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• ABE, Naoki
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Machine learning, data science and applications
• ABELLO, James
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Discrete and computational geometry and applications; very large graph theory; visualization and animation.
• AHO, Alfred
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Algorithms, compilers, database systems and programming tools.
• ALIZADEH, Farid
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: Convex optimization, combinatorial optimization, statistical learning theory.
• ALLENDER, Eric
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational complexity theory.
• ALUR, Rajeev
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Foundations for modeling and verification of embedded systems, distributed computing, logic and automata theory.
• AMDEBERHAN, Tewodros
Organization: Tulane University
Research Interests: Combinatorics, Number Theory, Special Functions, Partial Differential Equations, Computer Algebra, Algorithmic Proof Theory, Harmonic Analysis.
• ANDONI, Alexandr
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Algorithmic foundations of massive data, including sublinear algorithms, high-dimensional geometry, theoretical machine learning
• ANDREWS, Matthew
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Simulators for disk drive scheduling and ATM private network-network interface routing.
• ANSHELEVICH, Elliot
Unit: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Algorithms and theoretical computer science, especially issues at the intersection of economics and computation.
• APPLEGATE, David
Organization: Google
Research Interests: Large-scale combinatorial optimization problems, in particular focusing on network design and optimization, and on the traveling salesman problem.
• APTE, Chidanand (Chid)
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Data science and predictive analytics.
• ARCHER, Aaron
Organization: Google
Research Interests: Discrete (combinatorial) optimization and algorithmic game theory: approximation algorithms, algorithmic mechanism design, graph algorithms, network flows, online algorithms, and applications of combinatorial optimization in other fields, such as facility location problems, vehicle routing, and graph partitioning problems motivated by machine vision and web applications.
• ARORA, Sanjeev
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Complexity theory; probabilistically checkable proofs; approximation algorithms; computational uses of randomness.
• ASHIKHMIN, Alexei
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Coding Theory, Information Theory, Combinatorics, Quantum Information Theory
• ASSADI, Sepehr
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Theory of computing, algorithms, sublinear algorithms and lower bounds, combinatorial optimization
• AWASTHI, Pranjal
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning and theoretical computer science
• AXELROD, David
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular oncology; tumor cell heterogeneity; tumor progression; cell population dynamics; computer-aided diagnosis of human breast cancer by image cytometry.

• BADER, David
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: High-performance computing and real-world applications, including cybersecurity, massive-scale analytics, and computational genomics.
• BAJWA, Waheed U.
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: High-dimensional inference and inverse problems, geometrical methods for "big data" analytics, sampling theory, statistical signal processing, machine learning, wireless communications, and applications in biological sciences, complex networked systems, and radar & image processing.
• BARAHONA, Francisco
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Combinatorial Optimization, Integer programming, Mathematical programming.
• BARG, Alexander
Organization: University of Maryland
Research Interests: Coding theory; combinatorics; finite algebra; computer science.
• BARYSHNIKOV, Yuliy
Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Probability theory and applications; mathematical economics and operations research; singularities, low-dimenstional topology; dynamical systems
• BASU ROY, Senjuti
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Search, navigation and analytics over big data, crowdsourcing, health informatics, graph mining, and social network analysis
• BAYKAL-GURSOY, Melike
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Stochastic processes, Markov decision processes (MDPs), stochastic games, and their application to stochastic modeling and control of networks and production / inventory systems
• BECK, Jozsef
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Combinatorics; combinatorial games; number theory.
• BEKRIS, Kostas
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Robotics, motion planning, computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence
• BELLOVIN, Steve
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: security; networks; privacy; public policy.
• BEN-ISRAEL, Adi
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: Matrix theory; convexity and optimization; mathematical programming; mathematical economics.
• BENHAMOUDA, Fabrice
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Cryptography and computer security
• BENTLEY, Jon
Organization:
Research Interests: Experimental algorithms.
• BERNSTEIN, Aaron
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms, including sublinear algorithms for processing large inputs (e.g. streaming, parallel), dynamic graph algorithms, online algorithms, distributed algorithms, fault-tolerant algorithms, and approximation algorithms
• BERRY, Jonathan
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories
Research Interests: Experimental algorithmics, software systems for discrete mathematics.
• BHATT, Sandeep
Organization: HP Labs (retired)
Research Interests: Enterprise security management, algorithms.
• BIENSTOCK, Dan
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Mathematical Programming; Optimization.
• BISHOP, Allison
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Cryptography; complexity theory; harmonic analysis; combinatorics; and distributed computing.
• BLEI, David
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Machine learning, graphical models, bayesian statistics, text analysis.
• BOMBIERI, Enrico
Organization: Institute for Advanced Study
Research Interests: Number Theory.
• BORCEA, Cristian
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Mobile computing & sensing; vehicular computing & networks; cloud & distributed systems, and computational advertising
• BORGIDA, Alexander
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Knowledge representation and reasoning (description logics; knowledge import; similarity; explanation); conceptual modeling, esp. for requirements specification, and database design and integration.
• BORGS, Christian
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Graph theory and networks, phase transitions in combinatorial optimization, game theoretic models.
• BOROS, Endre
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: Discrete and combinatorial optimization; finite geometries.
• BORST, Sem C.
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Performance evaluation, queueing theory, resource allocation, stochastic networks,wireless communications
• BRAVERMAN, Mark
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Complexity theory, algorithms, game theory, machine learning, and applications of computer science in healthcare and medicine.
• BUCHSBAUM, Adam L.
Organization: Lion Cave Capital, LLC
Research Interests: Algorithms; data structures; financial trading; graph problems; massive data sets; compression; combinatorics.
• BUMBY, Richard
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Number theory.

