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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other Affiliations: Program in Statistics and Machine Learning
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 329 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-6416
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other Affiliations: Computer Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: 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.
Andrew Appel
Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science
Office: Room 209 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-4627
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other Affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Interests: Computer security; information technology policy; election technology; programming languages; compilers; programming language semantics; program analysis; program verification; machine-checked proofs
Craig Arnold
Susan Dod Brown 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
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Biotechnology: Use of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to address important problems in sustainable energy, the environment, industry, and human health.
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 Interests: 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
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 Interests: 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
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 Interests: 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
Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A313 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4528
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other Affiliations: Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Bacterial persistence, host-pathogen interactions, network biology of bacterial stress.
Rene Carmona
Paul M. Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 210 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-2310
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other Affiliations: Mathematics, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Research Interests: 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
Matias D. Cattaneo
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 227 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-8825
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: Mathematical statistics; econometrics; data science; quantitative methods in the social, behavioral and biomedical sciences; causal inference and program evaluation.
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
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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.
Danqi Chen
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 412 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-8680
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning and deep learning.
Stephen Chou
Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering , Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B412 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4416
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Bioengineering; biomaterials; materials science; biomechanics; swarm behavior
Sujit Datta
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A321 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4586
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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 Interests: Creating images of mathematical objects and animations of geometric algorithms
Robert Dondero Jr.
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 038 Corwin Hall
Phone: 609-258-2211
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Computer programming, computer programming education, software engineering, software engineering education.
Zeev Dvir
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Office: 250 194 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-6469
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Mathematics
Research Interests: Computational complexity, pseudo-randomness, coding theory and discrete mathematics.
Lamyaa El-Gabry
Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D324 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1916
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Expertise: Fluid mechanics, propulsion and energy sciences.
Barbara Engelhardt
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Office: 322 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-0933
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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 Interests: High-dimensional statistics, machine learning, financial econometrics, biostatistics, computational biology, distributed computing.
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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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
Jaime Fernández Fisac
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B316 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-2017
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Operations of robotic systems in the human space.
Robert Fish
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 037 Corwin Hall
Phone: 609-258-0839
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Networking and Telecommunications, Computer-Human Interaction, Online Learning and MOOCs, R&D Innovation Methodologies
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other Affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Interests: Peer-assisted content distribution; federated virtual worlds; service-centric network architectures; scalable storage systems; fault-tolerant systems; distributed monitoring and debugging; privacy-preserving protocols
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
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Structural engineering; earthquake engineering; innovative structural systems; large fires; thin shell concrete roof structures; sensor technology in civil infrastructure; tall building design
Maia Ginsburg
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 041 Corwin Hall
Phone: 609-258-6484
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Algorithms and data structures, general computer science.
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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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 Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
Branko Glišić
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: E330 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8278
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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.
Andrea Goldsmith
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: C230 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-2448
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Information theory, communication theory, and signal processing, and their application to wireless communications, interconnected systems, and neuroscience.
David Graves
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Associate Laboratory Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Office: E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Research Interests: Plasma applications in nanotechnology
Tom Griffiths
Professor of Psychology and Computer Science; Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture.
Office: 405 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Psychology
Research Interests: Machine learning; developing mathematical models of higher level cognition and understanding the formal principles that underlie people’s ability to solve everyday computational problems.
Aarti Gupta
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 220 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-8017
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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 Interests: Theoretical and computational materials science; physics of materials; physical biology; microstructure formation
Boris Hanin
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-3000
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: Deep learning, probability, and spectral asymptotics.
Elad Hazan
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 409 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-4562
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms for basic problems in machine learning and optimization.
Felix Heide
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 410 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-0419
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational imaging and computer vision.
Andrew Houck
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B424 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-2571
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Office: E411 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4653
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Networking, Wireless Systems, Internet of Things. Building wirelessly networked systems for the real world that cut across the boundaries of digital communications and networking.
Jesse Jenkins
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: 214 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Phone: 609-258-1257
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Other Affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Research Interests: Propulsion and energy sciences
Niraj Jha
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B220 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4754
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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.
Chi Jin
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: C332 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-3000
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Machine learning, statistics and optimization
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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: Molecular and polymer semiconductors; electronic and chemical properties of interfaces; doping in organic thin films; organic-based devices; hybrid metal halide perovskites.
Alan Kaplan
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 105 221 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-1745
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Mobile software, middleware and protocols; communication and networking for consumer applications and services, software engineering.
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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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.
Jason Klusowski
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-3000
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Statistics
Bruce E. Koel
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A311 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4524
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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-
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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.
Sanjeev Kulkarni
Dean of the Faculty, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B310 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-6727
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Philosophy, Center for Information Technology Policy, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: VLSI signal processing; neural networks; digital signal, image, and video processing; multimedia information systems
Chung Law
Robert H. Goddard Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D323C E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5271
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Interests: Ubiquitous processor and platform architectures for media processing and secure information processing; computer architecture for high-performance, secure, and highly available servers
Jason D. Lee
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B308 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8396
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Machine learning, optimization, and statistics; the foundations of deep learning, non-convex optimization, and reinforcement learning.
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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Control theory, involves designing and analyzing methods for influencing the behavior of complex, dynamical systems using feedback
Amit Levy
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 307 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-8701
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Security & privacy; systems.
