FACULTY AND

RESEARCH
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Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Biomedical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chemical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Earth and Environmental Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Electrical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Mechanical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
This is a transformational time for Engineering at Columbia and for engineering globally, and I am
pleased to be able to share with you the work of our faculty as we tackle many of societys most
pressing challenges. The role of engineering in shaping our world for the better has never been more
important, and it has never been more recognized by society at large.

From its inception, our School has had a global impactfrom surveying a new railroad route from
Canton to Hankow and developing the New York City subway system to pioneering long-distance
telephony, X-rays, computer punch cards, FM radio, and mass production of antibiotics, our faculty
forebears led the way.

Now, our faculty continues that tradition of innovation and impact through interdisciplinary research
initiatives that could not have been imagined 150 years ago when our School was founded. We are at
the forefront of finding cost-effective methods of decoding the human genome, diagnosing diseases
using labs-on-a-chip, and growing new bone and muscle tissue.

At the same time, we are recognized worldwide as one of the leaders in the development of nano-
technology, a highly interdisciplinary field that investigates materials and devicesdiscovering how
behaviors change as we reduce in length scale, and then harnessing these new properties in innova-
tive applications that impact medicine, energy, computing, and much, much more.

Through Columbias Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, led by our faculty and including the
faculties of eight of our sister schools, path-breaking, interdisciplinary research is taking place in the
theory and practice of the emerging field of data science. The data revolution is transforming the
pace, the scale, and the pattern of discovery, invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Columbia
research is building the foundational science and engineering needed to extract useful information
from massive amounts of data while also transforming health care, urban infrastructure, new media,
financial analytics, and cybersecurity.

I invite you to explore these pages, where you will find an overview of the diverse research interests of
the creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial faculty of Columbia Engineering whose discoveries and
innovations will profoundly impact the present and the future.

Mary Cunningham Boyce

Dean of Engineering
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
APPLIED PHYSICS AND APPLIED PHYSICS AND MARK CANE
Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and
G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences
APPLIED MATHEMATICS Climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid
dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, impacts of climate on
society, El Nio forecasting
WILLIAM E. BAILEY Cane
Associate Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of SIU-WAI CHAN
Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and
Nanoscale magnetic films and heterostructures, materials issues of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic Nanoparticles, electronic ceramics, grain boundaries
dynamics and interfaces, oxide thin films
Bailey
GUILLAUME BAL ANDREW COLE Chan

Professor of Applied Mathematics Assistant Professor of Applied Physics

Applied mathematics, wave propagation in random media and Theory of toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas,
applications to time reversal, inverse problems with applications nonideal and kinetic effects on rotation, analytic approximation and
to medical imaging and Earth science modeling for numerical and experimental benchmarking

KATAYUN BARMAK QIANG DU Cole

Bal Philips Electronics Professor of Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics
Processing and structure (crystal structure and microstructure)
relationships to electrical and magnetic properties of metal
films; developing transmission electron microscopy automated
orientation imaging techniques that can be applied to the study
of nanostructured materials; use of differential scanning calorim-
Barmak etry for the study of solid state reactions and phase transforma-
tions in thin films
SIMON BILLINGE
Professor of Materials Science and of Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics
Nanoscale structure-property relationships in functional
nanomaterials studied using novel X-ray, electron, and neutron
scattering techniques coupled with advanced computing; solving
Billinge the nanostructure problem
Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics
Applied and computational mathematics; multiscale modeling,
analysis and simulations; applications in physical (superfluid,
complex-fluid), biological (membrane), materials (phase transi-
tion), and information (data, image) sciences
Du
IRVING HERMAN
Professor of Applied Physics
Nanocrystals, optical spectroscopy of nanostructured materials,
laser diagnostics of thin film processing, mechanical properties
of nanomaterials
Herman
JAMES IM
Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and
of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Laser-induced crystallization of thin films, phase transformations
and nucleation in condensed systems

ALLEN BOOZER PHILIP KIM Im

Professor of Applied Physics Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics
Plasma theory, theory of magnetic confinement for fusion energy, Experimental condensed matter physics with an emphasis on physical
nonlinear dynamics properties and applications of nanoscale low-dimensional materials