• CALDERBANK, Robert
Organization: Duke University
Research Interests: Coding theory.
• CALVIN, James M.
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Global optimization, multi-objective optimization, information-based complexity
• CARBONE, Lisa J.
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Geometric group theory, discrete groups, group actions on trees, combinatorics for problems in algebra, algebra, Kac-Moody groups.
• CARPENTER, Tamra
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Optimization and its applications, decision-making under uncertainty, education in computational thinking.
• CENTENO, Ana Paula
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: computer science education, particularly the impact of current CS education practices on minority populations in the field; management of power, energy and temperature in data centers; optimization
• CHAINTREAU, Augustin
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Networked Algorithms; Social Networks; Mobile Computing; Stochastic Networks.
• CHANG, Shih-Fu
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Multimedia, computer vision; machine learning; information retrieval; signal processing.
• CHAOVALITWONGSE, Wanpracha
Organization: University of Arkansas
Research Interests: Optimization, data mining, biomedical applications, brain research and other complex systens
• CHARIKAR, Moses
Organization: Stanford University
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms, with an emphasis on approximation and on-line algorithms. Combinatorial optimization, network design, scheduling, clustering, information retrieval and data mining.
• CHAYES, Jennifer
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Graph theory and networks, phase transitions in combinatorial optimization, game theory and auction algorithms.
• CHAZELLE, Bernard
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Sublinear algorithms; computational geometry; data structures.
• CHEKURI, Chandra
Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Algorithms, combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, scheduling.
• CHEN, Rong
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Nonlinear and nonparametric time series analysis, Monte Carlo methods, massive data set, statistical applications to finance, business and bioinformatics
• CHEN, Xi
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Algorithmic Game Theory and Economics; Complexity Theory.
• CHEN, Yingying
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Mobile Healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Security and Privacy, Connected Vehicles, Mobile Computing and Sensing.
• CHERLIN, Gregory
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Logic; model theory; model theoretic algebra.
• CHUNG, Fan
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Spectral graph theory, discrete geometry, algorithmic design, parallel computation, software reliability, communication systems, and internet computing.
• CHVATAL, Vasek
Organization: Concordia University
Research Interests: Algorithms; combinatorics; graph theory; operations research.
• CLARKSON, Ken
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Algorithms and data structures, especially for geometric or matrix problems.
• COFFMAN, Edward
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Combinatorial scheduling and packing theory; probabilistic analysis of algorithms; stochastic modeling; stochastic optimization.
• COMPAGNONI, Adriana
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Language-based security, secure information flow analysis, mobile access control, and concurrency.
• COOK, William
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Integer programming and combinatorial optimization.
• CORMODE, Graham
Organization: University of Warwick
Research Interests: Streaming algorithms, big data, privacy, data analytics, data mining.
• COZZENS, Margaret
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Discrete mathematical modeling, graph theory, game theory, mathematical psychology, network vulnerability, operations research, technology, mathematics and science education
• CUELLO, William
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
• CURTMOLA, Reza
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Cybersecurity

• DANA, Kristin
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Convex Optimization, Novel Cameras, Camera Networks, Computer Graphics, Robotics, Computational Photography, Optics.
• DASH, Sanjeeb
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Discrete Optimization; Integer Programming; Linear and Semidefinite Optimization; Polynomial Optimization; Mathematical Programming software.
• DE, Subhajyoti
Unit: Rutgers University - Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Research Interests: Computational biology
• DE BELLIS, Valerie
Organization: The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
Research Interests: Mathematics education; interactions between affect and cognition during mathematical problem solving.
• DEMILLO, Richard
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Software reliability; security.
• DI CRESCENZO, Giovanni
Unit: Perspecta Labs
Research Interests: Cryptography; security; computational complexity;mathematical finance.
• DING, Xiaoning
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Computer Systems, Cloud Computing and Distributed Computing, Database Systems, and Computer Architecture
• DOBKIN, David
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Graphics; analysis of algorithms; geometry.
• DRINEAS, Petros
Organization: Purdue University
Research Interests: Design and analysis of randomized and approximation algorithms for linear algebraic problems and their applications to data mining
• DUFFIELD, Nick
Organization: Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Applied probability; queueing; telecommunications; statistical mechanics.
• DVIR, Zeev
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational complexity, pseudo-randomness, coding theory and discrete mathematics.

• ECKSTEIN, Jonathan
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming, operations research, operations management, application of operations research techniques to managing information systems. Applications of convex analysis.
• EGAN, Dennis
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Data Analytics, Data Analysis, First Responder Technologies, First Responder Training, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science.
• EIGER, Martin
Unit: Perspecta Labs
Research Interests: Telecommunications network planning and engineering; optimization; scheduling algorithms.
• EL ROUAYHEB, Salim
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Information theoretic security in distributed systems; Private information retrieval and search; Secure machine learning algorithms; Data synchronization in distributed systems
• ELSAYED, Elsayed A.
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Quality and reliability engineering, sensors and production planning and control.
• ERICKSON, John
Unit: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Policy-based digital asset management, digital object repository architectures, distributed architectures for long-term preservation, digital rights management
• ETESSAMI, Kousha
Organization: University of Edinburgh
Research Interests: Automated verification; model checking; modeling and algorithmic analysis of reactive systems; temporal logic & automata; algorithms & computational complexity; probabilistic systems; game theory; logic.

