CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (CMU) - Key Persons

Aaron Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Aaron Johnson researches how to design intelligent interactions between a robot and its environment with a focus on taking robots out of the lab and factory and into the real world. His interests include novel robot design, behavior design, controller design, platform design, as well as dynamic transitions, contact, physics-based planning, bio-inspired robotics, robot vision, actuator modeling, and robot ethics. He has tested his robots in the Mojave desert, power plants, a coal mine, and on various military bases. Johnson received his B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon (2008). He received his Ph.D. in electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (2014), and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Personal Robotics Lab, the Robotics Institute, at CMU. He was formerly a visiting researcher with Boston Dynamics, an electrical engineering Intern at iRobot, and a research assistant with the Biorobotics Lab (Snake Robot Lab) at CMU. Johnson's work has been featured in many news stories, including interviews with the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal, and in articles on technology news sites, including IEEE Spectrum, Gizmodo, Wired, and Engadget. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2020 and a Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office in 2019. He was a Best Student Paper Finalist at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 2013, and at the Climbing and Walking Robots Conference in 2012. He received the David Thuma Laboratory Project Award in 2008 from CMU and an honorable mention for the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award in 2008. In the Robomechanics Lab, Aaron Johnson and his team work on how to get robots to adapt and operate in challenging, real-world environments. This research thrust has direct applications in areas like environmental monitoring and agriculture, which are at the center of CBI Fellow Vivek Thangavelu's project.

Alessandro Oltramari

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist, Bosch Research and Technology Center

Anthony Rowe

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Advisor
  • Professor
  • Siewiorek and Walker Family Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Anthony Rowe is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in networked real-time embedded systems with a focus on low-power wireless communication. His most recent projects have related to large-scale sensing for critical infrastructure monitoring and building energy-efficiency. His past work has led to dozens of hardware and software systems, four best paper awards, and several widely adopted open-source research platforms. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2010. He is currently the director of the SRC/DARPA sponsored CONIX Research Center, which spans seven universities with the goal of exploring future distributed computing architectures. His past work has led to dozens of hardware and software systems, seven best paper awards, talks at venues like the World Economic Forum in Davos, and several widely adopted open-source research platforms. He received the Lutron Joel and Ruth Spira Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013, the CMU CIT Early Career Fellowship and the Steven Fenves Award for Systems Research in 2015, and the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career chair in 2016.

Carlee Joe-Wong

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer
Carlee Joe-Wong is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. She is broadly interested in the optimization of networked systems, with a focus on the role of incentives and user behavior in this optimization. This includes work on smart data pricing, fair resource allocation, and distributed network architectures. She is particularly interested in applying theoretical insights to practical system deployments, and mathematical and economic aspects of computer and information networks. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University's program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (2016). She is primarily interested in incentives and resource allocation for computer and information networks, including work on smart data pricing and fair resource allocation. From 2013-2014, Joe-Wong was the director of Advanced Research at DataMi, a startup she co-founded based on her data pricing research. DataMi's products have been deployed by Internet service providers around the world, including AT&T in the U.S., Airtel in India, and Orange in Europe. She received the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award in 2014, the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2012, and was a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellow (NDSEG) from 2011-2013. At CMU, she leads the LIONS research group (Learning, Incentives, and Optimization in Networked Systems).

Christoph Peylo

Job Titles:
  • Chief Cyber Security Officer, Robert Bosch GmbH
  • Security Officer of Robert Bosch GmbH
Christoph Peylo is Chief Cyber Security Officer of Robert Bosch GmbH, leading a global team of experts for securing Bosch's infrastructure, products, and services against cyber-attacks. In addition, he leads the project "Digital Trust" in Bosch's Digital Business to ensure trustworthiness of AI products. He is member of the board of managers in the Charter of Trust, is on the advisory board of BITKOM AI, was member of the steering committee "Deutsche Normungsroadmap KI", and was an appointed member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI of the European Commission. He joined Robert Bosch GmbH in 2017 to establish the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to that, Peylo worked at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin and T-Systems. During that time, he was managing director of a Telekom Startup that developed a secure mobile phone, based on a bare metal hypervisor. Before joining Deutsche Telekom in 2006, he worked in various positions, from software engineer to managing director of a software company. Peylo has studied computer science, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence, and acquired his Ph.D. in the field of AI.

