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.

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
  • CMU - SV Professor
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). CMU-SV Professor Carlee Joe-Wong is interested in how to create networks that can stand up to high volumes of traffic.

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.

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.

Deva Kannan Ramanan

Job Titles:
  • Professor in the Robotics Institute
  • Professor, Robotics Institute
Deva Ramanan is a professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the director of the CMU Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research. His research interests span computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on visual recognition. He was awarded the David Marr Prize in 2009, the PASCAL VOC Lifetime Achievement Prize in 2010, the IEEE PAMI Young Researcher Award in 2012, named one of Popular Science's Brilliant 10 researchers in 2012, named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow in 2013, won the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2018 for fundamental contributions in computer vision, and was recognized for best paper finalist / honorable mention awards in CVPR 2019, ECCV 2020, and ICCV 2021. His work is supported by NSF, ONR, DARPA, as well as industrial collaborations with Intel, Google, and Microsoft. He served at the program chair of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). He regularly serves as a senior program committee member for CVPR, the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), and the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). He also regularly serves on NSF panels for computer vision and machine learning.

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.

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

Guannan Qu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Guannan Qu has been an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University since September 2021. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 2014, and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2019. He was a CMI and Resnick postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at California Institute of Technology from 2019 to 2021. He is the recipient of Caltech Simoudis Discovery Award, PIMCO Fellowship, Amazon AI4Science Fellowship, and IEEE SmartGridComm Best Student Paper Award. His research interest lies in control, optimization, and machine/reinforcement learning with applications to power systems, multi-agent systems, Internet of things, and smart cities.

Isabelle Bajeux-Besaniou

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

James H. Garrett Jr.

Job Titles:
  • CEE Professor
  • 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

Jon Peha

Job Titles:
  • Professor at Carnegie Mellon
  • Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
Jon Peha is a full professor at Carnegie Mellon. He has addressed information networks from positions in industry, government, and academia. In government, he served at the Federal Communications Commission as chief technologist; in the White House as assistant director of the Office of Science & Technology Policy, where he focused on telecommunications and research; in the House Energy & Commerce Committee, where he was responsible for telecom and e-commerce issues; and at USAID, where he helped launch and lead a US Government interagency program to assist developing countries with information infrastructure. In industry, he has been chief technical officer for three high-tech companies, and a member of technical staff at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Microsoft. At CMU, he is a professor in the Deptartments of Engineering and Public Policy, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is the former associate director of the university's Center for Wireless & Broadband Networking. His research spans technical and policy issues of information networks, including spectrum management, broadband Internet, wireless networks, video and voice over IP, communications for emergency responders, universal service, privacy, secure Internet payment systems, online dissemination of copyrighted material, and network security. Peha holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford, and a B.S. from Brown. He is an IEEE Fellow and an AAAS Fellow, and was selected by AAAS as one of 40 "Featured AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows" of the last 40 years ("40@40"). Peha has received the FCC's "Excellence in Engineering Award," the IEEE Communications Society TCCN Publication Award for career contributions, and the Brown Engineering Medal.

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

Linda Moreci

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

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 discusses Twitter changing its two-factor authentication policy. CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor spoke to WIRED about Twitter's decision to provide only paid users with access to SMS-based two-factor authentication. CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor tells USA Today that despite LastPass's December data breach, users should still consider using password managers. "If you adopt a password manager, you don't have to think about coming up with unique and strong passwords anymore, and you don't have to figure out how you are going to remember them."

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.

