Director

David Shmoys, Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies
Operations Research and Information Engineering, Computer Science

David obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984, and had postdocs at MSRI & Harvard University, and a faculty position at MIT before joining the faculty at Cornell University. David was Chair of the Cornell Provost’s “Radical
Collaborations” Task Force on Data Science & was co-Chair of the Academic Planning Committee for Cornell Tech. Shmoys is a Fellow of the ACM, INFORMS, and SIAM.

Assistant Director

Rebecca TenEyck, Staff

Becky has a B.A. in Communications and Pre-Medicine from the University of California, Santa Barbara and over 20 years of experience in academic administration, major gifts fundraising, and corporate relations.

Executive Committee

(overseeing all activities of the Center)

David Matteson, Associate Professor
Statistics and Data Science

Francesca Molinari, Professor
Economics

David Mimno, Associate Professor
Information Science

Advisory Council

Sid Banerjee, Associate Professor
Operations Research & Information Engineering

Florentina Bunea, Professor
Statistics and Data Science

Haym Hirsh, Professor
Computer Science

Vrinda Kadiyali, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management
Marketing and Economics

Michael Stillman, Professor
Mathematics

Joerg Stoye, Professor
Economics

Kevin Tang, Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Felix Thoemmes, Associate Professor, Human Development
Psychology

Matthew Wilkens, Associate Professor
Information Science

Role of Advisory Council:

One goal of the Center is to further advance Cornell’s leadership in this area by aggressive attempts to hire the next generation of mid-career stellar faculty leaders. Having a focal point for these activities would serve both as a stimulus for successful faculty renewal and would help coordinate these efforts. There is an eagerness across Cornell to hire in areas in or interfacing with data science.