Christopher Martin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Allegheny Conference
  • President of CBI
  • President, Carnegie Bosch Institute
Christopher Martin (E '01) serves a dual role as president of CBI and director of R+D at Bosch's Research and Technology Center. In addition to leading CBI and taking responsibility for the overall management, portfolio and operations of the CBI, Chris manages the Bosch Research and Technology Center (RTC) and guides operations for the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) in Pittsburgh, PA. Partnering with universities and national agencies, as well as others in the business sector, Martin helps to guide Bosch strategy through early identification and shaping of technology and market forces for the Internet-of-Things (IoT), with a special focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Martin holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and has more than 20 years of experience at Bosch in leveraging corporate and academic research to identify, create and transfer innovative products and services. Over the last decade, he has been responsible for global research teams across the US, Europe, and India, having taken on diverse leadership roles within the Bosch Group on multiple international assignments. Championing Pittsburgh's non-profit community, especially organizations related to STEM education, Martin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Allegheny Conference, Carnegie Science Center, and the Pittsburgh German American Chamber of Commerce, and he serves on the advisory board for the ECE department and the Manufacturing Futures Institute (MFI) at CMU. Martin is active in supporting the development of Pittsburgh's entrepreneurial scene and advises various startups, working with both students and professionals. Having published a wide variety of technical papers, Martin holds multiple patents and continues to act as an expert in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the European Commission. Christopher Martin (E '00, 02) serves a dual role as President of CBI and director of R+D at Bosch's Research and Technology Center. In addition to leading CBI and taking responsibility for the overall management, portfolio and operations of the CBI, Chris manages the Bosch Research and Technology Center (RTC) and guides operations for the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) in Pittsburgh, PA. Partnering with universities and national agencies, as well as others in the business sector, Martin helps to guide Bosch strategy through early identification and shaping of technology and market forces for the Internet-of-Things (IoT), with a special focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity.

Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
  • Research Professor, Social & Decision Sciences
Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez is a research professor of decision sciences in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and the founding director of the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab Opens in new window) at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also affiliated to the Security and Privacy Institute (CyLab), the Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR Opens in new window) and other research centers at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work focuses on the experimental studies and computational representations of the cognitive processes involved in decisions from experience in dynamic environments. She is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Opens in new window and member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society Opens in new window. She is part of editorial boards of various prestigious journals including: Cognitive Science Journal Opens in new window, Decision Opens in new window, the Journal of Experimental Psychology-General Opens in new window, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Opens in new window, the Human Factors Journal Opens in new window, and the System Dynamics Review Opens in new window. Gonzalez has published hundreds of papers in journals and peer-reviewed proceedings involving a diverse set of fields deriving from her contributions to Cognitive Science. Her work includes the development of a theory of decisions from experience called Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT) Opens in new window, from which many computational models have emerged in areas as diverse as: cybersecurity, network science, human-machine teaming, and others. She has been principal or co-investigator on a wide range of multi-million and multi-year collaborative efforts with government and industry, including current efforts on Collaborative Research Alliances Opens in new window; Multi-University Research Initiative grants from the Army Research Laboratories Opens in new window and Army Research Office Opens in new window; and large collaborative projects with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA Opens in new window). Gonzalez has mentored more than 30 post-doctoral fellows and doctoral students, many of whom have pursued successful academic and industry careers. She is an avid painter and biker Opens in new window, activities that she enjoys in her free time. Her full CV can be downloaded from her personal webpage Opens in new window.

Costa Samaras

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Costa Samaras has been named the next Director of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, and Valerie Karplus will serve as the Associate Director of the Scott Institute.

