilingual Processing
- Machine Learning
- Social Media Processing
- Computational Lexical Semantics

Fernando Diaz
Associate Professor
Language Technologies Institute
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Education
- B.S. Computer Science, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
- M.S. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Interests
- Information Retrieval
- Recommender Systems
- Social Impacts of AI
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Chris Donahue
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
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Education
- B.S. Computer Science, UT Austin
- Ph.D. Music, UC San Diego
- Postdoc Computer Science, Stanford
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Generative Modeling
- Music Information Retrieval
- Signal Processing
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Albert Gu
Assistant Professor
Machine Learning Department
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Education
- B.S. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- B.S. Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ph.D. Computer Science, Stanford University
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Ichnowski
Assistant Professor
Robotics Institute
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Education
- B.A. Computer Science, UC Berkeley
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Postdoc Computer Science (Robotics/Systems), UC Berkeley
Research Interests
- Robot Manipulation
- Cloud Robotics
- Motion Planning
- Optimization
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Daphne Ippolito
Assistant Professor
Language Technologies Institute
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Education
- B.S. Computer Science, University of Toronto
- M.S.E. Computer and Information Technology, University of Pennsylvania
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania,
Research Interests
- Natural Language Generation
- Language Models

Anne Kohlbrenner
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science Department
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Education
- B.S. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- M.A. Computer Science, Princeton University
- Ph.D. Computer Science, Princeton University (anticipated)
Research Interests
- Computer Science Education
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Jason Li
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
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Education
- B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics
- Ph.D. Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization (ACO), Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests
- Modern Algorithmic Techniques
- Fast Graph Algorithms

Lei Li
Assistant Professor
Language Technologies Institute
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Education
- BS Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Ph.D. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Machine Translation
- AI for Drug Discovery

Minchen Li
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
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Education
- B.Eng. Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University
- M.S. Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
- Computer Graphics
- Computational Mechanics
- Robotics
- Numerical Optimization
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Auldyn Matthews-McGee
Assistant Teaching Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
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Education
- B.S. Mathematics, Ohio University
- B.A. Spanish, Ohio University
- B.A. Psychology, Ohio University
- M.S., Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests
- Healthcare Design
- Design for Social Impact
- Generative AI in Education
- Aesthetics
- Imagination Age
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Riccardo Paccagnella
Assistant Professor
Software and Societal Systems
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Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests
- Computer Security

Jignesh Patel
Professor
Computer Science Department
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Education
- B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering, IIT-Varanasi
- M.S. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin—Madison
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Research Interests
- Database Systems
- Computer Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Applied Machine Learning

Richard Peng
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
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Education
- B.Math., University of Waterloo
- Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests
- Algorithms
- Combinatorial Scientific Computing
- Data Structures

Feras Saad
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
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Education
- S.B. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- M.Eng. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ph.D. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
- Probabilistic Programming Languages
- Bayesian Modeling and Inference
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Statistics

Guanya Shi
Assistant Professor
Robotics Institute
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Education
- B.Eng. Vehicle Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Ph.D. Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology
Research Interests
- Nonlinear Control
- Reinforcement Learning
- Online Learning
- Robotic Control
- Data-Driven Control
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Michael Skirpan
Assistant Teaching Professor
Software and Societal Systems/Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Education
- B.S. Economics (minor: physics), University of Pittsburgh
- B.S. Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University Colorado Boulder
Research Interests
- Computing Ethics
- Pedagogy
- Technology Governance
- Emerging Tech Policy
- Risk
- Public Communication of Science and Technology
- Experience Design

Laura Vinchesi
Assistant Teaching Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
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Education
- B.A. Graphic Design, Carnegie Mellon University
- MFA Painting, Cranbrook Art Academy
Research Interests
- Visual and Product Design in Both B-to-C and B-to-B Environments
- Design Thinking As a Driver of Innovation

Wenshan Wang
Systems Scientist
Robotics Institute
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Education
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology
- Ph.D. Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research Interests
- Learning-Based SLAM
- 3D Scene Understanding
- Online Learning
- Lifelong Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Imitation Learning
- Exploration
- Neural-Symbolic Learing
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Sean Welleck
Assistant Professor
Language Technologies Institute
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Education
- B.S.E. Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
- M.S.E. Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
- Ph.D. Computer Science, New York University
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Language Generation
- AI + Mathematics

Chenyan Xiong
Associate Professor
Language Technologies Institute
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Education
- B.Eng. Computer Science, Wuhan University
- M.S. Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- M.S. Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ph.D. Language and Information Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests
- Information Retrieval
- Language Models
- Language Representations

Yun William Yu
Assistant Professor
Computational Biology Department
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Education
- B.A. Chemistry & Germanic Studies, Indiana University
- B.S. Mathematics, Indiana University
- MRes Biomedical Physical Chemistry, Imperial College London
- MPhil Applied Mathematics, Imperial College London
- Ph.D. Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
- Probabilistic Sketches
- Compressive Algorithms for Data Science
- Computational Biology
- Bioinformatics

Martin Jinye Zhang
Assistant Professor
Computational Biology Department
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Education
- B.Eng. Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Research Interests
- Statistical Genetics
- Machine Learning
- GWAS
- scRNA-seq
- Multi-Omics
- Genetic Architecture
- Casual Inference
- Multiple Hypothesis Testing
- Multi-Armed Bandits
- Algorithm Acceleration
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