Program Faculty

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Adam J. Aviv

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Research interests include computer and cybersecurity, privacy, network security, mobile security, applied cryptography, and usable security and privacy. His recent work emphasizes human factors in security, including mobile devices and authentication.

Shi Feng

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Researches AI safety and alignment, with emphasis on human oversight, policy-relevant AI evaluation, and the risks of using LLMs to evaluate and monitor LLM systems.

Rebecca Hwa

Professor and Department Chair, Computer Science

Works at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. Her research develops machine-learning methods for uncovering syntactic and semantic structure, with applications in health, education, social science, multimodal rhetoric, and social media analysis.

Robert Pless

Arnold C. Meltzer Endowed Professor of Computer Science

Conducts research in computer vision, including applications to environmental science, medical imaging, robotics, and virtual reality. His work studies data-driven and geometric techniques for understanding images taken in the wild.

Arkady Yerukhimovich

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Researches cryptographic protocols that enable collaboration between distrusting parties, including private data sharing, search over private data, and secure computation over inputs from multiple parties.