Boozer
Kim

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PIERRE-DAVID LTOURNEAU
Chu Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
Applied mathematics, mathematical physics, multiple scattering,
waves in inhomogeneous and random media, computational
wave propagation, numerical analysis
Ltourneau CHRIS MARIANETTI
Associate Professor
Predicting materials properties from first-principles
computations; materials with energy-related applications;
density-functional theory; dynamical mean-field theory;
transition-metal oxides; actinides, energy storage and
Marianetti conversion materials
MICHAEL MAUEL
Professor of Applied Physics
Plasma physics, waves and instabilities, fusion and equilibrium con-
trol; space physics; plasma processing, international energy policy
Mauel
GERALD NAVRATIL
Thomas Alva Edison Professor of Applied Physics
Plasma physics, plasma diagnostics, fusion energy science
ISMAIL C. NOYAN
Navratil
Department Chair of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (Joint appointment
in Earth and Environmental Engineering)
Theoretical and applied X-ray and neutron scattering
ARON PINCZUK
Noyan Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics
Spectroscopy of semiconductors and insulators, quantum struc-
tures and interfaces, electrons in systems of reduced dimensions,
electron quantum fluids
LORENZO POLVANI
Professor of Applied Mathematics and of Earth and Environmental
Pinczuk Sciences
Atmospheric and climate dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics,
numerical methods for weather and climate modeling, planetary
atmospheres
Polvani
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MALVIN RUDERMAN
Centennial Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics
Problems associated with collapsed objects in astrophysics,
especially neutron stars
CHRISTOPHER SCHOLZ
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of Applied Ruderman
Physics and Applied Mathematics
Tectonophysics, experimental and theoretical rock mechanics,
especially friction, fracture, hydraulic transport properties, non-
linear systems, mechanics of earthquakes and faulting
TIFFANY SHAW
Scholz
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Atmospheric and climate dynamics; wavemean flow interac-
tion; Hamiltonian structure of fluid dynamics; general circulation
dynamics; transport and mixing; stationary-transient interactions
Shaw
ADAM SOBEL
Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and of
Environmental Sciences
Atmospheric science, geophysical fluid dynamics, tropical mete-
orology, climate dynamics
MARC SPIEGELMAN Sobel
Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental
Sciences and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Coupled fluid/solid mechanics, reactive fluid flow, solid earth and
magma dynamics, scientific computation/modeling
MICHAEL TIPPETT Spiegelman
Lecturer in Discipline
Predictability and variability of the climate system, with em-
phasis on the application of statistical methods to data from
observations and numerical models
LATHA VENKATARAMAN
Tippett
Associate Professor of Applied Physics
Single molecule transport, single molecule force spectroscopy,
electron transport in nanowires, scanning tunneling microscopy
and spectroscopy
Venkataraman
 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
APPLIED PHYSICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

FRANCESCO VOLPE
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Heating, diagnostic and stabilization of magnetized fusion plas-
mas such as tokamaks and stellarators

Volpe
WEN WANG
Thayer Lindsley Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied
Science and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics X. EDWARD GUO
Heterogeneous materials integration, quantum semiconductor Professor
optoelectronics, photovoltaics, molecular beam epitaxy Image-based microstructural and finite element analyses
of skeletons; in-vitro mechanobiology of osteocytes,
Wang MICHAEL WEINSTEIN osteoblasts, and osteoclasts; and 3D cell mechanics and
Professor of Applied Mathematics mechanotransduction Guo
Applied mathematics, partial differential equations, dynami-
cal systems, waves in nonlinear, inhomogeneous, and random HENRY HESS
media; multiscale phenomena, applications to nonlinear optics, Associate Professor
quantum systems and fluid dynamics Engineering at the molecular scale, in particular the design of ac-
Weinstein
tive nanosystems incorporating biomolecular motors, the study
CHRIS WIGGINS of active self-assembly, and the investigation of protein-resistant
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics polymer coatings
Applied mathematics, mathematical biology, biopolymer dy- Hess

namics, soft condensed matter, genetic networks and network ANDREAS H. HIELSCHER
inference, machine learning Professor (Joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and in
Wiggins Radiology)
NANFANG YU Optical medical instrumentation and image reconstruction algo-
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics rithms; clinical and preclinical imaging of joint diseases, cancer
Mid-infrared and far-infrared optics and optoelectronic devices, (breast, kidney, stomach, bone, prostate), cerebral hemodynam-
infrared imaging and spectroscopy, nanophotonics, graphene ics (stroke, epilepsy); and vascular reactivity Hielscher
optoelectronic devices
ELIZABETH M. C. HILLMAN
Yu
Associate Professor (Joint appointment in Radiology)
Development and application of advanced in-vivo optical
neuroimaging and microscopy technologies to gain insight into
the function and physiology of the living brain, particularly the
interrelation between neuronal activity and brain blood flow in
Hillman
health and disease

HAYDEN HUANG
Assistant Professor
General responses of cells to physical stimuli, mechanotrans-
duction, cell mechanical properties and adhesion, with focus
on cardiovasculature, development of instrumentation and new
techniques for probing cells Huang

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

CLARK T. HUNG BARCLAY MORRISON III

Professor Associate Professor and Department Vice Chair
Effects of physical, mechanical, and chemical stimuli on muscu- Mechanical injury of the central nervous system: (1) universal
loskeletal cells related to cellular and tissue engineering tissue tolerance criteria, (2) role of the cytoskeleton in injury, (3)
application of genomic and proteomic technologies to mechano- Morrison III
Hung
CHRISTOPHER R. JACOBS transduction, (4) repair strategies using stem cells, (5) electrode
Professor design for neural engineering
Understanding the molecular mechanisms that allow cells of the
skeletal system to sense and respond to mechanical stimulation VAN C. MOW
Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedic
LANCE C. KAM Bioengineering
Jacobs Associate Professor Soft tissue biomechanics (including articular cartilage, meniscus Mow
Micro- and nanoscale fabrication of biological systems, cell-cell and intervertebral disc), biomechanics of osteoarthritis, cell-
and cell-matrix signaling, engineering of immune and nervous matrix interactions, mechano-signal transduction, and
systems, nanomedicine functional tissue engineering

