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Affiliated Faculty &
Researchers

Graduate Faculty (IS field members)

Name	Contact Information	Research Interests

John Abowd Professor of ILR, Department of Labor Economics Director, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)	259 Ives Hall (607) 255-8024; (607) 255-4801 John.Abowd@cornell.edu website »	Social and economic statistics, longitudinally-linked economic and social data bases, data confidentiality protection, labor economics

William Arms Professor, Computer Science	301 College Avenue (607) 255-3046 wya@cs.cornell.edu website »	Digital libraries, Electronic publishing, Web information systems
Jeremy Birnholtz Associate Professor, Communication	301 College Avenue (607)255-7819 jpb277@cornell.edu website »	Improving communication and collaboration tools for workgroups and organizations through a focus on understanding the nature and processes of attention. Intersections of technology design and social/behavioral science theories.


Larry Blume Professor, Economics	(607) 255-2818 Lb19@cornell.edu website »

Claire Cardie Professor, Computer Science; Charles and Barbara Weiss Director of the Information Science Program	5161 Upson Hall (607) 255-9206 cardie@cs.cornell.edu website »	Natural language processing, machine learning

Robert Constable Dean, Computing and Information Science	4132 Upson Hall (607) 255-9204 cis-dean@cs.cornell.edu website »	Formal Digital Libraries (FDL) Project; Logic of Events; Knowledge-Based Adaptive Distributed Systems; Models for Concurrency

David Easley Professor, Economics	450 Uris Hall (607) 255-6283 dae3@cornell.edu website »	Economics of information; learning from endogenous data; market microstructure; evolution in games and markets.

Shimon Edelman Professor, Psychology	232 Uris Hall (607) 255-6365 se37@cornell.edu website »	Human and machine vision and natural language processing

Eric Friedman Associate Professor, Operation Research & Industrial Engineering	222 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-9130 ejf27@cornell.edu website »	Applications of Operations Research and Game Theory to Information Science: reputations and cooperation, routing, congestion control, webserving, wireless devices, Peer-to-Peer Networks

Geri Gay Professor & Chair Communication, Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Director of HCI Lab, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship	301 College Avenue (607) 255-5530 gkg1@cornell.edu website »	HCI, mobile computing, information visualization, affective presence, social and collaborative computing

Johannes Gehrke Associate Professor, Computer Science	4105B Upson Hall (607) 255-1045 johannes@cs.cornell.edu website »	Data mining, database systems, data privacy, search, and computer games

Tarleton Gillespie Assistant Professor, Communication; Affiliated faculty, Information Science; Affiliated faculty, Science & Technology Studies	315 Kennedy Hall (607) 255-8403 tlg28@cornell.edu website »	Contexts and implications of information technologies; digital copyright; law, policy, technological change; technology and language; authorship and knowledge production; media technologies

Paul Ginsparg Professor, Physics & Computing and Information Science	325 Clark Hall, 301 College Avenue (607) 255-7371 Ginsparg@cornell.edu website »	Digital knowledge networks

Carla Gomes Associate Professor, AEM & Computing and Information Science	5133 Upson Hall (607) 255-9189 cpg5@cornell.edu website »	Combinatorial problems, with an emphasis on planning and scheduling problems, combining techniques from Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research.

Joseph Halpern Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Computer Science	4144 Upson Hall (607) 255-9562 halpern@cs.cornell.edu website »	Representing and reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, qualitative reasoning, causality, security, game theory, decision theory, belief revision, and fault tolerance

Jeffery Hancock Assistant Professor, Computing and Information Science	320 Kennedy Hall 607-255-4452 jth34@cornell.edu website »	Computer-mediated communication, language and technology, deception and its detection, figurative language

Daniel Huttenlocher Director of Graduate Studies, Information Science Professor, Johnson School of Management and Computer Science	4114 Upson Hall (607) 255-1974 dph@cs.cornell.edu website »	Computer vision, computational geometry, interactive document systems, electronic trading systems, and software development methodologies

Thorsten Joachims Associate Professor, Computer Science	4153 Upson Hall (607) 255-1372 tj@cs.cornell.edu website »	Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Language Technology, Intelligent Information Systems

