Pierre Gentine is a Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He is the director of our National Science Foundation center called LEAP: Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics. His research investigates the continental hydrologic cycle using multi scale modeling and big data in the context of rising CO2 concentrations.

Paul Sajda is the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a professor in electrical engineering and radiology. His research is interested in what happens in our brains when we make a rapid decision and, conversely, what processes and representations in our brains drive our underlying preferences and choices, particularly when we are under time pressure.

Richard Zemel is a professor of computer science and the Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. His research focuses on machine learning and artificial intelligence.

John Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor in Electrical Engineering and heads the Columbia Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics. His research focuses on the fabrication, characterization, and applications of thin film electronics, with a particular focus in the applications of organic semiconductors, thin film piezoelectric, and recrystallized silicon devices

Andrew Smyth is the Robert A.W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia Engineering. He works primarily in the area of infrastructure monitoring using sensor data and information to understand the condition and performance of our urban infrastructure.

Alissa Park is the Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Climate Change in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Columbia, as well as the department chair of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and the director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. In her work she advances the fundamental understanding of CO2 interactions with engineered and natural materials and develops technologies for sustainable energy and material conversion pathways with emphasis on carbon capture, utilization and storage.

Helen Lu is Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Senior Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs and Advancement. Her research focuses on Orthopaedic Interface Tissue Engineering and the formation of complex tissue systems, with the goal of achieving integrative and functional repair of soft tissue injuries.

Elizabeth Hillman is the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and a professor of biomedical engineering and radiology at Columbia Engineering. Her research focuses on the development of novel biomedical imaging and microscopy techniques that use light to capture information about the structure and function of living tissues.

Garud Iyengar is a professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science and is the senior Vice Dean for research and academic programs at the school. His research is focused on understanding uncertain systems and exploiting available information using data-driven control and optimization algorithms

Cliff Stein is the Wai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, the interim director of the Data Science Institute, and a professor of computer science at Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operations research, network algorithms, scheduling, algorithm engineering and computational biology.

Brian Smith is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Columbia where he directs the Computer-Enabled Abilities Laboratory. He conducts work in the field of Human Computer Interaction developing computers that help people perceive and interact with the world around them.

Toni Pitassi is the Jeffrey L. and Brenda Bleustein Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science. Her primary research interests are complexity theory, fairness and privacy in machine learning.

Christine Hendon is an associate professor within the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and the chair of the PT admissions committee within the school of engineering. In her work she develops biomedical optics technologies to guide interventional procedures and provide insights into the structure-function relationship of biological normal, diseased, and treated tissues.