ELISA E. KONOFAGOU PAUL SAJDA

Kam Professor (Joint appointment in Radiology)
Ultrasonics (imaging and therapy), elasticity imaging, signal and
image processing, soft tissue mechanics
AARON M. KYLE
Lecturer MICHAEL SHEETZ
Engineering education and laboratory development, biomedical
Konofagou
signal processing and acoustics, electromagnetic field-induced
tissue growth and repair
Professor (Joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and in Radiology)
Neurocomputational modeling and neuroengineering, pattern Sajda
recognition, adaptive processing for biomedical image and signal
analysis
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Cell Biology (Joint appointment in
Biological Sciences)
Force-dependent signaling; cell spreading, force generation and Sheetz

rigidity sensing; mechanosensing in myofibrillogenesis; mecha-

ANDREW F. LAINE notransduction at the immunological synapse
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Department Chair SAMUEL SIA
Kyle
Mathematical analysis and quantification of medical images, Associate Professor
bio-signal and image processing, computer-aided diagnosis, Microfluidics, point-of-care diagnostics, 3D tissue engineering,
imaging informatics implantable devices Sia

HELEN LU GORDANA VUNJAK-NOVAKOVIC

Professor The Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and
Laine Interface tissue engineering and the formation of integrated Professor of Medical Sciences
complex tissue systems, stratified scaffold design for multi- Advanced technologies for functional tissue engineering, regen-
tissue regeneration and multiscale models to evaluate erative medicine, human stem cell research, and study of disease
heterotypic cellular interactions, composite biomaterials for Vunjak-Novakovic

orthopaedic and dental applications QI WANG

Assistant Professor
Lu Neural coding in the somatosensory pathway of the brain,
brain-machine interfaces, and biomedical instrumentation for
creating engineered tactile sensations
Wang
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SANAT KUMAR
Professor and Department Chair
Polymer systems, both biological and synthetic contexts, using a
combined theoretical and experimental program
Kumar
EDWARD LEONARD
SCOTT BANTA
Professor
Associate Professor
Artificial organs, transport and rate phenomena in biological
Protein engineering, metabolic engineering, and biotechnology
systems, modeling of organ systems, genomics of stem cell
Banta accommodation in adult tissue
JINGGUANG CHEN
Thayer Lindsley Professor of Chemical Engineering
V. FAYE MCNEIL Leonard
Experimental and theoretical studies of metal carbides and
Associate Professor
bimetallic alloys as catalysts and electrocatalysts for energy
Atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, environmental chemical
applications
engineering
Chen
CHRISTOPHER DURNING
BEN OSHAUGHNESSEY
Professor McNeil
Professor
Transport processes and interfacial properties of synthetic poly-
Quantitative cell biology, neurotransmission, membrane fusion,
mer systems, self-assembly and nanoscience modification and
viral infection, cell division, cell migration, cell mechanosensing
functional thin films, macromolecule complexing in solution
VANESSA ORTIZ
Durning DANIEL ESPOSITO
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Multiscale modeling, with applications to biological macromol-
Solar energy conversion, solar fuels, catalysis, high-throughput OShaughnessey
ecules and biomaterials, as well as the stability and dynamics of
screening of materials, interfacial phenomena, and in-situ micro/
self-assembled supramolecular structures
nanoscale analysis techniques
VENKAT VENKATASUBRAMANIAN
Esposito MICHAEL HILL
Samuel RubenPeter G. Viele Professor of Chemical Engineering
Lecturer in Discipline
Risk analysis and management in complex engineered
Chemical process and product design, process intensification
systems, cyberinfrastructure and big data analytics for Ortiz
through the application of microfluidics
molecular products design and discovery, complex adaptive
teleological systems
Hill JINGYUE JU
Samuel RubenPeter G. Viele Professor of Engineering
ALAN C. WEST
Genomic science and technology, molecular engineering and
Samuel RubenPeter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry
chemical biology
Electrochemical metallization process, batteries and Venkatasubramanian
fuel cells
JEFFREY KOBERSTEIN
Ju
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering
Self-assembling photoactive polymer surfaces, DNA and carbo-
hydrate microarrays, surface characterization and modification of
nanoparticles, model polymer networks and hydrogels
West
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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND JACOB FISH
Robert A. W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor in Civil Engineering
Multiscale science and engineering with applications to aero-
ENGINEERING MECHANICS space, automotive industry, civil engineering, biological and
material sciences
Fish

SHIHO KAWASHIMA
RAIMONDO BETTI Assistant Professor
Professor Rheological behavior and fresh-state microstructure of con-
Structural mechanics, structural dynamics, system identification crete, nanomodification and nanocharacterization of cementi-
of linear and nonlinear structures, damage detection, health tious materials, sustainable infrastructural materials
monitoring of structures, earthquake engineering, computation- Kawashima
al mechanics, bridge engineering, seismic analysis of bridges, HOE LING
Betti
corrosion processes in high-strength bridge wires Professor
Geotechnical engineering, geosynthetics, centrifuge modeling,
JULIUS CHANG soil behavior, seismic performance
Lecturer in Discipline
Graduate and undergraduate courses in civil engineering, primar- CHRISTIAN MEYER
ily in the area of construction engineering and management Professor
Ling

