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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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Rocco A. Servedio
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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Jay Sethuraman
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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Department Chair
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Shipra Agrawal
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Columbia Engineering
Cyrus Derman Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Dimitris Anastassiou
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Columbia Engineering
Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering -
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Professor of Systems Biology
James Anderson
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Columbia Engineering
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Alexandr Andoni
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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Elias Bareinboim
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Columbia Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Daniel Bienstock
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Columbia Engineering
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 -
Columbia Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Adam Block
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Columbia Engineering
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Michael P. Burke
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Columbia Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Luca Carloni
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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Computer Science and Department Chair
Shih-Fu Chang
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Columbia Engineering
Dean - Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor
Ivan Corwin
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Mathematics
Rachel Cummings
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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science and in the Discipline of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Qiang Du
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Columbia Engineering
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
Adam Elmachtoub
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Columbia Engineering
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Yuri Faenza
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Columbia Engineering
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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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Columbia Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Micah Goldblum
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Columbia Engineering
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Donald Goldfarb
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Columbia Engineering
Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research; Special Lecturer of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Jeff Goldsmith
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Data Science Institute
Associate Director for Education -
Mailman School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Vineet Goyal
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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Luis Gravano
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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
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
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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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
David A. Knowles
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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Aurel A. Lazar
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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Hannah Li
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor of Business Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Tianyi Lin
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Columbia Engineering
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Hod Lipson
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Columbia Engineering
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
Roderick H. Cushman 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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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Computer Science and Systems Biology
Tianyi Peng
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Columbia Business School
Assistant Professor in Decision, Risk and Operations Division
Toniann Pitassi
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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Tim Roughgarden
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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Dan Rubenstein
- 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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Columbia Engineering
Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Radiology (Physics) and Electrical Engineering
Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
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Columbia Engineering
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science
Bodhisattva Sen
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Statistics
Clifford Stein
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Columbia Engineering
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)
Makeda Tekle-Smith
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Vladimir Vapnik
- Professor of Computer Science
Nakul Verma
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Columbia Engineering
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science -
Data Science Institute
MSDS Program Director
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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Columbia Engineering
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Ying Wei
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Mailman School of Public Health
Professor of Biostatistics
Chris H. Wiggins
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Columbia Engineering
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Systems Biology
Jeannette M. Wing
- Executive Vice President for Research
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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
John Wright
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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Mihalis Yannakakis
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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
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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Columbia Engineering
Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair, Electrical Engineering