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Computational Engineering & AI
Research Areas Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Augmented Reality (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR) Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 Networked and Distributed Systems Robotics and Autonomous Systems Wireless, Embedded & Sensor Systems Sensor Systems Mobile Health
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Education
PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara MS, Computer Science, Peking University MS, Computer Science, Wuhan University
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2022- Associate Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 2018 - 2022 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 2013 - 2018
Honors & Awards
UBICOMP 10-Year Impact Award, UBICOMP, 2024 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2019 ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award, ACM SIGMOBILE, 2019 N2Women: Rising Stars in Networking and Communication, N2Women, 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2017 NSF CAREER Award, 2016 Google Faculty Research Award, 2014
Research Areas Security and Privacy Data Management Software Systems Computer Architecture and Engineering Networks and Distributed Systems Cloud Computing Data Privacy Operating Systems Scalable Data Systems Cybersecurity Sustainable Computing (Green Computing) Hardware Accelerators Networking
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Professional Experience
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2023- Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2019-2023 Senior Vice President of Email Protection, Barracuda Networks, 2016-2019 CEO and co-founder, Sookasa (Acquired by Barracuda Networks), 2012-2016
Honors & Awards
ACM CIDR Best Paper Award, 2024 Usenix OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, 2022 NSF CAREER Award, 2022 Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2021 Usenix Security Distinguished Paper, 2019 ACM EuroSys Best Poster Award, 2018 SC Rising Star Award, 2017 Usenix ATC Best Student Paper, 2013 Sohnis Promising Scientist Award, 2011 Finalist, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, 2011 Leonard J. Shustek Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2010 Technion President's Honors List, 2009-2010
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University MS, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University BS, Computer and Software Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Research Areas Applied Mathematics Mathematical Biology Biopolymer Dynamics Soft Condensed Matter Genetic Networks and Network Inference Machine Learning
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Professional Experience
Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University 2026- Chief Data Scientist, The New York Times, 2014-2026 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, and Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2), Columbia University 2006-2026 Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, and Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2), Columbia University, 2001-2006 Assistant Professor/Courant Instructor, Courant Institute, NYU, 1998-2001
Honors & Awards
2014 American Physical Society Fellow 2014- Chief Data Scientist, The New York Times 2011-2014 Selected as mentor for TechStars NYC 2011 Selected among 25 “People to watch in Silicon Alley” (Crains) 2010 Selected among 100 “Silicon Alley Insiders” (Business Insider) 2007 Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award, SEAS, Columbia University
Education
PhD, Theoretical Physics, Princeton University BA, Physics, Columbia College
Research Areas Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Vision and Robotics Computational Neuroscience Natural Language and Conversational AIs
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Professional Experience
Professor, Columbia University, Computer Science, 2021- Amazon Scholar, 2021- Research Director, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligene, 2018-2021 Professor, University of Toronto, Computer Science, 2009-2021 Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Computer Science, 2001-2009 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Computer Science, 2000-2001 Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Psychology & Computer Science, 1996-2000
Professional Affiliations
Advisory Board, Neural Information Processing Society (NeurIPS) Steering Committee, ACM Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FaCCT) Conference
Honors & Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian AI Association, 2023 Test of Time Award, ICML, 2023 AI Chair, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2020) Pioneers of AI, NVIDIA (2016)
Education
PhD, Computer Science, University of Toronto MS, Computer Science, University of Toronto BA, History and Science, Harvard University
Research Areas Security and Privacy Software Systems Networks and Distributed Systems Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Networked and Distributed Systems Operating Systems Programming Languages Trustworthy Computing Cybersecurity
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Professional Experience
Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2021– Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2013–2021 EMC-Endowed Chair Professor Group (Adjunct), Tsinghua University, 2013–2016 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2008–2013 Technical Consultant, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, 2008-2012
Professional Affiliations
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX) Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Honors & Awards
SEAS-KFAI Generative AI and Public Discourse Research Award, 2024 Best Paper Award of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2024 Google Cyber NYC Faculty Research Award (three awards), 2023 Best Paper Award of the Sixteenth USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2022 Columbia Center of Artificial Intelligence Technology (CAIT) Award (with Amazon), 2022 Best Paper Award of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2021 IEEE Young Experts in Services Computing (YESC) Student Paper Award, 2020 Facebook Faculty Research Award, 2020 CACM Research Highlight, 2019 Rock Star Award, Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing, 2019 J.P. Morgan Faculty Research Award, 2019 DiDi Faculty Research Award, 2019 Cybersecurity Awareness Worldwide Applied Research US-Canada Competition, 2nd place for DeepXplore, 2018 Best Paper Award of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2017 Google Faculty Research Award, 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship, 2012 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program (AFSOR YIP) Award, 2012 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (NSF CAREER) Award, 2011 Best Paper Award of the Sixth USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2004
Education