Dean Garrett

Job Titles:
  • Industry Professionals
College of Engineering Dean James H. Garrett Jr. spoke to Education Dive on the importance of technical skills and ethical education for students entering the job market.

Dina El-Zanfaly

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Design
  • Design and Interaction Researcher and an Assistant Professor
Dina El-Zanfaly is a computational design and interaction researcher and an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She currently directs a research lab that she recently founded, hyperSENSE: Embodied Computations Lab. The lab's research focuses on new roles of computational design and physicality in embodied sense-making, including human perception, cognition, and experience. El-Zanfaly and her students study the agency of computational creative modes of production and the emerging social, cultural, and technological behaviors resulting from introducing them. She mainly investigates computational methods to augment our sensory experiences. She investigates designing interactions with intelligent systems from a critical human-centered lens. These interactions include hybrid environments, artifacts, computational methods, and co-creation and designing tools. We investigate the questions of: how can intelligent machines and systems learn from us and how can we learn from them? How can we work together to create and improvise? Her research focuses on creating interactions, through a blend of computation and embodiment lenses, to enable others to create on their own. These interactions seek creating new ways for us to understand our sensory experience. In other words, her research empowers both designers and non-designers to shape experiences of products, social environments, and interconnected technologies on their own. Before joining CMU, El-Zanfaly worked as a research associate at MIT Design Lab, formerly known as the Mobile Experience Lab at the Media Lab at MIT, where she worked on projects in the lab that focus on designing human-centered connected objects, interactions, services and user experiences. She worked as a visiting assistant professor at Northeastern University's College of Arts, Media and Design. She also collaborated with Azra Aksamija on an art installation at MIT called "Memory Matrix," which recreated parts of cultural heritage digitally and physically through community workshops. She earned her Ph.D. degree from the Design and Computation group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also earned her Master of Science in Design and Computation while being a Fulbright scholar. She is also a co-founder and co-director of Fab Lab Egypt (FLE), the first community maker space in northern Africa and the Arab world. She co-established the Computational Making Group at MIT, an interdisciplinary research group that examines the relationship between the theories, mathematical models and formalisms of abstract computation and active making of spaces, structures, and human experiences. She has recently chaired Fab15 in Egypt, the fifteenth annual global Fab Labs conference. In summer 2019, approximately six hundred people from Fab Labs from around the world convened in Egypt to share their experiences, research and projects. She has been recently invited to join the program committee of the eleventh edition of the Desform conference, Design and Semantics of Form and Movement. The conference explores the implications of recent and emerging technological transformations in the practice of design.

Donald Biggar Willett

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Eni Halilaj

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Eni Halilaj is a biomechanist who specializes in orthopaedic rehabilitation. At Carnegie Mellon, she directs the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab, an interdisciplinary group of mechanical engineers, bioengineers, and computer scientists seeking to improve mobility in people with musculoskeletal injuries and diseases. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon in Fall 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center of Excellence on Mobility Big Data at Stanford University. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the American Society of Biomechanics Early Career Achievement Award, an NIH K12 Career Development Scholar, a 2020 finalist for NIH Director's New Innovator Award, and a prior NIH/BD2K Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow.

Fei Fang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor at the Institute for Software Research
  • Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department
Fei Fang is an assistant professor at the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining CMU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at Harvard University, advised by David Parkes and Barbara Grosz. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California in June 2016, advised by Milind Tambe. She received her bachelor degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in July 2011. Her research lies in the field of artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems, focusing on computational game theory with applications to security and sustainability domains. Her dissertation was selected as the runner-up for the IFAAMAS-16 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her work has won the Innovative Application Award at Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI'16), the Outstanding Paper Award in Computational Sustainability Track at the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15). Her work on "Protecting Moving Targets with Mobile Resources" has been deployed by the US Coast Guard for protecting the Staten Island Ferry in New York City since April 2013. Her work on designing patrol strategies to combat illegal poaching has lead to the deployment of PAWS application in a conservation area in Southeast Asia for protecting tigers.

