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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President, Henry L. Hillman President's Chair
Office of the President
A distinguished computer scientist who now steers all of Carnegie Mellon, he has kept the university boldly interdisciplinary while championing its people.
Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Office of the Provost
A former engineering dean who rose to provost, he tends the academic heart of the university with a builder's care for both faculty and students.
Dean, School of Computer Science; Professor of Robotics
Robotics Institute
A pioneering computer-vision researcher who now leads one of the world's great computing schools, he keeps CMU at the frontier of machine perception.
U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics
Robotics Institute
One of the founding giants of modern robotics and computer vision, his decades of work at CMU quite literally taught machines how to see.
Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science Department
His superhuman poker agents and kidney-exchange algorithms show, humanely and rigorously, how AI can reason under uncertainty for real human good.
Founders University Professor
Machine Learning Department
He helped found the world's first Machine Learning Department and wrote the textbook that introduced generations of students to the field.
Professor, Machine Learning Department and Language Technologies Institute
Machine Learning Department
From statistical language modeling to pioneering flu and pandemic forecasting, he has bent machine learning toward protecting public health.
Hillman University Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
His cognitive tutors have quietly helped millions of students learn math better, a rare case of research that reaches real classrooms.
University Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Computer Science Department
A Turing Award laureate whose foundational ideas seeded complexity theory and CAPTCHAs, he mentored an extraordinary lineage of theorists at CMU.
Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
His signal-processing inventions live inside billions of hard drives, and as a past IEEE president he has generously served the whole profession.
Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering
Engineering and Public Policy
He built the field of engineering-informed public policy at CMU, insisting that decisions about energy and risk be made honestly and with the evidence.
Paul Christiano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
A leader in sensing and data for the built environment, she has helped make our bridges, buildings, and infrastructure smarter and safer.
Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management
Operations Management
He turns deep operations research into working companies and, lately, into quantum approaches for problems that matter to real supply chains and health.
Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance
Finance
A former chief economist of the SEC, he brings rare public-service judgment to the study of how financial markets actually work.
J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences
Department of Chemistry
His invention of atom transfer radical polymerization reshaped how the world makes precise polymers, one of the most cited advances in modern chemistry.
Kavcic-Moura University Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematical Sciences
A past president of SIAM and director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis, she brings elegant mathematics to the behavior of real materials.
Professor and Head, Department of Physics
Department of Physics
She reads the shapes of distant galaxies to map dark matter and dark energy, and now leads CMU physics with a collaborative, generous spirit.
Bessie F. Anathan Professor of Design and University Professor
School of Drama
An internationally celebrated costume designer, she teaches young artists that every stitch on stage is a piece of storytelling.
University Professor, School of Architecture
School of Architecture
A tireless advocate for buildings that are good for people and the planet, she has advanced healthy, energy-smart architecture for a generation.
University Professor Emeritus, School of Drama
School of Drama
For decades she shaped actors at one of the nation's most storied drama programs, giving countless performers their craft and their confidence.
Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology
Social and Decision Sciences
A founder of behavioral economics, his humane, curious work on how people really decide has changed how we think about choice itself.
Kavcic-Moura Professor of Cognitive and Brain Science
Department of Psychology
He studies how brains and machines recognize the visual world, bridging psychology, neuroscience, and AI with real intellectual warmth.
Stephen E. and Joyce Fienberg Professor and Department Head, Statistics & Data Science
Statistics & Data Science
She leads CMU statistics with a gift for teaching, opening the door to data science for students from every background.
Lester Hamburg University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics
Heinz College
A leading scholar of crime and deterrence, he brings careful statistics and moral seriousness to questions of justice and public safety.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of Carnegie Mellon University, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.