PhD, Computer Science, Stanford University MS, Computer Science, Stanford University BS, Computer Science, Tsinghua University
Research Areas Data Analytics Decision Analysis Optimization Resource Allocation Service Systems Stochastic Modeling and Simulation Algorithmic Fairness Business Analytics Large-scale Optimization Urban Logistics Non-profit & Public Sector Operations Management
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Professional Affiliations
Member, Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Member, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Member, The Tau Beta Pi Association – Engineering Honor Society
Education
PhD, Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University MSc, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of South Florida BS, Industrial Engineering, Ozyegin University
Research Areas Security and Privacy Networks and Distributed Systems Cloud Computing Data Privacy Edge Computing Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 Networked and Distributed Systems Wireless, Embedded & Sensor Systems Cybersecurity Sustainable Computing (Green Computing) Communications Networking Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids) Electric Vehicles Public Policy Multimedia Systems
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Professional Experience
Broadband Advisor, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), 2022- Technology Fellow, Senator R. Wyden, 2019-2020 Chief Technology Officer, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), January 2017– 2019 Senior Advisor for Technology, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), September 2016–December 2016. Technology Advisor, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), September 2014–August 2016. Chief Technology Officer, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), January 2012– August 2014. Engineering Fellow, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Sept. 2010–May 2011. Professor (tenured), Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Electrical Engineering (joint appointment), Columbia University. August 1996–. Department Vice Chair, 2002– 2003; Department Chair, 2004–2009. Researcher & Deputy Department Head, GMD Fokus (now Fraunhofer), Berlin, Germany. March 1994 - July 1996. Lecturer at Technical University Berlin. Consultant, 1994-1996 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, January 1992 – June 1992. Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, July 1988 – September 1992. Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, January 1988 – July 1988. Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 1987 – July 1988.
Professional Affiliations
IEEE Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Honors & Awards
ACM SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Contributions, 2022 Honorary Doctorate, University of Oulu, Finland (June 2022) IEEE CQR (Communication Quality and Reliability) Chairman’s Award 2019 IEEE Infocom 2018 Test of Time Paper Award for “An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to- Peer Internet Telephony Protocol” (with Salman Baset) IEEE Internet award, 2016 ACM Fellow, 2015 WCNC 2015, “Intelligent Content Delivery over Wireless via SDN”, best paper award. IEEE Communications Society Internet Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award, 2014 Internet Hall of Fame, 2013 GREE 2013 best paper award (“Wimax in the classroom: Designing a cellular networking hands-on lab”) 2011 Internet2 IDEA Award winner for ”Do You See What I See” tool (Kyung Hwa Kim, PhD Student) Region 1 William Terry Award for Lifetime Distinguished Service to IEEE Region 1 (2010) IPTComm 2010 best paper award (“Reliability and Relay Selection in Peer-to-Peer Communication Systems”) IMSAA-08 3rd best paper award for A New SIP Event Package For Group Membership Management in Advanced Communications VDE ITG Preis 2008 for Ubiquitous Device Personalization and Use: The Next Generation of IP Multimedia Communications CATT lifetime innovation award (Brooklyn Polytech University) (2007) Sputnik Innovator Award (2005) IEEE Fellow (2005) IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) Outstanding Service Award 2005 Internet Telephony 2004 Product of the Year Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology (2004) VON Pioneer Award, 2000 IEEE Communication Society Lecturer, 1997 Nominated for ACM Best Dissertation award University of Massachusetts Graduate School Fellowship, 1990-1991 University Summer Research Fellowship, 1987 University Summer Research Fellowship, 1985 German Fulbright Scholarship, 1984 President Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Association, 1985-1986. Graduate Outstanding Service award, 1986 German National Scholarship Foundation (“Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”) Regional finalist German Young Scientists Competition (Jugend forscht)
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati BS, Electrical Engineering and Economics, TU Darmstadt (Germany)
Research Areas Advanced Materials Sustainable Infrastructure Additive Manufacturing
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Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2013 – Present
Professional Affiliations
American Concrete Institute (ACI) American Ceramics Society (ACerS) International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM)
Honors & Awards
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2017 Forbes’ 30 under 30: Science, 2015 Cements Division Early Career Award, American Ceramics Society, 2022
Education
PhD, Civil Engineering, Northwestern University MS, Civil Engineering, Northwestern University BS, Civil Engineering, Columbia University
Research Areas Bioinformatics Cell & Tissue Engineering Genomics and Computational Modeling Personalized Medicine and Patient-specific Modeling Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology Computational Biology Artificial Intelligence Causal Inference Biology
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Professional Affiliations
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2017- International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) 2020
Honors & Awards
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, 2025. Early-Career Innovator in Science Award in Cancer Immunology, Takeda and the New York Academy of Sciences, 2024. Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, Allen Institute, 2023. NHGRI Award for Supporting Talented Early Career Researchers in Genomics (R01), 2023. CZI Science Leadership Award, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2022. NSF CAREER Award, 2022. Columbia Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering (RISE) Award, 2021. Tri-Institutional Breakout Prize for Junior Investigators, Weill Cornell Medicine, Rockefeller University, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 2019. NIH NCI Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), 2018. American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017. IBM Best Student Paper Award, New England Statistics Symposium (NESS), 2014. TEDMED Front Line Scholarship, 2014.
