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Computer science professors in the United States

· 30 professors · 17 universities

30 computer science professors in the United States, at 17 universities. The most represented are Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and University of California San Diego. 30 of them are verified faculty: their current appointment was confirmed against their own university's pages or a current faculty record in ORCID, and they are listed first.

The list is built from open publication data (OpenAlex and ORCID), the same data ProfScout uses in the app: actively publishing faculty at the largest research universities in the United States whose recent work sits in computer science. Retired, trainee and staff-scientist records are filtered out where the public record identifies them. It is not a prestige ranking: professors are listed by how prominently computer science figures in their published work, verified faculty first. Reply-fit scores, which weigh how likely each professor is to answer a student's email, are computed for your own profile inside ProfScout. Updated September 2026; the list is rebuilt from the open record a few times a year.

  1. Christopher D. ManningVerified faculty
    Stanford University
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing TechniquesSemantic Web and Ontologies
    Recent: There is no free benchmark: An institutional view of legal AI benchmarking (2026)
  2. Kilian Q. WeinbergerVerified faculty
    Cornell University
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsTopic ModelingDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
    Recent: Benchmark Datasets for Lead-Lag Forecasting on Social Platforms (2026)
  3. Xiangyu ZhangVerified faculty
    Purdue University West Lafayette
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsMultimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsAdversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
    Recent: C10–C12 aromatics dominate ozone and secondary organic aerosol formation potential in emissions from printed circuit board manufacturing (2026)
  4. Alan YuilleVerified faculty
    Johns Hopkins University
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsMultimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
    Recent: A comprehensive survey of AI agents in healthcare (2026)
  5. Luke ZettlemoyerVerified faculty
    University of Washington
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing TechniquesMultimodal Machine Learning Applications
    Recent: Multimodal RewardBench 2: Evaluating Omni Reward Models for Interleaved Text and Image (2025)
  6. Tommi JaakkolaVerified faculty
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Machine Learning in Materials ScienceComputational Drug Discovery MethodsTopic Modeling
    Recent: AI-based methods for simulating, sampling, and predicting protein ensembles (2026)
  7. Percy LiangVerified faculty
    Stanford University
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing TechniquesMultimodal Machine Learning Applications
    Recent: DecodingTrust-Agent Platform (DTap): A Controllable and Interactive Red-Teaming Platform for AI Agents (2026)
  8. Michael MaireVerified faculty
    University of Chicago
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
    Recent: HyperDiffusionFields (HyDiF): Diffusion-Guided Hypernetworks for Learning Implicit Molecular Neural Fields (2025)
  9. Bharath HariharanVerified faculty
    Cornell University
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsAdvanced Vision and ImagingDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
    Recent: Color Bind: Exploring Color Perception in Text-to-Image Models (2026)
  10. Pat HanrahanVerified faculty
    Stanford University
    Computer Science · Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
    Computer Graphics and Visualization TechniquesParallel Computing and Optimization TechniquesData Visualization and Analytics
    Recent: The Origins of GPU Computing (2026)
  11. Yann LeCunVerified faculty
    New York University
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningNeural Networks and ApplicationsAdvanced Neural Network Applications
    Recent: Advancing human-centric AI for robust X-ray analysis through holistic self-supervised learning (2026)
  12. Jiawei HanVerified faculty
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Topic ModelingAdvanced Graph Neural NetworksNatural Language Processing Techniques
    Recent: The Evolution of China's S&T Indicators: A Perspective of National Innovation Systems and Institutional Reconfiguration (2026)
  13. Mark HorowitzVerified faculty
    Stanford University
    Computer Science · Hardware and Architecture
    Embedded Systems Design TechniquesParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
    Recent: A Probabilistic Perspective on Tiling Sparse Tensor Algebra (2025)
  14. Andrew Y. NgVerified faculty
    Stanford University
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingTopic Modeling
    Recent: Quasi‐convex surface subgroups in some one‐relator groups with torsion (2026)
  15. James A. SethianVerified faculty
    University of California, Berkeley
    Computer Science · Computational Mechanics
    Medical Image Segmentation TechniquesAdvanced Numerical Methods in Computational MathematicsComputer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
