Faculty

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Shivani Agarwal

Shivani Agarwal

Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science


School of Engineering & Applied Science

Jason Altschuler

Jason Altschuler

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

optimization, probability, machine learning, mathematics of data science, optimal transport

Statistics and Data Science, Computer and Information Science, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Ron Anafi

Ron Anafi

Assistant Professor of Medicine

The influence of sleep and circadian biology on physiology and disease.

Penn Medicine/Sleep Medicine (DM)

Paulo E. Arratia

Paulo E. Arratia

Professor

Fluid Dynamics, BiophysicsActive & Soft Matter

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Ian J. Barnett

Ian J. Barnett

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Mental health, mobile health, genomics

Biostatistics

John L. Bassani

John L. Bassani

Professor

Continuum Mechanics

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering

Dani Smith Bassett

Dani Smith Bassett

J. Peter Skirkanich Professor

Complex networks, graph theory, neuroimaging, applied mathematics, bioengineering, physics, neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, learning, fMRI, EEG, MEG, MRI, ECoG, DTI, DSI, network science, statistics, machine learning.

Bioengineering & Electrical and Systems Engineering (SEAS)

Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya

Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya

Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Associate Professor of Mathematics (secondary appointment)

Nonparametric statistics, distribution-free inference, networks analysis, graphical models, statistical learning, combinatorial probability, discrete and computational geometry

Department of Statistics and Data Science, Department of Mathematics (Secondary)

Eric T. Bradlow, PhD

Eric T. Bradlow, PhD

K.P. Chao Professor of Marketing, Statistics and Data Science, Economics, and Education

Bayesian computation, latent variable models, marketing research methods, missing data problems, analytics, psychometrics

Vice Dean of Analytics at Wharton; Chairperson, Wharton Marketing Department, The Wharton School; Professor of Economics; Professor of Education; Professor of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania

T. Tony Cai

T. Tony Cai

Daniel H. Silberberg Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Statistical machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, large-scale inference, functional data analysis, statistical decision theory, applications to genomics and financial econometrics

Statistics & Data Science (STAT)(Wharton)

Pablo Gonzalez Camara

Pablo Gonzalez Camara

Assistant Professor

Computational biology, genomics, applied geometry, topological data analysis

Department of Genetics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics

Pratik Chaudhari

Pratik Chaudhari

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering & Computer and Information Science

theoretical deep learning; robotics; computer vision

Electrical & Systems Engineering (SEAS)

Yong Chen

Yong Chen

Professor of Biostatistics

Real-world data, Clinical evidence generation, Evidence synthesis, Learning health system, Data privacy and confidentiality, Evidence-based Medicine, Statistical Inference.

Biostatistics Engineering (BE)

Yuxin Chen

Yuxin Chen

Associate Professor

Statistics, optimization, machine learning

Statistics & Data Science (STAT)(Wharton)

Kostas Daniilidis

Kostas Daniilidis

Ruth Yalom Stone Professor of Computer & Information Science

Neuromorphic Vision Algorithms, 3D Vision, Geometric Deep Learning, Exploration and Curiosity Semantic SLAM.

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Christos Davatzikos

Christos Davatzikos

Wallace T. Miller Sr. Professor of Radiology, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Biomedical Image Analysis, Machine learning in Imaging, Imaging Biomarkers of Neurologic and Neuropsychiatric Diseases.

Radiology (Penn Medicine)

Anindya De

Anindya De

Associate Professor

Boolean function analysis; Complexity theory; Learning theory

Computer & Information Science (CIS)

Dennis DeTurck

Dennis DeTurck

Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor

Partial Differential Equations and Differential Geometry

Department of of Mathematics

Edgar Dobriban

Edgar Dobriban

Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Secondary appointment in Computer and Information Science

Statistics and machine learning

Statistics & Data Science (STAT)(Wharton)

Eric Eaton

Eric Eaton

Research Associate Professor

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining with applications to robotics, search & rescue, environmental sustainability, and medicine

Computer & Information Science (CIS)(GRASP)

Nader Engheta

Nader Engheta

H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor

Optics, Metamaterials, Electrodynamics, Microwaves, Photonics, Nano-optics, graphene photonics, imaging and sensing

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics

Formulation of dynamic equilibrium models, their efficient computation, and their estimation, using machine learning.

