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Abdolrahim, Niaz
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 215 Hopeman
- niaz@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations

Agrawal, Govind P.
Dr. James C. Wyant Professor of Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 515 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4846
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fiber Optics; Lasers; Optical Communications

Allen, James F.
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning

Almudevar, Anthony
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
- Office Location
- 4168 Saunders Research Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6992
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: genetics; bioinformatics

Anand, Ajay
Professor of Data Science
Deputy Director, Goergen Institute of Data Science
- Office Location
- 1203 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3149
Interests: Data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning for healthcare; Biomedical/ultrasound signal processing, biomedical instrumentation, predictive modeling, time-series analysis
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Bai, Zhen
Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3007 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7758
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI

Basdogan, Yasemin
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4305 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4584
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Quantum Chemistry; Computational Materials Design; Energy and Sustainability; Polymers, Solutions, Catalysis

BenZvi, Segev Y.
Associate Professor of Physics
Director of Graduate Studies
- Office Location
- 405 Bausch & Lomb
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7172
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental astroparticle physics

Borasi, Raffaella
Frederica Warner Professor, Director Center for Learning in the Digital Age
- Office Location
- 446 LeChase Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 484-0518
- Web Address
- Website
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Caliskan, Cantay
Associate Professor of Instruction, Data Science
- Office Location
- 1205 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Social Science; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Generative AI; NLP

Carney, Scott
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 113 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 274-0113
Interests: Computed Imaging; Spectroscopy; Coherence Theory

Cetin, Mujdat
Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science
- Office Location
- 1211 Wegmans Hall and 719 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5061
Interests: computational sensing and imaging as applied to radar and biomedical imaging; probabilistic methods for image and video analysis as applied to biomedical image analysis, microscopic neuroimaging, and computer vision; signal processing and machine learning for brain-computer/machine interfaces, with applications for alternative communication and rehabilitation for patients and monitoring of cognitive states

Chen, Bin
Associate Professor of Economics
- Office Location
- 224 Harkness Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5781
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Econometric Theory; Financial Econometrics

Ciminelli, Joseph
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Director, Statistics Program
- Office Location
- 708 Hylan Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3973
- Web Address
- Website

Couderc, Jean-Philippe
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiology Heart Research
- Office Location
- G11001C Medical Research Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1096
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Physiological signal processing; Medical software design; Quantitative electrocardiograph; Clinical study design and implementation; Cardiac Safety
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Demina, Regina
Professor of Physics
- Office Location
- 367 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7357
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: experimental elementary-particle physics; cosmology

Dorsey, E. Ray
David M. Levy Professorship in Neurology
Director , Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6824
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Movement disorders, neurological disorders

Downey, C.M.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics & Data Science
- Office Location
- 507 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Low-resource NLP; Language Documentation/Revitalization; Morphology; North American Languages

Doyley, Marvin
Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology)
Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3774
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Therapeutic and diagnostic imaging using optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging

Dreisbach, Caitlin
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- HWH 2W211
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0336
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The use of data science to make better clinical assessments during pregnancy; Co-creation of health care technologies with patients

Duan, Zhiyao
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 720 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5302
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval

Dwarkadas, Sandhya
Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; Computer architecture and networks; Interaction and interface between the compiler, runtime system, and underlying architecture; Software distributed shared memory; Integrated compiler and runtime support for parallelism; Simulation methodology; Uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures; Parallel applications development; Performance evaluation

Dye, Timothy
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Public Health Sciences
- Office Location
- 255 Crittenden Blvd.
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6953
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Applied public health, particularly within marginalized, isolated, and global; Social and cultural determinants of health
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Ellickson, Paul
Professor of Economics and Marketing
- Office Location
- 3-110F Carol Simon Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1491
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: quantitative marketing; industrial organization
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Fay, Justin
Professor
Research Active
Now accepting:
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Undergraduate researchers
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- Office Location
- 319 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2998
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Evolutionary genetics; Domestication of yeast; Comparative genomics; Gene regulation

Fear, Kathleen
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Director, Data and Analytics, UR Health Lab
- Office Location
- 30 Corporate Woods, STE 180
- Telephone
- (585) 341-4954

Feaster, Dr. William, MD

Ferguson, George
Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program
- Office Location
- 2103 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems

Fienup, James R.
Robert E. Hopkins Professor of Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 410 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8009
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Phase retrieval; Wavefront Sensing; Image reconstruction and restoration; Unconventional imaging; Digital holography; Imaging with sparse apertures; Fourier optics; Synthetic-aperture radar