Structural analysis and design, earthquake engineering, concrete

PATRICIA CULLIGAN structures, concrete technology
Chang Professor
Geo-environmental engineering, urban design and sustainability, IBRAHIM S. ODEH
high performance green infrastructure, porous media flow and Lecturer in Discipline Meyer
transport Studying global construction practices and challenges; program,
project, and construction management; project control; project
GAUTAM DASGUPTA finance; and business and program development
Culligan Professor
Engineering mechanicscontinuum mechanics, viscoplastic THOMAS PANAYOTIDI
wave propagation, stochastic analysis, bioengineering growth, Lecturer in Discipline Odeh
symbolic computation: Greens functions and boundary ele- Computational mechanics, constitutive modeling of engineering
ments, and defect-free finite elements, civil engineeringlive
materials, earthquake engineering, finite elements in geomechanics
design: mitigating extreme disasters
Dasgupta
FENIOSKY PEA-MORA
GEORGE DEODATIS
Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Civil Engineering and
Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor and Department Chair
Engineering Mechanics (Joint appointments in Computer Science
Probabilistic mechanics, Monte Carlo simulation techniques,
and in Earth and Environmental Engineering) Panayotidi
infrastructure risk analysis and risk mitigation, structural safety
Information technology support for collaboration in prepared-
and reliability, hazards analysis, uncertainty quantification
ness, response, and recovery during disasters involving critical
physical infrastructures, change management, conflict resolution,
Deodatis MARIA Q. FENG
sustainable construction, visualization, augmented reality, and
Renwick Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
processes integration during the design and development of
Sustainability of civil infrastructural systems through multidisci-
plinary research on sensors, data analytics, smart structures, and large-scale civil engineering systems
Pea-Mora
structural health monitoring and system control for intelligent
maintenance to minimize life-cycle cost and enhance system
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 COMPUTER SCIENCE
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS

MASANOBU SHINOZUKA
Professor COMPUTER SCIENCE
Risk assessment of lifeline networks, socioeconomic impact
of natural disasters, smart infrastructure systems, remote
monitoring and control, nondestructive evaluation of struc-
tural safety, stochastic processes and fields, analysis of ALFRED V. AHO
Shinozuka uncertainty in engineering mechanics, earthquake and wind Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science
engineering Compilers, software engineering, algorithms, quantum
computing
ANDREW SMYTH Aho
Professor PETER ALLEN
Structural dynamics, analytical dynamics, structural health Professor
monitoring and control, nonlinear system identification, random Robotics, computer vision, 3D modeling, human-computer
Smyth vibrations interfaces

STEVE W. SUN PETER N. BELHUMEUR Allen

Assistant Professor Professor
Computational mechanics, poromechanics, multiphysics and Computer vision, graphics, image-based rendering, face
multiscale methods with emphases on environment- and re- recognition
source-related geomechanics applications
Sun
STEVEN BELLOVIN
HAIM WAISMAN Professor
Belhumeur

Associate Professor Security, networks, privacy, public policy

Computational mechanics, computational fracture and damage
mechanics, mechanics of materials, extended finite element DAVID M. BLEI
methods, multigrid and multiscale methods, impact and blast Professor
modeling, contact mechanics, inverse problems, computational Statistical machine learning; Bayesian statistics; applications to
nanomechanics, advanced scientific and parallel computing Bellovin
Waisman text, images, music, social networks, user behavior, and scientific
data
HUIMING YIN
Associate Professor
ADAM CANNON
Design and development of modern energy-efficient infra-
Senior Lecturer in Discipline
structure system, characterization and modeling of composite
Computer science education, machine learning, statistical Blei
materials through theoretical and experimental approaches cross
pattern recognition
scales, fabrication and manufacture of civil engineering materials
Yin for optimized life cycle cost
LUCA CARLONI
Associate Professor
Multi-core architectures, embedded systems, computer-
Cannon
aided design, hardware-software integration, cyber-physical
systems

Carloni

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COMPUTER SCIENCE

AUGUSTIN CHAINTREAU JONATHAN GROSS

Assistant Professor Professor
Networked algorithms, social networks, mobile computing, Computational aspects of low-dimensional topologytopological
stochastic networks graph theory, Celtic knots, 3D shape modeling
Chaintreau Gross
XI CHEN JULIA HIRSCHBERG
Assistant Professor Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science and
Algorithmic game theory and economics, complexity theory Department Chair
Computational linguistics/natural language processing, prosody,
MICHAEL COLLINS emotional speech, spoken dialogue systems, deceptive speech,
Chen
Vikram S. Pandit Professor in Computer Science entrainment/alignment in dialogue, text-to-scene generation, Hirschberg
Natural language processing, machine learning speech summarization, code-switching