Professional Experience
Herbert & Florence Irving Associate Professor of Cancer Data Research, Columbia University, 2025 - present Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2025 - present Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2020 - present Affiliated Member, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, 2020 - present Member, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, 2020 - present Herbert & Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research (in the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics), Columbia University, 2020 - 2024 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020 - 2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mentor: Dr. Dana Pe’er, 2016 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Dr. Dana Pe’er (moved to MSK), 2014 - 2016 Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Dr. Bill Bolosky. Summer 2014 Visiting Researcher, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Dr. Edoardo Airoldi, 2013-2014 Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, Dr. James Galagan. 2010-2014
Education
PhD, Bioinformatics, Boston University MS, Electrical Engineering, Boston University BS, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Research Areas Computational Science and Engineering Numerical Analysis Partial Differential Equations Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational Solid Earth Science Computational Thermodynamics
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Honors & Awards
Society of Columbia Graduates' Great Teacher Award in Columbia College for the 2022/2023 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2022 Columbia Engineering Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award 2020 SEAS Alumni Teaching Award 2004 SEAS Kim Award 2004 DEES Outstanding Teaching Award 1998 & 2002 Marshall Scholar 1985
Professional Experience
Professor, DEES/APAM Columbia University, 2008 Associate Professor, DEES/APAM, Columbia University, 2000-2008 Storke-Doherty Lecturer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 1997-1999
Research Areas Neuroengineering Biomedical Imaging Biosignals Biomedical Image Analysis Brain-Machine Interfaces Personalized Medicine and Patient-specific Modeling Wearable Devices Signal Processing Brain-Computer Interfaces
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Professional Affiliations
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Member, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Member, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Member, Association for Computing Machinery Member, Society for Neuroscience
Honors & Awards
Elected Fellow of IAMBE, 2023 DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, 2019 Elected Fellow of the AAAS, 2016 Elected Fellow of the IEEE, 2012 Elected editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2011 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2009 Awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2002 Sarnoff Technical Achievement Award, 1996
Professional Experience
Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2023- Vice Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020-2023 Visiting professor, University of Glasgow, 2015- Professor of biomedical engineering, Electrical Engineering and Radiology, Columbia University, 2012- Member, Graduate Group, Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, 2008- Visiting scientist, RIKEN Brain Sciences Institute, JAPAN, 2008 Director, Laboratory for Intelligent Imaging and Neural Engineering (LIINC), Columbia University, 2000- Associate professor of biomedical engineering and radiology, Columbia University, 2000-2012 Head, Adaptive Image & Signal Processing Group, Sarnoff Research Center, 1997-2000 Technology leader, Adaptive Image & Signal Processing, Sarnoff Research Center, 1996-1997 Member of technical staff, Sarnoff Research Center, 1994-1996
Research Areas Computer Architecture and Engineering System-on-Chip Heterogeneous Computing Embedded Systems Open-Source Hardware Design Automation
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Professional Affiliations
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Honors & Awards
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, 2010 Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2008 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2006
Professional Experience
Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2021- Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2017–2021 Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2009–2017 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2004–2008
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley MS, Engineering, University of California at Berkeley BS, Electrical Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy