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Title
Unit Interests Role

Mili, Ali

 		New Jersey Institute of Technology Software engineering

Minsky, Naftaly

 		Rutgers University - Computer Science Coordination and control in large, open, and distributed systems

Mischaikow, Konstantin

 		Rutgers University - Mathematics Topological methods for the analysis of dynamical systems; computational topology and dynamics; mathematical biology Executive Committee

Misra, Vishal

 		Columbia University Networking, with particular attention to net neutrality and the economics of the Internet; modeling and performance evaluation; information theory.

Mitra, Debasis

 		Columbia University Stochastic traffic engineering, network economics, and network revenue management

Mohajeri, Atefeh

 		Nokia Bell Labs

Monma, Clyde

 		Other Combinatorial optimization; applications to telecommunications.

Musialski, Przem

 		New Jersey Institute of Technology

Muthukrishnan, S. (Muthu)

 		Rutgers University - Computer Science Algorithms for massive data streams.

Najafizadeh, Laleh

 		Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Policy; Radio Resource Management; Network Coding for Wireless Networks.

Namjoshi, Kedar

 		Nokia Bell Labs Programming methodology, concurrency semantics, program analysis and verification methods, specification logics

Nannicini, Giacomo

 		IBM Research Mathematical programming, operations research, computational optimization.

Naor, Assaf

 		Princeton University - Mathematics 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

 		Perspecta Labs Network security, symbolic logic, programming languages, logic programming

Nath, Badri

 		Rutgers University - Computer Science Mobile wireless computing, sensor networks designing services for wireless networks.

Naumann, David

 		Stevens Institute of Technology Semantics and verification, formal methods and security

Naus, Joseph

 		Rutgers University - Statistics 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

 		Rutgers University - DIMACS 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. Faculty

Ness, Linda

 		Rutgers University - DIMACS 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

 		Other Bioinformatics, inferring sequential structure, digital libraries, machine learning and data compression.

Nicolosi, Antonio R.

 		Stevens Institute of Technology Cryptography; Security and privacy in distributed systems; Lattices and decoding algorithms

Nithi, Karun

 		Nokia Bell Labs 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

 		Nokia Bell Labs Probability, optimization, and dynamical systems; applications to optical networking, optical devices, micro electro-mechanical systems, power control, traffic modeling, and digital subscriber line systems. Executive Committee

Odlyzko, Andrew

 		Other Cryptography; number theory; combinatorics; coding theory; analysis; probability theory.

Olson, Wilma

 		Rutgers University - Other 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

 		Other 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

 		Other Cryptography; computer security; distributed protocols and algorithms.

Papakonstantinou, Periklis

 		Rutgers University - Other Foundations of Computing, Randomness, Cryptography, Machine Learning, and their intersection with Big Data

Pardalos, Panos

 		Other Global and combinatorial optimization; biocomputing; massive datasets; data mining; Quantitative Neuroscience.

Parida, Laxmi

 		IBM Research Computational biology and informatics, computer vision, geometric computing, design and analysis algorithms

Pataki, Gabor

 		Other Convex programming, espeocially its geometry and duality; theoretical and computational integer programming.

Pazour, Jennifer

 		Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute development and use of mathematical models to guide decision making for logistics and supply chain challenges Executive Committee

Pennock, David

 		Rutgers University - DIMACS Electronic commerce, artificial intelligence, information markets, auctions, Internet modeling/analysis, recommender systems, machine learning, decision theory, uncertain reasoning, decentralized coordination Staff, Faculty, Executive Committee

Phan, Hai

 		New Jersey Institute of Technology Privacy and Security, Deep Learning, AI, Big Data, Health Informatics, and Social Network

Pinkas, Benny

 		Other Cryptography, Privacy, Theory of Computer Science.

Pippenger, Nick

 		Other Computational complexity theory, communication networks, combinatorics, probability theory

Pomerance, Carl

 		Other Number theory, with applications to cryptography.

Powell, Warren

 		Princeton University - Operations Research 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

 		IBM Research Cryptography and network security

Rajagopal, Gunaretnam

 		Other Computational & Systems Biology, Statistical & Population genetics and Bioinformatics.

Rajagopalan, Sivaram

 		Other Cryptography; average-case complexity.

Randall, Dana

 		Georgia Institute of Technology Randomized algorithms, Markov chain Monte Carlo, computational problems from statistical physics, combinatorics Executive Committee

Reiman, Marty

 		Other Applied probability: queueing theory, stochastic control, diffusion processes; applied to broadband networking and other computer/communication systems.

Resende, Mauricio G. C.

 		Other Combinatorial optimization; metaheuristics; interior point methods.

Retakh, Vladimir

 		Rutgers University - Mathematics Noncommutative algebra and combinatorics, special functions and differential equations, homological algebra and algebraic topology, mathematics education

Rexford, Jennifer

 		Princeton University - Computer Science Network protocols, network measurement, and network management

Roberts, Fred S.

 		Rutgers University - DIMACS 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. Staff, Faculty, Executive Committee

Roetteler, Martin

 		Quantum algorithms; Quantum error-correction; Quantum circuits; and digital signal processing.

Rosenstein, Joseph G.

 		Rutgers University - Mathematics Mathematics education; linear orderings; recursive model theory.

Roughgarden, Tim

 		Columbia University Design, analysis, applications, and limitations of algorithms; Game theory and microeconomics, especially as applied to networks, auctions, and cryptocurrencies

Rubenstein, Daniel

 		Columbia University Computer networks; Network Robustness and Security; Multimedia networking; Performance Evaluation; Algorithms.

Rubin, Avi

 		Other Cryptography; network security; secure systems; web security.

Rubinfeld, Ronitt

 		Other Sublinear time algorithms, property testing, randomized algorithms, program result checking, computational learning theory.

Ruszczynski, Andrzej

 		Rutgers University - RUTCOR/Rutgers Business School Operations research, management science, stochastic programming, financial optimization, risk.

Saks, Michael

 		Rutgers University - Mathematics Computational complexity; algorithms; extremal set theory; partially ordered sets.

Saniee, Iraj

 		Nokia Bell Labs Network design, distributed optimization; performance optimization of communications systems.

Saraf, Shubhangi

 		Other Complexity theory, algebraic computation, error correcting codes, and discrete geometry

Sarnak, Peter

 		Princeton University - Mathematics Data structures; graph algorithms.

Sarwate, Anand

 		Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering Distributed optimization and signal processing, machine learning and statistics, information theory, and privacy-preserving data analysis. Executive Committee

Savari, Serap

 		Other Information theory, data compression, network coding, computing and communication systems.

Schapire, Rob

 		Microsoft Research Theoretical and applied machine learning, with particular focus on boosting, online learning, game theory, and maximum entropy.

Schieber, Baruch

 		New Jersey Institute of Technology Efficiency of computation, in particular: design and analysis of efficient algorithms, combinatorial optimization, parallel and distributed computation, complexity theory Executive Committee

Schulzrinne, Henning

 		Columbia University Computer networks; multimedia systems; mobile and wireless systems; ubiquitous and pervasive computing.

Sedgewick, Robert

 		Princeton University - Computer Science Analysis of algorithms; algorithm visualization.

Sen, Siddhartha

 		Microsoft Research Distributed systems; machine learning systems; data structures and algorithms. Executive Committee

Servedio, Rocco

 		Columbia University Computational learning theory; computational complexity theory and the role of randomness in computation.

Seymour, Paul

 		Princeton University - Mathematics Graph theory.

Shallcross, David

 		Perspecta Labs Discrete optimization.

Sharma, Shantanu

 		New Jersey Institute of Technology Databases, secure data processing, data privacy, smart and secure IoT systems, blockchain, and ML for databases

Shelah, Saharon

 		Rutgers University - Mathematics Logic; model theory.

Shepherd, F. Bruce

 		Other Geometric and algorithmic approximation for combinatorial optimization problems

Shih, Frank

 		New Jersey Institute of Technology Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Big Data, Data Security, Biomedical Image Processing

Shor, Peter

 		Other Quantum computing; algorithms; computational geometry.

Sills, Andrew

 		Other Number theory and combinatorics integer partitions, q-series, basic hypergeometric series, the mathematics of Ramanujan

Singh, Jaswinder

 		Princeton University - Computer Science Parallel computing applications and systems; computational biology.

Singh, Mona

 		Princeton University - Computer Science Computational molecular biology and its interface with machine learning and algorithms.

Sinha, Arunesh

 		Rutgers University - Other security, machine learning and game theory.

Slivkins, Alex

 		Microsoft Research Algorithms and theoretical computer science, spanning learning theory, algorithmic economics, and networks Executive Committee

Sloane, Neil J. A.

 		Other Mathematics; electrical engineering; computer science; statistics.

Soffer, Avraham

 		Rutgers University - Mathematics Mathematical physics, quantum dynamics of many body systems and environment effects; analysis in probability; limit theorems; nonlinear dynamics and scattering.

Soifer, Alexander

 		Other Euclidean Ramsey Theory; Combinatorial & Discrete Geometry History of Mathematics in the XX Century

Soljanin, Emina

 		Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering Coding and information theory, symbolic dynamics, mathematics of telecommunication systems.

Sontag, Eduardo

 		Other Control theory; mathematical systems molecular biology; artificial neural networks.

Sorkin, Gregory

 		Other Random structures, phase transitions, optimization, discrete mathematics, algorithms

Souvaine, Diane

 		Other Development and analysis of geometric algorithms with multidisiplinary applications.

Spasojevic, Predrag

 		Rutgers University - Electrical and Computer Engineering Communication and Information Theory, Coding and Sequence Theory, Signal Processing and Representation, Cellular and Wireless LAN Systems, Adhoc and Sensor Networks.

Squillante, Mark

 		IBM Research Stochastic processes; probability theory; stochastic optimization; stochastic control; mathematical statistics; algorithms; decision making and reasoning under uncertainty.

Srikanta, Karthik

 		Rutgers University - Computer Science complexity theory and discrete geometry with an emphasis on hardness of approximation, fine-grained complexity, and parameterized complexity.

Steiger, William

 		Rutgers University - Computer Science Discrete and computational geometry; probability; algs and data structures.

Steiglitz, Ken

 		Princeton University - Computer Science Computing with particles; economic simulation; computer music.

Stein, Cliff

 		Columbia University Design and analysis of algorithms; combinatorial optimization; operations research; network algorithms; scheduling; algorithm engineering; and computational biology.

Stolovitzky, Gustavo

 		IBM Research Computational and systems biology, Reverse engineering biological circuits, biological networks, dynamical systems, statistical physics, probability theory

Strauss, Martin

 		Other Massive data sets; security; complexity theory.

Strawderman, William

 		Rutgers University - Statistics Decision theory, Multiparameter estimation, Bayesian Statistics.

Szegedy, Mario

 		Rutgers University - Computer Science Algorithms and complexity; combinatorics; quantum computing

Szemeredi, Endre

 		Rutgers University - Computer Science Number theory; extremal graphs; theoretical computer science.

Tan, Zhiqiang

 		Rutgers University - Statistics Nonparametric and semiparametric statistics, causal inference, missing data problems, survey sampling, Monte Carlo integration.

Tan, Zihan

 		Rutgers University - Computer Science Theoretical computer science, graph algorithms

Tarjan, Robert

 		Princeton University - Computer Science Data structures; graph algorithms; complexity. Executive Committee

Tetali, Prasad

 		Georgia Institute of Technology Discrete math and theory of computing, including probability, combinatorics, number theory and randomized algorithms.