Norman Sadeh

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department / Co - Director, Privacy Engineering Program
Norman Sadeh is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is director of CMU's Mobile Commerce Laboratory and its e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory, co-Founder of the School's Ph.D. Program in Societal Computing and co-Director of the MSIT program in Privacy Engineering. He also co-founded and for 12 years co-directed the MBA track in Technology Leadership launched jointly by the Tepper School of Business and the School of Computer Science in 2005. Sadeh's current research interests include cybersecurity, online privacy, mobile computing, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, user-oriented machine learning, human computer interaction, language technologies, and semantic web technologies. Sadeh is also well known for his seminal work in AI planning and scheduling, agent-based supply chain management, workflow management, automated trading, including the design and launch of the international supply chain trading agent competition. Products based on his research have been deployed and commercialized by organizations such as IBM, Raytheon, Mitsubishi, Boeing, Numetrix (eventually acquired by JD Edwards/PeopleSoft/Oracle), ILOG (eventually acquired by IBM), and the US Army. His privacy research has been credited with influencing the design of products at companies such as Facebook and Google as well as activities at the US Federal Trade Commission and the California Office of the Attorney General. His work on automatically recognizing mobile user activities while minimizing battery life has influenced technologies found in most modern smartphones. Sadeh is also a successful entrepreneur, having served as founding CEO and, until its acquisition, as chairman and chief scientist of Wombat Security Technologies, a company he co-founded to commercialize anti-phishing technologies he developed as part of research with several of his colleagues at CMU. Together with his collaborators, he grew Wombat Security Technologies into a leading provider of anti-phishing and cybersecurity awareness training technologies. The company was acquired for $225M by Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) in February 2018. By that time Wombat had well over 2,000 corporate customers, and had been named a clear leader in the Gartner Group's Magic Quadrant in Security Awareness Computer-Based Training for four years in a row (since the inception of Gartner's Quadrant in this sector). It had also been identified as one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America for three consecutive years in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500. In May 2018, Norman was honored with the 2018 Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association. In the late nineties, Sadeh was program manager with the European Commission's ESPRIT research program, prior to serving for two years as chief scientist of the EU's EUR 550M (US$650M) initiative in "New Methods of Work and eCommerce," which included all pan-European research in cybersecurity and privacy. As such, he was responsible for shaping European research priorities in collaboration with industry and universities across Europe. These activities eventually resulted in the launch of over 200 R&D projects involving over 1,000 European organizations from industry and research. While at the Commission, he also contributed to a number of EU policy initiatives related to eCommerce, the Internet, cybersecurity, privacy, and entrepreneurship. Sadeh received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at CMU with a major in Artificial Intelligence and a minor in Operations Research. He holds a MS degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and a BS/MS degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) as "Ingénieur Civil Physicien." Sadeh has authored or co-authored around 300 scientific publications. He is also the author of m-Commerce: Technologies, Services and Business Models, a best-selling book published by Wiley in April 2002. He served as general chair of the 2003 International Conference on Electronic Commerce and as editor-in-chief of Electronic Commerce Research Applications (ECRA). He has served on the editorial board of several other journals and is currently on the board of I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. Norman also sits on the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum. Sadeh's research, as well as his views on cybersecurity, privacy, mobile, and IoT technologies are often covered in the press (e.g. Wall Street Journal, Wired, New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Kiplinger, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Tech Crunch). Between 2008 and 2019, he was also a visiting professor at Hong Kong University, where he would spend two weeks each year.

Philip LeDuc

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Philip LeDuc is the William J. Brown Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In his lab, he works at the intersection of mechanical engineering and biology by envisioning cells and molecules as systems that can be investigated with some of the same fundamental approaches used on machines such as planes and automobiles looking for unifying principles. These systems range from mammalian cells to microorganisms to developmental biology systems and apply principles from mechanical engineering fields to understand how these principles may apply across diverse nature-based systems. In the energy domain, LeDuc is focused on algae and bacterial fuel cells. His lab conducts basic science and applied research in crossing over mechanical engineering approaches including solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, control theory, etc. with biological systems ranging from algae to artificial cells to developmental biology. He has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, George Tallman Ladd Research Award, Russell V. Trader Career Faculty Fellow, Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award, "Professor of the Year" as voted by the senior class, MARC Minority Faculty Mentor Award, and Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award. He is a member of the National Research Council Roundtable on Biomedical Engineering Materials and Applications (BEMA), and a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, and the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE).

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

Sebastian Scherer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute
  • Education
  • Professor at the Robotics Institute
Sebastian Scherer is an associate reearch professor at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research focuses on enabling unmanned rotorcraft to operate at low altitude in cluttered environments. He has been pushing of what is possible for unmanned rotorcraft and at the same time, have been pushing the state of the art in algorithm development. We have shown the fastest and most tested obstacle avoidance on an Yamaha RMax (2006), the first obstacle avoidance for micro aerial vehicles in natural environments (2008), and the first automatic landing zone detection and landing on a full-size helicopter (2010). Dr. Scherer received his BS in Computer Science, and MS and Ph.D. in Robotics from CMU in 2004, 2007, and 2010. He is a Siebel scholar and a recipient of the AIAA@Infotech Best Paper Runner-up Award (2010). His self-landing helicopter work has received the Popular Science Best of What's New 2010 Award.

