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Office Legend:
BA
| Bahen Centre
40 St. George Street


UY
| 700 University
700 University Avenue


PT
| D.L. Pratt Building
6 King’s College Road


SF
| Sandford Fleming
10 King’s College Road


Research Stream Faculty

Name & Position Contact Research
Tarek Abdelrahman
Professor
tsa@eecg.utoronto.ca
416-978-4690
Room: SF 2002C
Research Areas: Systems
Research Interests: Parallel systems (e.g., multicores or GPUs) and their associated software.
Ishtiaque Ahmed
Associate Professor
ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8528
Room: BA 5262
Research Areas: human-computer interaction, ICTD
Research Interests: computing for marginalized communities, critical computing, social justice, sustainability
Ashton Anderson
Associate Professor
ashton@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-5714
Room: PT 398C
Research Areas: computational social science
Research Interests: empirical analysis of large-scale social data, social media analysis, social networks, large-scale community dynamics, algorithmic fairness and bias
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Professor
aspuru@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8514
Room: SF 3306
Research Areas: machine learning, quantum computing, robotics, high-performance computing
Research Interests: machine learning for molecular and materials discovery, autonomous robotic laboratories, quantum computing algorithms, accurate numerical solutions for the quantum many-body problem
Jimmy Ba
Associate Professor
jba@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-7564
Room: PT 290D
Research Areas: machine learning
Research Interests: deep learning, neural networks, deep reinforcement learning, optimization
Ravin Balakrishnan
Professor
ravin@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-2980
Room: BA 7204
Research Areas: human-computer interaction, interactive computer graphics
Research Interests: most aspects of HCI and interactive graphics
Anthony Bonner
Associate Professor
bonner@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-7441
Room: PT 396B
Research Areas: machine learning
Research Interests: deep learning, generative models, learning representations
Allan Borodin
University Professor
bor@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-6416
Room: SF 2303B
Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: design and analysis of algorithms, algorithmic paradigms, online algorithms, algorithmic game theory, social choice theory
Angela Brown
Professor
Associate Chair, Graduate Studies, Operations
demke@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8080
Room: BA 5228
Research Areas: systems
Research Interests: file and storage systems, distributed data processing, dynamic instrumentation, performance and reliability
Michael Brudno
Professor
brudno@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-2589
Room: BA 7264
Research Areas: computational medicine, computational biology, human-computer interaction
Research Interests: machine learning for clinical human-computer interaction, medical natural language processing, mobile devices in medicine, rare disease genomics and epigenomics
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
Professor
jbk@cs.toronto.edu
Room: DH 3064 (UTM)
Research Areas: robotics
Research Interests: continuum robots, robot modelling, motion planning and control, human-robot interaction, surgical robotics, robot design
Marsha Chechik
Professor
chechik@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-3820
Room: BA 3259
Research Areas: software engineering, programming languages & formal methods
Research Interests: analysis of software, automotive safety, model-driven engineering, software product lines, model-checking
Fanny Chevalier
Associate Professor
fanny@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-4391
Room: BA 5226
Research Areas: information visualization, human-computer interaction
Research Interests: visual analytics, visualization and statistical literacy, visualization of machine learning, sketch-based interfaces
Christina Christara
Professor
ccc@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-7360
Room: BA 4226
Research Areas: numerical analysis and computing, high performance computing
Research Interests: numerical methods, analysis and computation of PDEs, solution of large sparse linear systems, high performance and parallel scientific computing, computational finance
Niv Dayan
Assistant Professor
nivdayan@cs.toronto.edu
Room: BA 5230
Research Areas: data management, databases, systems
Research Interests: storage engines, key-value stores, NoSQL, data structures, probabilistic filters
Eyal de Lara
Professor & Chair
delara@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8656
Room: BA 7202
Research Areas: systems
Research Interests: mobile, pervasive, cloud, and edge computing
Sven Dickinson
Professor
sven@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-3853
Room: PT 283B
Research Areas: computer vision
Research Interests: segmentation and grouping, shape representation and perception, object recognition, language-vision integration, human vision, scene perception
David Duvenaud
Associate Professor
duvenaud@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8483
Room: PT 384
Research Areas: machine learning
Research Interests: probabilistic models, neural networks
Steve Easterbrook
Professor
sme@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-3610
Room: BA 3259
Research Areas: sustainability informatics
Research Interests: climate modelling, verification and validation of scientific models, decision support for sustainability, machine learning for climate data
Faith Ellen
Professor
Associate Chair, Graduate Studies, Students
faith@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-6183
Room: SF 2302C
Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: theory of distributed computing, complexity of data structures
Murat Erdogdu
Assistant Professor
erdogdu@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-7726
Room: PT 286B
Research Areas: machine learning
Research Interests: optimization algorithms, machine learning theory, graphical models, statistics
Azadeh Farzan
Professor
Vice Chair
azadeh@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-3983
Room: BA 3252
Research Areas: programming languages, formal methods, software engineering
Research Interests: program synthesis (automated programming), program verification, parallel computing, concurrency, distributed computing
Sanja Fidler
Associate Professor
fidler@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-8737
Room: PT 386
Research Areas: computer vision, machine learning
David Fleet
Professor
fleet@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8485
Room: PT 396A
Research Areas: computer vision, machine learning, computational biology
Research Interests: generative models, transfer learning, video understanding, physics-based vision, cryo-EM reconstruction of macromolecules
Yashar Ganjali
Professor
ganjali7@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-2952
Room: BA 5238
Research Areas: computer networks, systems
Research Interests: software-defined networking, data centers, packet switching systems, network measurements, social networking
Igor Gilitschenski
Assistant Professor
gilitschenski@cs.toronto.edu
UTM
Research Areas: robotics, computer vision, machine learning
Research Interests: robot learning, multi-modal perception, scene understanding, robust interactive autonomy, geometric and probabilistic deep learning
Anna Goldenberg
Professor
anna.goldenberg@utoronto.ca
Room: PT 286C
Research Areas: computational biology
Research Interests: developing machine learning models for clinical decision tasks, drug response predictions, disease heterogeneity deconvolution (both from clinical and biological perspective)
Eitan Grinspun
Professor
Associate Chair, Communications, Mentoring and Inclusion 
eitan@cs.toronto.edu
Room: BA 5252
Research Areas: computer graphics
Research Interests: discrete differential geometry, physics based animation, computational mechanics, contact mechanics
Roger Grosse
Associate Professor
rgrosse@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-7391
Room: PT 290F
Research Areas: machine learning
Research Interests: neural networks, bayesian learning
Tovi Grossman
Associate Professor
tovi@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-6763
Room: BA 5270
Research Areas: human-computer interaction
Research Interests: 3D UIs, AR/VR, wearable and mobile interaction, technology-assisted learning, sketch-based input, interactive fabrication, physical crowdsourcing, human-robot interaction
Arvind Gupta
Professor
Academic Director, Professional Programs
arvind@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-3480
Room: UY 9022 (Floor 9)
Research Areas: innovation policy; modeling physiological and health-care systems
Research Interests: role of academia in stimulating innovation; non-invasive techniques for detecting physiological and psychological stresses, time series, mathematical and computational modeling
Vassos Hadzilacos
Professor
vassos@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-6028
Room: SF 2304B
Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: distributed computing
Anwar Hithnawi
Assistant Professor
Starting January 1, 2025
anwar.hithnawi@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: system security, data privacy, applied cryptography
Research Interests: privacy-preserving systems, secure computation, differential privacy
Alec Jacobson
Associate Professor
Associate Chair, Academic Recruiting
jacobson@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8630
Room: BA 5266
Research Areas: computer graphics
Research Interests: geometry processing, computer animation, computational fabrication, user interfaces
Zhijing Jin
Assistant Professor
Starting July 1, 2025
zjin@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: natural language processing, large language models, computational social science, machine learning, AI safety, causal inference
Research Interests: causal methods for natural language processing, AI safety, responsible AI, causal effects from text, LLM evaluation, AI for science, epistemology
Swastik Kopparty
Professor
swastik@cs.toronto.edu
Room: SF 3324
Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: error-correcting codes, complexity theory, finite fields, randomness and pseudorandomness
Nick Koudas
Professor
koudas@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-5819
Room: BA 5240
Research Areas: data management systems
Research Interests: data management, query processing, scalable machine learning on massive data sets, video and image query processing, approximate query processing with deep learning models, machine learning applications in neuroscience
Rahul G. Krishnan
Assistant Professor
rahulgk@cs.toronto.edu
Room: PT 286A
Research Areas: machine learning, computational medicine
Research Interests: machine learning for healthcare, deep generative modeling, probabilistic inference, time series modeling, causal inference
Kyros Kutulakos
Professor
kyros@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8045
Room: BA 7270
Research Areas: computer vision, computer graphics
Research Interests: physics-based computer vision, shape from video, advanced 3D sensors, computational cameras, computational photography, computational light transport
David Levin
Associate Professor
diwlevin@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-2052
Room: BA 5268
Research Areas: computer graphics
Research Interests: physics-based animation, computational fabrication, numerical methods for graphics, computer-aided design
Aviad Levis
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning
Research Interests: scientific imaging, inverse problems, AI4Science
David Lindell
Assistant Professor
lindell@cs.toronto.edu
Room: BA7228
Research Areas: computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning
Research Interests: computational imaging, 3D computer vision, time-of-flight imaging, physics-based machine learning
Fan Long
Assistant Professor
fanl@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-6055
Room: BA 3250
Research Areas: programming languages, software engineering, systems
Research Interests: software reliability, system security, blockchain
Chris Maddison
Assistant Professor
cmaddis@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-6209
Room: PT 398A
Research Areas: machine learning
Research Interests: deep learning, Bayesian inference, optimization
Peter Marbach
Professor
marbach@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-1680
Room: BA 5224
Research Areas: social networks, theoretical computer science, information networks, computational social science
Research Interests: theory of social networks, user behavior and interactions in social networks, game theory and social choice, information networks and machine learning, algorithms for social networks analysis, online auctions and bidding algorithms, optimal design of online social networks, social networks and economic theory
Alex Mariakakis
Assistant Professor
mariakakis@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-5359
Room: BA 7266
Research Areas: human-computer interaction
Research Interests: mobile health, ubiquitous computing, interaction methods, wearables, context-aware computing, sensing applications
Sheila McIlraith
Professor
sheila@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8484
Room: PT 398D
Research Areas: knowledge representation and reasoning
Research Interests: AI planning and reinforcement learning, program synthesis (automated programming), human-compatible AI, cognitive robotics, commonsense reasoning
Kuldeep Meel
Associate Professor
meel@cs.toronto.edu
Room: PT 398B
Research Areas: formal methods, design automation, databases, AI
Research Interests: automated reasoning, synthesis, streaming, probabilistic reasoning, distribution testing
Maryam Mehri Dehnavi
Associate Professor
Associate Chair, Research
mmehride@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-4158
Room: BA 3254
Research Areas: systems, scientific and high-performance computing, machine learning, programming languages
Research Interests: high-performance computing, parallel algorithms, compilers, systems for machine learning, cloud computing, computer architecture, numerical analysis and optimization, graph theory
Michael Molloy
Professor
molloy@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-1932
Room: SF 3314
Research Areas: theoretical computer science, graph theory
Research Interests: graph colouring, random graphs, probabilistic methods
Aleksandar Nikolov
Associate Professor
anikolov@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8672
Room: SF 2301B
Research Areas: theoretical computer science, algorithms, differential privacy
Research Interests: differential privacy, combinatorial optimization, computational high-dimensional geometry, discrepancy theory
Carolina Nobre
Assistant Professor
cnobre@cs.toronto.edu
Room: BA 5264
Research Areas: information visualization, human-computer interaction
Research Interests: user-adaptive visualizations, interactive visualizations, active learning, crowdsourced user studies for visualization
Gennady Pekhimenko
Associate Professor
pekhimenko@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-0250
Room: BA 5232
Research Areas: computer architecture, systems, machine learning
Research Interests: computer architecture, memory designs, hardware acceleration, systems for machine learning, stream processing, compilers, cloud computing, approximate computing
Gerald Penn
Professor
gpenn@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-7390
Room: PT 283A
Research Areas: computational linguistics and natural language processing
Research Interests: spoken language processing, mathematical linguistics
Toniann Pitassi
Professor
toni@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-3695
Room: SF 2305A
Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: complexity theory, proof complexity, differential privacy and fairness, machine learning theory
Colin Raffel
Associate Professor
craffel@cs.toronto.edu
Room: PT 390
Research Areas: machine learning
Research Interests: collaborative machine learning, large language models, learning from limited data
Sushant Sachdeva
Associate Professor
sachdeva@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-6237
Room: SF 3324
Research Areas: theoretical computer science, algorithms, optimization
Research Interests: design of fast algorithms, particularly for graph problems and optimization, approximation algorithms, numerical linear algebra, algorithmic problems from statistics and machine learning
Gururaj Saileshwar
Assistant Professor
gururaj@cs.toronto.edu
Room: BA 5234
Research Areas: computer architecture, hardware security, system security
Research Interests: security for computer systems and hardware, micro-architectural security, side-channel attacks, fault-injection attacks, trusted execution environments (TEEs), privacy-preserving computations, memory safety, fuzzing
Shubhangi Saraf
Professor
shubhangi@cs.toronto.edu
Room: SF 3320
Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: complexity theory, algebraic complexity theory, error correcting codes, discrete geometry
Bianca Schroeder
Professor
bianca@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-0309
Room: BA 5236
Research Areas:computer systems, applied machine learning
Research Interests: file and storage systems, system reliability, machine learning for systems, field studies, resource allocation and scheduling
Kirill Serkh
Assistant Professor
kserkh@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: numerical analysis, mathmatical analysis
Research Interests: numerical analysis, scientific computing, partial differential equations, numerical linear algebra, quadrature and approximation theory, special functions
Nisarg Shah
Associate Professor
nisarg@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8477
Room: SF 3312
Research Areas: theoretical computer science, game theory & social choice
Research Interests: computational economics, voting theory, resource allocation, fair algorithmic decision-making, incentives in multi-agent systems including blockchain and machine learning environments
Florian Shkurti
Assistant Professor
florian@cs.toronto.edu
UTM
Research Areas: robotics, machine learning, computer vision
Research Interests: imitation learning for robot control, active semi-supervised learning, decision-making under uncertainty, perception and semantic video understanding, shared autonomy, visual exploration, field robotics, human-robot interaction
Xujie Si
Assistant Professor
six@cs.toronto.edu
Room: BA 3248
Research Areas: programming languages, machine learning
Research Interests: static analysis, program verification, program synthesis, logic programming, neuro-symbolic learning and reasoning, AI safety and robustness
Karan Singh
Professor
karan@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-7201
Room: BA 5258
Research Areas: computer graphics, human- computer interaction
Research Interests: interactive graphics, shape modelling, character animation, facial animation, artistic rendering and fabrication, shape perception, sketch interfaces, mobile interfaces, AR/VR
Robert Soden
Assistant Professor
soden@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8514
Room: BA 7200
Research Areas: crisis Informatics, human-computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), infrastructure studies, critical design, participatory sensing, civic technology, environmental justice
Akshayaram Srinivasan
Assistant Professor
akshayaram@cs.toronto.edu
Room: SF 3322
Research Areas: theoretical computer science, cryptography
Research Interests: foundations of cryptography, secure multiparty computation, pseudorandomness.
Suzanne Stevenson
Professor
Special Advisor to the Chair
suzanne@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-6277
Room: PT 283D
Research Areas: computational linguistics and natural language processing
Research Interests: cognitive modelling of language acquisition and processing, lexical semantics and ambiguity, cross-linguistic semantic typology, bilingualism
Lisa Strug
Professor
lisa.strug@utoronto.ca Research Areas: statistical genetics
Babak Taati
Associate Professor, (Status-Only)
taati@cs.toronto.edu
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Research Areas: health & assistive technology
Research Interests: computer vision for health monitoring, assistive and rehabilitation technologies, machine learning for medicine and health informatics
Roei Tell
Assistant Professor
roei@cs.toronto.edu
Room: SF 3310
Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: complexity theory, pseudorandomness and derandomization, circuit complexity
Sam Toueg
Professor
sam@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-3510
Room: SF 2304C
Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: distributed computing: algorithms and lower bounds for distributed computing problems
Khai Truong
Professor
khai@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-4761
Room: BA 7268
Research Areas: human-computer interaction
Research Interests: interactive mobile, wearable & ubiquitous technologies, assistive technology, ubicomp applications, context-aware computing, IoT, input sensors, interaction methods, user studies, social implications of technologies
Raquel Urtasun
Professor
urtasun@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8482
Room: PT 290E
Research Areas: computer vision, machine learning, robotics
Research Interests: autonomous driving, machine learning, computer vision, robotics
Nandita Vijaykumar
Assistant Professor
nandita@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8864
Room: BA 5251
Research Areas: computer architecture, computer systems, compilers
Research Interests: computer architecture, accelerators, GPUs, compilers, systems for machine learning, memory systems, programmability, cross-layer optimization
Bo Wang
Assistant Professor
bwang@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: machine learning, computational biology
Nathan Wiebe
Associate Professor
nawiebe@cs.toronto.edu
Room: SF 3318
Research Areas: quantum computing, quantum algorithms
Research Interests: quantum simulation, quantum machine learning, quantum characterization, quantum optimization algorithm
Daniel Wigdor
Professor
Associate Chair, Strategic Partnerships
daniel@dgp.toronto.edu
416-978-7777
Room: BA 5260
Research Areas: human-computer interaction
Research Interests: input sensors, output devices, interaction methods (including all form factors: mobile,
room scale, AR/VR), computational fabrication methods, interaction methods, ethnographic studies of broad trends in HCI, designing for societal and environmental impact
Joseph Jay Williams
Assistant Professor
williams@cs.toronto.edu
416-946-8867
Room: BA 5254
Research Areas: computer science & education, human-computer interaction
Research Interests: education, health behavior change, mental health, randomized A/B experimentation, applications of statistics & machine learning to HCI and A/B experimentation, crowdsourcing & human computation, computer science education
Ningning Xie
Assistant Professor
ningningxie@cs.toronto.edu
Room: BA 3256
Research Areas: programming languages
Research Interests: language design, functional programming, type theory, logics, compilers, program verification, machine learning programming
Yang Xu
Associate Professor
yangxu@cs.toronto.edu
416-976-0857
Room: PT 283C
Research Areas: computational linguistics and NLP
Research Interests: semantic change, lexical evolution, lexical composition, cross-linguistic semantic typology, NLP for social science
Richard Zemel
Professor
zemel@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-7497
Room: PT 290G
Research Areas: machine learning
Research Interests: representation learning, learning & vision, generative models, algorithmic fairness
Qizhen Zhang
Assistant Professor
qz@cs.toronto.edu
Room: BA 5222
Research Areas: data management, systems/networks
Research Interests: data-intensive applications, large-scale data processing, databases, distributed systems, data center networks, cloud computing, interactions between machine learning and computer systems
 