Department of Economics

Jean H. Gallier

Jean H. Gallier

Professor

Geometry and its applications (3D graphics, computer vision, robotics), geometric modeling, geometry of curves and surfaces, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, medical imaging.

School of Engineering Computer & Information Science

James Gee

James Gee

Professor of Radiologic Science in Radiology

Multi-modal machine learning for medicine, connectomics, bio/medical image analysis and processing, global health

Radiology (Penn Medicine)

Robert Ghrist

Robert Ghrist

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

applied topology, topological data analysis, data science, social information, distributed algorithms, dynamical systems

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Herman Gluck

Herman Gluck

Professor of Mathematics

Differential Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Topology of Manifolds.

Mathematics

Mark Goulian

Mark Goulian

Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor in the Natural Sciences

Biophysics, Condensed Matter

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Joao Gomes

Joao Gomes

Professor

Macroeconomics and financial markets, quantitative corporate finance, corporate investment and financing

Finance Department (FIN)(Wharton)

Phillip Gressman

Phillip Gressman

Professor Mathematics

Harmonic analysis and PDEs

Mathematics Department

James Haglund

James Haglund

Professor of Mathematics

Algebraic Combinatorics, Computational Number Theory

Department of Mathematics

Hamed Hassani

Hamed Hassani

Associate Professor

Machine Learning, Information Theory

Electrical & Systems Engineering (SEAS)

Jiaoyang Huang

Jiaoyang Huang

Assistant Professor

Random matrix theory, random graphs, interacting particle systems, optimization of deep neural networks, posterior sampling, and uncertainty quantification of large scale inverse problems.

Statistics & Data Science (STAT)(Wharton)

Jing Huang

Jing Huang

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Research focuses on methodology development to understand the dynamics of disease activities and inform health management using multivariate longitudinal health data.

Perelman School of Medicine & Epidemiology and Informatics

Ryan Hynd

Ryan Hynd

Associate Professor

Partial differential equations, applied analysis

Mathematics

Shane T. Jensen

Shane T. Jensen

Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Bayesian multi-level modeling, spatial statistics, urban analytics, statistics in sports.

Wharton

Douglas J. Jerolmack

Douglas J. Jerolmack

Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

Experimental geophysics, with a focus on geomorphology (the “science of scenery”) and the mechanics of earth materials.

MEAM (SEAS) & Earth and Environmental Science (SAS)

Jin Jin

Jin Jin

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Bayesian Modeling, statistical genetics, predictive modeling, data integration, health equity

Mathematics Department

Randall Kamien

Randall Kamien

Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences

Soft Matter

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Sampath K. Kannan

Sampath K. Kannan

Henry Salvatori Professor

Algorithms and Complexity

School of Engineering Computer & Information Science

Eugene Katsevich

Eugene Katsevich

Assistant Professor

Statistical methodology; high-dimensional statistics; conditional independence testing; applications to genomics; single-cell CRISPR screens; computing; software development

Department of Statistics and Data Science

Michael Kearns

Michael Kearns

National Center Professor of Management & Technology

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithmic game theory and microeconomics, computational social science, and quantitative finance and algorithmic trading.

Computer and Information Science

Junhyong Kim

Junhyong Kim

Christopher Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology

Single cell biology, evolutionary biology, algebraic statistics, machine learning

Department of Biology and Department of Computer and Information Sciences

Daniel E. Koditschek

Daniel E. Koditschek

Alfred Fitler Moore Professor

Dynamic Systems and Control, Machine Learning, AI, and Autonomous Systems

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar

Professor, Nemirovsky Family Dean

Creating autonomous ground and aerial robots, designing bio-inspired algorithms for collective behaviors, and on robot swarms.

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Hongzhe Li (Lee)

Hongzhe Li (Lee)

Perelman Professor in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics

Statistical genetics and genomics, family-based genetic linkage and association analysis, admixture mapping, genome-wide association analysis, analysis of microarray time course gene expression data, high dimensional regression analysis for genomic data, copy number variation analysis, and methods for analysis of next generation sequence data

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Mingyao Li

Mingyao Li

Professor of Biostatistics

Statistical genomics, machine learning, pathology imaging

Biostatistics Epidemiology & Informatics (DBEI)

Mark Liberman

Mark Liberman

Professor

Corpus-based phonetics, legal, medical and political applications of linguistic analysis, the phonology and phonetics of lexical tone, and its relationship to intonation, formal models for linguistic annotation

Computer Information Science (CIS)

Andrea Liu

Andrea Liu

Hepburn Professor of Physics

Condensed Matter, Living Matter, Soft Matter

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Qi Long

Qi Long

Professor

Statistical and machine learning methods for analysis of big, complex health data including -omics, EHR), imaging data, mHealth data; missing data; causal inference; data privacy; bias and fairness in AI for medicine; Bayesian methods; nonparametric and semi-parametric methods.