STEPHEN A. EDWARDS DANIEL HSU

Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Collins Compilers, embedded systems, VLSI, computer-aided design, Algorithmic statistics and machine learning
digital systems, languages
TONY JEBARA
Hsu
STEVEN FEINER Associate Professor
Professor Machine learning, social networks, graph algorithms, spatio-
Edwards Human-computer interaction, graphics and user interfaces, temporal data, vision
3D user interfaces, augmented reality, virtual environments,
knowledge-based design of graphics and multimedia, mobile and GAIL KAISER Jebara
wearable computing, computer games, information visualization Professor
Social software engineering, collaborative work, privacy
ROXANA GEAMBASU and security, software reliability, self-managing systems,
Feiner
Assistant Professor parallel and distributed systems, web technologies, informa-
Distributed systems, operating systems, security and privacy, tion management, and software development environments
cloud computing, mobile computing and tools Kaiser

LUIS GRAVANO JOHN KENDER

Geambasu Professor
Professor
Databases, information retrieval, web search, social media,
Computer vision, video understanding, visual user interfaces,
information extraction
artificial intelligence
Kender
EITAN GRINSPUN
ANGELOS KEROMYTIS
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Gravano Graphics, animation, simulation, computational mechanics,
Security, cryptography, networks, operating systems, distributed
geometry processing, discrete differential geometry, interactive
systems
design software
Keromytis
MARTHA KIM
Assistant Professor
Grinspun Computer architecture, parallel systems, hardware-software
integration, code generation and optimization

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Kim
COMPUTER SCIENCE

JAE WOO LEE ITSIK PEER

Lecturer in Discipline Associate Professor
Computer science education, networks, software engineering, Computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics
cloud computing
Lee MICHAEL RABIN Peer

ALLISON LEWKO Professor

Assistant Professor Theory of computation, privacy and security
Cryptography, harmonic analysis, combinatorics, and distributed
computing KENNETH ROSS
Professor Rabin
Lewko
TAL MALKIN Database systems, query processing, declarative languages,
Associate Professor genetics
Cryptography, complexity theory, security, randomized
algorithms DAN RUBENSTEIN
Associate Professor Ross
Malkin
KATHLEEN MCKEOWN Computer networks, network robustness and security, multi-
Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science media networking, performance evaluation, algorithms
Natural language processing, summarization, multimedia, digital
libraries HENNING SCHULZRINNE
Rubenstein
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods
McKeown VISHAL MISRA and Computer Science (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering)
Associate Professor Computer networks, multimedia systems, mobile and wireless
Networking, modeling and performance evaluation, information systems, ubiquitous and pervasive computing
theory
ROCCO SERVEDIO
Schulzrinne
Misra SHREE NAYAR Associate Professor
T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science Computational learning theory, computational complexity theory,
Computer vision, computer graphics, robotics, human-computer randomness in computing, sublinear time algorithms, combina-
interfaces torics, cryptography

Nayar JASON NIEH SIMHA SETHUMADHAVAN

Servedio
Professor Associate Professor
Operating systems, mobile computing, cloud computing, net- Computer architecture, security, VLSI design, high-performance
working, security computing

STEVEN NOWICK SALVATORE STOLFO

Nieh Professor (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering)
Asynchronous and mixed-timing digital circuits and systems,
computer-aided design, networks-on-chip, interconnection
networks for parallel processors, ultra-low-power digital
design
Professor Sethumadhavan
Computer security, intrusion and anomaly detection, embedded
device security, data mining/machine learning

Nowick Stolfo

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ENGINEERING
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL
JOSEPH TRAUB
Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL
Quantum computing, information-based complexity, financial
computation ENGINEERING
Traub
VLADIMIR VAPNIK
Professor
Machine learning, empirical inference, statistical learning theory KARTIK CHANDRAN
Associate Professor
HENRYK WOZNIAKOWSKI Environmental microbiology and biotechnology, re-engineering
Vapnik Professor the global nitrogen cycle, sustainable sanitation, public health
Computational complexity of continuous problems, tractability of microbiology, water and wastewater treatment, bioenergetics
multivariate problems (including biofuels), biorefining
Chandran
JUNFENG YANG XI CHEN
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Wozniakowski
Operating systems, programming languages, security, distributed Novel energy absorption and harvesting materials, advanced ma-
systems, software engineering, networks terials addressing challenges in energy and environment, morpho-
genesis, mechanobiology, nano- and micromechanics, mechanical
MIHALIS YANNAKAKIS self-assembly, nanoindentation, thin films and small material
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science structures, multiphase and multiscale computational mechanics
Yang Chen
Algorithms, complexity theory, combinatorial optimization, data-
bases, testing, and verification PAUL DUBY
Professor and Department Chair
CHANGXI ZHENG Extractive metallurgy, electrochemical and hydrometallurgical
Assistant Professor processes, corrosion of metals, fuel cells, wastewater treatment
Yannakakis Computer graphics, physically based multisensory animation, and material recycling
computational acoustics, scientific computing, robotics
ROBERT FARRAUTO Duby
Professor of Professional Practice
Heterogeneous catalysis for controlling gaseous emissions from
automotive and stationary engines, alternative energy using
Zheng catalytic reforming of gaseous and liquid fuels to hydrogen for fuel
cells, catalytic processes for upgrading carbon dioxide to useful
products
Farrauto
PIERRE GENTINE
Assistant Professor
Land-atmosphere interactions, hydrometeorology, convection,
ecohydrology, remote sensing, data assimilation of remote sens-
ing measurements to estimate soil moisture and surface heat
fluxes, land-surface models
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
KLAUS LACKNER
The Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Energy-environment system dynamics, managing carbon in the
environment, scientific underpinnings of infrastructure for sus-
tainable and plentiful energy, system analysis and development
of energy and mineral resource infrastructures, making science
and engineering relevant to business and policy DIMITRIS ANASTASSIOU
Lackner
Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering
UPMANU LALL Systems biology: data mining of cancer data sets to discover
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental molecular signatures representing biological mechanisms in
Engineering (Joint appointment in Civil Engineering and Engineer- cancer, use of these signatures as building blocks in molecular
ing Mechanics) diagnostic biomarker products
Hydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; Anastassiou
natural hazards, water systems, and risk management; water KEREN BERGMAN
Lall
technologies for developing countries; major research initiatives: Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering and
global flood risk, global water sustainability, Americas water Department Chair
Optical interconnection networks for advanced computing
AH-HYUNG (ALISSA) PARK systems, data centers, optical packet-switched routers, and chip
Lenfest Associate Professor in Applied Climate Science multiprocessor nanophotonic networks-on-chip
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and sustainable energy Bergman

