Department

Shiri Azenkot
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Associate Professor; Information Science, Information Science Field Faculty

Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, accessibility

Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech

Larry Blume
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; 213 Gates Hall

Claire Cardie
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
David Easley

Scarborough Professor of Social Science; EconomicsInformation 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
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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
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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
Francois Guimbretiere

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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Benjamin Soltoff

Lecturer; Information Science

Areas of Interest: Computational social science, data communication, equity in data science

Office: Gates 216

Daniel Susser
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
Eva 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
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
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
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
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Assistant Professor; Information Science

Areas of Interest: Machine learning fairness, algorithmic bias

Office: Cornell Tech

Matthew Wilkens
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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Assistant Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty

Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Vision, and HCI

 

Deborah Estrin
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
Nate Foster

Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty

Areas of Interest: Programming Languages, Computer Networks, Security

Office: 432 Gates Hall

Nikhil Garg
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
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
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
James Grimmelmann

Professor; Law, Information Science Field Faculty

Areas of Interest: Law and social aspects of information

Office: Cornell Tech

Joseph Halpern
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
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
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
Guy Hoffman

Associate Professor; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Information Science Field Faculty

Areas of Interest: Human-robot interaction

Lee Humphreys
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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
Mats Rooth

Professor; Linguistics, Information Science Field Faculty  

Areas of Interest: Computational linguistics and natural language semantics

Office: 203A Morrill Hall

Fred Schneider
Fred Schneider

Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty

Areas of Interest: Trustworthy computing and public policy

Office: 402 Gates Hall

 

David Shmoys
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
Rebecca 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
Andrea Stevenson Won is an assistant professor in the department of communication and a field faculty member within the department of information science.

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
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
Steve 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
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
Ramin Zabih

Professor; Computer Science, Information Science Field Faculty

Areas of Interest: Computer vision and medical imaging

Office: Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech

Malte Ziewitz
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
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Adjunct Assistant Professor; Information Science, Minor Member

Areas Of Interest: Information technology policy; Fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning; privacy

 

Tarleton Gillespie
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
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Lecturer; Information Science; Head of AI Innovations (CIT)

Areas of Interest: Data Science, Education Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing

Jeff Christen
Jeff Christen

Lecturer; Information Science 

Areas of Interest: Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Management  

Office: 231 Gates Hall

 

Tracy Mitrano
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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
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
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