Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

New Faculty 2023

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Daniel  Anderson

Daniel Anderson

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department

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

Andrea Bajcsy

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

Education

  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Safety Analysis
  • Optimal Control
  • Game Theory

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Dan DeBlasio

Dan DeBlasio

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computational Biology Department

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

Pronouns: he/him/his

Mona Diab

Mona Diab

Director

Language Technologies Institute

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

Fernando Diaz

Associate Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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

Pronouns: he/him/his

Chris Donahue

Chris Donahue

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

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

Pronouns: he/him/his

Albert Gu

Albert Gu

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department

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

Jeff Ichnowski

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

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

Pronouns: he/him/his

Daphne Ippolito

Daphne Ippolito

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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

Anne Kohlbrenner

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department

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

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Jason Li

Jason Li

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

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

Lei Li

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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

Minchen Li

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

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

Pronouns: he/him/his

Auldyn Matthews-McGee

Auldyn Matthews-McGee

Assistant Teaching Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

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

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Riccardo Paccagnella

Riccardo Paccagnella

Assistant Professor

Software and Societal Systems

Education

  • Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

  • Computer Security
Jignesh Patel

Jignesh Patel

Professor

Computer Science Department

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

Richard Peng

Associate Professor

Computer Science Department

Education

  • B.Math., University of Waterloo
  • Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

  • Algorithms
  • Combinatorial Scientific Computing
  • Data Structures
Feras Saad

Feras Saad

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

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

Guanya Shi

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

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

Pronouns: he/him/his

Michael Skirpan

Michael Skirpan

Assistant Teaching Professor

Software and Societal Systems/Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Laura Vinchesi

Assistant Teaching Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

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

Wenshan Wang

Systems Scientist

Robotics Institute

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

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Sean Welleck

Sean Welleck

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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

Chenyan Xiong

Associate Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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 Yu

Yun William Yu

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology Department

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 Zhang

Martin Jinye Zhang

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology Department

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

Pronouns: he/him/his