Faculty Directory
Emmanuel Abbe
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Office: B322 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4692
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Research Area: Information theory, coding theory, statistical signal processing, inference and discrete probability. Particular interests in: computationally efficient methods to process information in applications such as communication networks, data acquisition and data privacy
Ryan P. Adams
Professor of Computer Science, Director, Program in Statistics and Machine Learning
Office: 411 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-8682
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Program in Statistics and Machine Learning
Research Area: Machine learning and computational statistics with applications in science and engineering.
Sigrid Adriaenssens
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: E332 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4661
Areas of impact: The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Bridges: new structural (mobile) typologies; pre-stressed tension structures: splines and membranes; shells: textile reinforced shells, adaptable formwork, shape optimization; historic structures: restoration and upgrading methodologies; durability: life-cycle design of new infrastructure; efficiency: form-finding techniques, structural optimization, with applications in energy efficiency and human health.
Amir Ali Ahmadi
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 329 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-6416
Areas of impact: Data Science, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other affiliations: Computer Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Optimization: algebraic methods in optimization, semidefinite programming, polynomial optimization; Computational aspects of dynamics and control: Lyapunov theory and optimization-based algorithms for robustness and stability analysis; Algorithms and complexity: Computational complexity in numerical optimization, convex relaxations in combinatorial optimization. Applications in systems theory, statistics, robotics, and economics.
Ilhan Aksay
Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A313 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4393
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Ceramics and glasses; colloidal dispersions; nanoscience and nanotechnology
Andrew Appel
Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science
Office: Room 209 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-4627
Areas of impact: Public Policy, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Area: Computer security; information technology policy; election technology; programming languages; compilers; programming language semantics; program analysis; program verification; machine-checked proofs
Craig Arnold
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Office: D410 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-0250
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Electrical Engineering
Research Area: Laser processing and transport in materials with particular emphasis on shaping laser-material interactions
Sanjeev Arora
Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science
Office: 307 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-3869
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Theoretical computer science and theoretical machine learning. Computational complexity (especially probabilistically checkable proofs), computing approximate solutions to intractable problems. Data science (also natural language processing and neuroscience).
David August
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 209 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-2085
Areas of impact: Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Area: Computer architecture; languages, compilers, and run-time systems; parallelism; programmability, performance, efficiency, reliability, and security.
José Avalos
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: 101 Hoyt Chemical Laboratory
Phone: 609-258-9881
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Area: Biotechnology: Use of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to address important problems in sustainable energy, the environment, industry, and human health.
Jay Benziger
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A407 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5416
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Fuel cell engineering; chemical reactor design, stability, and dynamics; heterogeneous catalysis; chemical process engineering for ultrapure materials;
Ravindra Bhatt
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B430 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1819
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Theoretical condensed matter (solid-state) physics; physics of electronic materials
Elie Bou-Zeid
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: C326 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5429
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Environmental flows and turbulence, energy models for cities and buildings, boundary-layer meteorology, surface-atmosphere interactions; hydrometeorology; large-eddy simulation; sensor networks
Ian Bourg
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Office: E416 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4541
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Area: Geochemical and mass transport properties of porous media, including clay mineral surface geochemistry; geologic carbon sequestration; kinetic isotope effects in aqueous systems; liquid water at interfaces; coupling between geochemistry, geomechanics, and mass fluxes in porous media.
Clifford Brangwynne
Associate Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A313 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4528
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Patterning in Developing Embryos; Physical Properties and Function of RNA/Protein Bodies; Architecture and Dynamics of the Cytoskeleton
Mark Braverman
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 231 194 Nassau St.
Phone: (609) 258-8130
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Research Area: Complexity theory, algorithms, game theory, machine learning, and applications of computer science in healthcare and medicine.
Pierre-Thomas Brun
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A313 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-2620
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Area: Fluid mechanics and elasticity; interfacial phenomenon and capillary effects; desktop experiments and minimal models; instability in soft matter; soft robotics; shape morphing and morphogenesis.
Mark Brynildsen
Associate Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: 205 Hoyt Laboratory
Phone: 609-258-1995
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Area: Bacterial persistence, host-pathogen interactions, network biology of bacterial stress.
Rene Carmona
Paul M. Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance, Chair and Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 210 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-2310
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other affiliations: Mathematics, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Research Area: Mathematical analysis of energy and emission markets; gas and electricity trading; design of cap-and-trade schemes; models and computational methods for the equity and credit markets
Emily A. Carter
Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics
Office: C230 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5391
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Area: Alternative energy; energy efficiency; solar cells/ photovoltaics; solar fuels/photocatalysis; lightweight alloys for fuel-efficient vehicles and fusion reactor walls; quantum mechanics simulation tools
Michael Celia
Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute, Director of the Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources
Office: E205 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5425
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Carbon mitigation; ecohydrology; subsurface hydrology; ecohydrology, numerical modeling, contaminant transport simulation; multiphase flow physics
Bernard Chazelle
Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science
Office: 301 194 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-5380
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Natural algorithms, dynamical systems, dynamic networks, computational geometry, discrepancy theory
Yuxin Chen
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: C330 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1693
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: High-dimensional estimation, machine learning, convex and nonconvex optimization, information theory, statistics, statistical signal processing, network science, and their applications in medical imaging and computational biology.
Minjie Chen
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: 217 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Phone: 609-258-7656
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Design of power conversion and management systems to address technical challenges with large social impacts. High-performance power-conversion systems for a wide range of applications, including smart grid, renewable generation, energy storage, telecom, data centers, electric vehicles, and robotics.
Maurizio Chiaramonte
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: E324 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5246
Areas of impact: The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Computational solid and fluid mechanics; computational fracture mechanics; constitutive modeling; Eulerian methods for inelastic solids. Developing, advancing, and leveraging numerical tools, such as finite element methods, numerical optimization techniques, as well as machine learning algorithms, to support the advancement of engineering design and the understanding of fundamental physical phenomena.
Stephen Chou
Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B412 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4416
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Nanotechnology and nanoscale electronics; optoelectronic; magnetic devices, such as nanoimprint, self-assembly, reactive ion etching, single electron transistors, subwavelength optical elements, patterning of nanoscale organic light emitters and transistors, growth of semiconductors and polymers on nanopatterned substrates, quantized magnetic disks, and giant magnetoresistance
Edgar Choueiri
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D432 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5220
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: High-power rocket system for the robotic and human exploration of the Moon and Mars; physics and application of plasma thrusters. Also: audio, acoustics, and 3D sound.
Daniel J. Cohen
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: 111 Hoyt
Phone: 609-258-3000
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Bioengineering; biomaterials; materials science; biomechanics; swarm behavior
Sujit Datta
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A321 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4586
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Physics and engineering of soft materials; transport through porous media; interfacial phenomena; biophysics; biological polymers; microfluidics; hydrogels; water remediation; microbial communities
Nathalie de Leon
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B320 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5694
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Building quantum hardware with color centers in wide bandgap materials, such as NV centers in diamond. Optics and photonics, surface science and materials engineering, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, nanofabrication, and cryogenics.
Pablo Debenedetti
Dean for Research, Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: 107 91 Prospect Ave./Office of the Dean for Research
Phone: 609-258-5480
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Protein thermodynamics; ice nucleation in the atmosphere; liquid-state theory; theory of the glass transition; theory of nucleation; molecular theory of water and aqueous systems.
Luc Deike
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Office: D428 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-7920
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
Research Area: Fundamental fluid dynamics with an emphasis on non-linear and multi-scale systems. Addressing fundamental physics problems related to environmental and industrial applications, including the statistics of waves in the ocean, floating ice sheets, gas transfer by surface breaking waves in the ocean, and spray dynamics in the atmosphere.
Jia Deng
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 423 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-1203
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer vision and machine learning; achieving human-level visual understanding by integrating perception, cognition, and learning.
David Dobkin
Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor in Computer Science
Office: 419 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-9907
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Area: Creating images of mathematical objects and animations of geometric algorithms
Zeev Dvir
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Office: 250 194 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-6469
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Mathematics
Research Area: Computational complexity, pseudo-randomness, coding theory and discrete mathematics.
Barbara Engelhardt
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Office: 322 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-0933
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, statistical genetics, computational biology, quantitative genetics.
Jianqing Fan
Frederick L. Moore, Class of 1918, Professor in Finance, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 205 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-7924
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: High-dimensional statistics, machine learning, financial econometrics, biostatistics, computational biology, distributed computing.
Nick Feamster
Professor of Computer Science, Deputy Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy
Office: 310 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-2203
Areas of impact: Data Science, Public Policy, Security and Privacy, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Center for Information Technology Policy
Other affiliations: Woodrow Wilson School
Research Area: Network systems, security, management, and measurement. Internet censorship and information control, home and access networks, and software defined networking.
Edward Felten
Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Director of the Center of Information Technology Policy, Associate Director of the Program in Technology and Society
Office: 302 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-5906
Areas of impact: Data Science, Public Policy, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Center for Information Technology Policy, Woodrow Wilson School
Research Area: Computer security and privacy, and technology policy; electronic voting; security of laptop computers; issues related to anti-copying technology and online copyright issues
Adam Finkelstein
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 424 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-5756
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer graphics; abstract animation; depiction of 3D shape; interactive tools for artists, designers and architects; computer generated line drawings; non-photorealistic rendering; scientific and information visualization
Jason Fleischer
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B320 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8963
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Nonlinear optics and photonics; soliton dynamics; statistical and condensed-matter physics
Michael Freedman
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 308 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-9179
Areas of impact: Data Science, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems, Security and Privacy, The Future Metropolis, Public Policy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Area: Peer-assisted content distribution; federated virtual worlds; service-centric network architectures; scalable storage systems; fault-tolerant systems; distributed monitoring and debugging; privacy-preserving protocols
Thomas Funkhouser
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 422 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-1748
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer graphics and computer vision
Maria Garlock
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Co-Director of the Program in Architecture and Engineering
Office: E328 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-2728
Areas of impact: Security and Privacy, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Area: Structural engineering; earthquake engineering; innovative structural systems; large fires; thin shell concrete roof structures; sensor technology in civil infrastructure; tall building design
Alexander Glaser
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and International Affairs, Co-Director of the Program in Science and Global Security
Office: 202 221 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-5692
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, Public Policy, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Woodrow Wilson School
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Nuclear energy; climate change; nuclear reactor technologies; neutronics calculations; nuclear fuel cycle analysis and modeling; nuclear arms control and disarmament verification; projects in partnership with the Program in Science and Global Security and the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy of the Woodrow Wilson School.
Branko Glišić
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: E330 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8278
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Structural health monitoring and structural analysis; SHM methods and strategies, fiber optic sensors and advanced sensory systems; smart structures and intelligent infrastructure; hazard mitigation and enhancement of safety; model-based and model-free data analysis
Claire Gmachl
Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B326 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-7489
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: High performance quantum cascade lasers; innovative quantum cascade laser design; mid-infrared photonics; mid-infrared sensing applications in environment, health, and security; novel semiconductor devices; semiconductor metamaterials.
Aarti Gupta
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 220 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-8017
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Formal verification of systems, model checking, program analysis, and automatic decision procedures for logics. SAT/SMT solvers.
Mikko Haataja
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D404C E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-9126
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Theoretical and computational materials science; physics of materials; physical biology; microstructure formation
Elad Hazan
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 409 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-4562
Areas of impact: Data Science, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Design and analysis of algorithms for basic problems in machine learning and optimization.
Andrew Houck
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B424 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-2571
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Quantum computing; non-linear and quantum optics; superconducting microwave electronics; decoherence in quantum systems; transport physics
Marcus Hultmark
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D222 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5689
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Fluid mechanics; turbulence, its measurement and theory. Aerodynamics of wind turbines; developing and characterization of sensors for measurements of flow parameters related to atmospheric monitoring, climate models, unmanned aerial vehicles, and medical infusion monitoring to improve how treatments are administered.
Peter Jaffé
William L. Knapp '47 Professor of Civil Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Director for Research for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: E411 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4653
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Novel mechanisms of ammonium oxidation under iron reducing conditions and its applications to water treatment; optimization of nitrification/denitrification in waste treatment systems; transport and transformation of pollutants in the environment; remediation of contaminated systems; numerical simulation of denitrification in soils as a function of rainfall and soil properties; climate change models; biogeochemically mediated dynamics of trace metals in sediments, wetland soils, and groundwater; biological reduction of uranium in groundwater; long-term stability of the reduced uranium phases; nitrogen processing in urban settings coupled to urban hydrology; effects of carbon dioxide sequestration in deep aquifers on shallow soils due to potential leaks.
Kyle Jamieson
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Office: 305 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-7477
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems, Security and Privacy, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Networking, Wireless Systems, Internet of Things. Building wirelessly networked systems for the real world that cut across the boundaries of digital communications and networking.
Niraj Jha
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B220 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4754
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science, Energy and Environment, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems, Security and Privacy, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Machine learning; Internet of Things; embedded computing; cybersecurity; computer architecture; computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems; low-power hardware/software design; 3D monolithic IC design.
Yiguang Ju
Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Program in Sustainable Energy
Office: D330 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5644
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Sustainable energy; propulsion; functional nano-materials
Antoine Kahn
Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Vice Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science
Office: B420 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4642
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Molecular and polymer semiconductors; electronic and chemical properties of interfaces; doping in organic thin films; organic-based devices; hybrid metal halide perovskites.
N. Jeremy Kasdin
Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D207 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5673
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Astrophysical Sciences
Research Area: Space systems design; orbital mechanics; guidance and control of space vehicles; astronomical optics and instrumentation; adaptive optics; exoplanet direct imaging; adjutant scientist for coronagraph instrument on NASA’s Wide Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
Brian Kernighan
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 311 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-2089
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Area: AMPL modeling language for mathematical optimization; scripting languages
Zachary Kincaid
Assistant Professor
Office: 219 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-5330
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Programming languages, formal methods, concurrency, compilers, logic. Developing automated reasoning techniques to facilitate the construction of high-performance, dependable software. Static analysis and program verification, with an emphasis on multi-threaded programs. Theorem proving and program synthesis.
