PhD Advisors

Tenure-Track Faculty

  • Juan Pablo Bello

    Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, 2003

    Email: jb2843 at nyu.edu

  • Emily Black

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Email: eb1850 at nyu.edu

  • Joan Bruna

    Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

    Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, École Polytechnique, France, 2013

    Email: bruna at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 612
    Ext: 8-3162
    Machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, signal processing

  • Kyunghyun Cho

    Glen de Vries Chaired Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Finland, 2014

    Email: kyunghyun.cho at nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 616
    Ext: 8-3366
    Machine learning, natural languages, machine translation, artificial intelligence

  • Sumit Chopra

    Associate Professor of Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, New York University, USA, 2008

    Email: sumit at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 501
    Ext: 8-3376

  • Rumi Chunara

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Biostatistics

    Ph.D., Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, USA 2010

    Email: rc167 at nyu.edu

  • Rob Fergus

    Professor of Computer Science

    D. Phil., Electrical Engineering, University of Oxford, UK, 2005

    Email: fergus at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 514
    Ext: 8-3353
    Computer vision and computational photography.

  • David Fouhey

    Institute Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Ph.D., Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, The Robotics Institute, USA, 2016

    Email: david.fouhey at nyu.edu david.fouhey at nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 522

  • Davi Geiger

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Neural Science

    Ph.D., Physics and Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1990

    Email: dg1 at nyu.edu
    Office: WWH 418
    Ext: 8-3235
    Computer Vision and Learning, with recent interest in the use of Group and Quantum methods.

  • Eran Halperin

    Professor of Computer Science; Research Professor of Medicine

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2001

    Computational Genomics; Machine Learning in Medicine and Healthcare

    Note: Starting January 2026

  • Chinmay Hegde

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Email: ch3773 at nyu.edu

  • Pavel Izmailov

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Ph.D., Computer Science, New York University, New York, USA, 2023

    Email: pi390 at nyu.edu

  • Gautam Kamath

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

    Email: gk2860 at nyu.edu

    Note: Starting September 2026

  • Yann LeCun

    Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professor in Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France, 1987

    Email: yann at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 516
    Ext: 8-3283
    Machine learning, computer vision, autonomous robotics, computational neuroscience, computational statistics, computational economics, hardware architectures for vision, digital libraries, and data compression.

  • Romain Lopez

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Biology

    Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2021

    Email: na3533 at nyu.edu

  • Mehryar Mohri

    Professor of Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Paris 7, France, 1993

    Email: mohri at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: WWH 701
    Ext: 8-3200
    Machine learning, computational biology, text and speech processing, algorithms, and theory.

  • Daniel Neill

    Professor of Public Service and Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2006

    Email: daniel.neill at nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 304
    Ext: x8-3295
    machine learning; event and pattern detection; applications for societal good; public health, safety, and security; algorithmic fairness; urban systems

  • Benjamin Peherstorfer

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Technische Universität München, Germany, 2013

    Email: pehersto at cims.nyu.edu
    Office: WWH 421
    Ext: 8-3297
    Computational statistics, Bayesian inference, model reduction, high-dimensional approximation, machine learning, numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra

  • Juan Perdomo Silva

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

    Email: j.perdomo.silva at nyu.edu

    Note: Starting September 2026

  • Lerrel Pinto

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

    Ph.D., Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2019

    Email: lerrel at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 505
    Ext: 8-3514
    Robot Learning, Robotic Manipulation, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning.

  • Rajesh Ranganath

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Princeton University, USA, 2017

    Email: rajeshr at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 503
    Ext: 8-3394
    Machine Learning, Healthcare, Probabilistic and Causal Inference.

  • Mengye Ren

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada, 2021

    Email: mengye at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 508
    Ext: 2-7547
    Machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence

  • Benjamin Riviere

    Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Computer Science

    Email: bpr3966 at nyu.edu

  • Pratyusha Sharma

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

    Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025

    Machine Learning, AI for Science, Science of Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotics.

    Note: Starting September 2026

  • Claudio Silva

    Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, NYU Tandon; Professor of Data Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, SUNY Stony Brook, USA,1996

    Email: cs3026 at nyu.edu

  • Matus Telgarsky

    Associate Professor of Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2013

    Email: mjt10041 at nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 310
    Ext: 2-7544

  • Julian Togelius

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Ph.D., University of Essex, 2007

    Email: jt125 at nyu.edu

  • Andrew Gordon Wilson

    Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

    Ph.D., Machine Learning, University of Cambridge, UK, 2014

    Email: andrewgw at cims.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 604
    Ext: 8-3365
    Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, numerical linear algebra.

  • Saining Xie

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2018

    Email: saining.xie at nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 518
    Ext: 2-7530
    Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning

  • Sherry Yang

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

    Email: my3149 at nyu.edu

  • Sai Qian Zhang

    Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Harvard, USA, 2021

    Email: sai.zhang at nyu.edu

Associated/Affiliated Faculty

  • Qi Lei

    Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science

    Ph.D., Oden Institute for Computational Sciences and Engineering, UT Austin, USA, 2020

    Email: ql518 at nyu.edu