extraction and conversion from wastes, biomass, and shale based on SHIH-FU CHANG
novel hybrid nanomaterials and advanced carbonate chemistry Richard Dicker Professor of Telecommunications and Senior Vice Dean
Park of Columbia Engineering (Joint appointment in Computer Science)
PETER SCHLOSSER Multimedia, signal processing, computer vision, machine learn-
Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering ing, multimedia search and retrieval
Tracer studies of the dynamics of ocean, continental waters, and Chang
groundwater and its variability, air/sea gas exchange, paleocli- PAUL DIAMENT
mate, Arctic environmental change, impact of human activities Professor
on Earth systems, and sustainable development Electromagnetics, microwaves, antennas, fiber optics, electro-
magnetics for medical applications, stochastic processes in
Schlosser
PONISSERIL SOMASUNDARAN financial economics
LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering
Surface/colloid chemistry of materials/nanoparticles, greener DANIEL P. ELLIS
Diament
chemicals, sustainability in underground resources exploration, Professor
molecular interactions at interfaces using advanced spectroscopy, Computational models of human sound processing and organi-
polymers/surfactants/proteins adsorption, flocculation/dispersion, zation, automatic speech recognition in real-world environments,
biosurfaces, sunlight-powered synthesis of fuels from CO2 /water music audio signal processing, mining, and retrieval, environmen-
Somasundaran tal sound organization and classification
TUNCEL YEGULALP Ellis
Professor JAVAD GHADERI
Mineral economics, systems analysis, extreme value statistics Assistant Professor
applications, zero-emission power plant modeling and design, Mathematical modeling and analysis of large-scale networks,
CO2 sequestration, hydrogen production with CO2 capture primarily to study current problems in communication networks,
wireless systems, social networks, and cloud computing
Ghaderi
Yegulalp
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

TONY HEINZ AUREL A. LAZAR

David M. Rickey Professor of Optical Communications in the Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Neural computing engines and massive parallel neural computa-
Physics tion (in silico), reverse engineering the fruit fly brain (in vivo), big
Optical and electronic properties of nanoscale materials, including data in neuroscience
Heinz graphene and other 2D systems, nonlinear, ultrafast, and THz optics Lazar
NICK MAXEMCHUK
CHRISTINE HENDON Professor
Assistant Professor Routing and flow control, energy conservation in wireless
Optical coherence tomography, near infrared spectroscopy, networks, application of network fairness to energy distribution
cardiovascular imaging, cardiac electrophysiology, medical image and traffic light control, and application of formal methods in
and signal analysis protocols to safe, intelligent vehicles
Maxemchuk
Hendon
PREDRAG JELENKOVIC NIMA MESGARANI
Professor Assistant Professor
Mathematical foundations of complex information networks and Reverse engineering the neural computations involved in speech
systems, wireless networks, biological networks, information processing in the brain, neural engineering, speech and audio
ranking, average case analysis of algorithms, heavy tails, queue- signal processing
ing theory, applied probability
DEBASIS MITRA Mesgarani
Jelenkovic
PETER KINGET Professor
Professor Scientific foundations of policies that impact engineers and
Analog, RF, and power-integrated circuits and the applications engineering systems, network economics, science and man-
they enable in wireless communications, sensing, energy har- agement of innovations and knowledge creation, cooperative
vesting, and power management; focus on low-voltage and low- inter-networking, network traffic engineering, network planning
power techniques for nanoscale devices and resource sharing
Kinget