Gauri Joshi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gauri Joshi is interested in stochastic modeling and analysis that provides sharp insights into the design of cloud and machine learning infrastructure. Joshi's research group is affiliated with the Parallel Data Lab (PDL) at Carnegie Mellon. Before joining CMU in Fall 2017, she was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. She completed her Ph.D. from MIT EECS in 2016, and she received her B.Tech. and M. Tech. in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay in 2010. Gauri Joshi has received a 2018 IBM Faculty Award for her research in distributed machine learning.

Grace Bintrim

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Hoda Heidari

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Machine Learning and Societal Computing at the School of Computer Science
  • Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department, Machine Learning
Hoda Heidari is an assistant professor in machine learning and societal computing at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Her research is broadly concerned with the social, ethical, and economic implications of artificial intelligence. In particular, her research addresses issues of unfairness and opaqueness through machine learning. Her work in this area has won a best-paper award at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) and an exemplary track award at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC). She has organized several scholarly events on topics related to Responsible and Trustworthy AI, including a tutorial at the Web Conference (WWW) and several workshops at the Neural and Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference. Heidari completed her doctoral studies in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an M.Sc. degree in Statistics from the Wharton School of Business. Before joining Carnegie Mellon as a faculty member, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Machine Learning Institute of ETH Zurich, followed by a year at the Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice (AIPP) initiative at Cornell University.

Isabelle Bajeux-Besaniou

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Dean, Tepper School of Business

James H. Garrett Jr.

Job Titles:
  • CEE Professor
  • Education
  • Provost
  • Provost and Chief Academic Officer
James H. Garrett Jr. is the provost of Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to being named provost, Garrett served as dean of the College of Engineering from January 2013 - December 2018. He is also the Thomas Lord Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He was head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from June 2006-December 2012. Until 2013, he was the founding co-director of the Pennsylvania Smarter Infrastructure Incubator, which was a research center aimed at creating and evaluating sensing, data analytics, and intelligent decision support for improving the construction, management and operation of infrastructure systems. Garrett also served as the co-chief editor of the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering from 2008-2013. Prior to becoming head, Garrett served as associate dean for Academic and Graduate Affairs from 2000-2006. Garrett joined Carnegie Mellon at the rank of assistant professor in 1990, was promoted to associate professor in 1993, and promoted to the rank of full professor with tenure in 1996. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Garrett served at the rank of assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1987-1990. Garrett received his B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1982, his M.S. in Civil Engineering in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 1996, all from the Department of Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked for Schlumberger Well Services in the Houston Downhole Sensors Division from 1986-87. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. Garrett's research and teaching interests are oriented toward applications of sensors and sensor systems to civil infrastructure condition assessment; applications of data mining and machine learning techniques for infrastructure management problems in civil and environmental engineering; mobile hardware/software systems for field applications; representations and processing strategies to support the usage of engineering codes, standards, and specifications; knowledge-based decision support systems. Garrett has published his research in over 60 refereed journal articles, over 80 refereed conference papers, over 90 other conference papers and 10 sections or chapters in books or monographs. Garrett was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in 2012. He has also received the 2007 Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research at Carnegie Mellon and the 2006 ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award, among other awards.

Joao Semedo

Job Titles:
  • Machine Learning Research Scientist, Bosch Research and Technology Center

Joshi, Zhang

Joshi, Zhang named to MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35" list ECE's Gauri Joshi and Xu Zhang have been named to the MIT Technology Review's 2022 class of "Innovators Under 35" list, which recognizes the brightest young minds working to tackle today's biggest technology hurdles.

