Jelani Nelson Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory, algorithms, streaming algorithms, dimensionality reduction, randomized algorithms, machine learning, privacy
Alistair Sinclair Dept of Statistics Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) algorithms, applied probability, statistics, random walks, Markov chains, computational applications of randomness, Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical physics, combinatorial optimization
Heather Gray Dept of Physics particle physics, machine learning, algorithms, quantum algorithms, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU)
Prasad Raghavendra Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory(THY), optimization, complexity theory, approximation algorithms
Satish Rao Division of Computer Science (EECS) combinatorial optimization, design and analysis of algorithms
Rajan Udwani Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research algorithms, optimization under uncertainty, Revenue Management, pricing, online platforms
John Wright Division of Computer Science (EECS) quantum state learning, quantum complexity theory, property testing, approximation algorithms
Amanda Coston Dept of Statistics causal inference, machine learning, nonparametric statistics, responsible AI, algorithmic fairness
Umesh Vazirani Division of Computer Science (EECS) quantum computation, hamiltonian complexity, analysis of algorithms, computer security
Martin P. Head-Gordon Dept of Chemistry theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics
Huiwen Jia Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research stochastic and robust optimization, machine learning, online learning algorithms, transportation, Revenue Management, service system design
Stuart J. Russell Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms, machine learning, real-time decision-making, probabilistic reasoning
Kirk Bansak Dept of Political Science causal inference, experimental design and analysis, algorithmic decision-making, refugee resettlement and asylum politics, public opinion, survey methodology
Katherine A. Yelick Division of Computer Science (EECS) high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology
Daniel Klein Division of Computer Science (EECS) unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction
Olga Holtz Dept of Mathematics numerical analysis, matrix and operator theory, approximation theory, wavelets and splines, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, analysis of algorithms and computational complexity
Shafi Goldwasser Division of Computer Science (EECS) cryptography, computational number theory, complexity theory, fault tolerant distributed computing, probabilistic proof systems, approximation algorithms, theory(THY)
Shmuel S. Oren Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research economics, algorithms, financial engineering, risk management, planning, optimization, operation of electric power systems, market based coordination of network systems, trading instruments
James Pitman Dept of Statistics fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence
Vadim Gorin Dept of Mathematics Dept of Statistics integrable probability, random matrices, asymptotic representation theory
Nikhil Srivastava Dept of Mathematics theoretical computer science, random matrices, geometry of polynomials
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu Dept of Mathematics operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory
Venkatesan Guruswami Dept of Mathematics Division of Computer Science (EECS) theoretical computer science, coding theory, approximate optimization, randomness in computation, computational complexity
Philip Marcus Dept of Mechanical Engineering algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks
Avishay Tal Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory(THY), complexity theory, analysis of Boolean functions, randomness in computation, quantum computation