Shalabh Jain

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

Shawn Blanton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Department Head for Research and Joseph F. and Nancy Keithley Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Shawn Blanton is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1995, he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include various aspects of integrated system tests, testable design, and test methodology development. He has consulted for various companies, and is the founder of TestWorks, a Carnegie Mellon University spinout focused on information extraction from IC test data. Blanton is a founding member of the Security Assurance of Fabricated Electronics Center, established to complement the world-class expertise in architectural and software security and privacy housed within Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab. He received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 1997, and IBM Faculty Partnership Awards in 2005 and 2006. He has given more than 100 talks at many universities and companies, including Stanford, Yale, Texas A&M, Duke, Purdue, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, Delphi, Hewlett Packard, CISCO, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Freescale, Motorola and Nvidia. He has served on various technical program committees that include the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, and the International Test Conference, and served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on CAD. He has published more than 100 refereed conference and journal papers and has seven U.S. patents or patent applications filed. He is a fellow of the IEEE and senior member of the ACM and served as the program chair for the 2011 International Test Conference. Blanton is also significantly involved in the recruitment of minority candidates for graduate school. Most of his activities center on direct recruitment at the annual convention of the National Society of Black Engineers Opens in new window. In 2006, he spearheaded the University's efforts for the 2006 NSBE convention held here in Pittsburgh (CMU@NSBE Opens in new window). In 2006, Blanton was awarded an Emerald Award for outstanding leadership in recruiting and mentoring minorities for advanced degrees in science and technology.

Tanja Rückert

Job Titles:
  • Member of Board of Management & Chief Digital Officer, Bosch
  • Member of the Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH
Tanja Rückert has been a member of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH since January 1, 2023, with responsibility for digital business and services. This includes the following functions and services: Bosch Digital, IT, systems environments and digitalization, cybersecurity, and software and digital solutions. She is also responsible for Global Business Services, for the Global Service Solutions division, and the Bosch Connected Industry business unit. Rückert is also responsible for the business in North and South America, Australia, Japan, and Korea, as well as in the "Europe 2" region, which includes Benelux, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, and Switzerland. Tanja Rückert was born in Bad Windsheim, Germany, on December 27, 1969. She is married and has two children. After leaving school, she studied chemistry at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in Germany and at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. She completed her doctorate at the University of Regensburg in Germany.

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 & 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.

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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 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.

William J. Brown

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Mechanical Engineering Director, Center for the Mechanics and Engineering of Cellular Systems

Zakia Hammal

Job Titles:
  • Systems Scientist, Robotics Institute
Zakia Hammal is a systems faculty with the Robotics Institute Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science, a M.Sc. 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 associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. She acted as general chair of the ACM ICMI 2021, a co-workshop chair of the IEEE FG 2021, a co-chair of the 2nd Automated Assessment of Pain Workshop (AAP at ICMI 2021), and a research topic editor for Frontiers in "Multimodal Behavioural AI for Wellbeing." Previously, she acted as PC member for numerous conferences in her field, organized successful workshops in Interpersonal Synchrony and Influence (INTERPERSONAL at ICMI 2015), in Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics (FGAHI at ICMI 2020, CVPR 2019, FG 2018), Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP at FG 2020), and lead a series of successful Context-Based Affect Recognition workshops (CBAR at FG 2019, ACII 2017, CVPR 2016, FG 2015, ACII 2013, and SocialCom 2012). She also served as an area chair at IEEE FG 2017, FG 2019, ACII 2019, and ICMI 2020, publication chair of ICMI 2014, publicity chair of ICMI 2019, and demo chair of ICMI 2020. Her honors include an outstanding paper award at ICMI 2012, best paper award at ACII 2015, and Outstanding Reviewer Award at FG 2015.

Zhihao Jia

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

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.