Frank, Adam
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 417A Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1717
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics; Hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic evolution of matter ejected from stars; Jets from Young Stellar Objects; Bipolar outflows from evolved stars such as Planetary Nebulae and Massive stars; Large scale numerical simulations; Plasma astrophysical research; Magnetic diffusion in interstellar clouds and the evolution of solar magnetic flux tubes
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Geng, Tong (Tony)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 723 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1735
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer architecture; Graph learning; Machine learning; Accelerators for AI; High-performance computing

Ghoshal, Gourab
Professor of Physics
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7748
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Noneqilibrium statistical mechanics, complex systems and network theory

Gildea, Daniel
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7230
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
Grimm, Scott
he/him/his
Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics
Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
- Office Location
- 512 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; corpus-based approaches to meaning; linguistic fieldwork; African languages (specialization in Gur languages); lexicography; experimental semantics; technology for fieldwork
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Haefner, Ralf
Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4801
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Understanding how the brain forms percepts; Machine learning to construct mathematical models to explain neural responses and behavior

Hasselberg, Michael J.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Nursing
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3000
- Web Address
- Website

He, Hangfeng
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
- Office Location
- 3009 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8848
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Machine learning; Natural language processing; Reasoning

Herington, Jonathan
he/him/his
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 526 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4105
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Philosophy of Science, health and technology

Heyworth, Gregory
Associate Professor of English
Director, Lazarus Project
- Office Location
- 408 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2548

Hill, Elaine
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
- Office Location
- 265 Crittenden Blvd.
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0165
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: health impacts of pollution; health care utilization, quality and access; human capital formation

Hoque, Ehsan
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3013 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1351
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Hosseini, Kaave
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 2507 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical computer science; Additive combinatorics; Pseudorandomness; Discrete Fourier analysis

Howard, Thomas M.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 732 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

Huang, Michael
he/him/his
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 414 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2111
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: High-performance and energy-efficient computer microarchitecture; non-von Neumann computing; Ising machines
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Iordan, Coraline Rinn
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 308 Meliora Hall
- cora@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: visual and semantic cognition; learning; attention; neuroplasticity; real-time fMRI; neurofeedback; machine learning; neural networks; data science

Iosevich, Alex
Professor of Mathematics
- Office Location
- 909 Hylan Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9419
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Classical Analysis and Fourier Integral Operators; Geometric Combinatorics and Geometric Measure Theory; Additive and Analytic Number Theory; Convex Geometry and Probability Theory
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Jacobs, Robert A.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 306 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0753
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

Jaeger, T. Florian
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 320 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3611
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Models of human speech perception and production; Adaptive changes in language processing; Learning over non-stationary inputs; Theories of communication; Bayesian inference; Advanced multivariate and distributional data analysis (GLMMs, GAMMs, NLMMs, mixture models, etc.)

Jones, Roy
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology and Clinical Assistant Professor of Computers and Information Systems
- Office Location
- 3-316 Carol Simon Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3398
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Kahng, Anson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
- Office Location
- 2401 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational social choice; Democracy and computer science; Economics and computation; Artificial intelligence; Theoretical computer science; Algorithmic game theory

Kanan, Christopher
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3017 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Cognitive Science; Applied Machine Learning (e.g. Medical Computer Vision)

Kang, Jian
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3011 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Data mining; Computational social science; Uncertainty quantification; Algorithmic fairness; Trustworthy AI; Machine learning
Kelley, Douglas H.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 218 Hopeman
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fluid dynamics of the brain’s waste removal system; Mixing in the inner ear; Liquid metal batteries and grid-scale energy storage; Mixing in metals casting; Coherent structures in reactive mixing

Komisarchik, Mayya
Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Office Location
- Meet on Zoom
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4291
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Representation; voting rights; race and ethnic politics; policing; immigration; political incorporation
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Larracuente, Amanda
she/her/hers
Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor of Biology
Professor of Biology
Associate Chair, Department of Biology
Research Active
Now accepting:
PhD students
Please email with inquiries.
Undergraduate researchers
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- Office Location
- 343 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1693
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Intragenomic conflict and the evolution of selfish DNA; Evolutionary and functional genomics of satellite DNA; Sex chromosome and dot chromosome evolution in Drosophila; Centromere organization and evolution

Li, Dongmei
Professor, Department of Clinical and Translational Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Public Health Sciences
- Office Location
- 1.265 Saunders Research Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7285
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: biostatistics; microarray data analysis; genomic data analysis especially in methylation and transcriptome data analysis; social media data analysis; public health

Li, Xin Zhiguo
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Urology
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6576
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Interdisciplinary approach that includes genetics, epigenetics, RNA biochemistry, reproductive biology, early embryology, and bioinformatics, and testing our findings across different model organisms including mammals and birds.