Bruce E. Koel
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A311 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4524
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Surface processes and probes. Plasma-materials interactions: liquid metals, nanomaterials synthesis, plasma-enhanced catalysis; photoelectrocatalysis: composite and doped oxides for water splitting, carbon dioxide reduction; electrochemistry: Zn Br cells, alloy electrodes; heterogeneous catalysis: hydrocarbon conversion, olefin metathesis, hydrodeoxygenation of bio-oils, bimetallic Pt alloys; environmental remediation: sequestration by iron nanoparticles; electron and ion spectroscopy; scanning probe microscopy, STM, AFM.
Gillat Kol
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 230 194 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-5386
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Theoretical aspects of computation; application of information theory to theoretical computer science, especially to computational complexity; interactive compression and coding.
Egemen Kolemen
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: MS34 C-Site B261 PPPL
Phone: 609-258-
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Application of dynamics and control theory to experimental plasma physics, primarily to address the challenges of fusion reactor design. Designing and implementing novel control techniques for fusion reactors. Reduction of heat flux to fusion reactor vessels using advanced magnetic divertor configuration, detachment, and radiation control; and disruption avoidance against instabilities.
Alain Kornhauser
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Director of the Program in Transportation
Office: 229 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-4657
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Dynamic resource management; traveler information and decision support; automated vehicle control systems; traveler information systems; personal rapid transit
Andrej Kosmrlj
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D414 D-Wing E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8613
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Design and mechanics of metamaterials with unusual material properties; Statistical mechanics of microscopic structures in the presence of thermal fluctuations and disorder, with potential applications for flexible electronics, sensitive force sensors or micro-actuators; Mechanics in morphogenesis during embryo development.
Samory Kpotufe
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 327 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-5305
Areas of impact: Data Science, Public Policy
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy, Computer Science
Research Area: Machine learning, with an emphasis on nonparametric methods and high-dimensional statistics. Investigating the inherent difficulty of high-dimensional learning problems (e.g. most modern data mining problems)
Sanjeev Kulkarni
Dean of the Faculty, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B310 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-6727
Areas of impact: Data Science, Public Policy
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Philosophy, Center for Information Technology Policy, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Statistical pattern recognition, machine learning; applied probability, nonparametric statistics; information theory, communications; wireless networks, sensor networks; signal, image, and video processing; adaptive systems, hybrid systems, control and econometrics and finance
Sun-Yuan Kung
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B230 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-3780
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Area: VLSI signal processing; neural networks; digital signal, image, and video processing; multimedia information systems
Andrea LaPaugh
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 304 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-4568
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Information dscovery for the web and digital libraries; computer-aided design (CAD) of digital systems; algorithm foundations
Chung Law
Robert H. Goddard Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D323C E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5271
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Combustion, with applications in propulsion, energy and environmental issues; chemical kinetics; fluid mechanics; heat and mass transfer; high-temperature gas dynamics, and alternative fuels.
Ruby Lee
Forrest G. Hamrick Professor in Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B218 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1426
Areas of impact: Data Science, Public Policy, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Area: Ubiquitous processor and platform architectures for media processing and secure information processing; computer architecture for high-performance, secure, and highly available servers
Naomi Leonard
Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Council on Science and Technology
Office: D234 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5129
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Control theory, involves designing and analyzing methods for influencing the behavior of complex, dynamical systems using feedback
Kai Li
Paul M. and Marcia R. Wythes Professor of Computer Science
Office: 321 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-4637
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Electrical Engineering
Research Area: Computer architecture; operating systems; parallel systems; networking
Ning Lin
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: E328 E-Wing E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-0266
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, Security and Privacy, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Area: Natural hazards and risk assessment, stochastic modeling, wind engineering, coastal engineering, climate change impact and adaptation, built environment and sustainability.
A. James Link
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: 207 Hoyt
Phone: 609-258-7191
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Protein engineering, peptides, natural products, antibiotics, microbiology, genomics, and supramolecular chemistry
Michael Littman
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D202A E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5198
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Area: Automatic controls; tunable laser design; bio-mimic robotics; the terrestrial planet finder; design and control of a high contrast coronagraph; history of engineering
Wyatt Lloyd
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 323 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-5030
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Theory, design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of large-scale distributed systems. Big data, storage, consistency, geo-replication, consensus, concurrency control, and fault tolerance.
Lynn Loo
Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: 118 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Phone: 609-258-9091
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, Entrepreneurship
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Organic and polymer electronics, including transistors, solar cells, sensors and energy efficient smart windows; hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites; patterning; processing-structure-function relationships of complex materials.
Stephen Lyon
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director, Program in Engineering Physics
Office: B428 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4635
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Optical processes in semiconductors; ultrafast processes and nonequilibrium transport; semiconductor nanostructures; quantum computing
Anirudha Majumdar
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Office: D202B E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-0854
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Controlling highly agile robotic systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles, with formal guarantees on their safety and performance.
