Faculty

Research Areas

  • Data Science
  • Systems Biology

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Association for Cancer Research
    • International Society for Computational Biology
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Honors & Awards
    • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2014
    • Great Teacher Award, Society of Columbia Graduates, Columbia University, 2001
    • IEEE Fellow, 1998
    • National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1986-1991
    • IBM Invention Achievement Award, 1983
    • IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, 1982
  • Professional Experience
    • Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2011–
    • Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 1992-
    • Acting Chairman, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, Sept.-Dec. 1999
    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 1985–1992
    • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 1983–1985
    • Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1978-1983
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
    • MS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
    • BS, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Research Areas

  • Biological and Life Science Engineering
  • Bioprocess Engineering
  • Gene and Drug Delivery
  • Nanotechnology
  • Regenerative Materials
  • Separation Processes
  • Sustainability
  • Synthetic Biology

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
    • American Chemical Society
  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2023-
    • Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2017–2023
  • Education
    • PhD, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
    • BS, Chemistry, Rice University

Research Areas

  • Security and Privacy
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning
  • Data Privacy
  • Economics & Computation
  • Game Theory
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Trustworthy Computing
  • Data Analytics
  • Decision Analysis
  • Optimization
  • Algorithmic Fairness
  • Business Analytics

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • Fellow, Center for Democracy & Technology
    • Advisory Board Member, Future of Privacy Forum
    • Member, ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee
    • Member, IEEE Standards Association
    • Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
    • Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
    • Former Advisory Board Member, U.S. Census Atlanta Regional Data Center (ARDC)
  • Honors & Awards
    • Google NYC Cyber Award, 2023
    • DARPA Director's Fellowship Award, 2023
    • Early Career Faculty Impact Fellowship, 2023
    • Best Paper Award at SaTML, 2023
    • Center for Democracy & Technology Fellowship, 2023
    • Provost's Teaching and Learning Innovating Course Design Award, 2022
    • Best Paper Award Runner-up at CCS, 2021
    • DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2021
    • Apple Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Award, 2021
    • National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Fellowship, 2020
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2020
    • JPMorgan Faculty Award, 2020
    • Google Research Fellowship (through Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing), 2019
    • NIST Unlinkable Data Challenge, Grand Prize Winner and People's Choice Award Winner, 2018
    • Mozilla Research Grant, 2018
    • ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention, 2018
    • Amori Doctoral Prize in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, 2017
    • Caltech Leadership Award, 2017
    • Simons Award for Graduate Students in Theoretical Computer Science, 2015
    • Best Paper Award at DISC, 2014
  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2023-present
    • Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2021-2022
    • Assistant Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-2020
  • Education
    • PhD, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
    • MS, Computer Science, Northwestern University
    • BA, Mathematics and Economics, University of Southern California

Research Areas

  • Biological and Life Science Engineering
  • Gene and Drug Delivery
  • Genomics Engineering
  • Synthetic Biology

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
    • National Society of Black Engineers
    • American Chemical Society
    • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
    • Omega Chi Epsilon National Honor Society for Chemical Engineering
    • National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers
    • National Black Postdoctoral Association 
  • Honors & Awards
    • Vaccine Luminary, G7 Global Vaccine Confidence Summit, 2021
    • 1000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America, Cell Press, 2020
    • MIT Rising Star in Chemical Engineering, MIT, 2020
    • Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cornell University, 2020-2023
    • Class of 2020 Changemaker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2020  
    • Presidential Graduate Research Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2016 - 2018  
    • Founders’ Day Award, New York University, 2015
    • Women in Science Scholar, NYU College of Arts & Science, 2014
    • Trinidad & Tobago National Open Scholar in Science, 2011-2015                                                                                                                                   
  • Education
    • PhD, Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • BS, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University

Research Areas

  • Natural Language Processing and Speech
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Natural Language and Conversational AIs
  • Computer Science Education

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Lecturer in the Discipline of Natural Language Processing, Columbia University, 2017-
    • Preceptor, Columbia University, 2014-2016Co-Founder / VP Research and Engineering, WordsEye Inc., New York, 2013-2014
    • Visiting Research Assistant, University of California Information Sciences Institute, 2012 and 2013
  • Education
    • PhD, Computer Science, Columbia University
    • MSc, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
    • BSc, Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück

Research Areas

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE)
  • Soft Tissue Biomechanics
  • Neurodevelopment
  • Neuroscience
  • Translational/Clinical Research
  • MR Sequence Development
  • Image Reconstruction
  • Machine Learning
  • Developmental Disabilities

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2024-
  • Professional Affliliations

    International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Junior Fellow
    •    Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
    •    Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)     
    •    Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
    •    American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR)

