Who We Are

Our People

Our vibrant community of bold thinkers and boundary spanners is what makes all of ICSI’s accomplishments possible. Meet the people who envision, oversee, run, and support our ambitious research programs and make ICSI a welcoming place for visitors. 

Research Faculty

Nitin Agarwal

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Nitin Agarwal, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and the Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Donaghey Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Mark Allman

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Mark Allman is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and Adjunct Faculty in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Case Western Reserve University.

Sebastian Benthall

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Sebastian Benthall, PhD, is a Research Scientist at ICSI and the Research Director of the Information Law Institute at New York University School of Law.

Julia Bernd

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Julia Bernd is a Research Scientist at ICSI, where her research focuses on digital privacy, user expectations, and social impacts of technology.

Steve Dennis

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Steve Dennis is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI and Professor of Practice at the University of Miami.

Serge Egelman

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Serge Egelman, PhD, is Senior Research Scientist and Group Lead for Usable Privacy and Security at ICSI, Research Scientist at UC Berkeley, and Co-founder and Chief Scientist of AppCensus, Inc.

Ben Erichson

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Ben Erichson, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist and Group Lead for Deep Learning at ICSI and Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Kimon Fountoulakis

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Kimon Fountoulakis, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

Alisa Frik

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Alisa Frik, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and Co-founder of PrivacyRescue, a user experience research consulting collective.

Amir Gholaminejad

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Amir Gholaminejad (Gholami), PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and an Associate Research Scientist at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research and Sky Computing Labs at UC Berkeley.

Mike Luby

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Mike Luby, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at ICSI and Co-founder and CEO of BitRipple.

Michael Mahoney

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Michael W. Mahoney, PhD, is Vice President, Principal Scientist, and Group Lead for the AI and Big Data group at ICSI.

Héctor García Martín

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Héctor García Martín, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI, Director of Data Science and Modeling at the Biofuels and Bioproducts Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Dmitriy Morozov

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Dmitriy Morozov, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Nori Nakata

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Nori Nakata, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI, Principal Research Scientist at MIT, and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Rie Nakata

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Rie Nakata (Kamei), PhD, is a Research Scientist at ICSI and Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Sylvia Ratnasamy

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Sylvia Ratnasamy, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Co-Group Lead for Networked Systems at ICSI and a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

Andrew Reddie

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Andrew W. Reddie, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and an Associate Research Professor at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.

Fred Roosta

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Fred Roosta, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at ICSI and Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Oliver Rübel

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Oliver Rübel, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Paul Schmitt

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Paul Schmitt, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at Cal Poly, and Co-Founder and CEO at INVISV.

Scott Shenker

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Scott Shenker, PhD, is Principal Scientist and Co-Group Lead for Networked Systems at ICSI and a Professor at UC Berkeley.

Malcolm Slaney

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Malcolm Slaney, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI, Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.

Mohammad Tahaei

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Mohammad Tahaei, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and an R&D Manager at eBay.

David Trebotich

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David Trebotich, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Charuleka Varadharajan

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Charuleka Varadharajan, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI, Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Research Affiliate at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Nick Weaver

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Nicholas Weaver, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at ICSI and CEO of Skerry Technologies.

Pamela Wisniewski

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Pamela Wisniewski, PhD, is a Principal Research Scientist at ICSI and Founder and Director of the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab and Teenovate.

John Wu

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Kesheng (John) Wu, PhD, is a Research Affiliate and Research Mentor at ICSI and Senior Computer Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Yaoqing Yang

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Yaoqing Yang, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College.

Senior Fellows

Nadine Alameh

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Nadine Alameh, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at ICSI and an industry-recognized leader in geospatial technologies.

Collin F. Baker

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Collin F. Baker, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at ICSI focusing on artificial intelligence, computational lexical semantics, frame semantics, and construction grammar. He is manager of the FrameNet project.

Marjory S. Blumenthal

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Marjory Blumenthal is a Senior Fellow at ICSI, Senior Policy Researcher at RAND, Senior Policy Fellow at the American Library Association, and Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum.

Massimo Maresca

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Massimo Maresca, PhD, is Senior Fellow at ICSI and a Professor in the University of Genoa School of Engineering.

Vern Paxson

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Vern Paxson, PhD, is a Distinguished Fellow at ICSI, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Corelight Inc., and a Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley.

Vadim Shapiro

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Vadim Shapiro, PhD, is a Senior Fellow and Research Mentor at ICSI and Founder and CTO at Intact Solutions, Inc.

Andreas Stolcke

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Andreas Stolcke, PhD, is a Non-Resident Fellow at ICSI and a Distinguished AI Scientist and Vice President at Uniphore Technologies.

Timothy Stryker

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Timothy Stryker is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at ICSI and Principal of Hudson Passage, LLC.

Wolfgang Wahlster

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Wolfgang Wahlster, PhD, is a Distinguished Fellow at ICSI, Professor Emeritus at Saarland University, and Chief Advisor at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

John Wilbanks

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John Wilbanks is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at ICSI.

Board of Trustees

Azer Bestavros

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Azer Bestavros, PhD, is a member of the ICSI Board of Trustees and Distinguished Professor and Associate Provost for Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University.

Damian Borth

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Damian Borth, PhD, is a member of the ISCI Board of Trustees, Full Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and Director of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen.

Jessica Jacobson

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Jessica Jacobson is Treasurer of the ICSI Board of Trustees and Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.

Brad Karp

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Brad Karp, PhD, is a member of the ICSI Board of Trustees. He is Professor of Computer Systems and Networks and Head of the Systems and Networks Research Group at University College London.

Arvind Krishnamurthy

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Arvind Krishnamurthy, PhD, is a member of the ICSI Board of Trustees and Short-Dooley Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.

David Mongeau

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David Mongeau serves on the ICSI Board of Trustees and is Emeritus Director of the School of Data Science and Professor of Practice at University College at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Raymond Perrault

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Ray Perrault, PhD, is a member of the ICSI Board of Trustees and a Distinguished Computer Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International.

Lucy Sanders

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Lucy Sanders is the Chair of the ICSI Board of Trustees and Founder and Executive in Residence of the National Center for Women & Information Technology.

Lea Shanley

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Lea Shanley, PhD, serves as President and CEO for ICSI.

Kairi Williams

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Kairi Williams is a member of the ICSI Board of Trustees and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Administration and Compliance at UC Berkeley.

Get in touch

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