Larry Birnbaum
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Yale University.
Research interests: Intelligent information systems, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, semantics.
birnbaum@cs.northwestern.edu
Fabián E. Bustamante
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research interests: Experimental systems,with a focus on operating systems, distributed and parallel computing.
fabianb@cs.northwestern.edu
Yan Chen
Assistant Professor. Ph.D. , University of California at Berkeley.
Research interests: Computer networking and large-scale distributed systems, network measurement, diagnosis, and security, overlay and peer-to-peer systems.
ychen@cs.northwestern.edu
Brian M. Dennis
Assistant Professor (and Journalism). Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Research interests: Programming language design and implementation, hypermedia systems, mobile and handheld computing.
bmd@cs.northwestern.edu
Peter A. Dinda
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University.
Research interests: Distributed systems, distributed interactive applications, networking, resource demand and availability prediction, performance analysis, statistical analysis and prediction.
pdinda@cs.northwestern.edu
Daniel C. Edelson
Associate Professor (and Education and Social Policy). Ph.D., Northwestern University.
Research interests: Design of educational software; data visualization and analysis software for learners; inquiry-support environments for learners; motivation and learning.
d-edelson@northwestern.edu
Kenneth D. Forbus
Professor. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research interests: Qualitative physics, analogical reasoning and learning, cognitive simulation, sketching as an interface modality, AI-based articulate virtual laboratories and modeling environments for education, computer game design.
forbus@northwestern.edu
Louis Gomez
Professor (and Education and Social Policy). Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Research interests: Human-computer interfacing, application of computing and networking to learning.
l-gomez@northwestern.edu
Bruce Gooch
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Utah.
Research interests: Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Computer Algorithms for Creating Visual Information.
bgooch@northwestern.edu
Kristian J. Hammond
Professor. Ph.D., Yale University.
Research interests: Science case-based reasoning - understanding the role of examples and experience in reasoning; how encapsulated experience, or cases, can be used to inform planning, problem solving, and the control of action; how examples can be used in information retrieval and in communicating preferences to a machine.
hammond@infolab.northwestern.edu
Ian Horswill
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research interests: Autonomous agents, robotics and computer vision, cognitive architecture and situated agency and biological modeling.
ian@northwestern.edu
Ming-Yang Kao
Professor. Ph.D., Yale University.
Research interests: Design, analysis, applications and implementation of algorithms. Specific application areas include: computational biology, computational finance, and e-commerce. Specific algorithm areas include: combinatorial optimization, online computing, and parallel computing.
kao@cs.northwestern.edu
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Rice University.
Research interests: High-speed networks, network security, multimedia communication, resource management and control in large-scale networks, network measurement and analysis.
akuzma@cs.northwestern.edu
Don Norman
Professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Research interests: The human side of computer science. Products. The Human-centered Design Process. Society and Technology. Using technology to make the world more humane, whether in education, business, entertainment, or the home. Design, especially of physical objects with embedded computation and telecommunication.
norman@northwestern.edu
Bryan Pardo
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Research interests: Application of machine learning, probabilistic natural language processing, computer music, and search techniques to auditory user interfaces for HCI.
pardo@cs.northwestern.edu
Christopher Riesbeck
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University.
Research interests: Educational change through the development of tools for authoring and delivering interactive learning scenarios, and tools for asynchronous efficient high-quality mentoring.
c-riesbeck@northwestern.edu
Jack Tumblin
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research interests: Human visual perception of intensity, movement, form and color; computer graphics; visual appearance; surface modeling; computational geometry; image-based rendering; image processing; and computer vision.
jet@cs.northwestern.edu
Benjamin Watson
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research interests: Computer graphics, human computer interfaces, virtual reality, interactive simulation and gaming, visualization, model simplification.
watsonb@cs.northwestern.edu
Uri Wilensky
Associate Professor (and Education and Social Policy). Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research interests: Multi-agent modeling, modeling and simulation, networked simulation environments, parallel algorithms.
uri@northwestern.edu
