Research Centers
Foundations of Data Science
About the Research Center
We conduct core research on problems that cut across the data sciences and engineering.
Our research focuses on formal and mathematical models for data processing, as well as on issues concerning the engineering of large-scale data processing systems. We support and amplify the study of five specific markets – Cybersecurity, Financial Analytics, Health Analytics, New Media and Smart Cities – all of which lie at the center of New York City's innovation economy.
Committee
Foundations of Data Science
Kenneth Ross
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Rocco A. Servedio
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Jay Sethuraman
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Department Chair
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering
Tian Zheng
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics and Department Chair
Affiliated Member
Foundations of Data Science
Anish Agarwal
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Shipra Agrawal
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Cyrus Derman Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Dimitris Anastassiou
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering -
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Professor of Systems Biology
James Anderson
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Alexandr Andoni
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Asim Ansari
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Columbia Business School
William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing
Elham Azizi
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering -
Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research
Jushan Bai
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Economics
Eric Balkanski
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Elias Bareinboim
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Daniel Bienstock
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Liu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Daniel Björkegren
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School of International and Public Affairs
Assistant Professor
David Blei
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics -
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Michael P. Burke
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Luca Carloni
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science and Department Chair
Shih-Fu Chang
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Dean -
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor
Robert S. Chen
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The Earth Institute
Senior Research Scientist in the Center for International Earth Science Information Network and Director
Ivan Corwin
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Mathematics
Rachel Cummings
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
John P. Cunningham
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics
Eleni Drinea
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science and in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Qiang Du
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics
Bianca Dumitrascu
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research (in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center) and Assistant Professor of Statistics
Deren Eaton
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Steven Ellis
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology in Psychiatry
Adam Elmachtoub
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Yuri Faenza
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Arlene Fiore
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Andrew E. Gelman
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Higgins Professor of Statistics and Professor of Political Science
Javad Ghaderi
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Donald Goldfarb
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Jeff Goldsmith
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Mailman School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Vineet Goyal
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Luis Gravano
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Yuqi Gu
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Xiaofu He
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
Ali Hirsa
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Wenpin Hou
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Matthew L. Jones
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization
Shalmali Joshi
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Soulaymane Kachani
- Senior Vice Provost
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Yash Kanoria
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Columbia Business School
Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business
David Keyes
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Adjunct Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
David A. Knowles
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Despina Kontos
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Professor of Radiology
Christian Kroer
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Upmanu Lall
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics -
The Earth Institute
Director of the Columbia Water Center
Aurel A. Lazar
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Hannah Li
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor of Business Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Hod Lipson
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
James and Sally Scapa Professor of Innovation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Zhonghua Liu
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Will Ma
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Columbia Business School
Associate Professor of Business
Arian Maleki
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of Statistics
Daniel Malinsky
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Tal Malkin
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Szabolcs Márka
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Walter O. LeCroy, Jr. Professor of Physics
Kathleen R. McKeown
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science -
Data Science Institute
Founding Director
Christoph Meinrenken
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School of Professional Studies
Professor of Professional Practice
Ciamac Cyrus Moallemi
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Columbia Business School
William von Mueffling Professor of Business
Giovanni Motta
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Teachers College
Lecturer in Applied Statistics
Hongseok Namkoong
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor of Business
Serena Ng
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics
John Paisley
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Liam Paninski
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics and Neuroscience
Itsik Pe'er
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science and Systems Biology
Toniann Pitassi
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Jeffrey L. and Brenda Bleustein Professor of Engineering
Min Qian
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Mailman School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Kui Ren
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Tim Roughgarden
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Dan Rubenstein
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Cynthia Rush
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Howard Levene Assistant Professor of Statistics
Paul Sajda
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Radiology (Physics) and Electrical Engineering
Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science
Clifford Stein
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Wai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Professor of Computer Science
Youmi Suk
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Teachers College
Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics
Nicholas P. Tatonetti
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics (in System Biology and Medicine)
Savannah Thais
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Data Science Institute
Associate Research Scientist
Iñigo Urteaga
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Vladimir Vapnik
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Nakul Verma
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science
Harris H. Wang
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Pathology and Cell Biology
Yuanjia Wang
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Mailman School of Public Health
Professor of Biostatistics (in Psychiatry)
Kaizheng Wang
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Ying Wei
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Mailman School of Public Health
Professor of Biostatistics
Johannes Wiesel
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Chris H. Wiggins
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Systems Biology
Jeannette M. Wing
- Executive Vice President for Research
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
John Wright
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Xiao Wu
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Mailman School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Junfeng Yang
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Computer Science
Mihalis Yannakakis
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science
Ming Yuan
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Data Science Institute
Associate Director for Research -
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics
Henry Yuen
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Rafael Yuste
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Biological Sciences
Richard Zemel
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Computer Science
Chaolin Zhang
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (in the Motor Neuron Center)
Gil Zussman
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The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Electrical Engineering