PhD Advisors at Carnegie Mellon University 卡内基梅隆大学US
Quick answer: Carnegie Mellon University in the US has 737 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 5 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
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Professors at Carnegie Mellon University with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Catherine Armbruster
Assistant Professor · Mellon College of Science
⭐ Please reach out if you're curious to hear more or are interested in joining us!
Bacteria constantly evolve in response to specific selective pressures in their environment. When opportunistic pathogens initiate an infection, they draw upon a genetic repertoire that was shaped by the environment where they resided prior to infection. For many infections, the …
⭐ I am looking for new students. My current research focus is enabling robots to learn strategies (tricks, hacks) to do tasks from direct instruction, googling and using the web, observation, and practice (reinforcement learning). Potential graduate students need to be admitted to a CMU graduate progr…
Machine learning, humanoid robotics, human aware environments, robot learning, nonparametric learning, memory-based learning, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, modeling human behavior
⭐ If interested in joining our lab, please email me at inseung@cmu.edu.
My group’s research is on developing wearable assistive devices (e.g., robotic exoskeletons) that can augment human mobility during locomotion. Some research topics include: 1) Robotic exoskeleton design and control (mechatronic design) using wearable sensors and deep learning 2)…
Energy Systems Engineering Institute at Lehigh University, graduate and undergraduate engineering and sciences · School of Computer Science
Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics, Contact Modeling and Manipulation, Dynamics, Field & Service Robotics, Force Control, Human-Centered Robotics, Legged Robots, Manipulation & Interfaces, Mechanisms and Actuation, Motion Control, Roboethics: Social and Ethical Impli…
Special Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering · College of Engineering
Aayushya Agarwal is a Systems Scientist (Special Faculty) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and power systems, with recent work published at venues such as Neu…
How do we represent the visual world? My research focuses on developing representation and reasoning approaches for deeper understanding of the scene. I am interested in formulating the scene understanding problem in terms of the underlying 3D scene and develop reasoning approach…
3-D Vision and Recognition, Active Perception, Computer Vision, Control Theory, Deep Learning, Dynamics, Field & Service Robotics, Graphics & Creative Tools, Grasping, Human Robot Collaboration, Human-Centered Robotics, Imaging, Kinematics, Manipulation & Interfaces, Mechanisms a…
Adam D. Linstedt is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science in Pittsburgh, PA. He holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco. His research, situated within the medical and b…
Distinguished Service Professor, Language Technologies Institute · School of Computer Science
Adam Paulisick is a Distinguished Service Professor in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. His work spans AI and entrepreneurship, and he is also an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business.…
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering · College of Engineering
tissue regeneration in neuromuscular and cardiovascular systems; self-assembly and multi-scale coupling in biological systems; cell-material interactions; protein-based materials; bioprosthetics; stem cell differentiation and engineered morphogenesis
Assistant Professor , Computer Science Department · Carnegie Mellon University
Aditi works broadly in machine learning and her goal is to make machine learning more reliable and robust. Her work spans both theory and practice, and leverages tools and concepts from statistics, convex optimization, and algorithms to improve the robustness of modern systems ba…
My research interest is concerned with probabilistic analysis of random fields, certain disordered systems and of phase transitions. The basic goal is to explain phenomena observed at a macroscopic level by a probabilistic analysis based entirely on microscopic hypotheses on the …
Assistant Professor (Beginning Fall 2026), Language Technologies Institute · School of Computer Science
Akari Asai is an Assistant Professor (beginning Fall 2026) in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also holds an affiliate appointment in the Machine Learning Department. She is currently a research scientist at OLMo at the Allen Institute …
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Jha’s research interests lie at the intersection of energy and environmental economics and industrial organization. His research uses a combination of economic modeling and causal inference techniques to quantify the economic and environmental costs and benefits of a wide range o…
Professor of Marketing; Director, PNC PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation · Tepper School of Business
Alan Montgomery is a Professor of Marketing and Director of the PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. His academic profile, including publications and teaching activities, is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon Univers…
Head, Ph.D. Program; Richard M. Cyert Professor of Operations Management · Tepper School of Business
Alan Scheller-Wolf is the Richard M. Cyert Professor of Operations Management and Head of the Ph.D. Program at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. His research interests include operations management, with recent work exploring challenges posed by automation a…
K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies
Alex John London is the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies (formerly the Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy) at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy. His research interests include…
Associate Professor of Economics · Tepper School of Business
Ali Shourideh is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. An economic theorist, his research focuses on mechanism design and its applications to taxation, market regulations, and communication.
Assistant Professor of Art · Carnegie Mellon University
Collective memory, the synchronicity of time, specifically through the stories of women of color, interdisciplinary art, cultural production, public art installations, film, video, and performance art.
Professor, Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering · College of Engineering
activity-dependent gene expression in the CNS; the cellular and synaptic mechanisms that underlie learning and memory; the effect of behavioral training on neural excitability and anatomy
Maxwell H. and Gloria C. Connan Professor in the Life Sciences · Mellon College of Science
How does experience shape the brain?
Research in the Barth Lab is focused on understanding how experience assembles and alters the properties of neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, in both normal and disease states. The lab has a specific focus on somatosensation in the mous…
Distinguished Career Professor, Language Technologies Institute · School of Computer Science
Alon Lavie is a Distinguished Career Professor at the Language Technologies Institute within Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where he has been affiliated since 1996. His research primarily focuses on machine translation (MT) and natural language processin…
E.J. Barone Professor of Health Systems Management · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Dr. Haviland's research focuses on causal analysis with observational data and analysis of longitudinal and complex survey data applied to policy issues in health and criminology.
Ana Maria Pinto da Silva is the Head of School at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, a role she began on July 1, 2025. She joined CMU from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she served as Director of its Masters in Design program. Her work focuses on prepa…
Distinguished Service Professor · Carnegie Mellon University
operationalizing AI, responsible AI, systems thinking, ROI of AI, theory and practice of building agent-based models and digital twins, behavioral economics, and human decision-making
Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Management · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Ananya's research interests centre around platforms with a special focus on the media, innovation and more broadly the digital economy. He uses a variety of empirical techniques to analyze data from field experiments as well as observational data to gain insight into broad resear…
Assistant Professor of Economics · Tepper School of Business
André Sztutman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2023. His research interests align with the Tepper School's focus on area…
Control Theory, Reinforcement Learning, AI Reasoning for Robotics, Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Learning for Manipulation, Deep Learning, World Modeling, Perceptual Robotics, Human Activity Forecasting, Human-Centered Robotics, Robotics Foundations
Assistant Professor of Economics · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Andrew Garin is an Associate Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. His research lies at the intersection of labor and public economics, focusing on how labor market structures distribute the impacts of policy and economic change, with particular in…
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering · College of Engineering
My goal is to uncover general principles that describe and predict the behavior of ML systems—ideally enabling predictably reliable future systems. This goal entails combining statistical tools with large-scale experiments to precisely understand the ML "pipeline," from training …
Andrew Thomas Dunn is a Visiting Scholar in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. His research explores the intersections of phenomenology, aesthetics, and critical infrastructure studies in the interpretation of multiple media, including how novels and digital infrast…
Anna Loomis McCandless Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Anna Mayo is the Anna Loomis McCandless Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Her research explores what characterizes and supports effective teamwork in modern organizations, particu…
U.S. Steel Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science and University Professor · College of Engineering
additive manufacturing, advanced materials processing and manufacturing, digital twins, energy production, grid and energy infrastructure, industrial decarbonization and efficiency, materials genome, materials science & engineering, metallurgy & metallurgical engineering, multisc…
I am an observational cosmologist and astronomer interested in novel methods to understand the content and evolution of the Universe. My main goal is to exploit information from both galaxy surveys and gravitational wave (GW) data to understand the Universes dynamics and content,…
Aran Nayebi is an Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also serves as Courtesy Faculty at the Robotics Institute. His research interests include neural foundations of mental simulation…
Professor, Digital Media and Marketing; Co-Director, CISO Executive Education Program; Commercialization Advisor, Center for Machine Learning and Health · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Social Networks in Regulated Markets
Generation Z and disruption in the workplace
Diffusion of knowledge in collaborative systems
Associate Professor of Economics · Tepper School of Business
Ariel Zetlin-Jones is an Associate Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. His research focuses on macroeconomics, business cycles, financial frictions, and banking.
Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences · Mellon College of Science
How do neural circuits transform our thoughts into actions? I study neural circuits in the basal ganglia, a multifunctional brain region that plays a role in the regulation of movement, learning, motivation, and reward. My specific interests include how neural circuits in the bas…
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering · College of Engineering
Role of signal models in breaking traditional sensing and processing limitations; Co-design of optics/imaging and processing for novel sensor design; Use of non-linear signal models for efficient sensing and processing of high-dimensional data; Compressed sensing and image proces…
Assistant Professor · Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Atoosa Kasirzadeh is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, with joint affiliations in the Department of Philosophy and the Software & Societal Systems department. Her research interests span philosophical traditions, metaphysics and epistemology, value theory, and…
Glen de Vries Dean of Mellon College of Science, Lab PI/Director, Professor with appointments in the Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments and Neuroscience Institute · Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
auditory attention in normal and special populations; binaural and spatial hearing; subcortical and cortical sound processing; multi-sensory attention networks
Howard Heinz University Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology · Carnegie Mellon University
Baruch Fischhoff is the Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on decision science, judgment, risk, and the environment,…
Professor of IT and Management · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Beibei's research interests lie at the intersection between social and technical aspects of information technology. She is especially interested in the interaction between human decisions and recent technological disruptions in the markets. Specifically, the ubiquitous adoption a…
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering · College of Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Machine Learning Systems
Algorithms
Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models
Algorithm-system Co-design
I am broadly interested in condensed-matter physics, but particularly in the way that electrons behave when they are subjected to extreme conditions such as ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields. Under such conditions, electrons can display striking collective quantum b…
I enjoy searching for the largest and best combinatorial objects. Oftentimes the search brings problems of algebraic and geometric flavour, which I especially like.
Below are some of the topics and basic problems that I have played with in the past:
- Turán problems: What is th…
Associate Professor of Finance · Tepper School of Business
Brent Glover is an Associate Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. His research, which includes work on internal liquidity and its financial effects, is widely cited and affiliated with institutions such as the NBER and SSRN.
Professor of Economics and Public Policy · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
His research examines the labor market impacts of international trade, migration, and technological change. Dr. Kovak’s recent work concerns the long-run effects of trade liberalization on workers' employment and earnings, workers' geographic mobility in response to local economi…
Associate Professor of Art · Carnegie Mellon University
sculpture and installations made using digital fabrication processes; probes the lines between human, animal, and environmental relationships; systematic construction and concept; microcosms found at the surface of our feet; digital mesh; braided entanglements between ourselves a…
The McCartney lab investigates fundamental cellular mechanisms that drive developmental processes including oogenesis and systemic growth in Drosophila. In oogenesis, we are dissecting the mechanisms controlling the assembly, organization, dynamics and function of two co-aligning…
Learning Sciences and Educational Technologies, Human-Centered AI, Responsible Computing, Ethics and Policy, Games and Play, Digital Learning Games, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, and Collaborative Learning
Associate Professor of Finance · Tepper School of Business
Bryan Routledge is an Associate Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. His research focuses on a broad selection of topics in finance, and his work has been published in academic venues and featured on platforms like SSRN and Google Schola…
Courtesy Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Paul Christiano Professor and Department Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering · College of Engineering
Modeling and reasoning about information rich histories of buildings and infrastructure systems, to streamline construction and infrastructure operations. Specifically focuses on investigating utilization and integration of building information models with data capture technologi…
PNC Professor of Finance; Professor of Financial Economics · Tepper School of Business
Burton Hollifield is the PNC Professor of Financial Economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. His teaching and research focus on investments, corporation finance, and portfolio management.
Associate Professor and co-Director of the MS in Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences · School of Computer Science
How does variation in gene expression contribute to phenotypic diversity and disease? Gene expression involves transcription of DNA into mRNA, alternative splicing of mRNA, translation of mRNA into proteins, and regulation of mRNA and protein levels through turnover pathways. Res…
Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, University of Technology Sydney · Carnegie Mellon University
Sustainable Design, Service Design, Sharing Economy, Transition Design, material cultural studies, sociologies of technology, critical practice-based design research
Can Kultur is a Researcher Associate in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. Their research interests include computing education, with recent work presented at SIGCSE TS 2025 on topics such as AI technicians and occupational…
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Psychology, and Biomedical Informatics and Director of the Mobile Sensing and Health Institute · School of Computer Science
Leveraging mobile technology such as smartphones and wearable sensors for remote patient monitoring as well as delivery and personalization of behavioral interventions
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science and co-Director of the Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology · School of Computer Science
Dr. Kingsford’s research is focused on developing new, efficient algorithms for extracting knowledge from large biological data sets, particularly high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data. He has worked recently on algorithms for accurately quantifying gene expression, identif…
Carl Rosendahl is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), where he has taught since 2008 and also directs the center’s Executive Education program. His work focuses on mentoring students in entertainment tec…
Professor, Language Technologies Institute · School of Computer Science
Speech and multimodal processing
Affective computing
Social signal processing
Multimodal machine learning
Multimodal foundational models
Language technology for healthcare and mental health
Multimodal behavior generative models
Clarence H. Adamson Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics, and Civil and Environmental Engineering · College of Engineering
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor of Psychology (Teaching), Director of Summer Program for Undergraduate Researchers, Faculty Advisor: Psi Chi and Study Abroad · Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
We are interested in understanding how the genome encodes the program of development. During embryogenesis, linear (one-dimensional) information contained in the genomic DNA sequence is translated into multicellular (three-dimensional) form. We study this problem using the sea ur…
Regina and Marlin Miller Head of School, Professor of Art · College of Fine Arts
Charlie White is the Regina and Marlin Miller Head of School and Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art, where he has served as Head of School for a decade. His leadership has focused on fostering student-centered connection and community within the School…
Associate Professor, Language Technologies Institute · School of Computer Science
Data-Centric Foundation and Language Models: Build efficient and capable foundation and language models through data-centric approaches.
Embedded Learning: Represent the rich information in documents, images, videos, and various modalities into an embedding vector to empower vari…
Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance · Tepper School of Business
Chester Spatt is the Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught since 1979. His research interests are in finance, and he has also served as a visiting professor and senior fellow at MIT S…
Chieko Asakawa is a faculty member affiliated with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is also associated with IBM Research. Her research focuses on computer science and web accessibility, with a particular emphasis on human–computer interaction and to…
My life goal is to fulfill the science fiction vision of machines that achieve human levels of competence in perceiving, thinking, and acting. A more narrow technical goal is to understand how to get machines to generate and perceive human behavior. I use two complementary approa…
Associate Professor of Communication and Innovation · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
His research focuses on the mitigation of misinformation and disinformation. His current research looks at how AI conversations can help people talk themselves and their social groups out of false information and conspiracy theories.
Associate Professor of Financial Economics · Tepper School of Business
Chris Telmer is an Associate Professor of Financial Economics at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. His research interests include the effect of government subsidies on the financing of renewable energy assets. He has received the Undergraduate Teaching Award…
Harihara Baskaran | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · School of Computer Science
As an interdisciplinary research laboratory, our goal is to make the paradigms of Machine Learning and Feedback Control accessible and readily applicable in Biology. We focus on developing computational/theoretical and experimental tools to facilitate this integration across vari…
Assistant Professor, Human Computer Interaction Institute · School of Computer Science
Christina Harrington is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Design. A designer and qualitative researcher, her work sits at the …
Professor of Practice · Carnegie Mellon University
Christine Mondor is a Professor of Practice at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with the School of Architecture. Her research interests include computational tools and community action, particularly in the context of air quality and environmental landscapes. She is also a p…
Senior Systems Scientist · School of Computer Science
Christopher Bogart is a Senior Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. His research focuses on computer science education, including the use of large language models (LLMs) and generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) in educational assessme…
Christopher Eur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on algebraic geometry and its intersection with combinatorics, with a particular interest in matroids. He was named a 2026 Sloan Research Fello…
Alumni University Professor · Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
My work in the 1970s focussed on traditional issues in the philosophy of science, especially formal accounts of the confirmation of scientific theories. In this same period I worked on philosophically interesting global properties of models of general relaivity. In the 1980s, in …
Dorothy L. Stubnitz Professor of Art · Carnegie Mellon University
Clayton Merrell is the Dorothy L. Stubnitz Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art, where he teaches painting and printmaking. He earned his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1995 and is a practicing contemporary artist whose work has been featured in exhi…
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies · Mellon College of Science
I work in descriptive set theory, which is the study of how the ability to define a set (say of real numbers) confers useful information about its mathematical properties. Restricting your attention to definable sets rather than arbitrary sets can have counterintuitive consequen…
My research interests primarily concern nonperturbative phenomena in quantum field theories, with particular emphasis on the study of hadron formation and confinement in quantum chromodynamics using computer simulations of quarks and gluons. Two past highlights include a first co…
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Sustainable transportation systems, Multi-modal transportation modeling, Systems and infrastructure impacts of the transition to autonomous vehicles, Transportation safety, Decision analysis and modeling, Active management of transportation systems
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering · Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Understanding how the chemical composition and physical properties of atmospheric aerosol particles influence air quality and climate. Specifically, her goal is to disentangle the chemical complexity of the atmosphere by measuring and then developing semi-empirical models to desc…
Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship · Tepper School of Business
Craig Markovitz is an Entrepreneur in Residence in the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship and an Assistant Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He also serves as Director of EIR and Mentor Programs at CMU and…
Otto Stern Professor of Physics, Professor by Courtesy, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center · Mellon College of Science
Most of the visible mass of the universe is composed of protons and neutrons—particles which build up the cores of atoms. However, the protons and neutrons (nucleons) are themselves composed of more fundamental particles known as quarks and gluons and interestingly, these small c…
Assistant Professor of the Practice & HCII Associate Director for Outreach · School of Computer Science
Human-Centered AI, Human-Agent and Human-Robot Interaction, Interaction and Experience Design, Research through Design, Service Design and AI Innovation
Dawn Taylor | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · Carnegie Mellon University
Dana’s design work is driven by a holistic vision of the built environment, centered on the relationship between ecology and technology, and the capacity of architecture to be ecologically vibrant. Her work seeks attunement with natural processes in pursuit of the aesthetics of e…
Daniel’s research and teaching are interdisciplinary and develop along two related threads. The first is a critical reconstruction of the interplay of design and computation during the second half of the 20th century. Organized around archival, ethnographic and curatorial researc…
Lester Hamburg University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
His research focuses on the evolution of criminal and antisocial behaviors over the life course, the deterrent effect of criminal and non-criminal penalties on illegal behaviors, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data. His work has appeared in …
Professor · Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
There is an awful lot of information in the world. Some of it is useful; most of it is not. How do people determine what information to use when making decisions, what is worth learning, how to search for the information they need, and what do people do when different pieces of i…
Buhl University Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Human-Computer Interaction Institute; Computer Science Department · College of Engineering
Computer architecture; Reliability; Context aware mobile computing; QoL technology; Rapid prototyping; Virtual coaches; Wearable computers; Design automation; Reliable computing
Associate Professor of Philosophy · Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Broadly speaking, my research addresses lacuna in three different areas of applied ethics and applied political philosophy. The first is research ethics, broadly construed; what ethical and methodological standards ought to govern the behavior of researchers and research sponsors…
Computational analysis of molecular sequence data is a key component in solving three critical biological problems of the 21st century: how genes interact to produce living cells, how gene malfunction causes disease and how complex, multicellular organisms evolved from simple, un…
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences · School of Computer Science
Computational analysis of molecular sequence data is a key component in solving three critical biological problems of the 21st century: how genes interact to produce living cells, how gene malfunction causes disease and how complex, multicellular organisms evolved from simple, un…
Algorithms and Complexity, Artificial Intelligence, Theory, Amortized analysis of algorithms, Self-adjusting data structures, Competitive algorithms, Natural language parsing, Computer game playing, Synthesis of musical sounds, Persistent data structures
Distinguished Special Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering · College of Engineering
David J. Allstot is a Distinguished Special Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, a position he joined in 2023. His research focuses on analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency integrated circuits, with recognized contributions to the an…
Principal Systems Scientist · School of Computer Science
Manufacturing Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Business and Robotics, Machine Learning Embedded in Systems, AI Reasoning for Robotics, Grasping, Computer Vision, Motion Planning, Active Perception, Multisensor Data Fusion, Field & Service Robotics, Human-Centered Robotics, Mani…
Associate Professor of Statistics and Information Systems · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
statistics and machine learning for network data, including exploratory data analysis and community detection, other network models involving latent variables or unsupervised learning, and causal inference in the presence of social network effects
Robot Programming by Demonstration, Active Perception, Robot Learning for Manipulation, Perceptual Robotics, Computer Vision, Visual Servoing and Visual Tracking, Learning and Classification, 3-D Vision and Recognition, Human-Centered Robotics, Neurorobotics: From Vision to Actio…
Distinguished Service Professor of Organizational Management · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
David Lassman is a Distinguished Service Professor of Organizational Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, where he teaches courses in organizational behavior, leadership, and strategy. His academic profile also highlig…
Professor of Organizations and Public Policy (Joint appointment with the Tepper School of Business) · Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
network analysis, organizations, cognitive social structures, diffusion of innovations, organizational change, Simmelian ties
Distinguished Service Professor · Carnegie Mellon University
technology application to education (Web 2.0, LMS, synchronous platforms, automation, AI/ML, etc.), active learning methodologies (learning by doing, blended learning, flipped classrooms, team-based learning, etc.), and analysis of synchronous and asynchronous education through o…
The first of my two major research areas is the representation of spatial information in the rodent brain. I develop computational models of the hippocampus, an area thought to be involved in navigation and learning. There is evidence that the hippocampal "cognitive map" combines…
Algorithms and Complexity, Machine Learning, communication complexity, data stream algorithms and lower bounds, graph algorithms, numerical linear algebra, sketching, and sparse recovery
Special Faculty · Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dejan Makovec is a Special Faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Thomas Lord University Professor of Economics · Tepper School of Business
Dennis Epple is the Thomas Lord University Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with the Tepper School of Business. His research interests include local public good provision, voting, peer effects, and mobility, as evidenced by his work on these topics…
Derek Ham is the Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, where he leads innovative research and collaborative projects at the intersection of technology, design, and storytelling. With a deep commitment to fostering creativity and advancing the f…
Special Faculty · Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Derek Leben is Special Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research focuses on the intersection of ethics, cognitive science, and emerging technologies.