Daniel Leyzberg
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 034 Corwin Hall Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-9300
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Computer science education, human-computer and human-robot interaction.
Xiaoyan Li
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 104 221 Nassau St.
Phone: 609-258-7844
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Question answering, information retrieval, data mining and other applications of machine learning techniques.
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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
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 Interests: 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.
Jérémie Lumbroso
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 035 Corwin Hall
Phone: 609-258-5379
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Probabilistic algorithms, data streaming, data structures, analysis of algorithms, analytic combinatorics.
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Research Interests: Design automation for digital systems; design tools for embedded systems; hardware-software integration; digital circuit theory; synthesis and verification of digital systems
Christos Maravelias
Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: 226 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Phone: 609-258-5158
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: Process systems engineering and energy systems synthesis and analysis.
Luigi Martinelli
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D302C E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-6652
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: 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 Program in Technology and Society
Office: 208 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-1912
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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Other Affiliations: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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.
Reed Maxwell
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Office: E209A E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-3000
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
Research Interests: Hydrology, understanding perturbations to the hydrologic cycle though observations and numerical models, reactive transport, scaling in watersheds, coupled simulation and high-performance computing.
Jonathan Mayer
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs
Office: 307 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: (202) 684-6074
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Architecture
Other Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy, Computer Science
Research Interests: 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.
Christopher Moretti
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 36 Corwin Hall
Phone: 609-258-5388
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Distributed systems, computer science education.
Michael Mueller
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: D332 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5191
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Karthik Narasimhan
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Office: 422 Computer Science
Phone: 609-258-8702
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning, natural language processing.
Arvind Narayanan
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Office: 308 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-9302
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other Affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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
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 Interests: 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
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 Interests: 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
Iasonas Petras
Lecturer, Computer Science
Office: 033 Corwin Hall
Phone: 609-258-1794
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Quantum computation, information-based complexity.
H. Vincent Poor
Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B330 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1816
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Computer Science
Research Interests: 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
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University Vice Dean for Innovation, Associate Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Director of Graduate Studies
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 Interests: 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 Interests: Photonic switching; fiber-optic networks; optical interconnects
Robert Prud'homme
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A301 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4577
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Video and image processing; adaptive systems; adaptive signal processing; adaptive control; discrete-event systems, optimization of queueing systems; video analysis, annotation and search
Anu Ramaswami
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Princeton Environmental Institute, Director, Chadha Center for Global India , Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies
Office: E209A E-Quad
Phone: 303-523-8130
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Research Interests: Sustainable infrastructure design, cities, sustainability science, urban systems science, food-energy-water nexus, environmental modeling, science-policy linkages, India
Barry Rand
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Associate Director for External Partnerships at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: B414 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-7692
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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
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 Interests: 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, Associate Director for Research at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: 213 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Phone: 609-258-4899
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other Affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy, Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Communication networks; network management; protocol design; internet measurement
Alejandro Rodriguez
Associate 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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning and human-computer interaction. Developing artificial intelligent systems that can reason about the vision world.
Michele L. Sarazen
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A319 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8331
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: Mechanistic investigations of heterogeneous catalysis via combined synthetic, kinetic, and theoretical techniques; improving efficiencies for conversions of conventional feedstocks to fuels and chemicals and developing renewable alternatives to fuels and chemicals.
Robert Sedgewick
William O. Baker *39 Professor in Computer Science
Office: 319 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-4345
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B216 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5250
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI)
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Quantitative analysis of pattern formation and morphogenesis in developing tissues; genetics, genomics, and computational studies of signaling pathways; reaction engineering and transport processes
Mona Singh
Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Office: 420 Computer Science Building
Phone: 609-258-2087
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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, Chair, 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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Research Interests: 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, Emeritus, Senior Scholar
Office: D218 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5117
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: 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.
Mete Soner
Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: 225 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-5130
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: Nonlinear analysis in partial differential equations, stochastic processes and mathematical finance.
Bartolomeo Stellato
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Office: Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-3000
Primary Affiliations: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Research Interests: Data-driven computational tools for mathematical optimization, machine learning and optimal control. Applications in autonomous systems, data science and robotics.
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
Primary Affiliations: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Other Affiliations: Molecular Biology
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Director of the Program in Entrepreneurship
Office: B226 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-1424
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: Programming language theory, design, analysis and implementation.
Mengdi Wang
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Office: 226 Sherrerd Hall
Phone: 609-258-8773
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: 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.
Kevin Wayne
Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Office: 40 Corwin Hall
Phone: 609-258-4455
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Expertise: Algorithms, data structures, optimization, computer science education, teaching computer science at scale.
Michael A. Webb
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Office: A325 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4595
Primary Affiliations: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Interests: Biomolecular engineering, cellular and tissue engineering, complex materials and processing, energy and environment, theory and simulation.
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
Primary Affiliations: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Psychology, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Research Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Other Affiliations: Center for Information Technology Policy
Research Interests: 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 Interests: 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
Associate 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
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 Interests: 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.
Gerard Wysocki
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: B324 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-8187
Primary Affiliations: Electrical Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: 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 with the rank of Professor in the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
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 Interests: 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
Primary Affiliations: Computer Science
Research Interests: 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
Office: C330 E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-5037
Primary Affiliations: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other Affiliations: Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
Research Interests: Climate; atmospheric sciences: sensors and remote sensing; cloud formation; the role of aerosol particles in atmospheric chemistry and air quality