Teaching Stream Faculty

Name Position Email Phone Number Office
Bahar Aameri Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
bahar@cs.toronto.edu
Mario Badr Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
mbadr@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-1712 BA 4270
Gary Baumgartner Associate Professor,
Teaching Stream
gfb@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-5181 BA 4232
Jonathan Calver Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
calver@cs.toronto.edu   BA 4222
Jennifer Campbell Professor,
Teaching Stream
campbell@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-6320 BA 4268
Steven Coyne Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
steven.coyne@mail.utoronto.ca
Michelle Wahl Craig Professor,
Teaching Stream
mcraig@cs.toronto.edu 416-946-8488 BA 4258
Steve Engels Professor,
Teaching Stream
sengels@cs.toronto.edu 416-946-5454 BA 4266
Tom Fairgrieve Associate Professor,
Teaching Stream
tff@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-3965 BA 4230
Alice Gao Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
axgao@cs.toronto.edu   BA 4240
Paul Gries Professor,
Teaching Stream
pgries@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-6322 BA 4234
Paul He
Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
paulhe@cs.toronto.edu BA 4238
Diane Horton Professor,
Teaching Stream
dianeh@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-6024 BA 4236
David Liu Associate Professor,
Teaching Stream
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
david@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-6026 BA 4260
François Pitt Associate Professor,
Teaching Stream
fpitt@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-3707 BA 4264
Karen Reid Professor,
Teaching Stream
reid@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-7797 BA 4224
Sadia Sharmin Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
sharmin@cs.toronto.edu   BA 4228
Lindsey Shorser Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
BA 4202A
Jacqueline Smith Associate Professor,
Teaching Stream
jsmith@cs.toronto.edu 416-978-1981 BA 4262
Kuei (Jack) Sun Assistant Professor,
Teaching Stream
sunk@cs.toronto.edu BA 4202A
 

Professors Emeriti

Name, Position Contact Info Research
Ronald Baecker
Professor Emeritus
rmb@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: human-computer interaction, health & assistive technologies

Professor Baecker is not accepting any new graduate students.

