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Department
Shiri Azenkot
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, accessibility
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Larry Blume
Professor, Charles F. and Barbara D. Weiss Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Information Science; Distinguished Arts & Sciences Professor of Economics; Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Theory of games, economics of information and decision theory
Office: 430 Uris Hall; 341 Gates Hall
Claire Cardie
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science, Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering; Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Natural language processing
Office: 417 Gates Hall
Cristobal Cheyre
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas Of Interest: Economics of Information, Economics of Privacy and Data Analytics, Technology and Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship.
Office: 210 Gates Hall
Tanzeem Choudhury
Professor, Roger and Joelle Burnell Chair in Integrated Health and Technology; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Machine learning, mobile systems, activity recognition, mHealth, mobile health
Office: Cornell Tech
Sharlane Cleare
Lecturer; Information Science
Areas of Interest: Broadening STEM participation for underrepresented people of color, human computer interaction
Office: Gates Hall 110F
Chris Csíkszentmihályi
Associate Professor; Information Science; Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Information for accountability, social and environmental justice, and activism; information and art and design practice.
Office: 206 Gates Hall
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computational Social Science, Social Computing, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
Office: 209 Gates Hall
Nicola Dell
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty, Computer Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human-computer interaction (HCI), computer security and privacy, design and evaluation of technologies for underserved communities
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
David Easley
Scarborough Professor of Social Science; Economics, Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Economics of information; learning from endogenous data; market microstructure; evolution in games and markets
Office: 450 Uris Hall; 213 Gates Hall
Susan Fussell
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies; Information Science, Communication, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computer-mediated communication, computer-supported cooperative work, social computing, human-robot and human-agent communication
Office: 226 Gates Hall
Paul Ginsparg
Professor; Physics, Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Quantum field theory, quantum computing, digital knowlege networks
Office: 242 Gates Hall; 452 Physical Science Building
François Guimbretière
Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Fabrication, Human-Robot Interaction, and Design
Office: 241 Gates Hall
Kyle Harms
Senior Lecturer; Information Science
Areas of Interest: Human-computer interaction, computing and information science education, novice programming environments and languages
Office: 224 Gates Hall
Steve Jackson
Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Innovation; Information Science, Science and Technology Studies, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Information technology policy; scientific cyberinfrastructure and collaboration; simulation and science policy; sociocultural analysis of information and information technology; science and technology studies
Office: 110H Gates Hall
Thorsten Joachims
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of computer science and information science; Computer Science, Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Learning from Behavioral Data, Language Technology
Office: 418 Gates Hall
Wendy Ju
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Interaction with Automation, Interaction Design Research, Human Robot Interaction, Automotive Interaction Design
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Malte Jung
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computer-supported cooperative work, teamwork, emotion, human-robot interaction, design
Office: 220A Gates Hall
Rene Kizilcec
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Education, AI, Human-Computer Interaction, Equity, Behavioral Science
Office: 208 Gates Hall
Jon Kleinberg
Tisch University Professor; Computer Science, Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Algorithms that exploit the combinatorial structure of networks and information
Office: 318 Gates Hall; Upson Hall 5134
Allison Koenecke
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computational social science, algorithmic fairness, causal inference, public health
Office: Gates Hall 227
Gilly Leshed
Senior Lecturer and Director of MPS; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work
Office: 110G Gates Hall
Karen Levy
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Technology policy and law, surveillance and privacy, social and organizational contexts of data-intensive systems, labor and the workplace
Office: 207 Gates Hall
Michael Macy
Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences; Sociology, Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computational social science
Office: 213 Gates Hall
David Mimno
Associate Professor and Information Science Chair; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Machine learning, text mining, digital humanities
Office: 236A Gates Hall
Mor Naaman
Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Social computing, human computer interaction, social data mining, computational media and journalism, urban computing
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas Of Interest: Mobile health, user interfaces, and the Internet of Things
Office: Cornell Tech
Helen Nissenbaum
Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Ethics in policy, law, science and engineering relating to information technology, computing, digital media and data science.