    Recent: Turning Immersive Viewers into Analytical Workspaces: ASCRIBE-XR and Agent-Driven Scientific Visualization (2026)
  16. Zhuowen TuVerified faculty
    University of California San Diego
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval TechniquesAdvanced Neural Network Applications
    Recent: Goldfish: Monolingual Language Models for 350 Languages (2026)
  17. Joseph M. HellersteinVerified faculty
    University of California, Berkeley
    Computer Science · Computer Networks and Communications
    Distributed systems and fault toleranceAdvanced Database Systems and Queries
    Recent: Stageleft: Multi-stage Programming in Standard Rust (2026)
  18. Matthew J. O’MearaVerified faculty
    University of Michigan
    Computer Science · Molecular Biology
    Antifungal resistance and susceptibilityComputational Drug Discovery Methods
    Recent: spaCR: spatial phenotype analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 screens (2026)
  19. David KriegmanVerified faculty
    University of California San Diego
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Advanced Vision and ImagingComputer Graphics and Visualization TechniquesFace and Expression Recognition
    Recent: Quantifying coral reef carbonate budgets: a comparison between ReefBudget and CoralNet (2025)
  20. Saining XieVerified faculty
    New York University
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
    Recent: CLM: Removing the GPU Memory Barrier for 3D Gaussian Splatting (2026)
  21. Bolei ZhouVerified faculty
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Generative Adversarial Networks and Image SynthesisAdvanced Neural Network ApplicationsHuman Pose and Action Recognition
    Recent: Experiment-free learning of exoskeleton assistance is not an unsolved problem (2026)
  22. Leonidas GuibasVerified faculty
    Stanford University
    Engineering · Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
    3D Shape Modeling and AnalysisAdvanced Vision and ImagingComputer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
    Recent: MeshFlow: Mesh Generation with Equivariant Flow Matching (2026)
  23. Matei ZahariaVerified faculty
    University of California, Berkeley
    Computer Science · Information Systems
    Topic ModelingCloud Computing and Resource ManagementAdvanced Data Storage Technologies
    Recent: Let the Barbarians In: How AI Can Accelerate Systems Performance Research (2025)
  24. Georgia GkioxariVerified faculty
    California Institute of Technology
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsAdvanced Neural Network ApplicationsAdvanced Vision and Imaging
    Recent: Clinician–Artificial Intelligence Collaboration for Mediterranean Meal-Plan Generation: Development, Technical Feasibility, and Professional Acceptability of the MAI-DIET Framework (2026)
  25. Dawn Xiaodong SongVerified faculty
    University of California, Berkeley
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Adversarial Robustness in Machine LearningPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in DataSecurity and Verification in Computing
    Recent: A Hands-on Tutorial for Diffusion Language Models with dLLM (2026)
  26. Maxwell B. StinchcombeVerified faculty
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Economics and Econometrics
    Neural Networks and ApplicationsEconomic theories and modelsGame Theory and Applications
    Recent: All Games Have Equilibria (2026)
  27. Saul SternbergVerified faculty
    University of Pennsylvania
    Neuroscience · Cognitive Neuroscience
    Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesFunctional Brain Connectivity StudiesNeural Networks and Applications
    Recent: Psychometric functions from multiple responses (2026)
  28. Stuart L. SchreiberVerified faculty
    Harvard University
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Molecular Biology
    Melanoma and MAPK PathwaysComputational Drug Discovery MethodsChemical Synthesis and Analysis
    Recent: Discovery of molecular glues that bind FKBP12 and structurally distinct targets using DNA-encoded libraries (2026)
  29. James Andrew McCammonVerified faculty
    University of California San Diego
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Molecular Biology
    Computational Drug Discovery MethodsProtein Structure and DynamicsRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
    Recent: The scientific legacy of Martin Karplus from the perspective of his collaborators (2026)
  30. Russ Biagio AltmanVerified faculty
    Stanford University
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Molecular Biology
    Bioinformatics and Genomic NetworksComputational Drug Discovery MethodsBiomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
    Recent: Homology-Based Variant-Effect Predictors Break Down on Cytochrome P450 Pharmacogenes * (2026)

Universities on this list: Stanford University (7) · University of California, Berkeley (4) · University of California San Diego (3) · Cornell University (2) · New York University (2) · California Institute of Technology (1) · Harvard University (1) · Johns Hopkins University (1) · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1) · Purdue University West Lafayette (1) · The University of Texas at Austin (1) · University of California, Los Angeles (1) · University of Chicago (1) · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1) · University of Michigan (1) · University of Pennsylvania (1) · University of Washington (1)

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