With approximately 51 tenure-track, tenured, and research faculty and 190 PhD students — and strong collaborators across campus — we cover a wide array of research areas across the computer and information sciences. To get an overview of some of the projects and activities across the department, please see here.
Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence [PRiML Center][Highlights]
- Shivani Agarwal, Pratik Chaudhari+, Eric Eaton, Jacob Gardner, Surbhi Goel, Hamed Hassani+, Dinesh Jayaraman, Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, Dan Roth (on leave until Fall 2023), Lyle Ungar, Eric Wong, Mark Yatskar, Yoseph Barash+, Osbert Bastani, Chris Callison-Burch, Jean Gallier, Sharath Guntuku, Zack Ives, Konrad Kording+, Benjamin Lee, Jing Li+, Ryan Marcus (Fall 2023), Jianbo Shi, Mingmin Zhao
Natural Language Processing (Computational Linguistics) [Penn Natural Language Processing] [Highlights]
- Chris Callison-Burch, Sharath Guntuku, Mark Liberman+, Dan Roth (on leave until Fall 2023), Lyle Ungar, Charles Yang+, Mark Yatskar
Robotics [GRASP Laboratory]
- Kostas Daniilidis, Eric Eaton, Dinesh Jayaraman, Dan Koditschek+, Vijay Kumar+, George Pappas+, Michael Posa+, Cynthia Sung+, Camillo J. Taylor
Computer Vision [GRASP Laboratory] and Graphics [ViDi Center for Digital Visualization] [Highlights]
- Kostas Daniilidis, Jean Gallier, Dinesh Jayaraman, Lingjie Liu, Jianbo Shi, Camillo J. Taylor, Mark Yatskar
AI for Health, Computational Biology and Biomedical/Clinical Informatics [ASSET Center] [Highlights]
- Yoseph Barash+, Susan Davidson, James Gee+, Sharath Guntuku, Kevin Johnson, Sampath Kannan, Junhyong Kim+, Konrad Kording+, Qi Long+, Joshua Plotkin+, Dan Roth, Harvey Rubin+, Val Tannen, Lyle Ungar, Li-San Wang+
Data Science Platforms, Machine Learning Systems, and Databases [Database Group] [Highlights]
- Susan Davidson, Zack Ives, Sanjeev Khanna, Boon Thau Loo, Ryan Marcus (Fall 2023), Mayur Naik, Benjamin Pierce, Dan Roth, Val Tannen
Algorithmic Fairness and Data Privacy [Warren Center for Network & Data Science] [Highlights]
Human-Centered Computing
Human-Computer Interaction
Computational Social Science [Warren Center for Network & Data Science] [Highlights]
Computer Systems
Computer Architecture and Quantum Computing Systems [Architecture & Compilers Group] [Highlights]
Compilers and Program Analysis [ExCAPE] [Highlights]
Distributed Systems, Networks, and Operating Systems [Distributed Systems Lab] [Highlights]
- Sebastian Angel, Andreas Haeberlen, Zack Ives, Vincent Liu, Boon Thau Loo, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Jonathan Smith
Real-Time, Cyber-Physical, IoT, and Autonomous Systems [PRECISE Center] [Highlights]
Computer Security and Cryptography [SPLab] [Highlights]
Foundations of Computation
Algorithms and Computational Complexity [Theory Group] [Highlights]
- Rajeev Alur, Anindya De, Brett Hemenway, Sampath Kannan, Michael Kearns, Sanjeev Khanna, Tal Rabin, Aaron Roth, Erik Waingarten, Rakesh Vohra+, Robin Pemantle+
Formal Methods and Logic [PL Club] [Highlights]
- Rajeev Alur, Osbert Bastani, Insup Lee, Benjamin Pierce, Andre Scedrov+, Oleg Sokolsky, Val Tannen, Scott Weinstein+, Stephanie Weirich
Programming Languages [PL Club] [Highlights]