Liang, Jiaming
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
- Office Location
- 2403 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Mathematical and numerical optimization; Sampling algorithms; Stochastic programming; Algorithmic game theory

Lopatkin, Allison J.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4303 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6858
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Systems and Synthetic Biology; Computational Biology; Engineered Microbial Communities; Metabolic Engineering; Mathematical Modeling; Machine Learning; Horizontal Gene transfer; Antibiotic Resistance

Lovett, Mitchell J.
Associate Professor of Marketing
- Office Location
- 3-208 Carol Simon Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4020
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: quantitative marketing; targeted advertising; advertising content and schedule choices; online and offline word-of-mouth; branding; social media listening; consumer learning

Luo, Jiebo
Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3101 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5784
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
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Ma, Yukun
Assistant Professor

Marcos, Susana
Nicholas George Endowed Professor in Optics
Professor of Optics and Ophthalmology
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
David R. Williams Director, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- G-4107 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6279
- Web Address
- Website

Mateos, Gonzalo
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science
- Office Location
- 726 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5930
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Statistical Signal Processing; Networks; Machine Learning; Decentralized Optimization; Graph Signal Processing

McCall, Matthew
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Associate Director, Statistics PhD Program
- Office Location
- 4143 Saunders Research Building
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3177
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Statistical genomics; Systems biology; Bioinformatics

McDavid, Andrew
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 630
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5983
Interests: Methods and applications of single cell gene expression assays

McGregor, Juliette E.
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 659

Mitten, David
Professor of Orthopedics
- Office Location
- Building D 4901 Lac De Ville Blvd
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5321

Mort, Brendan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research
Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing
- Office Location
- 1215 Wegmans
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8289
Interests: High performance computing; application of computing technology to chemistry and biology; computational chemistry algorithm development; molecular dynamics simulations, electronic structure theory

Mueller, Carl
Professor of Mathematics
- Office Location
- 802 Hylan Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3498
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Probability and related parts of analysis

Murray, Lee
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 479 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2077
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Application and development of 3-D global models of atmospheric chemistry and climate to examine various couplings between atmospheric chemistry and the climate system in the past, present and future.
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Nargesian, Fatemeh
James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3015 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Data management ; Data science ; Data discovery and integration
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Olugboji, Tolulope
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 224B Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6609
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Earth imaging with signals and intelligent algorithms; The global structure of the lithosphere; Seismic signal processing; Mathematical geophysics; Marine geophysics; Parameter estimation; Inverse theory; Computational imaging; Machine learning and computational statistics
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Pai, Sreepathi
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3409 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-2391
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Compilers; Heterogeneous Architectures; GPU algorithms; Performance Modeling

Pawlicki, Thaddeus E.
Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2101 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Undergraduate eduction; Robotics; Computer vision; Artificial intelligence

Postigo, Pablo A.
Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 315 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 510-8728
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanophotonics; Quantum photonics; Solar cells; Biophotonics

Purtee, Adam
Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2109 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming
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Reyes, Heather
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care (SMD)
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave, 4TH FL RM 4-7210A
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8138
Interests: Use of machine learning and data analytics to improve alarm fatigue

Rosero, Spencer
Professor and Interim Chief, Department of Medicine, Cardiology
- Office Location
- Box 679 601 Elmwood Ave
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2475

Rui, Huaxia
Professor of Business Administration, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
Xerox Chair of Computer and Information Systems
- Office Location
- 3-318 Carol Simon Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4278
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Social media analytics; Online word of mouth; Online advertising

Runner, Jeffrey T.
he/him/his
Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
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Scott, Michael L.
Arthur Gould Yates Professor of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Former Chair, Department of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3401 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Systems software for parallel and distributed computing; Programming languages; Operating systems; Synchronization; Transactional memory; Persistent memory

Seidmann, Abraham
Professor Emeritus
- Office Location
- 3-333C Carol Simon Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5694
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: medical informatics; electronic commerce; online auctions; information systems; health care management; business process design; project management and optimal resource allocation; strategic manufacturing systems; information economics; stochastic processes and performance modeling for capacity planning and pricing

