Google Faculty Research Awards 2017

Algorithms and Optimization

Constantinos Daskalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto

Katya Scheinberg, Lehigh University

Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, University of Southern California

Moses Charikar, Stanford University

Piotr Indyk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Krauthgamer, Weizmann Institute of Science

Shipra Agrawal, Columbia University

Venkatesan Guruswami, Carnegie Mellon University

Augmented and Virtual Reality

Daniel Vogel, University of Waterloo

Fadel Adib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lee M. Miller, University of California, Davis

Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington

Xinyu Zhang, University of California, San Diego

Yasutaka Furukawa, Simon Fraser University

Computational Neuroscience

Andrew Lin, University of Sheffield

Hongjing Lu, University of California, Los Angeles

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Yale University

Keith J. Holyoak, University of California, Los Angeles

Eleni Vasilaki, University of Sheffield

Geo

Birte Glimm, Ulm University

Donica Mensing, University of Nevada, Reno

Gi Woong Yun, University of Nevada, Reno

Ioannis Stamos, City University of New York

Nathan Jacobs, University of Kentucky

Niloy J. Mitra, University College London

Sung-Yeon Park, University of Nevada, Reno

Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University

Human-computer Interaction

Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University

Carolyn P Rose, Carnegie Mellon University

David Karger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jason Yip, University of Washington

Jessica Vitak, University of Maryland - College Park

Julie Kientz, University of Washington

Lana Yarosh, University of Minnesota

Marshini Chetty, Princeton University

Ranjitha Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Robert Jacob, Tufts University

Robert West, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Tamara Clegg, University of Maryland - College Park

Xiaojun Bi, State University of New York - Stony Brook

Information retrieval and real time content

Dong Wang, University of Notre Dame

Lei Guo, Boston University

Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam

Margrit Betke, Boston University

Prakash Ishwar, Boston University

Qin Lv, University of Colorado Boulder

Machine learning and data mining

Aaron Ames, California Institute of Technology

Ameet Talwalkar, Carnegie Mellon University

Benjamin Rosman, University of the Witwatersrand

David P. Woodruff, Carnegie Mellon University

Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University

Frank Hutter, University of Freiburg

Nathan Srebro, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Nitin H. Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Scott E. Fahlman, Carnegie Mellon University

Sushant Sachdeva, University of Toronto

Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tiark Rompf, Purdue University

Virginia Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

Yisong Yue, California Institute of Technology

Machine Perception

Adriana Kovashka, University of Pittsburgh

Aikaterini Fragkiadaki, Carnegie Mellon University

Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Edison Thomaz, University of Texas at Austin

Edward J. Delp, Purdue University

Federico Tombari, Technische Universität München

Fengbo Ren, Arizona State University

George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyola University Chicago

Gustavo Carneiro, University of Adelaide

Irene Kotsia, Middlesex University of London

Jiangtao Wen, Tsinghua University

Kayvon Fatahalian, Stanford University

Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin

Matthias Niessner, Technische Universität München

Michael Bronstein, University of Lugano

Nassir Navab, Technische Universität München

Niko Suenderhauf, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) / Australian Centre for Robotic Vision

Pascal Frossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Peter K. Allen, Columbia University

Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London

Vicente Ordonez, University of Virginia

Xavier Serra, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Yelin Kim, University at Albany, SUNY

Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University

Machine Translation

Gholamreza Haffari, Monash University

Mobile

Claire Ellul, University College London

Harsha Madhyastha, University of Michigan

Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Jie Yang, Florida State University

Mac Schwager, Stanford University

Paul David Groves, University College London

Romit Roy Choudhury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Shyamnath Gollakota, University of Washington

Theophilus Benson, Brown University

Yuhao Zhu, University of Rochester

Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Natural Language Processing

Alexander Rush, Harvard University

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cornell University

David Smith, Northeastern University

Hannaneh Hajishirzi, University of Washington

Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University

Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield

Mitesh Khapra, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Percy Liang, Stanford University

Vivek Srikumar, University of Utah

Yoav Artzi, Cornell University

Networking

Adam Belay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Marko Loncar, Harvard University

Other

Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London

Anirudha Majumdar, Princeton University

Daniele Panozzo, New York University

David Held, Carnegie Mellon University

Deborah Estrin, Cornell University

Denis Zorin, New York University

F. Lee Hartsell, Duke University

Gourab Ghoshal, University of Rochester

Henry Kautz, University of Rochester

James Zou, Stanford University

Jia Deng, University of Michigan

Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University

Joel R. Primack, University of California, Santa Cruz

Katherine A Heller, Duke University

Keith A. Brown, Boston University

Mengdi Wang, Princeton University

Robert Platt, Northeastern University

Sina Farsiu, Duke University

Sylvia Morelli Vitousek, University of Illinois at Chicago

Xi Wang, University of Washington

Physical Interfaces

Davide Bolchini, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Kristina Höök, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Tam Vu, University of Colorado

Thiemo Voigt, Uppsala University

Privacy

Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University

Damon McCoy, New York University

Jonathan Ullman, Northeastern University

Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Nicola Dell, Cornell University

Salim El Rouayheb, Rutgers University

Thomas Ristenpart, Cornell University

Quantum Computing

Alexey V. Ustinov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT

Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, California Institute of Technology

Isaac L. Chuang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marek Rams, Jagiellonian University

Norman Yao, University of California, Berkeley

Peter John Love, Tufts University

Robert Wille, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Security

Alessandro Chiesa, University of California, Berkeley

Dan Boneh, Stanford University

Gang Wang, Virginia Tech

Isil Dillig, University of Texas at Austin

Joachim Gudmundsson, University of Sydney

Kanchana Thilakarathna, University of Sydney

Omer Reingold, Stanford University

Roya Ensafi, University of Michigan

Shay Gueron, University of Haifa, Israel

Suranga Seneviratne, University of Sydney

Speech

Emmanuel Dupoux, École Normale Supérieure

Naomi Harte, Trinity College Dublin

Oldrich Plchot, Brno University of Technology

Preethi Jyothi, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

Brad A Myers, Carnegie Mellon University

Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University

Francesco Zappa Nardelli, INRIA

Ilya Sergey, University College London

Jeff Huang, Texas A&M University

Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis

Structured Data

Eugene Wu, Columbia University

Peter Bailis, Stanford University

Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne

Systems

Andy Pavlo, Carnegie Mellon University

Antonio Orlandi, University of L'Aquila

Bryan Jeffrey Parno, Carnegie Mellon University

Cristina L. Abad, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, ESPOL

David I. August, Princeton University

H.-S. Philip Wong, Stanford University

Manos Kapritsos, University of Michigan

Michael Bedford Taylor, University of Washington

Mohammad Alizadeh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rodrigo Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa - IST

Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University

Vaibhav Bahadur, University of Texas at Austin

Vijay Chidambaram, University of Texas at Austin

Xu Liu, College of William & Mary