Mitra
HARISH KRISHNASWAMY RICHARD OSGOOD JR.
Assistant Professor Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering (Joint appointment in
Theory, implementation and experimental verification of RF, mil- Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics)
limeter-wave and terahertz devices, circuits and systems, with Integrated optical devices and design, surface physics of oxide,
applications in communications, radar, imaging, and sensing 2D materials, and semiconductors, new laser sources, advanced
Krishnaswamy
oxides, and optical physics and simulation
JOHN KYMISSIS Osgood Jr.
Associate Professor JOHN PAISLEY
Investigations into device performance, fabrication, packaging, Assistant Professor
and device driving General area of statistical machine learning, probabilistic model-
ing and inference techniques, Bayesian nonparametric methods,
Kymissis
JAVAD LAVAEI dictionary learning and topic modeling
Assistant Professor
Paisley
Power systems, optimization theory, distributed computation,
control systems, and communication networks

Lavaei

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

AMIYA SEN JOHN WRIGHT

Professor (Joint appointment in Applied Physics) Assistant Professor
Novel magnetic confinement devices for controlled thermonu- Robust modeling and analysis of high-dimensional data, efficient
clear fusion, plasma waves and instabilities and their feedback data representations, signal and image processing and computer
control, plasma turbulence and anomalous transport vision
Wright
Sen MINGOO SEOK CHARLES ZUKOWSKI
Assistant Professor Professor and Department Vice Chair
Low power/ultra-low power digital VLSI systems, adaptive design Design and analysis of digital VLSI circuits, circuit simulation,
techniques and methodologies, VLSI architecture and circuit de- communication circuits
sign for digital signal processing, analog circuits in VLSI systems
GIL ZUSSMAN
KENNETH SHEPARD Associate Professor Zukowski
Seok
Professor (Joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering) Wireless and mobile networks and systems (including cellular,
Design tools for advanced CMOS technology, on-chip test and local area, energy harvesting, and mesh networks), resilience of
measurement circuitry including on-chip sampling oscilloscopes, communication and power networks, cross-layering in communi-
low-power design techniques for digital signal processing, cir- cation networks
cuits for low-power intrachip communications, and CMOS gene
Shepard chips Zussman

YANNIS TSIVIDIS
Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering
Analog and mixed-signal (analog-digital) integrated circuits,
signal processing, and computing
Tsividis
DAVID VALLANCOURT
Senior Lecturer
Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design for communi-
cations applications

WEN WANG
Vallancourt
Thayer Lindsley Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied
Science (Joint appointment in Applied Physics and Applied Mathe-
matics)
Ultrahigh-speed electronics, heterogeneous materials inte-
gration, semiconductor optoelectronics, including lasers and
photodetectors
W. Wang

XIAODONG WANG
Professor
Bayesian Monte Carlo signal processing, multiuser communica-
tion theory, wireless communications, bioinformatics

X. Wang

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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING MARTIN HAUGH
Lecturer in Discipline
Financial engineering and risk management, Markov decision
AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH processes and duality based on information relaxations, machine
learning for operations research
Haugh
XUEDONG HE
DANIEL BIENSTOCK Assistant Professor
Professor (Joint appointment in Applied Physics and Applied Behavioral finance, portfolio choice, asset pricing, and risk man-
Mathematics) agement when investors are not fully rational, applied probability
Combinatorial optimization and integer programming, computa- topics such as stochastic control and optimal stopping
tional modeling of power grids
Bienstock GARUD IYENGAR He
JOSE BLANCHET Professor and Department Chair
Associate Professor Convex optimization, robust optimization, combinatorial optimi-
Applied probability, computational finance, MCMC, queueing the- zation, computational finance, complex systems, systemic risk,
ory, rare-event analysis, simulation methodology, and risk theory information theory

Blanchet
MARIA CHUDNOVSKY SOULAYMANE KACHANI Iyengar
Professor Professor of Professional Practice and Vice Dean of The Fu Founda-
Graph theory and combinatorial optimization tion School of Engineering and Applied Science
Pricing and revenue management, logistics, supply chain man-
EMANUAL DERMAN agement, traffic flow modeling, airline operations, transportation
Professor of Professional Practice analysis, and algorithmic trading
Chudnovsky
Quantitative finance, derivatives valuation, volatility models, risk Kachani
management, philosophy of modeling STEVEN KOU
Professor
GUILLERMO GALLEGO Quantitative finance, asset pricing, derivatives, risk measures,
Liu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations real estate, applied probability, empirical finance
Derman
Research
Dynamic pricing, discrete choice modeling, assortment optimiza- TIM LEUNG Kou

tion, design and pricing of bundles, real options Assistant Professor

Financial engineering: (i) derivatives pricing, e.g., employee stock
DONALD GOLDFARB options, exchange-traded funds, credit derivatives, (ii) optimal dy-
Gallego Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial namic/static strategies for hedging, trading, and risk management
Engineering and Operations Research Leung
Algorithms for linear, quadratic, semidefinite, convex, and gener- MARIANA OLVERA-CRAVIOTO
al nonlinear programming, network flows, large sparse systems, Assistant Professor
and applications in robust optimization, finance, and imaging Applied probability, stochastic systems, and heavy-tailed
phenomena, including applications to the analysis of ranking
Goldfarb VINEET GOYAL algorithms, random graphs, and queueing theory
Assistant Professor Olvera-Cravioto
Dynamic optimization under uncertainty, robust optimization, JAY SETHURAMAN
combinatorial optimization, applications in electricity markets Professor
and revenue management Discrete optimization, market design, scheduling, applied
Goyal
probability
30 Sethuraman
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
KARL SIGMAN
Professor
Queueing theory, stochastic networks, point processes, insur-
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ance risk, economics, stochastic simulation, modeling of U.S.
presidential elections