• FAENZA, Yuri
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Discrete Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Integer and Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, Polyhedral Combinatorics.
• FAGIN, Ronald
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Applications of logic to computer science; Database theory;Finite model theory; Rank and score aggregation; Reasoning about knowledge.
• FARACH-COLTON, Martin
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Algorithms; computational molecular biology.
• FEFFERMAN, Nina
Organization: University of Tennessee
Research Interests: Evolutionary Sociobiology, conservation medicine, epidemic preparedness, disease surveillance, behavioral epidemiology, dynamic social networks
• FEIGENBAUM, Joan
Organization: Yale University
Research Interests: Theory of computation, foundations of electronic commerce.
• FIORINI, Eugene
Organization: Muhlenberg College
Research Interests: Graph theory, concentrating in extremal graph theory; statistics, (with a growing interest in its applications to forensics); math education with interests in applications-based instruction, teacher preparation and professional development programs, service learning, and lesson study
• FORTNOW, Lance Jeremy
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Computational complexity theory; bounded rationality in game theory; cryptography; learning theory.
• FORTUNE, Steven
Organization: Google
Research Interests: Computational geometry.
• FREDMAN, Michael
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Data structures and algorithms; computational complexity.

• GALLOS, Lazaros
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Complex networks, online interactions, epidemic spreading, complex systems.
• GAO, Jie
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Algorithms, Wireless Networks, Social Networks, Computational Geometry
• GARAY, Juan
Organization: Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Cryptography, distributed computing, algorithms.
• GAREY, Michael
Organization: Nokia Bell Labs (retired)
Research Interests: Algorithms and complexity; discrete math; scheduling theory.
• GARG, Sumegha
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Complexity theory, learning theory, algorithmic fairness, and information theory
• GüRBüZBALABAN, Mert
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: optimization, nonlinear programming, stochastic programming, numerical analysis, applied mathematics, applied probability, applied linear algebra
• GEAR, C. William
Organization: NEC Research Institute (retired)
Research Interests: Numerical methods is computer vision; scientific computing; differential equations.
• GELLER, James
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Medical Informatics, Medical Ontologies, Diversity in Computing
• GENNARO, Rosario
Organization: City College of New York (CUNY)
• GENTRY, Craig
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Cryptography, complexity, combinatorics, coding theory, quantum computation
• GILMAN, Robert
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Group theory
• GINDIKIN, Simon
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Theory of representations; integral geometry; several complex variables; mathematical physics; molecular biology problems.
• GOLDBERG, Mark K.
Unit: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Algorithms; graph theory; social networks
• GOLDFARB, Don
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Mathematical Programming; Optimization; Finance/Financial Engineering; Machine Learning.
• GOLDIN, Gerald
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Mathematical physics; lie theory; mathematics education; psychology of problem solving.
• GOYAL, Vineet
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Dynamic optimization; decision making under uncertainty; pricing and revenue management.
• GREENFIELD, Stephen
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Complex analysis, partial differential equations, cryptography, mathematics education.
• GRUTESER, Marco
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Location-aware systems; Pervasive computing; systems; Privacy and security; Mobile networking; Sensor networks; Performance evaluation.
• GUNDY, Richard
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Harmonic analysis, wavelets, probabilistic methods in analysis.
• GUNLUK, Oktay
Organization: Cornell University
Research Interests: Mixed-integer programming, combinatorial optimization, multicommodity flows. Modeling, optimization and computation.
• GURVICH, Vladimir
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: Complexity of generating problems in combinatorics; game theory: Nash equilibrium, positional games; graph theory: edge and vertex coloring, perfect graphs

• HABER, Stuart
Organization: Stuart Haber Crypto, LLC
Research Interests: cryptography, computer security, blockchain
• HAJIAGHAYI, Mohammad Taghi
Organization: University of Maryland
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms; networking and routing; algorithmic graph theory; wireless network design; embeddings and its algorithmic aspects; auction design and game theory; random structures and algorithms; computational complexity
• HALEVI, Shai
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Cryptography and computer security
• HIRSH, Haym
Organization: Cornell University
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence; machine learning.
• HO, Tin Kam
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Pattern recognition, data mining, interactive data visualization, modeling and simulation of complex systems, natural language understanding, and artificial intelligence.
• HOOVER, Donald
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Longitudinal methods, infectious disease epidemiology, clustered randomization and multiple comparisons.
• HORESH, Lior
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: optimization; numerical analysis; partial differential equations; inverse problems; simulation; machine learning; optimal experimental design; model mis-specification correction; neuroscience
• HORESH, Raya
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Large scale non-linear optimization, PDE constrained optimization, inverse problems, numerical analysis
• HSU, Daniel
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Algorithmic statistics; machine learning; privacy.
• HUNG, Ying
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Experimental design, computer experiments
• HWANG, Frank
Organization: Retired
Research Interests: Discrete math; optimization.

• IYENGAR, Garud
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Finance/Financial Engineering; Machine Learning; Optimization; Systemic Risk.

• JACOBSON, Guy
Unit: AT&T Labs Research
Research Interests: Algorithms; data compression; games.
• JAGGARD, Aaron
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Research Interests: Discrete mathematics, including: Theoretical foundations of network routing; Algebraic and enumerative combinatorics (especially combinatorial properties of permutations); Applications of algebra and logic to information assurance
• JALALI, Shirin
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Information theory, statistical signal processing, machine learning.
• JEBARA, Tony
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Machine Learning; Vision; Graph Algorithms; Spatio-Temporal Data.
• JEONG, Myong K.
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Data mining, optimization methods for machine learning, computational statistics, chemometrics, and advanced data analysis.
• JUTLA, Charanjit
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Cryptography, complexity theory, coding theory and mathematical logic

