Faculty

Carnegie Mellon has approximately 1,225 full-time and 201 part-time teaching and research faculty members with a student-faculty ratio of 10:1. Our faculty is extremely accessible — many have weekly office hours and it’s not unusual for them to give students their home phone numbers. Our faculty cares about what students are doing both inside and outside of the classroom.

Approximately 96% of faculty members have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in their field. These professors, instructors and lecturers are in the classroom, lab, studio or work place creating new knowledge on a daily basis with their students. 99% of all undergraduate classes are taught by faculty. More often than not, they teach both undergraduate and graduate courses. Undergraduates have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking research projects with these award-winning faculty members.

Faculty Spotlight

Our faculty members are practicing professionals at the forefront of their respective fields. They bring a breadth and depth of experience and knowledge to their work with undergraduates both inside the classroom and on research projects. Here’s a sampling of what they’re doing:

Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT)
Jeffrey Hollinger is researching the process of bone regeneration in patients with developmental craniofacial bone problems and geriatric patients.	Tsuhan Chen is working with others to develop a 3-D camera. Within the next two years they hope to make handheld 3-D cameras widely available at affordable prices.
College of Fine Arts (CFA)
	Doug Cooper designed memorable, large-scale murals that can be seen in the University Center on campus, Justice Center in Philadelphia, the University of California campus in San Francisco and the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle.	Barbara MacKenzie-Wood traveled to South Africa for three weeks to create and lead the one of the first theatre programs for World Camps, an international organization assisting African children affected by AIDS.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS)
Sheldon Cohen is one of the world’s most cited authors in the areas of Psychology/Psychiatry and Social Sciences. His work focuses on the roles of stress and social support systems in health and well-being.	Kiron Skinner holds a number of key positions in Washington, D.C. She is a member of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board and represents the Defense Policy Board on Secretary Rumsfeld’s Defense Practice Implementation Board.	Herbert Simon (deceased) was a Nobel Prize winner and was regarded as the father of artificial intelligence.
Mellon College of Science (MCS)
Tiziana Di Matteo’s research interests focus on studying black holes. Her interests encompass a wide range of topics including theoretical studies of the interplay between black hole growth and galaxy formation.	David Yaron developed the IrYdium Project, interactive educational software for high school and college chemistry classes to allow faculty to assign open-ended problems involving interesting chemical and real-world systems.
School of Computer Science (SCS)
Roger Dannenberg works with the Computer Music Project which develops computer music and interactive performance technology to enhance human musical experience and creativity. This interdisciplinary effort draws on Music Theory, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction, Real-Time Systems, Computer Graphics and Animation, Multimedia, Programming Languages, and Signal Processing.	Sara Kiesler heads the Personal Robotic Assistants for the Elderly (Pearl) project, an interdisciplinary research initiative on Personal Service Robots for the elderly, that brings together researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The goal of this project is to develop mobile, personal service robots that assist elderly people suffering from chronic disorders in their everyday life.
Tepper School of Business (Tepper)
Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. Kydland is Tepper School Professor of Economics, and Prescott is a former Tepper School of Business faculty member.	Milton Cofield is executive director of the Undergraduate Business Administration program, advises and has accompanied students participating in international competitions in Denmark and Hong Kong.