Joy Leventon

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator / Department
  • Project Coordinator, Engineering Research Accelerator
  • Research Accelerator Support

Lorrie Faith Cranor

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • CyLab Director
  • Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies
  • Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies, CyLab
Lorrie Faith Cranor is the Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies of CyLab and the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She also directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-directs the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. In 2016 she served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission, working in the office of Chairwoman Ramirez. She is also a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc, a security awareness training company that was acquired by Proofpoint. She has authored more than 200 research papers on online privacy, usable security, and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability (O'Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). She also chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P (O'Reilly 2002). She has served on a number of boards and working groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, the Computing Research Association Board of Directors, the Aspen Institute Cybersecurity Group, and on the editorial boards of several journals. In her younger days she was honored as one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine. More recently she was elected to the ACM CHI Academy, named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to usable privacy and security research and education, and named an IEEE Fellow for her contributions to privacy engineering. She has also received an Alumni Achievement Award from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, the 2018 ACM CHI Social Impact Award, the 2018 International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Leadership Award, and (with colleagues) the 2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. She holds a doctorate in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2012-13 she spent her sabbatical as a fellow in the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University where she worked on fiber arts projects that combined her interests in privacy and security, quilting, computers, and technology. She practices yoga, plays soccer, walks to work, and runs after her three children. CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor spoke with USA Today about the spotlight cast on Roblox's privacy settings. While it was established that the online game doesn't collect precise location data, Cranor noted that sharing personal information in chats could leave users vulnerable. CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor comments on House speaker Mike Johnson's porn-monitoring software in The Washington Post. Cranor is "concerned about a government official using it knowingly on his own devices, as it may expose potentially sensitive information to a third-party service provider or even his 17-year-old son." CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor shares her thoughts on smartphones and their listening capabilities on WTAE. "Your phones are mostly not listening to you, but they could be listening to you," she says. CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor shared her thoughts on the future of IoT security and privacy labels.

Mike Mansuetti

Job Titles:
  • President of Bosch
  • President, Bosch North America
Mike Mansuetti is president of Bosch in North America, a position he has held since 2012. In this role, Mansuetti works with Bosch's business units and sales organizations to guide the company's growth in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, with a focus on mobility solutions, cross-divisional sales, and new business field development. He serves as executive champion for the Bosch Diversity and Inclusion Council for North America, and leads the organization in its digital transformation journey.

Paulina Jaramillo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Economics

Pulkit Grover

Job Titles:
  • Angel Jordan Career Development Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Professor
Pulkit Grover is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. He focuses on interdisciplinary research directed towards developing a science of information for understanding/designing energy-efficient and stable decentralized systems (from low-power communication/computation systems, to large control, computational, and biological systems). He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2014), the best paper award at the International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), the best student paper award at the IEEE Conference in Decision and Control (CDC) 2010, and the 2012 Leonard G. Abraham best paper award from the IEEE Communications Society for his work on energy-efficient communication. For his dissertation research, he received the 2011 Eli Jury Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. He was a co-editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) special issues on "Energy Harvesting and Wirelessly Powered Communications" (2014-15).

Robert E. Doherty

Job Titles:
  • Career Development Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carlee Joe-Wong is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. She is broadly interested in the optimization of networked systems, with a focus on the role of incentives and user behavior in this optimization. This includes work on smart data pricing, fair resource allocation, and distributed network architectures. She is particularly interested in applying theoretical insights to practical system deployments, and mathematical and economic aspects of computer and information networks. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University's program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (2016). She is primarily interested in incentives and resource allocation for computer and information networks, including work on smart data pricing and fair resource allocation. From 2013-2014, Joe-Wong was the director of Advanced Research at DataMi, a startup she co-founded based on her data pricing research. DataMi's products have been deployed by Internet service providers around the world, including AT&T in the U.S., Airtel in India, and Orange in Europe. She received the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award in 2014, the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2012, and was a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellow (NDSEG) from 2011-2013. At CMU, she leads the LIONS research group (Learning, Incentives, and Optimization in Networked Systems).

