Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

New Faculty 2021 

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Check out the 2021 Lightning Research Talks  to learn more about what our new faculty are working on!

Stephanie Balzer

Stephanie Balzer

Assistant Research Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • Ph.D. ETH Zurich

Research Interests

  • Programming Language Theory
  • Program Verification
  • Logic

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Zackory  Erickson

Zackory Erickson

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • B.S. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
  • M.S. Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Interests

  • Physical Human-Robot Interaction
  • Assistive Robotics
  • Physics Simulation
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal Perception
  • Healthcare Robotics
  • Mobile Manipulation

Pronouns: he/him/his

Zakia  Hammal

Zakia Hammal

Systems Scientist

Robotics Institute

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Joseph Fourier

Research Interests

  • Computer vision
  • Machine learning
  • Multimodal human behavior modeling
Christina  Harrington

Christina Harrington

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
  • M.S. North Carolina State University
  • Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Interests

  • Evaluation and ergonomic assessment of consumer products
  • User research
  • Inclusive and accessible design for special populations
  • User experience design
  • Design research methods (Ethnographic and contextual field research)
Zhihao  Jia

Zhihao Jia

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.S. Tsinghua University
  • M.S. Stanford University
  • Ph.D. Stanford University

Research Interests

  • Systems
  • Machine Learning

Pronouns: he/him/his

Patrick Park

Patrick Park

Assistant Professor

Institute for Software Research

Education

  • B.A. Yonsei University
  • M.A. Yonsei University
  • Ph.D. Cornell University

Research Interests

  • Social Networks
  • Computational Social Science
  • Societal Computing
  • Online Communities

Pronouns: he/him/his

Dimitrios Skarlatos

Dimitrios Skarlatos

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.S. Technical University of Crete
  • M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

  • Computer Architecture
  • Operating Systems
  • Security

Pronouns: he/him/his

Wennie Tabib

Wennie Tabib

System Scientist

Robotics Institute

Education

  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Active Perception
  • Sensing and Perception
  • Aerial Robotics
  • Field Robotics

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Shubham Tulsiani

Shubham Tulsiani

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • 3-D Vision and Recognition
  • World Modeling
  • Perception for Robotics
  • Robot Learning

Pronouns: he/him/his

Françeska Xhakaj

Françeska Xhakaj

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. Lafayette College
  • M.S. Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Educational Technologies
  • Learning Sciences

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Wenting  Zheng

Wenting Zheng

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • M.E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

  • System Security
  • Applied Cryptography

Pronouns: she/her/hers