Sharad Malik
George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering, Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B224 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4625
Areas of impact: Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Research Area: Design automation for digital systems; design tools for embedded systems; hardware-software integration; digital circuit theory; synthesis and verification of digital systems
Luigi Martinelli
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D302C E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-6652
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Simulation of viscous flow past complex configurations with application to aircraft and ship design
Margaret Martonosi
Hugh Trumbull Adams '35 Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Director of the Program in Technology and Society, Director of the Program in Entrepreneurship
Office: 208 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-1912
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, Public Policy, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Center for Information Technology Policy, Electrical Engineering
Research Area: Computer architectures and the hardware/software interface, particularly power-efficient systems, hardware-software interface issues, and most recently, power-efficient wireless networks.
William Massey
Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 206 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-7384
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Stochastic models and queuing theory; performance and pricing models for telecommunications systems; symptotic analysis and stochastic bounds for queueing networks; theories of queues with time-varying rates, stochastic networks
Denise Mauzerall
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public and International Affairs
Office: 445 Robertson Hall
Phone: 609-258-2498
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, Public Policy
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Woodrow Wilson School
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Using science to inform far-sighted air quality policy that considers impacts of air pollution on health, agriculture and climate change. Investigations include: Climatic benefit of black carbon (soot) mitigation; global crop yield reductions due to ozone exposure; inter-continental transport of fine aerosols; impact of emissions of aerosols from China on global air quality, mortality and radiative forcing.
Jonathan Mayer
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs
Office: 307 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: (202) 684-6074
Areas of impact: Data Science, Public Policy, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: The intersection of information technology, public policy, and law.
Forrest Meggers
Assistant Professor of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Co-Director of the Architecture and Engineering Program, Co-Chair of Princeton Sustainability Committee
Office: S03 Architecture Building
Phone: 609-258-7831
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Architecture
Other affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Area: Building systems design and integration; sustainable systems; renewable energy; optimization of energy systems; geothermal; seasonal energy storage; low temp hybrid solar; building materials; energy systems modeling; exergy analysis; thermodynamics and heat transfer; and heat pumps
Julia Mikhailova
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D420 D-Wing E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-7154
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Attosecond science: high-¬harmonic and attosecond?pulse generation and application. High-¬field physics: high-¬power lasers, relativistic laser?plasma interaction, synchrotron¬?type intense x?ray radiation from solids, laser¬?driven particle acceleration. Ultrafast and nonlinear optics: few-¬cycle optical pulse generation, optical parametric chirped pulse amplification, femtosecond laser filamentation, nonlinear fiber optics. Quantum optics: entanglement of quantum states, biphoton states in spontaneous parametric light scattering.
Prateek Mittal
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B326 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-0814
Areas of impact: Data Science, Public Policy, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy, Computer Science
Research Area: Secure and privacy-preserving communication systems, including domains of privacy-enhancing technologies, trustworthy social systems, and Internet/network security. Research draws on techniques from computer networks and distributed systems, large-scale machine learning, complex networks/network science and applied cryptography.
Michael Mueller
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D332 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5191
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: High-fidelity numerical modeling of turbulent combustion. Applications to improving efficiency and performance, minimizing emissions, and reducing cost in reciprogating engines, aircraft engines, and stationary gas turbines.
John Mulvey
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 329 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-5423
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Financial management and risk analysis; large-scale optimization models and algorithms; advanced portfolio models for long-term investors (pension plans, family trusts, university endowments) and multi-strategy hedge funds
Arvind Narayanan
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Office: 308 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-9302
Areas of impact: Data Science, Public Policy, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Area: Privacy, security, tech policy, cryptography, social networks
Celeste Nelson
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Director of the Program in Engineering Biology
Office: 303 Hoyt Laboratory
Phone: 609-258-8851
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Area: Mammalian tissue morphogenesis/morphodynamics; microfabrication/bioMEMS for tissue engineering; cell adhesion and mechanics
Daniel Nosenchuck
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D302B E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5136
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Complex fluid flows; supercomputer architecture; rapid design and manufacture
Athanassios Panagiotopoulos
Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A317 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4591
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Molecular simulation of fluids, materials and biological systems; Thermodynamic analysis of processes; Ionic liquids and their applications; Computational Material Science
Catherine Peters
Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Program in Geological Engineering
Office: E-417 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5645
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Geosciences, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Program in Sustainable Energy
Research Area: Environmental chemistry and environmental risk assessment; reactions kinetics; reaction rates for a variety of environmental systems; geochemical reactions important for storage of CO2 in deep saline aquifers; time-scales operative for CO2 storage; contamination of water and soils with organic pollutants; non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
H. Vincent Poor
Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B330 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1816
Areas of impact: Data Science, Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Information theory; signal processing; wireless networks; energy systems; social networks
Amilcare Porporato
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Office: E407 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-2287
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
Research Area: Nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, hydrometeorology and soil-atmosphere interaction, soil moisture and plant dynamics, soil biogeochemistry, and ecohydrology.