Jon Kleinberg Professor, Computer Science	5134 Upson Hall (607) 255-3600 kleinber@cs.cornell.edu website »	Algorithms that exploit the combinatorial structure of networks and information

Lillian Lee Associate Professor, Computer Science	4152 Upson Hall (607) 255-8119 llee@cs.cornell.edu website »	Natural language processing; Machine learning; Artificial intelligence

Michael Macy Professor & Department Chair, Sociology	358 Uris Hall (607) 255-4187 mwm14@cornell.edu website »	Collective Action, Computational Modeling, Deviance and Social Control, Social Exchange Theory

Trevor Pinch Professor of Science and Technology Studies	309 Rockefeller Hall (607) 255-6048 tjp2@cornell.edu website »	Sociology of technology, history and sociology of musical instruments, digital music communities, economic sociology and science and technology studies.

Rachel Prentice Assistant Professor of the Social, Political, and Ethical Implications of Information Technologies, Department of Science and Technology Studies	305 Rockefeller Hall (607) 351-8936 rep35@cornell.edu website»	Medical information technologies; simulations in medicine, especially surgery; medical informatics; graphics and simulations; bodies and information technologies; technology development in multi-disciplinary research worlds; the anthropology of science and technology; science and technology studies.

Mats Rooth Professor, Linguistics and Computing & Information Science	203A Morrill Hall 607-255-0716 mr249@cornell.edu website »	Computational linguistics, semantics

Phoebe Sengers Associate Professor, Science & Technology Studies and Computing and Information Science	301 College Avenue (607) 254-5396 sengers@cs.cornell.edu website »	Human-computer interaction, critical technical practices, sustainable design, cultural studies, consumer culture, everyday computing, science & technology studies

Michael Spivey Associate Professor, Psychology; Director, Cognitive Studies Program	238 Uris Hall (607)-255-9365 spivey@cornell.edu website »	Psycholinguistics, visuolinguistic processing, visual memory and attention, studied via eye movements and artificial neural networks

Eva Tardos Professor and Chair, Computer Science	5153 Upson Hall (607) 255-0984 eva@cs.cornell.edu website »	Design and analysis of algorithms, algorithmic game theory

David Williamson Professor, Operations Reseach & Industrial Engineering; Director of Undergraduate Studies of Information Science	236 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-4883 dpw@cs.cornell.edu website »	Algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems.

Y. Connie Yuan Assistant Professor, Communication	308 Kennedy Hall (607) 255-2603 yy239@cornell.edu website»	Knowledge management, transactive memory, social networks, collaborative work, communication technologies.

Affiliated Faculty & Researchers

Name	Contact Information	Research Interests

Graeme Bailey Professor, Computer Science	4170B Upson Hall (607) 255-9210 bailey@cs.cornell.edu website »

Kavita Bala Assistant Professor, Computer Science	5142 Upson Hall (607) 255 1383 kb@cs.cornell.edu website »	Computer Graphics; texture representation and synthesis, real-time rendering, image-based modeling and texturing.

Kirsten Boehner Post-doctoral Researcher, Information Science	301 College Avenue (607) 255 5691 kboehner@cs.cornell.edu	HCI, Affective Presence, Experience Design, Reflective Design and Evaluation, Creative Expression, Private Places in Public Spaces

Thomas Bruce Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School	501 Myron Taylor Hall (607) 255-1221 trb2@cornell.edu website »	Electronic publishing, text processing, legal informatics, public information policy.

Rich Caruana Assistant Professor, Computer Science	4157 Upson Hall (607) 255-1164 caruana@cs.cornell.edu website »	Machine learning, data mining, medical decision making. Within machine learning: inductive transfer, ensemble learning, model calibration, feature selection, missing values, and artificial neural networks.

Dan Cosley Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication	301 College Ave. (607) 255-5530 drc44@cornell.edu website »	Human-computer interaction, online communities, and recommender systems.

Jim Ferwerda Research Associate, Program of Computer Graphics	580 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-7365 jaf@graphics.cornell.edu website »	Visual perception, computer graphics, digital imaging, human computer interaction, assistive technologies.