• KAHN, Jeffry
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Discrete mathematics, probability, geometry and computer science.
• KALAGNANAM, Jayant
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Decision support, optimization, economics and their applications to electronic commerce and production planning and scheduling.
• KALANTARI, Bahman
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Mathematical programming; matrix scaling; polynomial root-finding; polynomiography; art.
• KALE, Satyen
Organization: Google
Research Interests: Design of efficient and practical algorithms for fundamental problems in Machine Learning and Optimization; Decision making under uncertainty, statistical learning theory, combinatorial optimization, and convex optimization techniques such as linear and semidefinite programming
• KANNAN, Sampath
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Program checking, reactive and real-time systems, probabilistic algorithms, learning theory, graph theory and combinatorics, computational biology.
• KANTOR, Paul B.
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Information retrieval and filtering systems and evaluation; security- related issues distributed detection and decision; quantum computation; the networked information environment and the value of information.
• KAPADIA, Mubbasir
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Autonomous Virtual Humans, Human Crowd Modeling, Crowd-Aware Computer- Aided Environment Design, Computational Narrative, Serious Games
• KARLOFF, Howard
Organization: Goldman Sachs
Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, with an emphasis on approximation, on-line, and randomized algorithms.
• KATEHAKIS, Michael
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: Operations Research and Management Science, Business Analytics, Dynamic Programming, Adaptive Methods, Supply-Chain Optimization, Optimization.
• KETTENRING, Jon
Organization: Drew University
Research Interests: Multivariate statistics; cluster analysis; massive data problems.
• KHANNA, Sanjeev
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms; combinatorial optimization; application of combinatorial optimization techniques to computer systems; databases; network design, and robotics; structural complexity theory; combinatorics; graph theory.
• KHOT, Subash
Organization: New York University
Research Interests: PCPs and hardness of approximation; metric embeddings; lower bounds.
• KLAPPHOLZ, David
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Developing a concept inventory for discrete mathematics; CS education research.
• KLAWE, Maria
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
• KODIALAM, Murali
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Algorithms, Network Optimization., Machine Learning for Networking Applications
• KOGAN, Alexander
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Boolean functions; discrete optimization; artificial intelligence.
• KOLAITIS, Phokion
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Logic in computer science, principles of database systems, computational complexity
• KOLASSA, John
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Saddlepoint approximation techniques and their applications to biostatistical inference, and combinatoric techniques in statistics.
• KOLESNIKOV, Vladimir
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Cryptography (theoretical and applied), communication and network security, distributed algorithms.
• KOMLOS, Janos
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Combinatorics; probability; theoretical computer science.
• KOPPARTY, Swastik
Organization: University of Toronto
Research Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics, Error-Correcting Codes, Complexity Theory, Probabilistic and Interactive Proofs, Finite Fields, Randomness and Pseudorandomness.
• KOUTIS, Ioannis
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Spectral Graph Theory, Exact and Parameterized Algorithms
• KRAWCZYK, Hugo
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Cryptography, information security
• KUSHNIR, Dan
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Numerical Analysis, and Applied Harmonic Analysis.

• LAKSHMAN, T. V.
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Network design and optimization, traffic engineering, network performance, traffic models, resource allocation for software-defined networks and network function virtualization, machine learning applications in networking.
• LANDWEHR, Jim
Organization: Avaya Labs (retired)
Research Interests: Data Analysis and Data Mining including classification, clustering, graphics, and statistical modeling.
• LAPAUGH, Andrea
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Information search; combinatorial algorithms; data mining.
• LATKA, Brenda
Organization: DIMACS (retired)
Research Interests: Structure theorems for tournaments, tournament classes defined by finite obstruction sets, well-quasi-orderings, and antichains of tournaments.
• LATTIME, Edmund
Unit: Rutgers University - Cancer Institute of New Jersey
• LEBOWITZ, Joel
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Statistical mechanics of equilibrium and nonequilibrium processes; discrete and continuous time stochastic particle systems; computer simulation of statistical mechanical model systems; foundations of statistical mechanics.
• LECUN, Yann
Organization: New York University
Research Interests: Machine learning, computer vision, robotics, bioinformatics; data mining; digital libraries; data compression; physics of computation.
• LEE, Jon
Organization: University of Michigan
Research Interests: Optimization.
• LESNIAK, Linda
Organization: Drew University
Research Interests: Combinatorics and graph theory.
• LEVIN, Simon Asher
Unit: Princeton University - Other
Research Interests: Modeling of ecological systems; dynamics of populations and communities; spatial heterogeneity and problem of scale; evolutionary, mathematical and theoretical ecology.
• LI, Jing
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Scheduling theory, parallel computing, real-time systems, design and analysis of cyber-physical systems and autonomous systems
• LI, Yi
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Differential equations, applied math, mathematical biology, numerical computations.
• LIBERTY, Edo
Organization: Amazon
Research Interests: Algorithms for large scale data mining and machine learning.
• LINDQVIST, Janne
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: My long-term research interests are in cybersecurity and human-centered computing, particularly 1) in solving important societal problems by applying soft nudges to human behavior using computer systems, and 2) in usable security for mobile systems and pervasive computing.
• LIPTON, Richard
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Algorithms, architecture; complexity; VLSI.
• LITTMAN, Michael L.
Organization: Brown University
Research Interests: Algorithmic and experimental analysis of learning for sequential decision making, game theory, probabilistic satisfiability, navigation planning
• LIU, Regina
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Resampling methods, nonparametric statistics, robust statistics, text mining, data depth, statistical quality control.
• LLORCA, Jaime
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
• LOVASZ, Laci
Organization: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Discrete algorithms, in particular, sampling through Markov chains; geometric representations of graph; Colin de Verdiere number
• LOZANO, Aurelie
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Research interests include machine learning, statistics and optimization for high-dimensional data analysis, with applications to computational biology, environmental sciences, and social good problems.
• LU, Yingdong
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Stochastic processes, probabilistic analysis of large scale systems and algorithms.
• LUND, Carsten
Unit: AT&T Labs Research
Research Interests: Algorithms, tools, networking.
• LUO, Feng
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Combinatorial optimization in geometry, low-dimensional topology and geometry, and polyhedral geometry
• LYONS, Richard
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Finite simple groups.