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Tapan Parikh
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, design and evaluation of information technologies for education, governance, and international development
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Thijs Roumen
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Personal fabrication, laser cutting, portability, human computer interaction
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Jeff Rzeszotarski
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Data visualization, crowdsourcing, and social computing
Office: 110E Gates Hall
Phoebe Sengers
Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Social impact of technology, values in technology design, sociology and history of technology, infrastructure studies, research through design, Human-Computer Interaction
Office: 110D Gates Hall
Benjamin Soltoff
Lecturer; Information Science
Areas of Interest: Computational social science, data communication, equity in data science
Office: Gates 216
Daniel Susser
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Ethics, Politics, and Policy in Computing (esp. Privacy and AI Governance), Philosophy of Technology, Science and Technology Studies
Office: 225 Gates Hall
Éva Tardos
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Design and analysis of algorithms, algorithmic game theory
Office: 331 Gates Hall
Angelique Taylor
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computer vision, robotics, healthcare, and artificial intelligence
Office: Bloomberg 262
Aditya Vashistha
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas Of Interest: Social computing, human-computer interaction (HCI), computing for development, and accessibility technology
Office: 205 Gates Hall
Gili Vidan
Assistant Professor; Information Science
Areas of Interest: History of computing, authentication and the politics of cryptography, the specter of the digital fake, regulating AI and emerging technology, science and technology studies, media studies, 20th-century US history
Office: 204 Gates
Angelina Wang
Assistant Professor; Information Science
Areas of Interest: Machine learning fairness, algorithmic bias
Office: Cornell Tech
Matthew Wilkens
Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Digital humanities, cultural analytics, text mining, quantitative literary history
Office: 110C Gates
David Williamson
Professor; Operations Research and Information Engineering; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems
Office: 236 Rhodes Hall; 213 Gates Hall
Qian Yang
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human-AI Interaction, Intelligent User Experience, Research through Design, Language Interactions, Networked Interaction design
Office: 230 Gates
Yian Yin
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computational Social Science, Science of science, Complex systems, Innovation
Office: 215 Gates Hall
Cheng Zhang
Assistant Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas Of Interest: ubiquitous computing, wearable computing, HCI, applied machine learning
Office: 231 Gates Hall
Field
Natalie Bazarova
Professor & Associate Vice Provost for Research & Innovation; Communication, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Digital safety and well-being, privacy and cybersecurity, prosocial behaviors in social media, digital and AI literacy, digital and AI-based interventions
Office: 479 Mann Library
Morten Christiansen
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology; Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Evolution, Acquisition and Processing of Language; Chunking, Learning and Memory; Statistical Learning; Second-Language Learning; Computational Models of Language; Corpus Analyses; Large Language Models; Cognitive Science of Language
Office: 228 Uris Hall
Robert Constable
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Formal Digital Libraries (FDL) Project; Logic of Events; Knowledge-Based Adaptive Distributed Systems; Models for Concurrency
Office: 320 Gates Hall
Abe Davis
Assistant Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Vision, and HCI
Deborah Estrin
Professor, Robert V. Tishman Founder's Chair; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Digital Health, Public Interest Tech
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Nate Foster
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Programming Languages, Computer Networks, Security
Office: 432 Gates Hall
Nikhil Garg
Assistant Professor; Operations Research and Information Engineering, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Economics and Computation, Market Design, Data Science, Algorithmic Fairness
Office: Bloomberg 454, Cornell Tech
Carla Gomes
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Combinatorial problems, with an emphasis on planning and scheduling problems, combining techniques from Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research
Office: 353 Gates Hall
Keith Green
Jean and Douglas McLean Professor of Human Centered Design, Professor; Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Architectural Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction; Enabling Technologies
Office: 202 Human Ecology Building
James Grimmelmann
Professor; Law, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Law and social aspects of information
Office: Cornell Tech
Joseph Halpern
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Representing and reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, qualitative reasoning, causality, security, game theory, decision theory, belief revision, and fault tolerance
Office: 402 Gates Hall
Haym Hirsh
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, data mining, human computation, information retrieval, machine learning.