Sara Werner

Job Titles:
  • Executive Administrator, Carnegie Bosch Institute

Shalabh Jain

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist, Bosch Research and Technology Center

Thomas Kropf

Job Titles:
  • President of the Corporate Sector for Research
  • President, Bosch Corporate Research
Thomas Kropf has been President of the Corporate Sector for Research and Advance Engineering at Robert Bosch GmbH since July 2018. After pursuing an academic career in computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and a stint in Silicon Valley at Synopsys Inc., he joined Bosch in 1999. Kropf held different positions in microelectronics development, driver assistance, and automated driving. At Bosch Car Multimedia, he was heading the business unit for car infotainment. Before joining corporate research, he was responsible for automotive systems engineering across all mobility divisions and for shaping the overall mobility technology strategy, reporting directly to the Bosch board of management. Kropf is also adjunct professor for computer science at the University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Thomas Lord

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Tom Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Founders University Professor, Computer Science Department, Machine Learning
Tom Mitchell is interested in many areas of computer science, but especially in how to construct computers that learn from experience. At the heart of the problem of machine learning is the question of how to automatically formulate general hypotheses given a collection of very specific training examples. His research has addressed a number of approaches to this question, including statistical approaches that find regularities over large numbers of training examples, and analytical approaches that generalize from very few examples and rely instead on prior knowledge and reasoning.

Tom Wolf

Job Titles:
  • Governor
Governor Tom Wolf announced the launch of the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Initiative, which will ensure that Pennsylvania remains a national and international leader in manufacturing.

Valerie Karplus

Job Titles:
  • Co - Authored a Review in Nature Sustainability on Political Strategies for Achieving Environmental Policy Goals
  • Professor
  • Professor, Engineering and Public Policy / Associate Director, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Valerie Karplus is a professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Karplus studies resource and environmental management in organizations operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with a focus on the role of institutions and management practices in explaining performance. Areas of expertise include decarbonization of global corporate and industrial supply chains, regional approaches to low carbon transition, and the integrated design and evaluation of energy, air quality, and climate policies. Karplus has taught courses on public policy analysis, global business strategy and organization, entrepreneurship, and the political economy of energy transitions. At CMU, she runs the Laboratory for Energy and Organizations at the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Opens in new window, where she is a faculty affiliate. Karplus is also a faculty affiliate of the MIT Energy Initiative Opens in new window, the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Opens in new window, and the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Opens in new window. She has previously worked in the development policy section of the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, and in the biotechnology industry in Beijing, China, as a Luce Scholar. From 2011 to 2016, she co-founded and directed the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project, a five-year research effort focused on analyzing the design of energy and climate Opens in new window change policy in China, and its domestic and global impacts. Karplus previously served on the faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Karplus holds a BS in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in engineering systems from MIT. EPP's Granger Morgan and Valerie Karplus talk about streamlining the process of building carbon capture facilities with Earth.Org. "Right now you're looking at 6 to 10 years and up to 12 years, potentially, to get through all of these regulatory steps," Karplus says. Valerie Karplus has co-authored a review in Nature Sustainability on political strategies for achieving environmental policy goals.

William H. Sanders

William H. Sanders is the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, of computer science, and in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. He is a leader in engineering research and academia, a well-respected collaborator in higher education who builds strategic public-private partnerships. Sanders previously served as the Herman M. Dieckamp Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the interim director of the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in the University of Illinois System where he led the joint education, research, and innovation institute in its efforts to drive technology-based economic growth. Backed by a $500 million appropriation from the state and more than $400 million in private funding, DPI spans three universities and includes eight other academic partners. Before coming to CMU, Sanders spent 25 as a tenured professor at Illinois in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests include secure and dependable computing and security, as well as resiliency metrics and evaluation, with a focus on critical infrastructures. He has published more than 300 technical papers in those areas. Sanders has also directed work at the forefront of national efforts to make the U.S. power grid smart and resilient. Beyond his significant scholarly record, he was the founding director of the University of Illinois' Information Trust Institute in 2004, growing its faculty to more than 100 and attracting $80 million in external research funding by 2011. Sanders then served as director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory from 2010-2014 and was head of the university's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2014-2018. He also co-founded the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore in 2009, which is Illinois' first international research facility. Sanders earned his bachelor's degree in computer engineering; master's degree in computer, information, and control engineering; and doctoral degree in computer science and engineering, all from the University of Michigan. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His awards include the 2016 IEEE Technical Field Award, Innovation in Societal Infrastructure, for "assessment-driven design of trustworthy cyber infrastructures for societal-scale systems." Sanders is also an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Network Perception Inc. Bill Sanders is installed as the inaugural holder of the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Dean in the College of Engineering.