  • Honors & Awards
    • F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Grant Award, 2023
    • T32 Training Grant Postdoctoral Fellowship from NHLBI, 2023
    • Colburn Best Dissertation 2023 Award, University of Delaware
    • NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award, 2022
    • Junior Fellow, ISMRM, 2022
    • F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Grant Award, 2020
  • Education
    • PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware
    • MBA, University of Delaware

Additional Information

  • Education
    • PhD, Computer Science, Columbia University
    • BA, Physics, Columbia University

Research Areas

  • Speech neurophysiology
  • Deep neural network models
  • Brain computer interfaces
  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute (ZMBBI), Columbia University, 2020-
    • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2013-2020
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco. 2010-2013
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, 2008-2010
  • Honors & Awards
    • 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
    • 2022 Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering
    • 2019 Top-10 Health Innovation of the Year award, Health Innovations magazine
    • 2019 Top-10 breakthroughs of the year award, Institute of Physics
    • 2018 & 2019 Grand prize winner at NYC Media Lab
    • 2018 Young Investigator Award, Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience, San
    • 2018 Top 10 most significant and promising tech innovators of the year award, UNICEF
    • 2016, National Science Foundation (NSF), Faculty Early Career Development Award
    • 2015, Pew Charitable Trust, Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences Award
    • 2015, Research Initiatives in Science and Engineering Award (RISE)
    • 2015, Kavli Institute for Brain Science Award          
    • 2005, George Harhalakis Outstanding Systems Engineering Graduate Student Award
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland College Park
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland College Park
    • BS, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Research Areas

  • Bioinformatics
  • Bioinstrumentation
  • Biomaterials
  • Biomechanics
  • Biomedical Imaging
  • Cardiovascular Engineering
  • Cell & Tissue Engineering
  • 3D Printing and Biofabrication
  • Biomedical Image Analysis
  • Cell and Tissue Biomechanics
  • Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technology
  • Personalized Medicine and Patient-specific Modeling
  • Regenerative Medicine
  • Tissue & Organ Models of Disease

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • 2019- Director, Center for Dental and Craniofacial Research, Columbia University
    • 2019- Professor of Dental Medicine, Columbia University
    • 2018- Affiliate member, Mortimer B Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University
    • 2017- University Professor, Columbia University
    • 2016 - Honorary Professor, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    • 2015- Faculty, Center for Human Development, Columbia University
    • 2014- Faculty, Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
    • 2011- The Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
    • 2011- Professor of Medical Sciences, Columbia University
    • 2011 Biomedical Engineering track of Mayo Graduate Faculty, Mayo Clinic
    • 2005- Professor, Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
    • 2005 Director, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Columbia University
    • 2005- Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard-MIT Division for Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge MA
    • 2009- Honorary Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Belgrade
    • 2009- Visiting Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    • 2009- Co-director, Craniofacial Regeneration Center, Columbia University
    • 2002- Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Tufts University, Medford MA
    • 1994- Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University
    • 1993–99 Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University, Yugoslavia
    • 1993- Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University, Yugoslavia
    • 1993- Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge MA
    • 1992 Visiting Scientist, Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
    • 1989 Visiting professor, University of Wageningen, Netherlands
  • Professional Affiliations
    • American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow
    • American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
    • Biomaterials Research Society
    • Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Fellow
    • International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), Fellow
    • International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
    • Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS)
    • Society For Biomaterials (SFB)
    • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS), officer
  • Honors & Awards
    • 2023- Elected to the Royal Society of Canada – Academy of Science
    • 2023 –    Technology Venture Ambassador
    • 2023- Rosalind Franklin Society and Mary Ann Liebert Inc., the best paper in Stem Cells and Development
    • 2023    NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on Novel Alternative Methods to Animal Testing (ACD-WG)
    • 2023 –     Vice-president of the Belgrade University Alumni Association
    • 2022    BIOS Top 50 Academic Life Science Entrepreneurs
    • 2022    National Academy of Engineering, Chair of Section 2: Bioengineering;
    • 2021    Lifetime Achievement Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS)
    • 2021    Featured in “Narratives on Discovery”, Rut Charon
    • 2021 Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)
    • 2021    Life Sciences Power 50
    • 2021 Pierre Galletti Award, AIMBE's highest honor
    • 2020 Order of Karadjordje Star, Serbia’s highest honor
    • 2020    Featured in “Invincible Women: Conversations with 21 Inspiring and Successful American Immigrants” by Bilha Fisch
    • 2020 Petit Distinguished Lecture, Georgia Institute if Technology and Emory, Atlanta
    • 2019 Person of the year in Serbia
    • 2019 Award of the NCATS-ASPIRE Design Challenge for Biological Assays for Translational Innovation in Pain, Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose (with Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard, Joriene de Nooij and Naveed Tavakol)
    • 2019 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • 2019- HHMI Scientific Review Board
    • 2019 Innovation and Commercialization Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society of the Americas (TERMIS)
    • 2019 AIChE Rock Stars of Regenerative Engineering
    • 2019 Shu Chien Achievement Award, Biomedical Engineering Society
    • 2019 Birnberg Medal, College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University
    • 2019 Advisory Council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
    • 2018 – Advisory Council of the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
    • 2017-2020    Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), Board of Directors; Chair of the Science and Technology Committee
    • 2017 Robert A. Pritzker Award for 2017, Biomedical Engineering Society
    • 2017 NIBIB National Advisory Council speaker, NIH, January 24, 2017.
    • 2017-2018    American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Chair of the College of Fellows
    • 2017 Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    • 2016-2017 Chair, College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIBME)
    • 2016 –2018    Board of Directors, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
    • 2016-2022    “Cardiac Contractility, Hypertrophy, and Failure” study section, permanent member; resigned effective May 22, 2018 following election to the NIBIB National Advisory Council
    • 2016 Award of the Materials Research Society of Serbia for Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Material Science and Engineering
    • 2015 Bioengineering Peer Committee, National Academy of Engineering
    • 2014 Election to the National Academy of Inventors    
    • 2014 Election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    • 2014 Election to the National Academy of Medicine
    • 2014 Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014          
    • 2013 National Academy of Engineering, Executive Committee, Section for Bioengineering; Fritz J and Dolores H Russ Prize Committee
    • 2013 Founding Class of the International Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
    • 2012 Election to the National Academy of Engineering
    • 2012 Election to the Academia Europea
    • 2012 Election to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • 2012 Election to the Serbian National Academy of Engineering
    • 2012 Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
    • 2010 Clemson award of the Society of Biomaterials “for significant contributions to the literature on the science or technology of biomaterials”
    • 2009 Election to the New York Academy of Sciences
    • 2008 Hall of Fame, Women in Technology International (one of 5 leaders in science and technology in 2008)
    • 2008- 2010    Chair, NIH Study section on Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI)
    • 2008 US Section Head, Musculoskeletal Repair & Regeneration Section, Faculty 1000 of Medicine
    • 2007 NIH Director’s lecture, the first woman engineer to receive this distinction
    • 2004 Outstanding Performance Medal, World Congress of in vitro Biology
    • 2004-2006 Three Space Act Awards, NASA, for patents
    • 2000 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow
    • 1997 Medal of recognition, Centennial of the Serbian Chemical Society, Belgrade YU
    • 1996 – 97 Space study of cartilage tissue engineering aboard “Mir”, in collaboration with NASA Johnson Space Center (co-lead of the 13-member team, with LE Freed); the longest cell experiment ever conducted in space; study reported in PNAS)
  • Education
    • Fulbright Fellowship, MIT, Cambridge MA
    • PhD, Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University
    • MS, Chemical Engineering, Belgrade Universit\
    • BS, Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University
    • Doctorate in engineering honoris causa, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • Doctorate in Science Honoris Causa, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Research Areas