Jim Clarke
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
clarke@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: education

Professor Clarke is not accepting any new graduate students.

Stephen Cook
University Professor Emeritus
sacook@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: theoretical computer science

Professor Cook is not accepting any new graduate students.

Derek Corneil
Professor Emeritus
dgc@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: theoretical computer science

Professor Corneil is not accepting any new graduate students.

Wayne Enright
Professor Emeritus
enright@cs.toronto.edu
416-978-5474
Room: BA 4202B
Research Areas: numerical analysis and computing, domain-specific computing, high-performance computing
Research Interests: development and analysis of reliable and effective numerical methods for systems of differential equations, sensitivity analysis of ODE methods, verifying and reproducing simulations

Professor Enright is not accepting any new graduate students.

Eugene Fiume
Professor Emeritus
elf@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: computer graphics
Research Interests: realistic visual depiction, illumination, interactive graphics, character animation, facial animation, computational physics and biomechanics

Professor Fiume is not accepting any new graduate students.

Dan Heap
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Emeritus
heap@cs.toronto.edu
Rick Hehner
Professor Emeritus
hehner@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: software engineering

Professor Hehner is not accepting any new graduate students.

Geoffrey Hinton
University Professor Emeritus
Research Areas: machine learning, deep neural networks

Professor Hinton is not accepting any new graduate students.

Graeme Hirst
Professor Emeritus
gh@cs.toronto.edu
Research Areas: computational linguistics and natural language processing
Research Interests: lexical semantics, applications in health and medicine, applications in the social sciences and humanities

Professor Hirst is not accepting any new graduate students.

Ken Jackson
Professor Emeritus
krj@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: numerical analysis and computing, high performance computing
Research Interests: numerical methods, analysis and computation – particularly numerical methods for ODEs and PDEs, computational finance, stochastic models, medical imaging

Professor Jackson is not accepting any new graduate students.

Allan Jepson
Professor Emeritus
jepson@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: computer vision

Professor Jepson is not accepting any new graduate students.

Hector Levesque
Professor Emeritus
hector@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: knowledge representation, cognitive robotics

Professor Levesque is not accepting any new graduate students.

Renée Miller
Professor Emerita
miller@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: data management
Research Interests: data science, data integration and exchange, data curation, data cleaning, human-in-the-loop data management (improving human productivity when using data), foundations of next generation data analytics, combining logical and statistical reasoning in data systems

Professor Miller is not accepting any new graduate students.

John Mylopoulos
Professor Emeritus
jm@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: software engineering

Professor Mylopoulos is not accepting any new graduate students.

Charles Rackoff
Professor Emeritus
rackoff@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: theoretical computer science
Research Interests: computational complexity; cryptography

Professor Rackoff is not accepting any new graduate students.

David Wortman
Professor Emeritus
dw@cs.toronto.edu Research Areas: software engineering

Professor Wortman is not accepting any new graduate students.

 

