Members

Faculty

David Blei, CS, ML and Causal Inference. World leader in probabilistic ML. 10-year test of time awards at top ML conferences, including NeurIPS and ICML. Numerous awards including the AAAI John McCarthy award, Allen Newell Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Guggenheim Fellow, and Sloan Fellowship.

Richard Zemel, CS, ML. NVIDIA Pioneer of AI Award, ICML 10-year test of time award, Canadian AI Lifetime Achievement Award. Past chair of NeurIPS, FAccT conferences. Co-Founder & Research Director Vector Institute for AI, Director NSF AI Institute for ARtificial and Natural Intelligence

Carl Vondrick, CS, Computer vision. PAMI Young Researcher Awardee, NSF CAREER. Senior program chair for ICLR 2025, the top ML and AI conference along with NeurIPS and ICML.

Yunzhu Li, CS, Robotics and agents. World leader in developing embodied AI agents for real-world robotics. Best Papers at ICRA, CoRL. Sony Faculty Innovation Award.

Shipra Agrawal, IEOR, Reinforcement learning. Proved first optimality bounds of Thompson’s sampling (core algorithm in RL). NSF CAREER. Co-chair of AIStats 2025, one of the top theoretical AI conferences.

Daniel Hsu, CS, Machine Learning Theory. World leader in theoretical foundations of machine learning and AI. Sloan fellow and AI’s 10 to Watch in 2015. Co-chair of ICML 2025, the top ML conference.

Adam Elmachtoub, IEOR, Pricing, and Market Design. Built foundations of fundamental algorithms in pricing and decision-focused learning. NSF CAREER, IBM faculty award, Forbes 30 under 30, INFORMS Early Career Gaver Award.

Baishakhi Ray, CS, Software Engineering, Neurosymbolic learning. Pioneer of CodeLLMs and AI for Software Engineering. NSF CAREER, VMWare, and IBM faculty awards, IEEE CS TCSE Rising Star Award.

Junfeng Yang, CS, Systems, Security. World leader in robustness and security of AI. Winner of the Sloan fellow, Air Force YIP awardee, NSF CAREER, research awards from Google, Meta, Amazon, best paper awards at top systems and ML conferences.

Lydia Chilton, CS, Human-Centered AI. Pioneered accurate simulations of human-AI agent strategic behavior. Winner of Facebook, Adobe, and Amazon awards. Recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship.

Zhou Yu, CS, NLP. Winner of the Amazon Alexa Prize, developed the best-rated chatbot system on Amazon Alexa, reaching tens of millions of customers. Forbes 30 under 30.

Kostis Kaffes, CS, Systems. Pioneered microsecond-scale decision making in cloud computing. Meta Research Award, former Google Visiting Faculty.

Eugene Wu, CS, Data management. Developed the only database system that can track row-level data-flows at near-zero cost, and forms the basis of compliance-first data systems. Winner of the NSF CAREER, VLDB 2018 Test-of-time, Google, Adobe, Amazon awards.

Tianyi Peng, Columbia Business School: Risk, and Operations Division. Focus on decision making and experimentation. Pioneered the building of digital twins and the orchestration of experimentation and AI-agent platforms. Recipient of multiple awards in the field of Operations, including the Daniel H. Wagner Prize, APS, and RMP student paper awards.

Advisory Board

Richard Zemel, CS, AI. Director NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence.

Michael Franklin, CS, UChicago. Founder of Berkeley’s AMPLab.