Michtom School of Computer Science

Faculty and Staff

Meet Our Faculty

Rick Alterman
Rick Alterman
PhD, University of Texas
Professor, Computer Science
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  • 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
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  • