People and Office Directory
Director: Edward W. Felten,
Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs
Associate Director: Stephen Schultze
Program Assistant: Laura Cummings-Abdo
Executive Committee:
- Edward W. Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs
- Andrew W. Appel, Professor of Computer Science
- Paul DiMaggio, Professor of Sociology
- Margaret Martonosi, Professor of Electrical Engineering
- Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and Public Affairs
Associated Faculty:
- David Blei, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Michael J. Freedman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Stan Katz, Lecturer with Rank of Professor, Woodrow Wilson School
- Brian Kernighan, Professor of Computer Science
- Sanjeev Kulkarni, Professor of Electrical Engineering
- Vivek Pai, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science
- Larry Peterson, Professor and Department Chair of Computer Science
- Markus Prior, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs
- Jennifer Rexford, Professor of Computer Science
- Matt Salganik, Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Robert Sedgewick, Professor of Computer Science
- Paul E. Starr, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs
- Ed Zschau, Visiting Lecturer with Rank of Professor, Electrical Engineering and Operation Research and Financial Engineering
Visitors:
- James E. Katz, Visiting Fellow
- Deven R. Desai, Visiting Fellow
- Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Visiting PostDoctoral Research Associate
- J. Alex Halderman, Visiting Research Collaborator
- Jens Grossklags, Visiting PostDoctoral Research Associate
- David Lukens, Visiting Research Collaborator
Graduate Students
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Faculty Associates — These individuals come from a wide range of departments and subfields, and all do work that touches in some way on the intersection of digital technologies and public policy.
- David Blei, Assistant Professor in Computer Science: David’s research is in developing machine learning algorithms for uncovering structure in large data sets. He has focused on text data, developing “topic modeling” algorithms for finding the latent thematic structure of large corpora such as scientific publications, web pages, and news articles. His other research interests include image processing, approximate inference in probabilistic graphical models, and nonparametric Bayesian statistics.
- Michael J. Freedman, Assistant Professor in Computer Science: Michael’s research interests span distributed systems, security, networking, and cryptography. He developed and operates the Coral peer-to-peer content distribution network and OASIS anycast service, which serve more than a million users daily. Other research has focused on privacy-preserving dataset operations, secure enterprise networks, IP intelligence, and various anti-censorship, anti-spam, and anonymization systems.
- Stan Katz, Lecturer with Rank of Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, and President Emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies: Stan’s many interests include the future of digitally-enabled scholarship, which was the topic of an online, multi-institution symposium hosted by the Center this past fall. He contributes to the group blog Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Brian Kernighan, Professor of Computer Science: Brian, whose distinguished career at Bell Labs included key roles in the development of AT&T Unix and the C programming language, is a leader in explaining computers and computer science to the lay public. His popular undergraduate course, Computers in Our World, introduces humanists and social scientists to computing, providing them with the background and depth to understand digital issues that are of current policy interest. Brian also writes the “Hello, World” column in the Daily Princetonian.
- Sanjeev Kulkarni, Professor of Electrical Engineering: Sanjeev’s research interests span several areas including machine learning, pattern recognition, information theory, and signal/image/video processing. He is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Operations Research and in the Department of Philosophy.
- Vivek Pai, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science.
- Larry Peterson, Professor and Department Chair of Computer Science: Larry is Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab consortium. He has chaired the planning effort behind the GENI Project, the Global Environment for Network Innovation. The GENI platform could allow researchers to test alternatives to the incumbent technological standards that make the Internet work.
- Markus Prior, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs: Markus studies the ways that new communications technologies shape political behavior. He is the author of the book Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections.
- Jennifer Rexford, Professor of Computer Science: Jennifer, who came to Princeton in 2005 after eight and a half years at AT&T Research, is interested in Internet policy and Internet governance, stemming from her longstanding work in the area of network virtualization, network management and routing. Working with a multi-institution group of colleagues, she recently published a paper on the risks of network surveillance in the journal IEEE Security and Privacy — Risking communications security: Potential hazards of the Protect America Act.
- Matt Salganik, Assistant Professor of Sociology: Matt, who joined the Princeton faculty in September, uses the web as a tool to answer sociological questions we might not otherwise be able to ask. For his dissertation, he worked with a team to build and study MusicLab, an online cultural marketplace.
- Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs. He recently wrote a cover story for The New Republic about the future of newspapers in the Internet era.
- Ed Zschau, Visiting Lecturer with Rank of Professor, Electrical Engineering: Ed, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist, teaches the popular course ELE 491: High Tech Enterpeneurship. From 1983 to 1987, he represented California’s 12th district (part of Silicon Valley) in the U.S. House of Representatives. He has taught at both Harvard and Stanford business schools.