Warren Powell
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Director of the Program in Engineering and Management Systems
Office: 230 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-5373
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Computer Science
Research Area: Optimization under uncertainty, spanning optimal learning, approximate dynamic programming, stochastic search, and risk, with an emphasis on computation. Application areas include energy, transportation, health, business analytics and the sciences.
Rodney Priestley
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A417 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5271
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Materials synthesis, processing, structure and properties. The physics of polymeric materials and the development of novel polymeric systems as responsive and self healing materials and membranes.
Paul Prucnal
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B314 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5549
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Photonic switching; fiber-optic networks; optical interconnects
Robert Prud'homme
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A301 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4577
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Flow in porous media; micro and nanofluidic phenomena; rheology; colloidal dispersions; polymer engineering
Miklos Racz
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 204 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-8281
Areas of impact: Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Statistical inference problems in complex systems, in particular on random graphs and in genomics; applied probability, combinatorial statistics, information theory, control theory, interacting particle systems, and voting.
Peter Ramadge
Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B212 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4645
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Area: Video and image processing; adaptive systems; adaptive signal processing; adaptive control; discrete-event systems, optimization of queueing systems; video analysis, annotation and search
Barry Rand
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: B414 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-7692
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Understanding and leveraging the electronic and optical properties of thin film materials, particularly semiconductors, for use in emerging applications such as solar cells, light emitting devices, and transistors. Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of electrical engineering, materials science, physics, and chemistry.
Ben Raphael
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 309 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-6314
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Developing and applying computational and mathematical methods to address biological questions at the molecular and cellular level. Human and cancer genomics, including algorithmic approaches to identify and interpret genomic alterations in genomes, reconstruct tumor evolution, and discover novel therapeutic interventions. Comparative genomics, particularly analysis of genome rearrangements in evolution. Algorithms for analysis of data from high-throughput genomics and proteomics technologies.
Ran Raz
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 240 194 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-2086
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Complexity theory, with emphasis on proving lower bounds for computational models: Boolean and arithmetic circuit complexity, communication complexity, interactive proofs and probabilistically checkable proofs, randomness and derandomization, time-space lower bounds for learning.
Richard A. Register
Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A423 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4691
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Materials design: creation of new materials for specific function; polymer chemistry, physics, and engineering; nanoscience and nanotechnology; polymer thin films and membranes; block copolymers, polymer blends and composites, semicrystalline polymers, and ionomers.
Zhiyong "Jason" Ren
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment
Office: 213 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Phone: 609-258-4899
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Water-energy nexus and energy and resource recovery during waste treatment processes.
Jennifer Rexford
Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering, Chair and Professor of Computer Science
Office: 222 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-5182
Areas of impact: Public Policy, Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy, Electrical Engineering
Research Area: Communication networks; network management; protocol design; internet measurement
Alejandro Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B318 B-Wing E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8962
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Application and development of analytical and computational methods for studying emerging, fundamental, and practical problems at the intersection of quantum and classical nanophotonics. Control and design of thermal emitters and absorbers, modeling fluctuation-induced electromagnetic phenomena in complex nanostructures and design of low-power, wavelength-scale nonlinear devices.
Clarence Rowley
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D232 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-7321
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Fluid flows from a dynamical systems point of view; modeling and model reduction for bifurcation analysis and control; numerical methods, both for fluids simulations, and analysis of dynamical systems; applications of geometric methods in fluid mechanics
Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 406 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-7479
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer graphics; acquisition and analysis of 3D shape and appearance; novel devices and methods for 3D printing; documentation of cultural heritage artifacts and sites; appearance and performance capture for digital humans.
Olga Russakovsky
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 408 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-8118
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer vision, machine learning and human-computer interaction. Developing artificial intelligent systems that can reason about the vision world.
Robert Sedgewick
William O. Baker *39 Professor in Computer Science
Office: 319 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-4345
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Finding efficient algorithms for fundamental practical problems; validating theoretical designs through practical implementations; fundamental properties of algorithms; comparing algorithms through careful implementation studies; relating algorithms, data structures, generating functions and analytic functions such that asymptotic results; investigating how visual representations provide an understanding of how algorithms gain efficiency
Kaushik Sengupta
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B216 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5250
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Integrated circuits and chip-scale systems operating across RF-THz-optical frequencies for next generation ultrafast wireless communication, sensing, imaging and low-cost smart biomedical devices for point-of-core applications.
Sebastian Seung
Evnin Professor in Neuroscience, Professor of Computer Science and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Co-Director of the Program in Neuroscience
Office: 153 PNI Neuroscience Institute
Phone: 609-258-7713
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI)
Research Area: Neuroscience and connectomics: Developing machine learning and social computing technologies for reconstructing neural circuits from high resolution brain images.