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Assistant Professor, Engineering and Public Policy · Carnegie Mellon University
energy justice, energy systems modeling, multi-criteria decision analysis, applied optimization, sustainability planning, energy policy, equity, engineering for social good
Falco-DeBenedetti Associate Professor of Physics · Mellon College of Science
My primary research interest is in the physics of the neutrino, a fundamental particle that is generated in particle decays and nuclear reactions and that, in the Standard Model of particle physics, interacts only via the weak force. At Earth's distance from the Sun, about 65 bil…
vernacular architecture and regional traditions of North America, the interpretation and preservation of cultural landscapes, American house and housing, and urban design history; Mesoamerican, Spanish Colonial, and Modern Architecture in Mexico and Guatemala; the physical and so…
Principal Systems Scientist · School of Computer Science
Field & Service Robotics, Robotics in Hazardous Application, Robotics for Scientific Discovery, Mining Robotics, Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry, Robotics in Construction, Industrial Robotics, Space Robots and Systems, Robot Structures, Wheeled Robots, Legged Robots, Robotic…
computational design and interaction researcher. Her research focuses on new roles of computational design and physicality in embodied sense-making, including human perception, cognition, and experience. She investigates computational methods to augment our sensory experiences an…
Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematical Finance, Director of Center for Computational Finance · Mellon College of Science
My research interests are related with problems of Mathematical Finance and Theory of Stochastic Processes and, particularly, with the mathematical challenges presented by equilibrium-based models. The recent results include the development of continuous-time price impact model w…
Andrew Mellon Professor of Architecture · Carnegie Mellon University
Doug Cooper is the Andrew Mellon Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is affiliated with the School of Architecture. His professional interests center on architectural drawing, as evidenced by his convening of events on hand drawing and the establishm…
Akhtar and Bhutta Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Neuroscience Institute and Biomedical Engineering · College of Engineering
functional electrical stimulation (FES); activity-based neuromotor rehabilitation; neural coding; and neural control of prosthetic devices; 3D motion analysis
In the Bridges lab, we study how bacteria make developmental decisions based on extracellular sensory information. The developmental program on which we focus is the formation and disassembly of multicellular bacterial communities called biofilms. Previously, we pioneered the use…
Associate Professor, History · Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research
Trans-national history of West African rice farmers, peasant farmers in pre-colonial Upper Guinea Coast, enslaved laborers on rice plantations in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry during the antebellum period. Interdisciplinary 300-year study of the impact of enslaved lab…
Professor, University of Melbourne · School of Computer Science
Eduard Hovy is a research professor in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where his work focuses on computer science and machine translation, including the long-term goal of building systems that learn automatically by reading text. He holds a Ph.D…
Eli Ben-Michael is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on causal inference, applied statistics, and quantitative social science. He…
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Grobstein Professor, Materials Science and Engineering · College of Engineering
Towe's group pursues research in basic optical and quantum phenomena in materials for applications in novel photonic devices that enable a new generation of information processing systems for communication, computation, and sensing. The group is also interested in understanding n…
Elisaweta Masserova is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on distributed cryptography, including topics such as secret-sharing, blockchain-based systems, and secure multiparty computation.
Founder & Director, Institute for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh; Associate Professor of Curatorial Practice, School of Art; Johnson Family Public Art Curator, Carnegie Mellon University · Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth Chodos is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh and an Associate Professor of Curatorial Practice in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also serves as the inaugural Johnson Family Public Art Curator. Her work c…
The Ransey Lab explores the multifaceted roles of gap junctions—essential intercellular pores that enable direct communication, metabolic exchange, and rapid adaptation to stress. These multimeric channels are formed by connexin (Cx) proteins, which assemble into hexameric hemich…
Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute · School of Computer Science
Emma Strubell is an Assistant Professor (Raj Reddy Assistant Professor) in the Language Technologies Institute within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Their research centers on efficient and equitable natural language processing (NLP), including quant…
En Cai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science. Their research focuses on immunology and super-resolution imaging, including the study of T cell dynamics and interactions.
How many professors at Carnegie Mellon University are hiring PhD students in 2026?
As of 2026-10-19, 5 professors at Carnegie Mellon University, a US university, show active PhD hiring signals in phd-match's faculty database.
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