COS Students

The Ph.D. Program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS) is the newest Ph.D. Program in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The following students, who were previously working on COS projects with COS faculty, have already been admitted to the inaugural class through an early admissions process.

Bedford, Virginia (On Leave)
  • dynamic network analysis, high performance computing, BioWar
  • Benisch, Michael J.
  • expressive commerce, computational game theory, automated trading, mechanism design, machine learning
  • Chan, Christopher (On Leave)
  • open source software, mathematical modeling
  • Chang, Yi
  • Dynamic Network Analysis, Machine Learning, Language Technologies
  •   Cranshaw, Justin
  • Daimler, Eric
  • Social Networking Analysis applied to Innovation Diffusion.
  • Davis, George
  • computational models of sustainability
  • Diesner, Jana
  • dynamic network analysis, text mining, AutoMap, co-evolution of social and knowledge networks
  • Frantz, Terrill L.
  • dynamic network analysis, organizational dynamics, mergers, ORA
  • Hirshman, Brian
  • dynamic network analysis, agent based modeling, cognitive processes, Construct
  • Jiang, Xiaoqian
  • data privacy, data mining
  • Jones, Laurie
  • data privacy
  • Kelley, Patrick G.
  • Information Visualization, Explanation, Conversation, HCI, Suggestion
  • Komanduri, Saranga
  • Usable security, learning science, HCI, judgment and decision making
  • Landwehr, Peter
  • dynamic network analysis, massive multi-player on line games
  • Lanham, Michael
  • Organizational dynamics, dynamic network analysis, computer network defense
  •   Morgan, Geoffrey
  • Olson, Jamie
  • dynamic network analysis, geo-spatially enabled network analysis
  • Schneider, Mike (On Leave)
  • network science, social-interfaces
  • Shay, Richard
  • Computer Security, Usability, and Policy
  • St. Charles, Jesse
  • Dynamic Network Analysis, Agent Based modeling, Emergent Behavior, Complex Systems
  • Towne, William
  • Decision support tools, organizational and decision dynamics, dynamic network analysis
  • Xu, Wanhong
  • data privacy, data mining
  • Ph.D. Program in Computation, Organizations and Society
    School of Computer Science
    Carnegie Mellon University
    5000 Forbes Avenue
    Pittsburgh, PA 15213
    (412)268-3163
    cos-phd@cs.cmu.edu