Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

New Faculty 2022 

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Check out the 2022 Lightning Research Talks to learn more about what our new faculty are working on!

Swarnalatha Ashok

Swarnalatha Ashok

Associate Teaching Professor

Software and Societal Systems Department

Education

  • MSC Pilani
  • PGDip Annamalai

Research Interests

  • Model Driven Architecture
  • Software Design

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Andrew Begel

Andrew Begel

Associate Professor

Software and Societal Systems Department

Education

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

he/him

Fraser Brown

Fraser Brown

Assistant Professor

Software and Societal Systems Department

Education

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

Research Interests

  • Security
  • Program Verification
  • Bug Finding
  • Compilation

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Henry  Chai

Henry Chai

Assistant Teaching Professor

Machine Learning Department

Education

  • B.S.E. Princeton University
  • M.S. Washington University in St. Louis
  • Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis

Research Interests

  • Active Learning (Both the Machine Learning and Pedagogy Meanings)

Pronouns: he/him/his

Vince Conitzer

Vince Conitzer

Professor

Computer Science Department/Machine Learning Department

Education

  • A.B. Harvard University
  • M.S. Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • AI
  • Multi-agent Systems
  • Game Theory
  • Philosophy
  • Machine Learning

Pronouns: he/him/his

Sauvik Das

Sauvik Das

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.S. Georgia Institute of Technology
  • M.S. Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Human-Centered (security, privacy, AI, and computing)
Daniel  Fried

Daniel Fried

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

Education

  • B.S. University of Arizona
  • M.Phil. University of Cambridge
  • Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Language Grounding
  • Interaction

Pronouns: he/him/his

Aayush Jain

Aayush Jain

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • Ph.D. UCLA
Jiaoyang Li

Jiaoyang Li

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • B.A. Tsinghua University
  • Ph.D. University of Southern California

Research Interests

  • AI
  • Multi-robot Systems
  • AI Planning and Search
  • Optimization
  • Algorithms

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Jose Lugo-Martinez

Jose Lugo-Martinez

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology Department

Education

  • B.S. University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
  • M.S. University of California-San Diego
  • Ph.D. Indiana University

Research Interests

  • Computational Biology
  • Automated Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Biomedical Data Science

Pronouns: he/him/his

Aditi Raghunathan

Aditi Raghunathan

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • Ph.D. Stanford University
Maarten Sap

Maarten Sap

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

Education

  • B.S. EPFL
  • M.S. University of Washington
  • Ph.D. University of Washington

Research Interests

  • Understanding Social Bias In Language
  • Social Commonsense Reasoning
  • Ethics In AI

Pronouns: he/him/his

Josh Sunshine

Josh Sunshine

Assistant Professor

Software and Societal Systems Department/Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Education

  • B.A. Brandeis University
  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Programmer Productivity
  • End-User Software Engineering
  • Programming Language Design
  • Education Technology
Sherry Tongshuang Wu

Sherry Tongshuang Wu

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute/Language Technologies Institute

Education

  • B.S. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • M.S. University of Washington
  • Ph.D. University of Washington

Research Interests

  • Human-AI Interaction
  • NLP Model Analysis And Testing
  • Data Curation
  • Visualization
  • HCI
  • NLP

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Bryan Wilder

Bryan Wilder

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department

Education

  • B.S. University of Central Florida
  • Ph.D. Harvard University

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Optimization
  • Public Health
  • Social Impact