Computer Science

Why Earn Your EngScD in Computer Science at Columbia?

Columbia gives you a rigorous Ivy League education in the heart of a vibrant global city for unmatched opportunities and impact.

As a student, you’ll benefit from:

New York City
Join top talent in one of the world’s most exciting and influential cities. Students choose Columbia Engineering over MIT, Berkeley, and others because of the New York City ecosystem of research and enterprise that can’t be found anywhere else.
Broad Research Opportunities
Access opportunities across an incredible array of laboratories, centers, and groups including the Data Science Institute, Center of Artificial Intelligence Technology, and the Theory of Computing Group.
World-Class Faculty
Faculty are accomplished scholars and passionate instructors engaged in cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research in areas like augmented reality, high throughput genomics, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Columbia University
With a PhD from Columbia, you’ll join one of the world’s most international, accomplished networks of researchers and alumni. Your Ivy League credential will open doors wherever you go and the relationships you build here will accelerate your career.

Columbia gives you a rigorous Ivy League education in the heart of a vibrant global city for unmatched opportunities and impact.

As a student, you’ll benefit from:

New York City
Join top talent in one of the world’s most exciting and influential cities. Students choose Columbia Engineering over MIT, Berkeley, and others because of the New York City ecosystem of research and enterprise that can’t be found anywhere else.
Broad Research Opportunities
Access opportunities across an incredible array of laboratories, centers, and groups including the Data Science Institute, Center of Artificial Intelligence Technology, and the Theory of Computing Group.
World-Class Faculty
Faculty are accomplished scholars and passionate instructors engaged in cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research in areas like augmented reality, high throughput genomics, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Columbia University
With a PhD from Columbia, you’ll join one of the world’s most international, accomplished networks of researchers and alumni. Your Ivy League credential will open doors wherever you go and the relationships you build here will accelerate your career.

Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 2024-present
- Assistant Professor, UIUC, 2023-2024
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2022-2023
Honors & Awards
- AAAI New Faculty Highlights, 2025
- Amazon Research Award, Fall 2024 Teachers Ranked as Excellent at UIUC, Spring 2024
- Best Conference Paper Award, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
- Sony Faculty Innovation Award, 2023
- Best Systems Paper Award, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023
- Finalist, Best Paper/Best Student Paper Awards, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023
- First Place Recipient, Ernst A. Guillemin Master's Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making at MIT, 2021
Education
- PhD, EECS, MIT
- MS, EECS, MIT
- BS, CS, Peking University

Professional Experience
- Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Columbia University, 2025-
- Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2018-
Education
- PhD, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
- BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley