Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

New Faculty 2020

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Yonatan  Bisk

Yonatan Bisk

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

Education

  • B.S. University of Texas at Austin
  • Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Grounded Language
  • Robotics
  • Unsupervised Learning
Tianqi  Chen

Tianqi Chen

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • M.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Ph.D. University of Washington

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Systems

Pronouns: he/him/his

Motahhare Eslami

Motahhare Eslami

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. Sharif University of Technology
  • M.S. Sharif University of Technology
  • Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Social Computing
  • Data Mining
Sarah  Fox

Sarah Fox

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • M.S. Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. University of Washington

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
  • Design
  • Science and Technology Studies
Hoda Heidari

Hoda Heidari

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department and Institute for Software Research

Education

  • M.Sc. University of Pennsylvania
  • Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests

  • Societal and Economic Aspects of AI

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Vincent Hellendoorn

Vincent Hellendoorn

Assistant Professor

Institute for Software Research

Education

  • B.S. Delft University
  • M.S. Delft University
  • Ph.D. UC Davis

Research Interests

  • Software Engineering
  • Machine Learning
  • Program Analysis

Pronouns: he/him/his

Ken Holstein

Ken Holstein

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. University of Pittsburgh
  • M.S. Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-AI Collaboration
  • Participatory Design
  • Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
  • Learning Sciences
  • Fairness and Explainability

Pronouns: he/him/his/they/them/their

Alexandra Ion

Alexandra Ion

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.Sc. Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
  • M.Sc. Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
  • Ph.D. Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

Research Interests

  • Metamaterials
  • Fabrication
  • Computational Design Tools
  • Programmable Matter

Pronouns: she/her/hers

David Lindlbauer

David Lindlbauer

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
  • M.S. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
  • Ph.D. Technische Universität Berlin

Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Mixed Reality
  • Computational Interaction
  • Applied Perception

Pronouns: he/him/his

Zac  Manchester

Zac Manchester

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • B.S. Cornell University
  • Ph.D. Cornell University

Research Interests

  • Robotic Motion Planning
  • Control
  • Optimization
  • Space Exploration

Pronouns: he/him/his

Guillaume Marçais

Guillaume Marçais

Systems Scientist

Computational Biology Department

Education

  • M.S. University of Paris VII
  • Ph.D. University of Maryland

Research Interests

  • Computational Problems Inspired by Biological Problems
  • Sketching
  • Data-Structure for Large Genomics Data Sets

Pronouns: he/him/his

Nikolas Martelaro

Nikolas Martelaro

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
  • Ph.D. Stanford University

Research Interests

  • Interaction Design for Autonomous Systems
  • Human-Machine and Human-Robot Interaction
  • Design Theory and Methods
  • Design Tools
  • Interactive Device Design
  • Mechatronics
Melisa  Martinez

Melisa Orta Martinez

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • B.S. Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
  • M.S. Stanford University
  • Ph.D. Stanford University

Research Interests

  • Haptics
  • Haptic Device Design
  • Soft Actuator Design
  • Educational Technology

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Dominik Moritz

Dominik Moritz

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. Hasso Platner Institute
  • Ph.D. University of Washington

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Constraint Solvers
  • Domain-specific Languages

Pronouns: he/him/his

Rohan Padhye

Rohan Padhye

Assistant Professor

Institute for Software Research

Education

  • B.E. University of Mumbai
  • M.Tech. IIT Bombay
  • Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Program Analysis
  • Software Testing
  • Security

Pronouns: he/him/his

Deepak Pathak

Deepak Pathak

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute and Machine Learning Department

Education

  • B. Tech. IIT Kanpur
  • Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Robotics

Pronouns: he/him/his

Elaine (Runting) Shi

Elaine (Runting) Shi

Associate Professor

Computer Science Department and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Cryptography
  • Algorithms
  • Foundations of Blockchains
  • Security
  • Programming Languages

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Emma Strubell

Emma Strubell

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

Education

  • B.S. University of Maine
  • M.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Large-Scale Natural Language Understanding
Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.S. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
  • M.S. Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Computer Science Education
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Community-Empowering Technologies
  • Antiquarian Horology

Pronouns: he/him/his

Shinji Watanabe

Shinji Watanabe

Associate Professor

Language Technologies Institute

Education

  • Ph.D. Waseda University

Research Interests

  • Speech Recognition
  • Speech Enhancement
  • Speech Synthesis
  • Spoken Dialog System
  • Machine Learning

Pronouns: he/him/his

Steven (Zhiwei) Wu

Steven (Zhiwei) Wu

Assistant Professor

Institute for Software Research and Machine Learning Department

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Algorithms
  • Privacy
  • Fairness
  • Algorithmic Economics

Pronouns: he/him/his

Jun-Yan Zhu

Jun-Yan Zhu

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.E. Tsinghua University
  • Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning

Pronouns: he/him/his