Zakia Hammal

Job Titles:
  • Systems Scientist, Robotics Institute / Assistant Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Zakia Hammal holds a Ph.D. in computer science, a MSc in AI, and an engineer's degree in computer science. Hammal's areas of expertise are multimodal (e.g., face, head, body) human behavior modeling in social interaction, health informatics, and affective computing (also known as Emotion AI). Her research overlays the fields of computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and social/behavioral psychology. Much of her recent work has addressed computational models for multimodal assessment of treatment outcomes in psychiatric disorder (e.g., depression severity), and assistive computer vision and machine learning for automatic pain intensity measurement, automatic assessment of expressiveness in children with facial abnormalities, automatic assessment of non-verbal communication in mother-infant interaction, and automatic assessment of behavioral markers (e.g., head movement dynamics) in autism spectrum disorder. Most of her research has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Hammal is currently acting as ACM ICMI Steering Board Committee Member, associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on "Pre-trained Models for Multi-modality Understanding", and The Journal of Medical Internet Research Special Issue on "Affective Computing for Mental Wellbeing: Challenges, Opportunities, and Promising Synergies", and acted as research topic editor for Frontiers in "Multimodal Behavioural AI for Wellbeing". She was the lead general chair of the ACM International Conference in Multimodal Interaction ICMI-2021, have organized successful workshops in Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics (FGAHI at CVPR 2023, ICMI 2020, CVPR 2019, FG 2018), Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP at ICMI 2023, ICMI 2021, FG 2020), Interpersonal Synchrony and Influence (INTERPERSONAL at ICMI 2015), Context-Based Affect Recognition (ASOCA at ACII 2023 and CBAR at FG 2019, ACII 2017, CVPR 2016, FG 2015, ACII 2013, and SocialCom 2012), and Affective Computing for Mental Wellbeing (mWELL at ACII 2023). She also served as area chair for IEEE FG 2017, FG 2019, FG 2024, ACII 2019-2021-2022-2023 and ACM ICMI 2020, 2023, publication chair for ICMI 2014, publicity chair for ICMI 2019, demo chair for ICMI 2020, workshop chair for FG 2021 and ICMI 2022, and will serve as program chair for FG 2025. Her honors include an Outstanding Paper award at ICMI 2012, Best Paper award at ACII 2015, Outstanding Reviewer Award at FG 2015, and more recently she received the Women in AI Awards North America 2023-AI Researcher of the Year Award.

Zhihao Jia

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Zhihao Jia works on computer systems and machine learning as part of CMU Catalyst Group Opens in new window and Parallel Data Lab Opens in new window. Before joining CMU, he was a research scientist at Facebook. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department Opens in new window at Stanford University Opens in new window in 2020, where he was co-advised by Alex Aiken Opens in new window and Matei Zaharia Opens in new window. Before Stanford, he received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Special Pilot CS Class Opens in new window, where he was supervised by Andrew Yao Opens in new window at Tsinghua University Opens in new window.

Zico Kolter

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Advisor
  • Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department With the School of Computer Science
  • Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
  • Department
Zico Kolter is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department with the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to his full-time role at CMU, he also serves as chief scientist of AI research for the Bosch Center for AI (BCAI), working in the Pittsburgh office. BCAI also generously provides funding for much of the research in his group. His group's work focuses on machine learning, optimization, and control. Specifically, much of the work aims at making deep learning algorithms safer, more robust, and more explainable; to these ends, they have worked on methods for training provably robust deep learning systems, and including more complex "modules" (such as optimization solvers) within the loop of deep architectures. They also focus on several application domains, with a particular focus on applications in smart energy and sustainability domains.