Biostatistics Epidemiology & Informatics (DBEI)

Irina Marinov

Irina Marinov

Associate Professor

Climate modeling, oceans, satellite, climate dynamics, big data

Earth & Environmental Science (EES)

Vadim Markel

Vadim Markel

Associate Professor of Radiology

Inverse problems, Imaging, Optics, Electromagnetic theory

Radiology (Penn Medicine)

Iain Mathieson

Iain Mathieson

Associate Professor of Genetics

Human population genetics including demographic history, natural selection, and complex traits.

Perelman School of Medicine Dept. of Genetics

Arnold Mathijssen

Arnold Mathijssen

Assistant Professor

Biophysics, Fluid Mechanics, Active and Living Materials

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Nikolai Matni

Nikolai Matni

Assistant Professor

Control Theory, Machine Learning, Optimization

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
GRASP Lab

Yoichiro  Mori

Yoichiro Mori

Calabi-Simons Professor in Mathematics and Biology

Mathematical Physiology and Biophysics, Analysis and Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems.

Mathematics & Biology (AMCS Chair)

Philip Nelson

Philip Nelson

Professor

Biological and living matter physics

Physics and Astronomy
Biological Physics

George Pappas

George Pappas

UPS Foundation Professor

Control systems, robotics, machine learning

Electrical & Systems Engineering (SEAS)(GRASP)

George Ilhwan Park

George Ilhwan Park

Assistant Professor

Computation of multi-physics flow phenomena characterized by turbulence at high Reynolds number, compressibility effect, heat transfer, complex wall geometry, and fluid-structure interaction. 

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Robin Pemantle

Robin Pemantle

Merriam Term Professor of Mathematics

probability, combinatorics

Mathematics (primary), Statistics (secondary), Computer Science (secondary)

Paris Perdikaris

Paris Perdikaris

Associate Professor

Deep learning; Foundation models for physical simulation; Physics-informed neural networks and neural operators; Generative models; Uncertainty quantification; Sequential decision making

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Joshua Plotkin

Joshua Plotkin

Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences

evolutionary theory, population dynamics

Department of Biology

Pedro Ponte-Castañeda

Pedro Ponte-Castañeda

Professor

continuum mechanics; composite materials; fluid suspensions; material instabilities; multi-physics; variational methods

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Mathematics (secondary)

Victor M. Preciado

Victor M. Preciado

Associate Professor

Complex networks, Machine learning, Dynamical systems

Departments of Electrical & Systems Engineering and Computer & Information Science

Prashant Purohit

Prashant Purohit

Professor

Fracture of blood clots, mechanics of DNA. statistical mechanics of filaments and networks.

Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics (MEAM)

Ravi Radhakrishnan

Ravi Radhakrishnan

Professor and Chair of Bioengineering and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

AI enabled physics-based models for engineering health

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Arjun Raj

Arjun Raj

Richard K. Lubin Professor

Bioengineering and Genetics

School of Engineering & Applied Science

Celia Reina

Celia Reina

Associate Professor

Multiscale modeling of matter

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Non-Equilibrium Mechanics Laboratory

Zhimei Ren

Zhimei Ren

Assistant Professor

Distribution-free inference, multiple hypothesis testing, data-driven decision-making, causal inference, survival analysis

Statistics and Data Science

Aaron Roth

Aaron Roth

Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science

Machine Learning Theory, Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithmic Fairness, Differential Privacy

Computer & Information Science (CIS)

Dan Roth

Dan Roth

Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor

Machine learning and inference methods, natural language understanding, fundamental questions in learning and inference and how they interact, constrained conditional models, an integer linear programming formulation, incidental supervision, declarative Learning Based Programming language

Computer & Information Science (CIS)

Saswati Sarkar

Saswati Sarkar

Professor Electrical and Systems Engineering

Optimal control of epidemic evolutions, Competition, Neutrality and Service Quality in Cellular Wireless Access, Economics of resource allocation in wireless networks, Foundations for malware control in mobile wireless networks, Joint allocation of resources in multihop wireless networks, Distributed and partial information based optimal control in multihop wireless networks, Resource allocation in multicast networks.

