Michtom School of Computer Science

Faculty and Staff

Meet Our Faculty

dylan
Dylan Cashman
PhD, Tufts University
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
781-736-2718 Volen 212

Expertise: Data science and advanced visual analytics for machine learning.

Antonella-dilillo
Antonella Di Lillo
PhD, Brandeis University
Professor, Computer Science
781-736-2736 Volen 254

Expertise: Computer vision, pattern recognition, content-based image retrieval, image processing and analysis.

Lotus Goldberg
Lotus Goldberg
PhD, McGill University
Professor of Linguistics; Vice Chair, Linguistics and Computational Linguistics Programs
781-736-3265 Volen 252

Expertise: Theoretical syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, ellipsis and null anaphora, morphosyntax, structure of Modern Hebrew and other Semitic languages, corpus linguistics

Tim Hickey
Tim Hickey
PhD, University of Chicago
Professor and Undergraduate Advising Head, Computer Science
781-736-2706 Volen 138

Expertise: Educational technology, computer science education, 3D game design, interval arithmetic, scientific visualization, computer-supported learning, groupware and collaborative editing, constraint logic programming

Pengyu Hong
Pengyu Hong
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Professor, Computer Science; Affiliation: International Business School
781-736-2729 Volen 135

Expertise: Computer science, fintech, machine learning, image processing, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, intelligent education

Constantine Lignos
Constantine Lignos
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics
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Expertise: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, language acquisition and change, and psycholinguistics

Hongfu Liu
Hongfu Liu
PhD, Northeastern University
Assistant Professor
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Expertise: Data mining, machine learning and related applications in social media, computer vision and bioinformatics

Harry Mairson
Harry Mairson
PhD, Stanford University
Professor, Computer Science
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Expertise: Logic in computer science, Lambda calculus, functional programming

Sophia Malamud
Sophia Malamud
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor, Linguistics; Director of Graduate Studies, Computational Linguistics
781-736-2225 Volen 215

Expertise: Formal semantics and pragmatics, corpus linguistics, speech acts, game and decision theory, reference and information structure, modality, impersonals and passives, heritage language acquisition

Olga Papaemmanouil
Olga Papaemmanouil
PhD, Brown University
Professor, Computer Science
781-736-2716 Volen 214

Expertise: Data management, distributed systems, data science, machine learning and cloud computing

Keith Plaster
Keith Plaster
JD, Georgetown University; MA, Harvard University; PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Advising Head, Linguistics
781-736-2726 Volen 124

Expertise: Phonological theory, historical linguistics, morphology, heritage linguistics

Jordan Pollack
Jordan Pollack
PhD, University of Illinois
Professor, Computer Science and Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. Program
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Expertise: Artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, evolutionary computation and artificial life

James Pustejovsky
James Pustejovsky
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
TJX Feldberg Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Linguistics and Computational Linguistics Programs
781-736-2709 Volen 258

Expertise: Theoretical and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, corpus linguistics and annotation, lexical semantics, temporal and spatial reasoning

subhadeep
Subhadeep Sarkar
PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
781-736-2738 Volen 259

Expertise: Data structures and algorithms, data management, storage engine, systems, data privacy, and cloud computing.

R. Pito Salas
R. Pito Salas
BA, Brandeis University
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
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Expertise: Applied computer science, software engineering, architecture and design, development methodology, scalability, software entrepreneurship, robotics

Liuba Shrira
Liuba Shrira
PhD, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Professor and Co-Chair, Computer Science and Director of Graduate Studies, Master's Programs
781-736-2704 Volen 260

Expertise: Distributed systems, reliable and scalable storage systems

Jim Storer
Jim Storer
PhD, Princeton University
Professor, Computer Science
781-736-2714 Volen 254

Expertise: Computer algorithms, data compression, communications and archiving (including text, images, video and multi-media), image retrieval and classification, object recognition and parallel computing

Chuxu Zhang
Chuxu Zhang
PhD, University of Notre Dame
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
781-736-2719 Volen 304

Expertise: Machine learning, deep learning, data mining, graph mining and learning, recommender systems, time series and spatial-temporal learning

Nianwen Bert Xue
Nianwen Bert Xue
PhD, University of Delaware
Professor and Chair, Computer Science
781-736-2728 Volen 253

Expertise: Computational linguistics, Chinese language processing, semantic role labeling, machine translation and linguistic annotation, including Chinese Treebank, Chinese Proposition Bank, OntoNotes

Instructors and Visiting Faculty

Peter Anick
Peter Anick
PhD, Brandeis University
Lecturer

Expertise: Information retrieval, information extraction, natural language processing, medical informatics

joe
Joe Delfino
BS, Carnegie Mellon University
Lecturer, Computer Science

Expertise:  Software engineering, scalability, distributed and high availability computing, architecture and design.

Jessica Liebowitz
Jessica Liebowitz
PhD, Harvard University
Research Scientist
781-736-8613

Expertise: Data science applications, higher education

Hadi
Hadi Mohammadi
MS, Donghua University, PhD Candidate, Donghua University
Visiting Scholar and Lecturer
781-736-2817 Volen 255

Expertise:  Natural language processing, Q&A systems, and sentiment analysis.

Win
Win Treese
SM, Harvard Unviersity
Lecturer, Computer Science

Expertise: Computer Security

Marc Verhagen
Marc Verhagen
PhD, Brandeis University
Senior Research Scientist
781-736-2769 Volen 216

Expertise: Natural language processing, corpus annotation, technology extraction, temporal processing, tool development

Bill
Bill Wittenberg
BA, Brandeis University
Lecturer, Computer Science

Expertise: Software Entrepreneurship

Ben Wellner
Ben Wellner
PhD, Brandeis University
Lecturer

Expertise: Machine learning, computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing

Professors Emeriti

Rick Alterman
Rick Alterman
PhD, University of Texas
Professor, Computer Science

Expertise: Computer-supported communication, cooperation, and collaboration, learning and technology, cognitive engineering and modeling, human computer interaction, communication and discourse, internet and society.

Mitch Cherniack
Mitch Cherniack
PhD, Brown University
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Expertise: Databases and systems supporting the management of "Big Data," software engineering

Staff

Chris Allison
Chris Allison
Systems Administrator
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Michael Golitsyn
Michael Golitsyn
Department Administrator
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Anne Gudaitis
Anne Gudaitis
Graduate Program Coordinator
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