Mansour Shayegan
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B408 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4639
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Semiconductor physics; electronic properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures; growth of III-V compounds by molecular beam epitaxy
Mykhaylo Shkolnikov
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 202 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-1044
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Applying stochastic analysis to problems in random matrix theory and stochastic portfolio theory. Various topics in probability theory and partial differential equations: interacting particle systems, random growth models, concentration of measure, large deviations, random operators, probabilistic approach to hyperbolic and parabolic partial differential equations.
Stanislav Shvartsman
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Office: A421 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4694
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Area: Quantitative analysis of pattern formation and morphogenesis in developing tissues; genetics, genomics, and computational studies of signaling pathways; reaction engineering and transport processes
Yoram Singer
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 421 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-0343
Areas of impact: Data Science, Entrepreneurship, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Design, analysis, and implementation of machine learning algorithms.
Mona Singh
Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Office: 420 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-2087
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Area: Computational biology and bioinformatics; computational science
Jaswinder Singh
Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Program in Applications of Computing
Office: 324 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-5329
Areas of impact: Entrepreneurship
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Parallel computing systems and applications: parallel applications and their implications for software and architectural design; system software and programming environments for multiprocessors. Special interest in applications of computing in computational biology, especially protein structure determination and simulating the immune system
Ronnie Sircar
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 208 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-2841
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Security pricing; stochastic models of finance; numerical methods and approximations of solutions; modeling and statistics of volatility; stochastic differential equations and computational methods
James Smith
William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: C319G E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4615
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Area: Hydrology, hydraulics and hydrometeorology of extreme floods; development of technologies for measuring rainfall from weather radar; stochastic modeling of the space-time structure of rainfall and microphysical studies of extreme rainfall from organized systems of thunderstorms; examined the heterogeneity of hydrologic response in urbanizing watersheds; the stability of the channel-floodplain system in urban drainage networks and the hydraulics of extreme floods in urban rivers
Alexander Smits
Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D218 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5117
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Experimental research in fluid mechanics. The behavior of low and high Reynolds number turbulent wall-bounded flows at subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic speeds; the fluid mechanics of swimming and bio-inspired propulsion; blood hemolysis, sports ball aerodynamics; wind turbine aerodynamics and energy harvesting, and the development of new and improved measurement techniques.
Daniel Steingart
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: 213 Andlinger
Phone: (609) 258-1257
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Area: Energy storage; metallurgical process efficiency; low cost long cycle life batteries; discrete power electronics; printed, flexible, stretchable batteries; in situ electrochemistry; power - energy control circuits and hybrid design.
Robert Stengel
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Program in Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Office: D202C E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5103
Areas of impact: Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI)
Research Area: Space flight; aircraft flight dynamics; robotics; robust, optimal, and adaptive control of physical systems; computational neural networks; systems biology, including optimization of disease therapy and analysis of genetic data.
Howard Stone
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D326 D-Wing E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-9493
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Area: Fundamental problems in fluid motions dominated by viscosity, low Reynolds number flows. Applying a combination of theory, computer simulation and modeling, and experiments, with applications to problems involving effects of surface tension, buoyancy, fluid rotation, and surfactants, and the flow of lipids and motions of suspended particles.
James Sturm
Stephen R. Forrest Professor in Electrical Engineering
Office: 320 Bowen Hall
Phone: 609-258-5610
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Physics and technology of semiconductor devices for both microelectronics and large-area electronics; silicon-based heterostructures and three-dimensional integration; organic semiconductors; flat panel and flexible displays
Sankaran Sundaresan
Norman John Sollenberger Professor in Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A315 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4583
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Granular and multiphase flow; chemical reactor design, stability and dynamics; origin and hierarchy of meso-scale structures in two-phase flows; coarsened equations of motion for two-phase flows; contact stresses in granular assemblies; role of static electrification on gas-particle flows
Ludovic Tangpi
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 203 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-4558
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Stochastic analysis and mathematical finance.
Robert Tarjan
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science
Office: 308 194 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-4797
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer science theory; data structures; graph algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computational complexity; computational geometry; parallel algorithms
Jeffrey Thompson
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B328 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-6124
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Methods to gain control over individual atoms for computing, communications and sensing technology. Using nanophotonic circuits to spatially isolate and address individual or small clusters of rare earth ion dopants in crystalline hosts for use as single photon sources and quantum memories. Developing techniques to laser-cool and trap large arrays of atoms levitated in vacuum.