Sigman
CLIFFORD STEIN
Professor (Joint appointment in Computer Science)
SUNIL AGRAWAL
Combinatorial optimization, scheduling, green computing,
Professor
network and internet algorithm, the development of efficient
Design, dynamics, control of intelligent robots and machines,
algorithms for computationally hard problems with both provable
kinematic analysis and synthesis, underactuated robots, or-
guarantees and practical impact, algorithms for managing energy
thotics, prosthetics, novel devices for functional rehabilitation,
consumption in scheduling and network systems
Stein
training studies with robots for neural impaired adults and
children
VAN-ANH TRUONG Agrawal

Assistant Professor
PEJMAN AKBARI
Health care policies, health care operations, scheduling of
Lecturer in Discipline
diagnostic and surgical resources, control of medical formularies,
Energy system design, computational fluid mechanics, advanced
pricing and designing of supply contracts for pharmaceuticals,
propulsion engine and turbomachinery aerothermodynamics,
management of public vaccine stockpiles
Truong green automobile engine designs
ANTHONY WEBSTER Akbari
GERARD A. ATESHIAN
Lecturer in Discipline
Andrew Walz Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
Accounting, corporate finance, real estate finance, decision mod-
Department Chair (Joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering)
els, and construction economics
Theoretical and experimental analysis of articular cartilage
mechanics, lubrication, tissue engineering and bioreactor design,
Webster WARD WHITT
growth and remodeling of biological tissues, cell mechanics,
Wai T. Chang Professor
mixture theory
Applied probability, queueing systems, stochastic networks, Ateshian
stochastic-process limits, performance approximations and
MARY C. BOYCE
numerical transform inversion with applications to communica-
Dean of Engineering and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor
tions, computer, production, and service systems
Mechanics of materials, molecular and nanomechanics of man-
Whitt made and natural polymers and soft composites
DAVID YAO
Piyasombatkul Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and
MICHAEL P. BURKE Boyce
Operations Research
Assistant Professor
Stochastic systems and applied probability, resource control
Mixed-experimental-and-computational investigations of ad-
in stochastic networks, financial systemic risk, risk hedging in
vanced combustion and energy systems that utilize multiscale
production systems, health care operations, hospital resource
Yao modeling, automation, and data sciences
planning

YUAN ZHONG
Burke
Assistant Professor
Modeling and analysis of large-scale stochastic systems, with
business and engineering applications in areas such as commu-
Zhong
nication networks, data centers, cloud computing and health care
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

JAMES C. HONE FRED STOLFI

Professor Senior Lecturer
Carbon nanotubes, graphene, self-assembled nanostruc- Mechatronics (electronic and microcomputer control of mechan-
tures, and textured substrates to explore new applications in ical systems), mechanical design, dynamics, vibration and con-
nano-electro-mechanical systems, biomechanical systems, trol, system modeling, mechanical laboratory instrumentation
Stolfi
Hone nanoscale and molecular electronics, and opto-electronics
ELON TERRELL
JEFFREY KYSAR Assistant Professor
Professor Thermal-fluid sciences, energy, and tribology
Analyze and predict the mechanical behavior of materials and
objects of all sizes; describe how mechanical behavior couples SINISA VUKELIC
with other properties such as optical or electrical Lecturer in Discipline Terrell
Kysar Ultrafast laser processing of transparent dielectrics, mechan-
QIAO LIN ical response of transparent dielectrics, material properties of
Associate Professor biomaterials, spectroscopic analysis for optical diagnostics and
Controlling, sensing, and characterizing biomolecules and cells analysis of targeted molecular pathways
by micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology
CHEE WEI WONG Vukelic
Lin RICHARD LONGMAN Associate Professor
Professor (Joint appointment in Civil Engineering and Engineering Physics, applied physics, and engineering of optics at the
Mechanics) nanoscale
Iterative learning control design for high-precision control in
repetitive operations, repetitive control for eliminating influence Y. LAWRENCE YAO
Wong
of repeating disturbances, system identification generating Professor
Longman
mathematical models from input-output data Manufacturing and design; laser materials processing; laser-
assisted material removal, shaping, joining, and property modi-
VIJAY MODI fication, laser applications in renewable energy, biomedical, and
Professor art restoration; robotics in industry and health care
Engineering software solutions to help make development plan-
ning smarter and to improve the delivery of critical services like Yao
health and energy in the developing world

Modi KRISTIN MYERS

Assistant Professor
Experimental and theoretical soft tissue mechanics, growth
and remodeling of the uterine cervix during pregnancy, finite
element models of pregnancy, mechanics of collagenous
Myers materials

ARVIND NARAYANASWAMY
Associate Professor
Theoretical and experimental investigations of nanoscale and
microscale effects in thermo-fluid transport phenomena

Narayanaswamy

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