Faculty

David Blei
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.
David
Blei
CS ML Causal inference
Carl Vondrick
PAMI Young Researcher Awardee, NSF CAREER. Senior program chair for ICLR 2025, the top ML and AI conference along with NeurIPS and ICML.
Carl
Vondrick
CS Vision
Yunzhu Li
World leader in developing embodied AI agents for real-world robotics. Best Papers at ICRA, CoRL. Sony Faculty Innovation Award.
Yunzhu
Li
CS Robotics
Shipra Agrawal
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.
Shipra
Agrawal
IEOR Reinforcement learning
Daniel Hsu
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.
Daniel
Hsu
CS Machine learning theory
Adam Elmachtoub
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.
Adam
Elmachtoub
IEOR Pricing and market design
Baishakhi Ray
Pioneer of CodeLLMs and AI for Software Engineering. NSF CAREER, VMWare, and IBM faculty awards, IEEE CS TCSE Rising Star Award.
Baishakhi
Ray
CS Software Neurosymbolic learning
Junfeng Yang
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.
Junfeng
Yang
CS Systems Security
Lydia Chilton
Pioneered accurate simulations of human-AI agent strategic behavior. Winner of Facebook, Adobe, and Amazon awards. Recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship.
Lydia
Chilton
CS HCI
Zhou Yu
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.
Zhou
Yu
co-director CS NLP
Kostis Kaffes
Pioneered microsecond-scale decision making in cloud computing. Meta Research Award, former Google Visiting Faculty.
Kostis
Kaffes
CS Systems
Eugene Wu
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.
Eugene
Wu
co-director CS Data
Tianyi Peng
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.
Tianyi
Peng
Columbia Business Decision making
Richard Zemel
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.
Richard
Zemel
Advisory Board CS ML
Michael Franklin
Founder of Berkeley's AMPLab.
Michael
Franklin
Advisory Board CS UChicago

Student

Charlie Summers
Charlie
Summers
Chenxi Huang
Chenxi
Huang
Elaine Ang
Elaine
Ang
Georgios Liargkovas
Georgios
Liargkovas
Haneen Mohammed
Haneen
Mohammed
Haonan Peter Wang
Haonan Peter
Wang
Jiakai Xu
Jiakai
Xu
Jiaxiang Jerry Liu
Jiaxiang Jerry
Liu
Matthew Toles
Matthew
Toles
Naimeng Ye
Naimeng
Ye
Nikos Pagonas
Nikos
Pagonas
Reya Vir
Reya
Vir
Ryan Shea
Ryan
Shea
Tao Long
Tao
Long
Tianle Zhou
Tianle
Zhou
Vivian Liu
Vivian
Liu
Yuhang Wu
Yuhang
Wu
Yunan Lu
Yunan
Lu