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Alekh Agarwal

Microsoft Research
Machine Learning, Statistics and Optimization

Sameer Agarwal

Google, Inc.
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Optimization, Computer Graphics

Aseem Agarwala

Adobe
Computer graphics, computer vision, and computational imaging

Armin Alaghi

Oculus Research
Embedded systems, signal processing, and virtual/augmented reality

Gail Alverson

Microsoft
Software Engineering, Parallel Systems and Programming Environments

Dave Bacon

Google, Inc.
Quantum computing, quantum algorithms, fault-tolerant computing

Thomas Ball

Microsoft Research
Software engineering, formal methods, physical computing, CS education

Josh Benaloh

Microsoft Research
Cryptography

Daniel Berger

Microsoft Research
Computer systems (including distributed, networking, and storage systems) and memory architecture (virtualization, disaggregation, and DRAM alternatives

Philip Bernstein

Microsoft Research
Databases, transaction processing, concurrency control, data repositories

Emma Brunskill

Carnegie Mellon University
Machine learning, sequential decision making under uncertainty, and artificial intelligenceArtificial Intelligence, Machine

Sebastien Bubeck

Microsoft Research
Machine learning, convex optimization

Douglas Burger

Microsoft Research
Computer architecture

Robert Carlson

Bioeconomy Capital
Synthetic Biology

Douglas Carmean

Microsoft Research
Computer architecture

Asli Celikyilmaz

Microsoft Research

Bradford Chamberlain

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Compilers, language design, and productivity for scalable parallel computing

Craig Chambers

Google, Inc.
Programming languages, compilers

Yuan-Jyue Chen

Microsoft Research
DNA data storage, DNA computing

Alvin Cheung

Data management, programming systems

Arman Cohan

Allen Institute for AI
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Michael Cohen

Facebook
Computer graphics and image synthesis

R Alex Colburn

Apple, Inc.
Machine learning, computer graphics, and computer vision

Jan Cuny

David Cutler

Microsoft
Operating systems design and development

Ofer Dekel

Microsoft Research
Machine learning, online prediction, statistical learning theory and optimization

Tony DeRose

Pixar
Computer-aided geometric design and modeling, graphical user interfaces

Nikhil Devanur

Microsoft Research
Automated economics and algorithms

Debadeepta Dey

Microsoft Research
Decision-making under uncertainty, computer vision, reinforcement learning, planning, robotics and machine learning

Chris Diorio

Impinj
Neurally-inspired computing; RFID

Steven Drucker

Microsoft Research
User interface, info. visualization, and graphics

Emily Fox

Bayesian and nonparametric Bayesian approaches to time-series and longitudinal data analysis

Jianfeng Gao

Microsoft Research
Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Web Search and Information Retrieval (IR),Multi-Modal Modeling

Gennie Gebhart

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Third-party tracking, secure messaging, platform censorship, open access

Johannes Gehrke

Microsoft Research
Database systems, distributed systems, and machine learning

Ross B Girshick

Facebook AI Research (FAIR)
Algorithms for visual perception and visual reasoning

Daniel Goldman

Google
Computer graphics research on techniques for digital viewing and imaging

Ben Greenstein

Google, Inc.
Networks and embedded systems

Carlos Guestrin

Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, AI, Optimization

Alon Halevy

Facebook
Data management, artificial intelligence

Joseph Hellerstein

UW eScience Institute
Performance evaluation, systems management, science in the cloudtems

Aaron Hertzmann

Adobe Research
Computer Graphics & Computer Vision

Leroy Hood

Institute for Systems Biology

Eric Horvitz

Microsoft Research
Adaptive systems and interaction

Jon Howell

VMware Research
Systems verification, Distributed Systems, Security, Operating Systems

Judy Illes

University of British Columbia
Neurology and neuroethics

Kamal Jain

eBay Research Labs
algorithmic game theory, combinatorial optimization

Simon Kahan

Biocellion SPC
Parallel computing

Sham Kakade

Data science: large scale computional methods for statistics, machine learning and signal processing

Ece Kamar

Microsoft Research
Artificial Intelligence, Responsible AI, Human-AI Collaboration, AI Fairness, AI Robustness

Henry Kautz

University of Rochester
Knowledge representation and reasoning systems.

Ani Kembhavi

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Computer vision

Gary Kimura

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Software engineering and operating systems

Brian LaMacchia

Microsoft Research
Cryptography, automated resource discovery

James Larus

EPFL
Programming languages and compilers

Paul Leach

Microsoft (retired)
Distributed and object-oriented systems

Sergey Levine

Yang Li

Google
Human computer interaction and mobile computing

Yun-En Liu

Jay Lorch

Microsoft Research
Distributed systems, software verification, security & privacy

Andrew Lumsdaine

PNNL NIAC
High performance computing

Scott Lundberg

Microsoft Research

Mausam

India Institute of Technology Delhi
Artificial intelligence: natural language processing, automated planning, applications to crowdsourcing.

Daniel McDuff

Carver Mead

Caltech (emeritus)
Microelectronics, neural models of computing, physics

Wouter Meuleman

Computational Biology, Regulatory Genomics, Epigenomics, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Augmented Genomics

Andres Monroy-Hernandez

Snap, Inc.

Thierry J Moreau

Deep Learning Systems

Meredith Morris

Google Research
HCI, Accessibility, and Human-Centered AI

Roozbeh Mottaghi

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Chandrakana Nandi

Certora, Inc.
Programming Languages, Program Synthesis, Formal Verification, Term Rewriting, Software Engineering, Computational Fabrication

Richard Newcombe

Facebook
Computer vision and robotics

Bichlien Nguyen

Microsoft Research
DNA data storage

Radia Perlman

EMC
Networking and security.

Matthai Philipose

Microsoft Research
Human activity recognition, sensor-based reasoning

Jovan Popovic

Adobe
Computer animation and geometric modeling

Dan Ports

Microsoft Research
Distributed systems, operating systems, security, and storage

Nathan Price

Institute for Systems Biology
Systems biology

Mohammad Rastegari

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Alexander J. Ratner

Marco Tulio Ribeiro

Microsoft Research
Machine Learning

David Salesin

Adobe Systems
Graphics, digital photography, visualization

Nithya Sambasivan

Google Research
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Information Communication Technology and Development (ICTD)

Jessica Schroeder

Adam Shostack

Maureen Stone

Tableau Research (retired)
Visual analysis, digital color, accessibility

Karin Strauss

Microsoft Research
Parallel computer architecture

Jina Suh

Uygar Sümbül

Allen Institute for Brain Science
Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Optimization

Rick Szeliski

Facebook
Computer vision and graphics

Desney Tan

Microsoft Research
Human-Computer Interaction and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Emanuel Todorov

Intelligent control in biology and engineering

Ryen White

Microsoft Research
Information retrieval, human-computer interaction, computational health

Michael Wolf

Amazon

Thomas Zimmermann

Microsoft Research
Software Engineering

Charles (Larry) Zitnick III

Facebook AI Research
Object detection, semantic scene understanding, and human debugging