Alan Hedge Professor, Design & Environmental Analysis Director, Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory	E206 MVR Hall (607) 255-1957 ah29@cornell.edu website »	Workstation design and carpal tunnel syndrome risk factors for workers, alternative keyboard and input system designs, performance and health effects of computer use, cognitive ergonomics, web design, usability testing.

Robert Jarrow Professor, Johnson School of Management	451 Sage Hall (607) 255-4729 Raj15@cornell.edu website »	Study of mathematical finance; derivatives, risk management, investments and asset pricing theory; research relating to the pricing of credit derivatives, liquidity risk, and exotic options

Gueorgi Kossinets Postdoctoral Associate, Sociology	368 Uris Hall (607) 255 1417 gk297@columbia.edu website »	Dynamics of social networks, distributed collaborations, collective decision making, data mining for social and behavioral research.

Dean Krafft Senior Research Associate, Computer Science	308 Upson Hall (607) 255-9214 dean@cs.cornell.edu website »	Digital Libraries, particularly ensuring the availability in the digital world of pre-digital published and manuscript materials, as well as related issues on copyright, the public domain, and public access to older and out-of-print materials

Carl Lagoze Senior Research Associate, Computing and Information Science	301 College Avenue (607) 255-6046 lagoze@cs.cornell.edu website »	Web information systems; document models; interoperability architectures; electronic scholarly publishing

Aija Leiponen Assistant Professor, AE&M	251 Warren Hall (607) 255-7588 aija.leiponen@cornell.edu website »	Technical standardization in wireless telecommunications; knowledge-exchange in professional business services; Technological regimes in services and manufacturing; Benefits of "breadth" in management of innovation.

Barbara Lust Professor, Cornell Language Acquisition Lab, Virtual Center for Study of Language Acquisition	College of Human Ecology, HD, MVR, G57 (607) 255-9856 bcl4@cornell.edu website »	Language Acquisition studied in a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary framework which integrates developmental psychology and linguistics. Focus is on the acquisition of syntax and empirical test of hypotheses derived from a theory of Universal Grammar. Current projects involve the construction of a new international virtual Center for the Study of Language Acquisition and related Science Information Integration which it involves.

Peter Martin Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law, Cornell Law School	302 Myron Taylor Hall (607) 255-4619 martin@lii.law.cornell.edu website »	Impact of digital dissemination on the functioning of law and legal institutions

Tracy B. Mitrano Director of Information Technology Policy and Computer Law and Policy, Office of VP for Info Tech	118A Comp & Comm Ctr (607) 254-3584 tbm3@cornell.edu website »

Sandra Payette Executive Director, Fedora Commons Researcher, Cornell Information Science	301 College Avenue (607) 255-9222 payette@cs.cornell.edu website»	Service-based information architectures, interoperability for web information systems, complex digital objects, digital preservation, policy enforcement, and new models for scholarly publishing.

Bart Selman Professor, Computer Science	5133 Upson Hall (607) 255-5643 selman@cs.cornell.edu website »	Artificial intelligence and computer science, with a special focus on computational and representational issues.

David Shmoys Professor, Operations Research & Industrial Engineering	232 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-9146 shmoys@cs.cornell.edu website »	Design and analysis of efficient algorithms for discrete optimization problems, and in particular, on approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems

David Strang Professor, Sociology	350 Uris Hall (607) 255-9533 ds20@cornell.edu website »

Erica Wagner Assistant Professor, School of Hotel Administration	340 Statler Hall (607) 255-7257 elw32@cornell.edu website »	The role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in organizations: technology 'in use', IT-enabled change, accounting systems, power relations, design, standard software packages, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), 'best practices'

Simeon Warner Research Associate	301 College Avenue (607) 254-8605 simeon@cs.cornell.edu website »	My current research interests are in web information systems, interoperability and open-access scholarly publishing. I work on the arXiv eprint archive, and the Open Archives Initiative.

Stephen Wicker Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering	386 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-8817 wicker@ee.cornell.edu website »	Applications of AI and Game Theory to wireless information networks; Development of advanced network management protocols and data links; Game-theoretic strategies for emergent routing and power control protocols, sensor-assisted random access and mobility management, and turbo error control.

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