• MADIGAN, David
Organization: Northeastern University
Research Interests: Data mining; statistical computing; Bayesian data analysis; graphical Markov models.
• MALKEVITCH, Joseph
Organization: York College (CUNY)
Research Interests: Geometry, especially geometry of polyhedra, graph theory, combinatorics, discrete mathematics, mathematical modeling, and mathematics education
• MALKIN, Tal
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: cryptography; complexity theory; security; randomized algorithms.
• MALLOWS, Colin
Organization: Avaya Labs (retired)
Research Interests: Statistical theory and methods, data analysis, software reliability, moment-problems, inequalities, combinatorics, coding theory.
• MAMMONE, Richard
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: The development of methods of signal analysis , computational models and pattern recognition algorithms used for the identification of people (Biometrics) ,chemicals (Chemometrics) and temporal spatial events (object recognition and tracking from video imagery).
• MAXEMCHUK, Nick
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Network topologies, network protocols, multicasting, privacy, document marking, packet radio.
• MEGIDDO, Nimrod
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Game theory
• MEHRI DEHNAVI, Maryam
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: High-Performance Computing; Machine Learning; Numerical Analysis; Data Mining; Scientific Computing; Computational Biology; Compilers.
• MELAMED, Benjamin
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: System modeling and performance evaluation (mainly for telecommunications systems, supply chain management and homeland security operations); analytical and simulation modeling methodologies; hybrid simulation (discrete and fluid-flow transactions) and IPA (infinitesimal perturbation analysis); stochastic processes and time series; visual interactive environments for modeling and decision support
• METAXAS, Dimitris
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Human shape and motion estimation, human activity monitoring and recognition, medical image analysis,and modeling, biosensors, Physics-based modeling and simulation, computer animation, applications to homeland security.
• MIASNIKOV, Alexei
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Algebra, theoretical computer science, cryptography
• MIHAIL, Milena
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Randomized algorithms, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, algorithms and models for the Internet, the WWW, peer-to-peer networks and other complex networks.
• MILI, Ali
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Software engineering
• MINSKY, Naftaly
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Coordination and control in large, open, and distributed systems
• MISCHAIKOW, Konstantin
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Topological methods for the analysis of dynamical systems; computational topology and dynamics; mathematical biology
• MISRA, Vishal
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Networking, with particular attention to net neutrality and the economics of the Internet; modeling and performance evaluation; information theory.
• MITRA, Debasis
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Stochastic traffic engineering, network economics, and network revenue management
• MOHAJERI, Atefeh
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
• MONMA, Clyde
Organization: Telcordia Technologies (retired)
Research Interests: Combinatorial optimization; applications to telecommunications.
• MUSIALSKI, Przem
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
• MUTHUKRISHNAN, S. (Muthu)
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Algorithms for massive data streams.

• NAJAFIZADEH, Laleh
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Policy; Radio Resource Management; Network Coding for Wireless Networks.
• NAMJOSHI, Kedar
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Programming methodology, concurrency semantics, program analysis and verification methods, specification logics
• NANNICINI, Giacomo
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Mathematical programming, operations research, computational optimization.
• NAOR, Assaf
Unit: Princeton University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Analysis; probablility; convex geometry; linear and non-linear geometric Banach space theory; structure theory of discrete metric spaces; applications of the previous to theoretical computer science, combinatorics and mathematical physics
• NARAIN, Sanjai
Unit: Perspecta Labs
Research Interests: Network security, symbolic logic, programming languages, logic programming
• NATH, Badri
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Mobile wireless computing, sensor networks designing services for wireless networks.
• NAUMANN, David
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Semantics and verification, formal methods and security
• NAUS, Joseph
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Probabilistic and statistical approaches to looking for unusual clustering of patterns within DNA and protein sequences, and measuring the unusulaness of matching of patterns between multiple DNA sequences. Statistical approaches to data editing, survey sampling, and applied statistics.
• NELSON, Christie
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Operations Research, Optimization, Linear Programming, Resource Allocation, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Analytics, Security Metrics, Stadium Security Patron Screening, walk-through metal detectors, data analysis and cleaning.
• NESS, Linda
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Theory, algorithms, and methodologies for representing, fusing, visualizing, and analyzing data and applications of these to real data sets, complex systems and real-world problems in multiple domain areas; Techniques for automated generation of features grounded in theories for use in machine learning and decision making; Statistics, Mathematics (especially geometry including algebraic and differential geometry), Data science, Computer science; Inter-disciplinary collaborations.
• NEVILL-MANNING, Craig
Organization: Google
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, inferring sequential structure, digital libraries, machine learning and data compression.
• NICOLOSI, Antonio R.
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Cryptography; Security and privacy in distributed systems; Lattices and decoding algorithms
• NITHI, Karun
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Big Data Analytics; Deep Learning for Image, Text analysis, and non-linear feature extractions for classification systems; Application of graph computations for data analysis and similarity ratings; Wireless network data analysis; GPU algorithms for massive data analysis and graph computations.
• NUZMAN, Carl
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Probability, optimization, and dynamical systems; applications to optical networking, optical devices, micro electro-mechanical systems, power control, traffic modeling, and digital subscriber line systems.