Cross-Appointed Faculty

Name Position Research
Gary Bader Professor
Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Research Areas: computational biology
Research Interests: machine learning and NLP of biomedical text, data integration/fusion methods for precision medicine, causal inference
Tim Barfoot Professor
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Research Areas: robotics, AI, human-computer interaction
Chris Beck Professor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Research Areas: AI - knowledge representation
James Bremer Jr. Professor
Mathematics
Research Areas:
Joseph Cafazzo Professor
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Research Areas: software as a medical device, digital therapeutics, and human computer interaction design in healthcare
Kieran Campbell Assistant Professor
Molecular Genetics/Lunenfeld-Tannebaum
Research Areas: AI
Mark Chignell Professor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Research Areas: human-computer interaction
Melanie Courtot Assistant Professor
Medical Biophysics
Research Areas: knowledge representation
William Cunningham Professor
Psychology
Research Areas: AI - Cognitive Science
Ewan Dunbar Assistant Professor
French
Research Areas:
Natalie Enright Jerger Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: computer architecture
Research Interests: interconnection networks, memory system, approximate computing, IoT
Mark Fox Professor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Research Areas: AI -knowledge representation
Brendan Frey Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: AI - machine learning, computational biology
Ashvin Goel Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: systems: operating systems
Michael Gruninger Professor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Research Areas: AI - knowledge representation
Shion Guha Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Research Areas: human-centered data science, AI - public policy, algorithmic bias
Michael Hoffman Associate Professor, Status-Only
Medical Biophysics/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Research Areas: computational biology, computational medicine, machine learning 
Research Interests: developing machine learning techniques to better understand chromatin biology, transforming high-dimensional functional genomics data into interpretable patterns and lead to new biological insight
Hans-Arno Jacobsen Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: systems - mobile computing
Mark Jeffrey Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Interests: computer architecture, computer systems, parallel computing, parallel programming models, speculative execution, data-centric execution, compilers, irregular algorithms, reconfigurable hardware
Igor Jurisica Professor, Status-Only
Medical Biophysics
Research Areas: medicine
Lueder Kahrs Assistant Professor
Math and Computational Sciences, UTM
Research Areas: computational science
Jonathan Kelly Assistant Professor
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Research Areas: robotics
Farzad Khalvati Associate Professor
Department of Medical Imaging
Research Areas: medical imaging
Vera Khovanskaya Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Research Areas:
Philip Kim Associate Professor
Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Research Areas: computational biology
Anastasia Kuzminykh Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Research Areas: human-computer interaction (HCI)
Baochun Li Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: networks
Shuang Li Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: computer vision, robotics, machine learning
Research Interests: generative modelling, robot learning
David Lie Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: networks
Michael Liut Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Research Areas: Adaptive Systems, Algorithms, Computing Education, Education Technology, Generative Artificial Intelligence
Kelly Lyons Professor
Faculty of Information
Research Areas: databases
Research Interests: social media and collaborative work, service science, data-driven knowledge mobilization
Amin Madani Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Surgery
Research Areas: surgical AI
Tegan Maharaj Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Research Areas: AI, machine learning, robotics, vision,
Rhonda McEwan Professor
Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Research Areas:
Social/New media; network analysis; mobile communication; information practices
Chris McIntosh Assistant Professor
Medical Biophysics
Research Areas: computational biology, machine learning, computer vision
Research Interests: Development and application of machine learning and computer vision in healthcare
Alex Mihailidis Professor
Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Research Areas: AI - knowledge representation
Quaid Morris Professor, Status-Only
Department of Molecular Genetics
Research Areas: computational biology, machine learning, computational medicine
Research Interests: cancer genomics, precision medicine, gene regulation, functional genomics, electronic health records, biological image analysis
Alan Moses Professor
Cell & Systems Biology
Research Areas: computational biology, machine learning
Research Interests: data analysis and integration for molecular biology, automated microscopy image analysis, gene regulatory networks, molecular evolution
Andreas Moshovos Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: software engineering
Cosmin Munteanu Assistant Professor
Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Research Areas: human-computer interaction, health and assistive technology
Research Interests: speech and language interaction, mobile interaction for older adults, participatory design methods, intelligent user interfaces, multimodal interaction
Nicolas Papernot Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: AI - machine learning
Vardan Papyan Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Research Areas: deep learning, machine learning, data science, signal processing
Andrew Petersen Professor, Teaching Stream
Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Research Areas: computing education
Research Interests: programming exercises, CS1 assessment, student perspectives on and experiences in computing, applications of LLMs to education
Nicholas Rhinehart Assistant Professor
Institute of Aerospace Studies
Research Areas: Robotics
Hannes Rӧst Assistant Professor
Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Research Areas: computational biology
Research Interests: precision and personalized medicine, biostatistics, functional genomics, computational proteomics and metabolomics, systems biology, algorithms for mass spectrometry
Daniel Roy Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Science, UTSC
Research Areas: machine learning, machine learning theory, theoretical computer science
Research Interests: foundations of machine learning and statistics, statistical learning theory, deep learning, online learning, non-convex optimization, PAC-Bayes, information theory, monte carlo, game theory
Scott Sanner Associate Professor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Research Areas: machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, computational social science
Research Interests: applied machine learning, (conversational) recommender systems, social media analysis, probabilistic modeling and inference, sequential decision optimization, smart cities applications
Devin Singh Assistant Professor
Department of Paediatrics;
The Hospital for Sick Children
Research Areas: AI, machine learning, robotics, vision
Michael Stumm Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: systems: operating systems
Qiang Sun Associate Professor
Department of Statistical Sciences
Research Areas: generative AI, trustworthy AI, next-generation statistics
Yu Sun Professor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Research Areas: robotics, AI
Tony Tang Associate Professor
Faculty of Information
Research Areas: human-computer interaction
Andreas Veneris Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: software engineering
Michael Wainberg Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Research Areas: computational biology, machine learning, computational medicine
Research Interests: human genetics, single-cell transcriptomics, brain diseases, network biology, gene-editing screens, therapeutic target discovery
Eric Yu Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Information
Research Areas: software engineering
Research Interests: requirements engineering, social modeling, enterprise computing, enterprise AI, enterprise architecture, knowledge management, information systems engineering
William Yu Assistant Professor
Computer & Mathematical Sciences, UTSC
Research Areas: computational biology
Zhaolei Zhang Professor
Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
Research Areas: computational biology
Shurui Zhou Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Areas: software engineering
Daniel Zingaro Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Research Areas: Computing Education, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology
 

