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Computational Engineering & AI
Research Areas Data Analytics Decision Analysis Economics & Computation Optimization Resource Allocation Service Systems Supply Chain Management Algorithmic Fairness Business Analytics E-commerce Large-scale Optimization Matching Platforms Sequential Optimization Under Uncertainty Online Learning & Multi-Armed Bandits
Research Areas Atmospheric, Ocean, and Earth Physics Climate Modeling and Prediction Climate Risk Analytics
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Professional Experience
Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, 2010- Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, 2003–2010 Assistant professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, 2000–2003
Honors & Awards
AMS Louis J. Battan Author’s Award for Storm Surge, 2016 AGU (Atmospheric Sciences Section) Ascent Award, 2014 Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award (Popular Category) for Storm Surge (see publications), 2014 AXA Award from the AXA Research Fund, 2013 AMS Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, 2010 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 2010 AMS Editor’s award for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2009 NASA New Investigator Award, 2001 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 2000
Professional Affiliations
American Meteorological Society American Geophysical Union
Research Areas Data Science Education Economics of Information Systems
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Professional Experience
Co-director of IEOR undergraduate program, Columbia University, 2019– IEOR combined plan undergraduate advisor, Columbia University, 2019- IEOR and DSI MS application reviewer, Columbia University, 2019-
Honors & Awards
Provost Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery Project Award, Adopting Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) for Computational Subjects, 2019 Best Teaching Assistant Award, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 2017
Research Areas Operating Systems Programming Languages Web3 & Blockchain Cybersecurity Quantum Computing
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Professional Experience
Tang Family Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2024- Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2024- Tang Family Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 2021-2023 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2018-2020
Honors & Awards
NCF CAREER Award, 2023 VMware Systems Research Award, 2023 Amazon Research Awards, Amazon, 2022 OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, USENIX, 2021 SOSP Best Paper Award, ACM, 2019
Education
PhD, Computer Science, Yale University BS, Computer Science, Tsinghua University
Research Areas Cybersecurity Quantum Computing Theory of Computation Quantum Cryptography
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Professional Experience
Associate Professor (without Tenure), Computer Science, Columbia, 2024 - present Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University, 2021 - 2023 Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Toronto, 2018 - 2020
Professional Affiliations
Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT)
Honors & Awards
NSF CAREER Award, 2022 Sloan Fellow, 2022
Education
PhD, Computer Science, MIT BA, Mathematics, University of Southern California
Research Areas Economics & Computation Optimization Resource Allocation Algorithmic Fairness Matching Platforms
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Professional Experience
Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2022- Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 2016-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL, 2012-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Padua, 2012-2016 Intern, Zuse Institute Berlin, 2016
Professional Affiliations
Honors & Awards
Meta Research Award, 2022 CAREER Award, NSF, 2021 Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering, Columbia University, 2018 Lorenzo Brunetta award for a PhD thesis in Operations Research, 2012
Education
PhD, Operations Research, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) MSc, Mathematical Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) BSc, Management Science and Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
Research Areas Networks and Distributed Systems Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Causal Inference Economics & Computation Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs) Wireless, Embedded & Sensor Systems Cybersecurity Communications Control Systems Information Theory Modeling and Performance Evaluation
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Professional Affiliations
Chair, ACM Sigmetrics ACM Sigcomm IEEE
Honors & Awards
Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT Bombay, 2019 Fellow, ACM, 2018 Fellow, IEEE, 2016 Distinguished Young Alumni Award, School of Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2014 NSF Career Award, DoE Career Award, IBM and Google Faculty Awards
Professional Experience
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016- CTO, Infinio Systems, 2012-2014 CEO Infinio Systems, 2011-2012 Visiting Professor, Telefonica, Barcelona 2009 Visiting Professor, Technicolor Labs, Paris 2009 Visiting Professor, Inria, Sophia Antipolis 2009 Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2005–2016 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2001–2005
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst B Tech, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Selected Publications
Yibo Zhu, Monia Ghobadi, Vishal Misra and Jitendra Padhye, ECN or Delay: Lessons Learnt from Analysis of DCQCN and TIMELY , Proceedings of 2016 ACM Conference on Emerging network experiment and technology (CoNEXT 2016) , December, 2016. Vishal Misra, Routing Money, Not Packets. Revisiting Network Neutrality , Communications of the ACM , Volume 58, Number 6, June, 2015. Richard T. B. Ma and Vishal Misra, The Public Option: a Non-regulatory Alternative to Network Neutrality , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , Volume 21, pp. 1866 - 1879, December, 2013. Vishal Misra, Stratis Ioannidis, Augustin Chaintreau and Laurent Massoulie, Incentivizing Peer-Assisted Services: A Fluid Shapley Value Approach , Proceedings of ACM/Sigmetrics , New York, June, 2010 Richard T.B. Ma, Dahming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein, On Cooperative Settlement Between Content, Transit and Eyeball Internet Service Providers , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , Volume 19, Number 3, June, 2011. Richard T.B. Ma, Dahming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein, The Shapley Value: Its Use and Implications on Internet Economics , Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing , September, 2008. C. V. Hollot, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley and Wei-Bo Gong, On Designing Improved Controllers for AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows , Proceedings of IEEE Infocom , April, 2001 C.V. Hollot, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley and Wei-Bo Gong, A Control Theoretic Analysis of RED , Proceedings of IEEE Infocom , April, 2001. Vishal Misra, Wei-Bo Gong and Don Towsley, Fluid-based Analysis of a Network of AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows with an Application to RED , Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm , Stockholm, Sweden, August, 2000.