Office: 352 Gates Hall
Will Hobbs
Assistant Professor; Human Development, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: politics and everyday life, health and resilience, causal inference, computational social science, social networks, text mining
Office: 202D Beebe Hall
Guy Hoffman
Associate Professor; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human-robot interaction
Lee Humphreys
Associate Professor; Communication, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Social uses and effects of technology, mobile technology, communication and culture, mobile social networks, new media & society
Office: 305 Kennedy Hall
Saleh Kalantari
Assistant Professor; Human Centered Design, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Evidence-based Design; Virtual Reality; Design Cognition; Spatial Cognition
Office: 2427 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Assistant Professor; Design and Environmental Analysis, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Digital Fabrication, Wearable Computing, Culturally-inspired on-body technologies
Office: 2411 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Robert Kleinberg
Associate Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Algorithmic aspects of learning and game theory, with applications to electronic commerce, online social systems, and information systems.
Office: 317 Gates Hall
Lillian Lee
Charles Roy Davis Professor; Computer Science, Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Natural language processing and social interaction; computational social science; machine learning; artificial intelligence
Office: 419 Gates Hall
Drew Margolin
Associate Professor; Communication, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computational social science, social networks, and text mining
Office: 472 Mann Library
J. Nathan Matias
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Human-algorithm behavior, Technology Accountability, Design and Ethics of Large-Scale Social Research Infrastructures
Office: 486 Mann Library
Emma Pierson
Assistant Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Data Science and Machine Learning, Healthcare, Inequality, and Algorithmic Fairness
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Mats Rooth
Professor; Linguistics, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computational linguistics and natural language semantics
Office: 203A Morrill Hall
Fred Schneider
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Trustworthy computing and public policy
Office: 402 Gates Hall
David Shmoys
Laibe/Acheson Professor; Business Management & Leadership Studies ,Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Optimization models and algorithms for data-driven decision-making in support of democracy, routing in data center networks, IoT network design, and the sharing economy
Office: 231 Rhodes Hall
Rebeca Slayton
Associate Professor; Science and Technology Studies, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Relationships between and among risk, governance, and expertise, with a focus on international security and cooperation since World War II
Office: 320 Morrill Hall
Andrea Stevenson Won
Assistant Professor; Communication, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Virtual and mixed reality, avatar embodiment and nonverbal behavior
Office: 471 Mann Library
Fei Wang
Associate Professor; Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Health data science, machine learning, and data mining
Office: Weill Cornell Medicine, 425 East 61 St., room 301
Stephen Wicker
Professor; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Wireless information networks, cellular networks, packet-switched computer networks, and digital telephony with a focus on the interface between information networking technology, law, and sociology.
Office: Frank H T Rhodes Hall, Room 386
Connie Yuan
Associate Professor; Communication, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Knowledge management, transactive memory, social networks, collaborative work, communication technologies
Office: 308 Kennedy Hall
Ramin Zabih
Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: Computer vision and medical imaging
Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
Malte Ziewitz
Associate Professor; Science & Technology Studies, Information Science Field Faculty
Areas of Interest: social, organizational, and ethical aspects of data-driven technologies; audit cultures, esp. scoring, rating, ranking schemes; everyday governance and regulation; ethnomethodology; ethnography
Office: 313 Morrill Hall
Adjunct
Solon Barocas
Adjunct Assistant Professor; Information Science, Minor Member
Areas Of Interest: Information technology policy; Fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning; privacy
Tarleton Gillespie
Adjunct Associate Professor; Information Science
Areas of Interest: Social contexts and implications of information technologies; law, policy, and technological change; public discourse in a digital environment
Visiting Academics
Ayham Boucher
Lecturer; Information Science; Head of AI Innovations (CIT)
Areas of Interest: Data Science, Education Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing
Jeff Christen
Lecturer; Information Science
Areas of Interest: Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Management
Office: 231 Gates Hall
Tracy Mitrano
Distinguished Visiting Professor; Information Science
Areas of Interest: Law, Culture and Politics of the Internet; Privacy, Security, Compliance; Institutional Policy Development
Office: 223 Gates Hall
Mike Priehs
Visiting Lecturer; Information Science
Areas of Interest: Intellectual Property, Leadership and Organizational Development in Libraries, Inclusion and Accessibility in Libraries
Office: 233 Olin Library
Emeritus
Geri Gay
Professor Emerita; Kenneth J. Bissett Professor of Communication & Information Science
Areas of Interest: HCI, mobile computing, information visualization, affective presence, social and collaborative computing