Status-Only Faculty

Name Position Research
Oana Balmau Assistant Professor, Status-Only
McGill University
Research Areas: networks, operating systems
Dominick Berry Associate Professor, Status-Only
Macquarie University
Research Areas: quantum information, quantum optics
Marcus Brubaker Assistant Professor, Status-Only
York University
Research Areas: AI
Konstantinos Derpanis Associate Professor, Status-Only
York University
Research Areas: computer vision
Amir-massoud Farahmand Associate Professor, Status-Only
Polytechnique Montréal
Research Areas: AI: machine learning
Research Interests: reinforcement learning, statistical learning theory
Lea Frermann Assistant Professor, Status-Only
University of Melbourne
Research Areas: AI - computational linguistics
Marzyeh Ghassemi Assistant Professor, Status-Only
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Areas: machine learning, machine learning for health, computational medicine
Research Interests: developing and applying machine learning models in health areas including representation learning, reinforcement learning and inverse reinforcement learning, prediction, risk stratification, and model interpretability
Huaxiong Huang Professor, Status-Only
York University
Research Areas: mathematics
Charles Kemp Professor, Status-Only
University of Melbourne
Research Areas: computational models of language
Gerhard Lakemeyer Associate Professor, Status-Only
Aachen University
Research Areas: AI
En-Shuin (Annie) Lee Assistant Professor, Status-Only
Ontario Tech University
Research Areas: AI, computational linguistics, natural language processing
Research Interests: low-resource language, applied NLP and IR, data mining and pattern recognition, AI education
Ben Rossman Associate Professor, Status-Only
Duke University
Research Areas: theory, computational complexity
Frank Rudzicz Associate Professor, Status-Only
Dalhousie University
Research Areas: AI: computational linguistics
Research Interests: natural language processing for health applications, machine learning for health applications, dialogue, speech recognition, brain-computer interfaces, ethics of AI, surgical safety
Babak Taati Associate Professor, Status-Only
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Research Areas: health & assistive technology
Research Interests: computer vision for health monitoring, assistive and rehabilitation technologies, machine learning for medicine and health informatics
Andrea Tagliasacchi Assistant Professor, Status-Only
Simon Fraser University
Research Areas: AI - machine learning
Rick Valenzano Assistant Professor, Status Only
Toronto Metropolitan University
Research Areas: AI
Henry Yuen Assistant Professor, Status-Only
Columbia University
Research Areas: quantum computing, theoretical computer science
Research Interests: quantum complexity theory, quantum cryptography, quantum algorithms, quantum information theory
 

Adjunct Faculty

Name Position Research
Bill Buxton Adjunct Professor
Microsoft Research
Research Areas: human-computer interaction
Paul Dietz Adjunct Professor
Distinguished Engineer in Residence
Research Areas: human-computer interaction
Mario Grech Adjunct Professor
Director and co-founder, Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab (DCSIL)
Research Areas: entrepreneurship and commercialization of applied research
Danny Kaufman Adjunct Professor
Adobe
Research Areas: graphics
Helen Kontozopoulos Adjunct Professor
ODAIA.ai
Research Areas: entrepreneurship
Alex Kreinin Adjunct Professor
Risk Analytics, IBM Canada
Research Areas: numerical analysis
Karthik Kuber Adjunct Professor
Yelp
Research Areas: data science, machine learning

Vadym Kliuchnikov Adjunct Professor
Microsoft Quantum
Research Areas: computational theory

Mike McCarthy Adjunct Professor
Distinguished Executive in Residence
Matt Medland Adjunct Professor
BlueCat
Research Areas: software engineering, networks, distributed systems