Olga Troyanskaya
Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Office: 320 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-1749
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Data Science
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Other affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Area: Genomic data integration; microarray analysis; gene and protein function prediction; detection and analysis of chromosomal abnormalities; evaluation and validation of computational predictions; algorithms for integration of data from multiple data sources; visualization of biological data; machine learning methods in bioinformatics
Hakan Tureci
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B312 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1993
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Nonlinear/quantum optics in complex media; nano-photonics; condensed matter physics; semiconductor optics; strongly correlated quantum optical systems; quantum/wave chaos; numerical methods for simulating active and passive photonic structures
Ramon van Handel
Associate Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 227 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-0973
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Probability theory and its interactions with other fields: Conditional phenomena, high-dimensional probability, and ergodic theory.
Robert Vanderbei
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 209 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-2345
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other affiliations: Computer Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Telescope design for searching for extra-solar planets; high-contrast imaging; diffractive optics; robust optimization; fast Fourier optimization; financial portfolio selection; convex optimization; multi-objective optimization; stochastic dominance; stability of Saturn's rings; astrophysics; stable solutions to the n-body problem
Naveen Verma
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B226 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1424
Areas of impact: Bioengineering and Health, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Analog and digital integrated circuits with an emphasis on developing system platforms for emerging applications, especially where considerable computation and instrumentation is required but energy is severely constrained. Important examples include implantable and wearable biomedical systems and remote sensing and processing network nodes.
David Walker
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 211 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-7654
Areas of impact: Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Programming language theory, design, analysis and implementation.
Mengdi Wang
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 226 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-8773
Areas of impact: Data Science, Robotics and Cyberphysical Systems
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Area: Decision making and reinforcement learning problems involving uncertainty or hidden information; modeling uncertainty and designing algorithmic approaches that "learn" the best decisions as information is revealed. optimization (stochastic, online, and even more), stochastic programming, variational inequalities, dynamic programing, statistical learning, and game dynamics.
Elke U. Weber
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Associate Director for Education for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: 216 Andlinger Center
Phone: 609-258-7640
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, Public Policy
Primary Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Psychology, Woodrow Wilson School
Research Area: Questions at the intersection of psychology, economics, engineering, and policy that address the importance and role of descriptive/behavioral models of judgment and decision-making under risk and uncertainty and for decisions with long time horizons in environmental and energy-related decision making and policy. Psychologically appropriate ways to measure and model individual, group, or cultural differences in risk taking and time discounting across domains.
Matt Weinberg
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 222 194 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-1796
Areas of impact: Public Policy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Area: The intersection of algorithms and human incentives. Algorithmic mechanism design: including auction design, cryptocurrencies, and "social good"; algorithmic game theory; online algorithms. Algorithms and uncertainty.
David Wentzlaff
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B228 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-7781
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer architecture, operating systems, sustainable computing, data center computing, cloud computing, multicore systems, manycore systems, microprocessor design, low-lower computer design, energy efficient computing.
Claire White
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: E326 E-Wing E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-6263
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment, The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Area: Long-term behavior of low-CO2 concrete, and the mineralization processes during CO2 capture and storage. Durability of alkali-activated cements; atomic and nanoscale morphology of cementitious materials; reaction kinetics of cement formation; amorphous carbonate materials; combined modeling/experimental methodologies; Monte Carlo methods; ab-initio calculations; total scattering analysis.
Eric Wood
Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: C319H E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4675
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Area: Hydroclimatology with an emphasis on land atmospheric interactions; terrestrial remote sensing; seasonal hydrologic climate forecasts, including land-climate teleconnections; terrestrial water and energy balances and fluxes over a range of spatial and temporal scales; remote-sensing research focuses on estimating the hydrologic and energetic states of the terrestrial system; validating satellite retrievals on land surface states
Gerard Wysocki
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B324 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8187
Areas of impact: The Future Metropolis
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Laser spectroscopy; broadly tunable laser systems; external cavity quantum cascade lasers; spectroscopic systems for remote and/or in-situ chemical sensing and spectroscopic trace-gas sensor networks
Nan Yao
Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Director of the Imaging and Analysis Center, Lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: 033 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Phone: 609-258-6394
Primary Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Utilizing advanced imaging, diffraction, spectroscopy and in-situ techniques, in tandem with theoretical simulations, to study fundamentals of the structure-composition-processing-property-performance relations in complex materials such as nanostructured materials, biomaterials, organic/inorganic interfaces, block copolymers, catalysts, quasicrystals and functional nanomaterials.
Mark Zhandry
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 242 194 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-5135
Areas of impact: Security and Privacy
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Area: Cryptography; Computer science theory; Program obfuscation. Analyzing the effects that quantum computers will have on cryptography. Developing new cryptographic capabilities and improving the efficiency of these applications.
Mark Zondlo
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Director for External Partnerships at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: C330 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5037
Areas of impact: Energy and Environment
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Area: Climate; atmospheric sciences: sensors and remote sensing; cloud formation; the role of aerosol particles in atmospheric chemistry and air quality