  • Decision Analysis
  • Economics & Computation
  • Game Theory
  • Optimization
  • Resource Allocation
  • Algorithmic Fairness
  • E-commerce
  • Large-scale Optimization
  • Matching Platforms
     

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant Professor of IEOR, Columbia University, 2019-
    • Research Scientist, Facebook Core Data Science, 2018-2020
    • Software Developer, Netmester A/s, 2010-2011
  • Professional Affiliations
    • INFORMS
    • ACM
  • Honors & Awards
    • ONR Young Investigator award, 2022
    • NSF CAREER award, 2023
    • Facebook Fellowship, 2016
  • Education
    • PhD, in computer science, Carnegie Mellon University
    • MS, software development and technology, IT University of Copenhagen
    • BA human-centered informatics, Aalborg University

Research Areas

  • Natural Language Processing and Speech
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Natural Language and Conversational AIs

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Founding Director, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, 2012–2017
    • Department Chair, Computer Science, 1998-2003
    • Vice Dean for Research
    • Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Association of Computational Linguistics, served as President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer
    • Computing Research Association, served as Board Member and Secretary of the Board
  • Honors & Awards
    • Elected to the American Philosophical Society, 2023
    • IEEE Innovations in Societal Infrastructure Award, 2023
    • Keynote Speaker, Association for Computational Linguistics, Seattle, WA, 2020
    • Best Paper Award, Kedzie and McKeown, A Good Sample Is Hard to Find: Noise Injection Sampling and Self-Training for Neural Language Generation Models, in Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2019), Tokyo, Japan, October 2019
    • Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
      Selected as one of the Founding Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012
    • Anita Borg Women of Vision Award in Innovation for work on text summarization, 2010
    • Columbia Great Teacher Award, 2010
    • Elected as an ACM Fellow, 2003
    • Selected as AAAI Fellow, 1994
    • National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, 1991
    • National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985

Research Areas

  • Engineering Mathematics
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Bio-Morphometry

Additional Information