International Computer Science Institute

ICSI's research activities include Internet architecture, network security, network routing, speech and speaker recognition, spoken and text-based natural language processing, computer vision, multimedia, privacy and biological system modeling.

• The Institute's director is Dr. Lea Shanley.^[1]
• SIGCOMM Award^[2] winner Professor Scott Shenker, one of the most-cited authors in computer science, is the Chief Scientist and head of the New Initiatives group.
• SIGCOMM Award^[3] winner Professor Vern Paxson, who leads network security efforts and who previously chaired the Internet Research Task Force.
• Professor Jerry Feldman is the head of the Artificial Intelligence Group.
• Adjunct Professor Gerald Friedland is the head of the Audio and Multimedia Group.
• Dr. Stella Yu is head of the Computer Vision Group.
• Dr. Serge Egelman is head of the Usable Security and Privacy Group.
• Dr. Steven Wegman is head of the Speech Group.

• Turing Award^[4] and Kyoto Prize^[5] winner Professor Richard Karp is an alumnus and former head of the Algorithms Group.
• Professor Nelson Morgan is a former director and former head of the speech group.
• Professor Trevor Darrell is an alumnus and former head of the Computer Vision Group.
• Professor Krste Asanovic, an ACM Distinguished Scientist,^[6] is an alumna and former head of the Computer Architecture Group.
• IEEE Internet Award^[7] winner Sally Floyd; connectionist pioneer Jerry Feldman; frame semantics and construction grammar pioneer Charles J. Fillmore and Collin F. Baker, who lead the FrameNet semantic parsing project; and Paul Kay, who published an influential study on the universality of color words.
• IEEE Internet Award winner Mark Handley founded the XORP open source router software project while at ICSI.