• ODLYZKO, Andrew
Organization: University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Cryptography; number theory; combinatorics; coding theory; analysis; probability theory.
• OLSON, Wilma
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational studies of the relationship of chemical architecture to the conformation, properties, and interactions of biological macromolecules, with major emphasis on nucleic acids.
• ONAK, Krzysztof
Organization: Boston University
Research Interests: My interests include theoretical foundations of algorithms for big data and their applications to AI and machine learning. Among many other things, I have worked on algorithms for modern parallel and distributed frameworks and streaming and sublinear-time algorithms. During my time in industry, I have also contributed to many applied projects by designing and implementing efficient algorithms.
• OSTROVSKY, Rafail
Organization: UCLA
Research Interests: Cryptography; computer security; distributed protocols and algorithms.

• PAPAKONSTANTINOU, Periklis
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Foundations of Computing, Randomness, Cryptography, Machine Learning, and their intersection with Big Data
• PARDALOS, Panos
Organization: University of Florida
Research Interests: Global and combinatorial optimization; biocomputing; massive datasets; data mining; Quantitative Neuroscience.
• PARIDA, Laxmi
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Computational biology and informatics, computer vision, geometric computing, design and analysis algorithms
• PATAKI, Gabor
Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Convex programming, espeocially its geometry and duality; theoretical and computational integer programming.
• PAZOUR, Jennifer
Unit: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: development and use of mathematical models to guide decision making for logistics and supply chain challenges
• PENNOCK, David
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Electronic commerce, artificial intelligence, information markets, auctions, Internet modeling/analysis, recommender systems, machine learning, decision theory, uncertain reasoning, decentralized coordination
• PHAN, Hai
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Privacy and Security, Deep Learning, AI, Big Data, Health Informatics, and Social Network
• PINKAS, Benny
Organization: Bar-Ilan University
Research Interests: Cryptography, Privacy, Theory of Computer Science.
• PIPPENGER, Nick
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Research Interests: Computational complexity theory, communication networks, combinatorics, probability theory
• POMERANCE, Carl
Organization: Dartmouth College
Research Interests: Number theory, with applications to cryptography.
• POWELL, Warren
Unit: Princeton University - Operations Research
Research Interests: Stochastic optimization, and in particular approximate dynamic programming, and their application to a broad range of stochastic resource allocation problems spanning military and civilian applications from transportation and logistics to social services. Within this setting, research interests include methods for optimal learning, convergence analysis of algorithms, semi-cooperative behavior over networks and knowledge networks.

• RABIN, Tal
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Cryptography and network security
• RAJAGOPAL, Gunaretnam
Organization: Johnson & Johnson
Research Interests: Computational & Systems Biology, Statistical & Population genetics and Bioinformatics.
• RAJAGOPALAN, Sivaram
Organization: Honeywell
Research Interests: Cryptography; average-case complexity.
• RANDALL, Dana
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Randomized algorithms, Markov chain Monte Carlo, computational problems from statistical physics, combinatorics
• REIMAN, Marty
Organization:
Research Interests: Applied probability: queueing theory, stochastic control, diffusion processes; applied to broadband networking and other computer/communication systems.
• RESENDE, Mauricio G. C.
Organization: Amazon
Research Interests: Combinatorial optimization; metaheuristics; interior point methods.
• RETAKH, Vladimir
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Noncommutative algebra and combinatorics, special functions and differential equations, homological algebra and algebraic topology, mathematics education
• REXFORD, Jennifer
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Network protocols, network measurement, and network management
• ROBERTS, Fred S.
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Mathematical models in the biological, social, behavioral, and environmental sciences and of problems of communications, information, and transportation; applications of the mathematical sciences to homeland security; graph theory and combinatorics; measurement theory; utility, decisionmaking, and social choice; mathematics education.
• ROETTELER, Martin
Unit: Microsoft Research
Research Interests: Quantum algorithms; Quantum error-correction; Quantum circuits; and digital signal processing.
• ROSENSTEIN, Joseph G.
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Mathematics education; linear orderings; recursive model theory.
• ROUGHGARDEN, Tim
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Design, analysis, applications, and limitations of algorithms; Game theory and microeconomics, especially as applied to networks, auctions, and cryptocurrencies
• RUBENSTEIN, Daniel
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Computer networks; Network Robustness and Security; Multimedia networking; Performance Evaluation; Algorithms.
• RUBIN, Avi
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Cryptography; network security; secure systems; web security.
• RUBINFELD, Ronitt
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Sublinear time algorithms, property testing, randomized algorithms, program result checking, computational learning theory.
• RUSZCZYNSKI, Andrzej
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: Operations research, management science, stochastic programming, financial optimization, risk.

• SAKS, Michael
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Computational complexity; algorithms; extremal set theory; partially ordered sets.
• SANIEE, Iraj
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Network design, distributed optimization; performance optimization of communications systems.
• SARAF, Shubhangi
Organization: University of Toronto
Research Interests: Complexity theory, algebraic computation, error correcting codes, and discrete geometry
• SARNAK, Peter
Unit: Princeton University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Data structures; graph algorithms.
• SARWATE, Anand
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Distributed optimization and signal processing, machine learning and statistics, information theory, and privacy-preserving data analysis.
• SAVARI, Serap
Organization: Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Information theory, data compression, network coding, computing and communication systems.
• SCHAPIRE, Rob
Unit: Microsoft Research
Research Interests: Theoretical and applied machine learning, with particular focus on boosting, online learning, game theory, and maximum entropy.
• SCHIEBER, Baruch
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Efficiency of computation, in particular: design and analysis of efficient algorithms, combinatorial optimization, parallel and distributed computation, complexity theory
• SCHULZRINNE, Henning
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Computer networks; multimedia systems; mobile and wireless systems; ubiquitous and pervasive computing.
• SEDGEWICK, Robert
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Analysis of algorithms; algorithm visualization.
• SEN, Siddhartha
Unit: Microsoft Research
Research Interests: Distributed systems; machine learning systems; data structures and algorithms.
• SERVEDIO, Rocco
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Computational learning theory; computational complexity theory and the role of randomness in computation.
• SEYMOUR, Paul
Unit: Princeton University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Graph theory.
• SHALLCROSS, David
Unit: Perspecta Labs
Research Interests: Discrete optimization.
• SHARMA, Shantanu
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Databases, secure data processing, data privacy, smart and secure IoT systems, blockchain, and ML for databases
• SHELAH, Saharon
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Logic; model theory.
• SHEPHERD, F. Bruce
Organization: University of British Columbia
Research Interests: Geometric and algorithmic approximation for combinatorial optimization problems
• SHIH, Frank
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Big Data, Data Security, Biomedical Image Processing
• SHOR, Peter
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Quantum computing; algorithms; computational geometry.
• SILLS, Andrew
Organization: Georgia Southern University
Research Interests: Number theory and combinatorics integer partitions, q-series, basic hypergeometric series, the mathematics of Ramanujan
• SINGH, Jaswinder
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Parallel computing applications and systems; computational biology.
• SINGH, Mona
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational molecular biology and its interface with machine learning and algorithms.
• SLIVKINS, Alex
Unit: Microsoft Research
Research Interests: Algorithms and theoretical computer science, spanning learning theory, algorithmic economics, and networks
• SLOANE, Neil J. A.
Organization: AT&T Labs (retired)
Research Interests: Mathematics; electrical engineering; computer science; statistics.
• SOFFER, Avraham
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Mathematical physics, quantum dynamics of many body systems and environment effects; analysis in probability; limit theorems; nonlinear dynamics and scattering.
• SOIFER, Alexander
Organization: University of Colorado
Research Interests: Euclidean Ramsey Theory; Combinatorial & Discrete Geometry History of Mathematics in the XX Century
• SOLJANIN, Emina
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Coding and information theory, symbolic dynamics, mathematics of telecommunication systems.
• SONTAG, Eduardo
Organization: Northeastern University
Research Interests: Control theory; mathematical systems molecular biology; artificial neural networks.
• SORKIN, Gregory
Organization: London School of Economics and Political Science
Research Interests: Random structures, phase transitions, optimization, discrete mathematics, algorithms
• SOUVAINE, Diane
Organization: Tufts University
Research Interests: Development and analysis of geometric algorithms with multidisiplinary applications.
• SPASOJEVIC, Predrag
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Communication and Information Theory, Coding and Sequence Theory, Signal Processing and Representation, Cellular and Wireless LAN Systems, Adhoc and Sensor Networks.
• SQUILLANTE, Mark
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Stochastic processes; probability theory; stochastic optimization; stochastic control; mathematical statistics; algorithms; decision making and reasoning under uncertainty.
• SRIKANTA, Karthik
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: complexity theory and discrete geometry with an emphasis on hardness of approximation, fine-grained complexity, and parameterized complexity.
• STEIGER, William
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Discrete and computational geometry; probability; algs and data structures.
• STEIGLITZ, Ken
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Computing with particles; economic simulation; computer music.
• STEIN, Cliff
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms; combinatorial optimization; operations research; network algorithms; scheduling; algorithm engineering; and computational biology.
• STOLOVITZKY, Gustavo
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Computational and systems biology, Reverse engineering biological circuits, biological networks, dynamical systems, statistical physics, probability theory
• STRAUSS, Martin
Organization: University of Michigan
Research Interests: Massive data sets; security; complexity theory.
• STRAWDERMAN, William
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Decision theory, Multiparameter estimation, Bayesian Statistics.
• SZEGEDY, Mario
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Algorithms and complexity; combinatorics; quantum computing
• SZEMEREDI, Endre
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Number theory; extremal graphs; theoretical computer science.

• TAN, Zhiqiang
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Nonparametric and semiparametric statistics, causal inference, missing data problems, survey sampling, Monte Carlo integration.
• TAN, Zihan
Unit: Rutgers University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, graph algorithms
• TARJAN, Robert
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Data structures; graph algorithms; complexity.
• TETALI, Prasad
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Discrete math and theory of computing, including probability, combinatorics, number theory and randomized algorithms.
• THATHACHAR, T.S. Jayram
Unit: IBM Research
Research Interests: Computational complexity, communication complexity and information theory, data streams, sketching, online algorithms, optimization under uncertainty, probabilistic databases.
• THOMAS, Simon
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Set theory, model theory; infinite groups.
• THORUP, Mikkel
Organization: University of Copenhagen
Research Interests: Combinatorial algorithms and data structures.
• TRAPPE, Wade
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Multimedia Security; Wireless Security; Wireless Networking; Cryptography.
• TRIANDOPOULOS, Nikos
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Network & distributed system security; mobile & enterprise security; applied cryptography & secure protocol design.
• TROTTER, Tom
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Combinatorics and graph theory with emphasis on extremal problems for discrete structures (with special interests in finite partially ordered sets), on-line algorithms, approximation algorithms, ramsey theory, discrete geometry, and discrete optimization.
• TROYANSKAYA, Olga
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Bioinformatics and genomics, bridging Computer Science and Molecular Biology.
• TULINO, Antonia
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs

• UPADHYAY, Jalaj
Unit: Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School
Research Interests: privacy preserving data analysis, randomized numerical linear algebra

• VAISHAMPAYAN, Vinay
Organization: City University of New York
Research Interests: Communication and information theory, signal processing, combinatorics.
• VAN DEN BERG, Eric
Unit: Perspecta Labs
• VAN WIJNGAARDEN, Adriaan
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Information theory, communication theory, combinatorics, networks, coding, modulation, synchronization.
• VANDERBEI, Robert J.
Unit: Princeton University - Operations Research
Research Interests: Optimization.
• VASCONCELOS, Wolmer
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Commutative algebra and computational algebra.
• VAZIRANI, Vijay
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Research Interests: Design of efficient exact and approximation algorithms, algorithmic game theory, computational complexity theory, algorithmic problems in coding theory.
• VEMPALA, Santosh
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Computer science and systems
• VIGODA, Eric
Unit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Randomized algorithms, stochastic Processes (especially Markov Chain Monte Carlo), statistical physics.

• WALLACE, William
Unit: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Trust in electronic media; dynamic social networks; ethical decision making emergency management for extreme events
• WANG, David
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Software engineering (e.g., bug detection and prediction, automated program repair, software analytics, code representation), program analysis, network science, AI, and service-oriented computing
• WANG, Grace Guiling
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Blockchain Technologies, IoT, Financial Computing
• WANG, Guanyang
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Markov chain Monte Carlo, Machine Learning, Probability
• WANG, Jason
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Data mining and machine learning with applications to astrophysics and bioinformatics, cyberinfrastructure
• WANG, Wendy Hui
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Database security and privacy, semi-structured database, data mining
• WEI, Hua
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Reinforcement learning, data mining, urban computing
• WEI, Zhi
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Data Mining, Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning with applications to data enriched fields
• WEINBERG, Matt
Unit: Princeton University - Computer Science
Research Interests: Algorithmic Mechanism Design, Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithms Under Uncertainty, and Theoretical Computer Science
• WETZEL, Susanne
Unit: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Cryptography, network security, biometrics
• WHITE, Christopher
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Theoretical quantum chemistry, Communications devices and systems, Numerical methods and simulation, Electromagnetics and optics.
• WHITT, Ward
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Queueing theory, performance analysis, stochastic models of telecommunication systems, numerical transform inversion
• WIGDERSON, Avi
Organization: Institute for Advanced Study
Research Interests: Complexity theory, parallel and distributed computation, combinatorics and graph theory, combinatorial optimization algorithms, randomness and cryptography, quantum computation and communication.
• WIGGINS, Chris
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Machine learning; statistics; computational biology; applied mathematics; theoretical physics.
• WILFONG, Gordon
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Networking, protocol analysis, game theory and graph edge coloring.
• WINKLER, Peter
Organization: Dartmouth College
Research Interests: Discrete math; probability; theory of computing.
• WORTMAN VAUGHAN, Jenn
Unit: Microsoft Research
Research Interests: Responsible AI, AI transparency, interpretability, fairness, human-AI interaction, AI evaluation, responsible research practices
• WRIGHT, Rebecca
Organization: Barnard College
Research Interests: Privacy, cryptography, security, distributed computing.
• WU, Chase
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Big data, parallel and distributed computing, computer networks, high-performance networking, green computing and networking, sensor networks, scientific visualization, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity

• XIA, Lirong
Unit: Rutgers University - DIMACS
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, multi-agent systems, decision-making under uncertainty, algorithm design, social choice theory, game theory, mechanism design, prediction markets, preference learning, diffential privacy, blockchain
• XIAO, Han
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Nonstationary time series, high-dimensional data analysis, algebraic statistics, random matrix theory.
• XIE, Minge
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: Statistical methodologies, model developments and theories, with applications in bio-medical sciences, social sciences, industry, and environmental sciences.
• XIONG, Hui
Unit: Rutgers University - Other
Research Interests: Data mining, statistical computing, geographic information systems, biomedical informatics, and information security.
• XU, Pan
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Algorithm design and analysis; data mining; stochastic optimization; artificial intelligence

• YANNAKAKIS, Mihalis
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Algorithms; complexity; databases; testing.
• YAO, Andrew
Organization: Tsinghua University
Research Interests: Computational complexity; analysis of algorithms.
• YAO, Danfeng
Organization: Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Information security (authentication, authorization, trust management, secure e-commerce, network security) and applied cryptography (anonymity, encryption, secure multi-party computation)
• YAO, David
Unit: Columbia University
Research Interests: Applied Probability; Optimization; Risk Management; Stochastic Systems.
• YATES, Roy
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Resource Management in Wireless Systems; Dynamic Spectrum Access and Spectrum Regulation; Information Theory for Wireless Networks; Future Internet Architectures.
• YE, Xinyue
Unit: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Machine learning, data science, geographic information science, urban computing
• YU, Chun-Nam
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: machine learning, kernel methods, structured output learning, optimization, statistics, deep learning

• ZEILBERGER, Doron
Unit: Rutgers University - Mathematics
Research Interests: Enumerative and algebraic combinatorics, computerized proofs of identities, experimental mathematics.
• ZHANG, Linjun
Unit: Rutgers University - Statistics
Research Interests: algorithmic fairness, privacy-preserving data analysis, machine learning theory, AI safety, high dimensional statistical inference, and self-supervised learning
• ZHANG, Lisa
Unit: Nokia Bell Labs
Research Interests: Design, analysis and implementation of algorithms.
• ZONOUZ, Saman Aliari
Unit: Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Security and Privacy; Cyber-Physical Systems; Intrusion Detection and Responce; Embedded and Operating Systems Security; Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis; Trustworthy Power-Grid Critical Infrastructures.