Department Directory

Shiri Azenkot is an associate professor of information science at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Lawrence E. Blume is a professor of Information Science and serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for Cornell Bowers. He is also Distinguished Arts & Sciences Professor of Economics. He is a Visiting Research Professor at IHS and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program and on the Institute's steering committee. 

Claire Cardie is the John C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science. She was the founding chair of the Department of Information Science and led the development of its academic programs. Cardie works in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) on topics ranging from information extraction, text summarization, and noun phrase coreference resolution, to the automatic analysis of opinions, argumentation, and deception in text. 

Cristobal Cheyre is an assistant professor of information science. His research focuses on the empirical and experimental analysis of the benefits and costs of emerging information technologies, with an emphasis on generating insights to inform policy and management decisions. He draws on his background as both an engineer and a social scientist to bridge the gap between technology, economics, and policy.

Tanzeem Choudhury is a Professor in Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, where she holds the Roger and Joelle Burnell Chair in Integrated Health and Technology. At Cornell, Tanzeem directs the People-Aware Computing group and leads the Precision Behavioral Health Initiative, focused on advancing the future of technology-assisted well-being. Tanzeem co-founded HealthRhythms Inc, a company whose mission is to add the layer of behavioral health into all of healthcare. She is also the Senior Vice President of Digital Health at Optum Labs. Prior to Cornell, Tanzeem was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Tanzeem received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory.

Sharlane Cleare is a lecturer of information science. Her research focuses on broadening STEM participation for underrepresented people of color by understanding how various learning experiences influence their intent to persist in STEM. 

Chris Csíkszentmihályi is an associate professor of information science, and an artist, occasional scholar, technology critic, and technologist. His research creates artistic and engineered sociotechnical systems to increase social justice and reconfigure power for the less served. His teaching helps orient and ground students for an ethical life in technology. Prior to joining Cornell in 2020, he was a European Research Area Chair in Portugal and founded the free/libre Rootio Project, a sociotechnical platform for community radio. Csíkszentmihályi has been a professor at universities in the USA and Europe: notably founding and directing the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (C4), dedicated to developing technologies that strengthen communities, and also the MIT Media Lab's Computing Culture group, creating unique media technologies for cultural and political applications. He has been a Radcliffe Fellow and a Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and has exhibited installations and performed on most continents. He currently sits on the board of the DATACTIVE ERC project at the Univerity of Amsterdam and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics at Newcastle University.

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil is an associate professor of information science. His research aims at developing computational frameworks that can lead to a better understanding of human social behavior by unlocking the unprecedented potential of the large amounts of natural language data generated online. His awards and honors include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Google Research Faculty Award, and numerous Best Paper awards. His work has been featured in popular media outlets such as the New Scientist, NBC's The Today Show, NPR, BBC, WIRED, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. For publications, recent updates and more fun stuff, check out Cristian's webpage.

Abe Davis is an assistant professor of computer science who specializes in computer graphics, computer vision, and human-computer interaction (HCI). His group brings these areas together to work on new problems at the intersection of different disciplines. Davis completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University and Cornell Tech, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying electrical engineering and computer science. He earned his undergraduate degree in computer science at Stanford.

Nicola Dell is an associate professor of information science at Cornell Tech, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. She advises Ph.D. and M.S. students in the fields of information science and computer science.

Deborah Estrin is the Robert V. Tishman ’37 professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. At Cornell Tech, she serves as the Associate Dean for Impact. She is also an affiliate faculty member at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Nate Foster is an adjunct professor of computer science at Cornell University and a visiting researcher at Jane Street. He currently serves as vice chair of DARPA's Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group, and as chair of the P4 Language Governing Board.  

Susan Fussell is a professor in the Departments of Information Science and Communication. Her research focuses on interpersonal communication in face-to-face and computer-mediated contexts. Her goals are to enhance our theoretical understanding of the mechanisms involved in conversational discourse and to apply this theory to the design and evaluation of new communications technologies. Fussell's current research areas include intercultural computer-mediated communication, multi-lingual communication, tools to promote energy-saving behavior, human-robot interaction, and collaborative intelligence analysis. With students and collaborators, she examines these issues within a variety of domains, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Paul Ginsparg is a professor of information science and physics. Among his many awards and honors, Ginsparg is a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the American Physical Society, the Alfred P. Sloane Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute, and is a recipient of the Einstein Foundation Berlin Award and the Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics. He is the founder of arXiv, the preeminent open-access, preprint repository. Ginsparg received an A.B. in physics from Harvard in 1977 and a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell in 1981. He joined the Cornell faculty in 2001. 

Carla Gomes is the Ronald C. and Antonia V. Nielsen Professor of Computing and Information Science, director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University, and co-director of the Cornell University AI for Science Institute. Gomes received a Ph.D. in computer science in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. Her research area is AI with a focus on large-scale constraint reasoning, optimization, and machine learning. 

François Guimbretière is a professor of information science. Guimbretière's research explores how hardware/software co-design can deliver novel interactions in a broad set of application domains. Blending system building and design, Guimbretière and his students strive to turn future visions of seamless interactions into today’s reality. His prior work explored pen-based interfaces on paper and screen. He currently focuses on novel fabrication techniques, such as interactive printing and yarn-based fabrication. He is also interested in the intersection of HRI and sustainability, including the design of immersive and engaging remote collaboration interfaces that limit our reliance on physical travel. For more information, visit Guimbretière's ACM webpage for the most up-to-date description of his work.

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Kyle Harms teaches courses emphasizing programming and human-computer interaction, often with web technologies. He primarily focuses on classroom innovation at scale. His pedagogical approach incorporates active learning methods, motivating students with personal projects, and carefully integrating generative AI into the classroom.

Haym Hirsh is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research has focused on foundations and applications of machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence, especially targeting questions that integrally involve both people and computing. Most recently these interests have turned to crowdsourcing, human computation, and collective intelligence. Haym received his B.S. from the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Prior to moving to Cornell in 2013 to serve as dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Hirsh spent 24 years on the computer science faculty at Rutgers University, and has had visiting positions at AT&T Labs, Bar-Ilan University, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of Zurich. From 2006-2010 he served as director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. In 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.