Faculty

Research Areas


  • Electromagnetics
  • Nanoelectronics
  • Photonics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Renewable Energy

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of electrical engineering and applied physics and applied mathematics, Columbia Engineering, 1987
    • Visiting associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, MIT, Fall 1986
    • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1982-1987
  • Honors & Awards
    • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    • Fellow, American Physical Society
    • Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
    • Distinguished Lecturer, Electron Device Society 
       

Research Areas


  • Data Science Education
  • Economics of Information Systems 

Additional Information


  • 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


  • Biomaterials
  • Cardiovascular Engineering
  • Cell & Tissue Engineering
  • Medical Devices and Systems
  • Drug Delivery
  • Regenerative Medicine

Research Areas


  • Optimization 

Additional information


  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2019–
       
  • Honors & Awards
    • Best Paper Award, Springer Optimization Letters, 2016
    • Finalist of competition for best PhD thesis organized by French Agency for Mathematics in Interaction with Industry and Society, 2017
  • Education
    • PhD, Applied Mathematics, Paris VI University
    • MS, Control, optimization, and operations research, Paris I
    • BS, Engineering, ENSTA
       

Research Areas


  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Web3 & Blockchain
  • Cybersecurity
  • Quantum Computing

Additional Information


  • 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

Additional Information


  • 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

Additional Information


  • 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
    • INFORMS
    • DIMACS
    • MOS
  • 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


  • Sustainability, Engineering Education

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2022-
    • Senior Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University, 2019-2022
    • Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University, 2017-2019
  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
    • American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE)
    • American Chemical Society (ACS)
    • Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education 
  • Honors & Awards
    • Joseph J. Martin Award, Chemical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2023
  • Education
    • PhD, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
    • MBA, Columbia Business School
    • MS, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
    • BS, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

Research Areas


  • Mechanobiology
  • Biomechanics
  • Cell and Tissue Biomechanics
  • Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology
  • Self-Organization
  • Smart Materials and Structures

Additional Information


  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Physical Society (APS)
    • Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)    
    • American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
    • Genetics Society of America (GSA)
         
  • Honors & Awards
    • Sloan Research Fellowship, 2022
    • Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 2018
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2018
    • Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professorship, 2016                                                      
    • Burroughs Welcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, 2013
    • Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011                         
    • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2007
    • National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship, 2004   
  • Education
    • PhD, Applied Physics, Harvard University
    • MA, Applied Physics, Harvard University
    • BA, Physics, University of Chicago

Additional Information


  • Education
    • Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
    • M.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    • B.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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

Additional Information


  • 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.