Andre Scedrov

Andre Scedrov

Professor

Logic, Information Assurance, Formal Grammars

Department of Mathematics
Computer and Information Science

Li Shen

Li Shen

Professor of Informatics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Medical image computing, biomedical informatics, machine learning, network science, imaging genomics, multi-omics and systems biology, Alzheimer’s disease, and big data science in biomedicine

Biostatistics Engineering (BE)

Vivek Shenoy

Vivek Shenoy

Eduardo D. Glandt President's Distinguished Professor

Mechanobiology of the Cell Environment, Mechanobiology of Tissue, Mechanobiology of the Cell, Mechanobiology of the Nucleus.

Bioengineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Materials Science and Engineering

Dylan Small

Dylan Small

Universal Furniture Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Universal Furniture Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Statistics (STAT)(Wharton)

Kent Smetters

Kent Smetters

Professor

Applied theory, computational economic, risk, macroeconomics, public economics

Business Economics & Public Policy (Wharton)

Robert Strain

Robert Strain

Professor of Mathematics

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics.

 

Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science graduate program
David R. Srolovitz

David R. Srolovitz

Adjunct Professor

Machine Learning

Materials and Science Engineering
Weijie Su

Weijie Su

Associate Professor

Machine Learning, Large Language Model, Differential Privacy, High-Dimensional Statistics, Optimization, Deep Learning Theory

Statistics & Data Science (STAT)(Wharton)

Kai Tan

Kai Tan

Richard & Sheila Sanford Professor

Genomics, image analysis, machine learning, network science, and big data science in biomedicine

Departments of Pediatrics, Cell & Dev Biology, Genetics, Center for Single Cell Biology

Nat Trask

Nat Trask

Associate Professor

Scientific machine learning, geometric mechanics, exterior calculus, numerical analysis, multiphysics/multiscale, scientific computing

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Hugo N. Ulloa

Hugo N. Ulloa

Assistant Professor

Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics: Mechanically and buoyancy driven flows in rotating and stratified environments, Flows in confined geophysical environments, Suspended and dissolved tracer dynamics in aquatic systems.

Earth & Environmental Science (EES)

Lyle Ungar

Lyle Ungar

Professor

Natural language processing, machine learning, psychology

Computer & Information Science (CIS)

René Vidal

René Vidal

Rachleff University Professor

Deep learning theory, non-convex optimization, subspace learning, clustering, sparse representation

ESE, SEAS, Radiology

Rakesh Vohra

Rakesh Vohra

George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor

Game Theory, Mechanism Design

Department of Economics, Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering

Erik Waingarten

Erik Waingarten

Assistant Professor

Algorithms for massive datasets, with a focus on similarity search, streaming/sketching, property testing, and distribution testing

Computer & Information Science (CIS)

Kai Wang

Kai Wang

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Develop novel genomics and bioinformatics methods to improve our understanding of the genetic basis of human diseases.

Perelman School of Medicine

Abraham Wyner

Abraham Wyner

Professor

Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, Sports Analytics, Information Theory

Statistics (STAT)(Wharton)

Pinar Yildirim

Pinar Yildirim

Associate Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School

Media, advertising, industrial organization, social networks, social media, news media, privacy, political economy, open innovation

Marketing (Wharton School) and Department of Economics of the University of Pennsylvania (secondary)

Anderson Ye Zhang

Anderson Ye Zhang

Assistant Professor

Group Synchronization, Spectral Analysis, Ranking from Pairwise Comparisons, Clustering and Mixture Models, Network Analysis, Mean Field Variational Inference

Statistics & Data Science (STAT)(Wharton)

Nancy Zhang

Nancy Zhang

Professor

Genomics, change-point methods, empirical bayes estimation, model and variable selection, scan statistics, statistical modeling

Statistics & Data Science (STAT)(Wharton)

Bingxin Zhao

Bingxin Zhao

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

statistical methods & applications to big data, high-dimensional statistics, biomedical & biological data science, environmental data science, and social data science

Statistics & Data Science (STAT)(Wharton)