Research Areas Data Analytics Decision Analysis Resource Allocation Risk Management Service Systems Stochastic Modeling and Simulation Business Analytics Artificial Intelligence
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Professional Affiliations
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVS)
Honors & Awards
PECASE award, White House, 2016 Erlang Prize, INFORMS Applied Probability Society, 2012 Goldstine Fellowship, IBM Research, 2007
Education
PhD, Mathematics, University of Amsterdam MS, Econometrics and Operations Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research Areas Analog Devices Communications Electromagnetics Embedded Systems Integrated Circuits and Systems Memory and Storage Nanoelectronics Photonics Bioelectronics Sensor Systems Wearable Electronics (Technology) Robotics and Automation Displays
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Professional Experience
Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University 2020-present Professor of Electrical engineering, Columbia University 2018-2020 Associate Professor of Electrical engineering, Columbia University, 2011-2018 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2006–2011
Professional Affiliations
IEEE Society for Information Display (SID) SPIE Materials Research Society (MRS) Optica
Honors & Awards
Architizer A+ Award Verizon Powerful Answers Popular Science, Invention of the Year Interdigital Innovation Challenge MIT/USDOE Clean Energy Prize Ocean Optics Blue Ocean Award Kim Award for Undergraduate Involvement Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award NSF CAREER award IVMC Shoulders Gray Spindt award IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award Fellow, Optica Fellow, SID Fellow, IEEE
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering, MIT MEng, Electrical Engineering, MIT SB, Electrical Engineering, MIT
Research Areas Power Systems Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids) Quantum Computing Renewable Energy Optimization Risk Management Energy & Power Large-scale Optimization Urban Logistics
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Professional Experience
Professor of applied mathematics and applied physics, Columbia University, 2008- Full professor of industrial engineering and operations research, Columbia University, 1995- Associate professor of industrial engineering and operations research, Columbia University, 1989-1990 (tenured 1991) Assistant professor of industrial engineering and operations research, Columbia University, 1989–1990 Scientist, combinatorics and optimization research, Bellcore, 1986-1989 Assistant professor, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985-1986
Professional Affiliations
Honors & Awards
Khachiyan Prize, 2022 INFORMS Fellow, 2013 Plenary speaker, 2005 SIAM Optimization Conference, semi-plenary speaker, ISMP 2006 Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1990
Education
PhD, Operations Research, MIT, 1985 BA, Mathematics, Brandeis University, 1982
Research Areas Security and Privacy Software Systems Cloud Computing Networked and Distributed Systems Operating Systems Programming Languages Trustworthy Computing Cybersecurity Software Engineering & Testing Program Analysis
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Professional Experience
Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1998- Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1990-1997 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1985-1989
Professional Affiliations
ACM IEEE Computer Society AAAI
Honors & Awards
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 2023, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Reviewer Award, 2022. APSCE Best Paper Nominee, 2021. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 2016. IWSC People's Choice Award for Best Position Pape, 2016. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 2014. NSF/Microsoft Future of Software Engineering Symposium Invited Panelist, 2013. ICQS Best Paper Award, 2009. ICWL Best Student Paper Award, 2005. WWW Best Student Poster Award, 2005. Autonomic Computing Workshop Invited Speaker, 2003. WWW Best Paper Finalist, 2003. IBM Almaden Institute Symposium Invited Speaker, 2002. ACM COCS Keynote Speaker,1993. ISLP Invited Speaker, 1993. ACM SIGPLAN Vice-Chair for Operations, 1991-1993. ACM SIGPLAN National Lecturer, 1989-1991. IEEE Software Best Paper of Year, 1988. NSF Presidential YOung Investigator, 1988-1993. IBM Faculty Award, 1988-1990. DEC Faculty Award, 1986-1988.
Education
PhD, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon MS, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon BS, Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
Research Areas Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Networked and Distributed Systems Wireless, Embedded & Sensor Systems Communications Networking Stochastic Processes Algorithms Optimization
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Professional Affiliations
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation (SIGMETRICS)
Honors & Awards
Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM, 2020 Best Student Paper Award at IFIP Performance, 2020 NSF CAREER Award, 2017 Best Paper Award, ACM CoNEXT, 2016 Best Student Paper Finalist Award, American Control Conference (ACC), 2013 Mac Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award, UIUC, 2012
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2019–Present Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014–2019
Education
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran