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Block Center Faculty

Henny Admoni

Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute

Laurence Ales

Senior Associate Dean for Education
Professor of Economics

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Vincent Aleven

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in Human-Computer Interaction

Kasun Amarasinghe

Kasun Amarasinghe
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Machine Learning Department

Linda Argote

David M. Kirr and Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory

Maria-Florina Balcan

Cadence Design Systems Professor, School of Computer Science

Saurabh Bhargava
Assistant Professor of Economics, Social and Decision Sciences

Jeffrey Bigham

Jeffrey Bigham
Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Lee Branstetter

Lee Branstetter
Professor of Economics and Public Policy

Daragh Byrne
Associate Faculty, School of Architecture and the Integrated Innovation Institute

Howie Choset

Howie Choset
Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science

Alexandra Chouldechova

Alexandra Chouldechova
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Public Policy

Avinash Collis
Assistant Professor

Christophe Combemale

Assistant Research Professor

Vincent Conitzer

Professor

Laura Dabbish
Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

David Danks

David Danks
Professor, Department of Philosophy

UC San Diego

Anupam Datta

Anupam Datta
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Simon DeDeo

Simon DeDeo
Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences

Matthew Denes

Assistant Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship

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Motahhare Eslami

Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Pedro Ferreira
Associate Professor of Information Systems (Joint Appointment with Engineering and Public Policy)

Jodi Forlizzi

Jodi Forlizzi
Herbert A. Simon Professor in Computer Science and HCII, and Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Sarah Fox

Sarah Fox
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Erica Fuchs

Erica R.H. Fuchs
Professor of Engineering and Public Policy

Andrew Garin
Assistant Professor of Economics

Rayid Ghani

Rayid Ghani
Distinguished Career Professor

Seth Goldstein

Seth Goldstein
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Pulkit Grover

Pulkit Grover
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oliver Hahl

Oliver Hahl
Frank A. and Helen E. Risch Faculty Development Professor of Business

Corey Harper

Corey Harper
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Amelia Haviland
Professor Of Statistics And Health Policy

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Hoda Heidari

Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Department and the Institute for Software Research

Jim Herbsleb
Director and Professor, Institute for Software Research

Lauren Herckis

Lauren Herckis
Simon Initiative Research Faculty

Ken Holstein

Ken Holstein
Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Jason Hong
Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Yan Huang
Assistant Professor of Business Technologies

Mark Kamlet

Mark Kamlet
University Professor of Economics and Public Policy; Provost Emeritus

Valerie J. Karplus
Associate Professor of Engineering and Public Policy

Shawn Kelly

Shawn K. Kelly
Senior Systems Scientist

Edward Kennedy

Edward Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Statistics

Tae Wan Kim

Tae Wan Kim
Assistant Professor of Business Ethics

Aniket Kittur

Aniket D. Kittur
Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Kenneth R. Koedinger

Kenneth R. Koedinger
Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Felix Koenig

Felix Koenig
Assistant Professor Of Economics

Zico Kolter
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Brian Kovak

Brian Kovak
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy

Ashwati Krishnan

Ashwati Krishnan
Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chinmay Kulkarni
Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

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Derek Leben

Associate Professor of Business Ethics

Min Kyung Lee

Min Kyung Lee
Assistant Professor, School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin

Rebecca Lessem

Rebecca Lessem
Associate Professor of Economics

Beibei Li

Beibei Li
Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Management

Zachary Chase Lipton

Zachary Chase Lipton
Assistant Professor of Business Technologies

George Loewenstein

George Loewenstein
Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology

Alex John London

Alex John London
Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy

Nikolas Martelaro

Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Tom Mitchell

Tom Mitchell
Founders University Professor

Javad Mohammadi

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

M. Granger Morgan

M. Granger Morgan
Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering

Daniel Nagin

Daniel Nagin
Teresa And H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics

Destenie Nock

Destenie Nock
Assistant Professor of Engineering and Public Policy

Illah Nourbakhsh

Illah Nourbakhsh
K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies

Rebecca Nugent
Stephen E. and Joyce Fienberg Professor of Statistics & Data Science

Geoffrey Parker
Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Christina Patterson
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Director, Epilepsy Services and Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, UPMC Children's Hospital

Adam Perer

Adam Perer
Assistant Research Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

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Aditi Raghunathan

Assistant Professor

Raj Rajkumar

Raj Rajkumar
George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aaditya Ramdas

Aaditya Ramdas
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning

R. Ravi

R. Ravi
Andris A. Zoltners Professor of Business

Kit Rodolfa

Kit Rodolfa
Research Project Scientist, Machine Learning Department

Carolyn P. Rose
Professor, Language technologies Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Director of the Masters Program in Computational Data Science and the LTI Minor & Concentration

Majd Sakr
Teaching Professor of Computer Science

Anna Salomons

Professor, Utrecht University School of Economics

Costa Samaras
Director, Scott Institute for Energy Innovation

Michael Skirpan

Assistant Teaching Faculty

Software and Societal Systems & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ananya Sen

Assistant Professor Of Information Technology And Management

Nihar Shah

Nihar Shah
Assistant Professor of Machine Learning

Michael Shamos

Michael I. Shamos
Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science

Hong Shen
Systems Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Param Vir Singh

Param Vir Singh
Carnegie Bosch Associate Professor of Business Technologies

Michael Smith
Professor of Information Technology and Marketing, Heinz College and Tepper School of Business

Chester S. Spatt

Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance

Rick Stafford

Rick Stafford
Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy

Molly Steenson

Molly Wright Steenson
K&L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics & Computational Technologies

David Steier

David Steier
Distinguished Service Professor

Ameet Talwalkar

Ameet Talwalkar
Assistant Professor of Machine Learning

Lowell Taylor

Lowell Taylor
H. John Heinz III Professor of Economics

Rahul Telang

Rahul Telang
Professor of Information Systems

Christopher Telmer

Christopher I. Telmer
Associate Professor of Financial Economics; Head of Economics

Yulia Tsvetkov

Yulia Tsvetkov
Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute

Conrad Tucker

Conrad Tucker
Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor

Parth Vaishnav
Assistant Research Professor of Engineering and Public Policy

Venkat Viswanathan

Venkat Viswanathan
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Sandra DeVincent Wolf

Senior Director of Research Partnerships, College of Engineering
Executive Director, Next Manufacturing Center
Executive Director, Manufacturing Futures Institute

Anita Woolley