Sharma, Gaurav
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
- Office Location
- 725 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7313
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Data Analytics; Cyber Physical Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Computer Vision; Media Security; Communications

Signorino, Curtis
Associate Professor of Political Science
- Office Location
- 303 Harness Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4760
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: statistical methods for structural estimation of strategic choice models; statistical methods for modeling temporal dependence in event history models; aggregation bias in indices of power and democracy

Steele, Scott
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences (SMD)
- Office Location
- Office 1-208 265 Crittenden Blvd.
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0708
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Science, technology, and health policy; Regulatory science

Stefankovic, Daniel
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 2315 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical computer science: graph theory, combinatorics, Fourier transform, Markov chains/counting, learning theory, phylogeny, game theory, graph equations, routing

Strawderman, Robert
Donald M. Foster MD Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics
Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology (SMD)
- Office Location
- 4122 Saunders Research Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6688
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Statistical learning methods with applications to risk prediction and survival analysis; Statistical and computational modeling for high dimensional data; Semiparametric models; Statistical inference for stochastic processes; Collaborative research

Sun, Hongying
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Cancer Control (SMD)
- Telephone
- (585) 274-0471
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Tadin, Duje
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
Interim Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Director of Training, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 310 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8682
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception

Tapparello, Cristiano
Research Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 511 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2099

Temperley, David
Professor of Music Theory
- Office Location
- Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1557
- Web Address
- Website

Thakar, Juilee
Associate Professor for the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Biomedical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
- Office Location
- 3-9611 Kornberg Medical Research Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6925
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Bioinformatics; Systems biology; Dynamic Modeling Tools

Topham, David
Professor of Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology (SMD) Primary
- Office Location
- 3-9631 Kornberg Medical Research Building
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1403
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Virus infections of the respiratory tract; Influenza and immunity

Tzeferacos, Petros
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
LLE Senior Scientist
- Office Location
- 370 Bausch & Lomb
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6751
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: computational astrophysics
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Werren, John H.
Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor Emeritus of Biology
Research Professor
- Office Location
- 613 Hylan
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3694
Interests: Evolutionary genetics, genomics, and proteomics. The unifying theme is how interacting elements shape systems at different levels of biological organization. A current research project focuses on combining computational and molecular evolutionary approaches to investigate protein function and protein-protein interactions relevant to biology and disease. Other research topics include the genetics of speciation, nuclear-mitochondrial coevolution, microbe-host interactions, and parasitism across biological levels.

White, Andrew D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4401 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7395
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Large language models; Deep learning in chemistry; Molecular dynamics

White, Aaron
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Center for Language Sciences
- Office Location
- 511A Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics

Williams, David R.
William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
Director, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 270 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8672
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The Human Visual System; Physiological Optics

Wismueller, Axel
Professor of Department of Imaging Sciences (SMD) - Primary
Professor of Department of Biomedical Engineering (SMD)
Professor of Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 2A218 Medical Center Annex Building
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1689
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Innovative strategies for computational radiology; data exploration, pattern recognition, visualization, and machine learning methods for biomedical imaging

Wu, Tong Tong
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Director, MA in Statistics and MS in Biostatistics Programs
- Office Location
- 4141 Saunders Research Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6858
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: High-dimensional data analysis; Survival analysis; Machine learning; Computational statistics; Computational biology
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Xu, Chenliang
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3005 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
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Interests: Computer Vision; Video Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Multimodal Modeling
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Yan, Yukang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3103 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Human Behavior Modeling; Virtual/Augmented Reality

Yildiz, Nese
Associate Professor of Economics
- Office Location
- 222 Harkness Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5782
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Interests: Econometric Theory
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Zand, Martin
Professor of Department of Medicine, Nephrology (SMD) Primary
Senior Associate Dean, Clinical Research, Department of Dean's Office M&D - Administration
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave.
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7753
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organ transplantation; B cell immunobiology, vaccine biology, and computational modeling of immune responses

Zhu, Yuhao
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3501 Wegmans Hall
- yzhu@rochester.edu
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Interests: Computer Systems and Architecture; Computer Imaging and Graphics; Augmented/Virtual Reality; Human (Visual) Perception and Cognition; Computational Art, Art History, and Aesthetics

Zhupa, Eustrat
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2107 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9499
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- Website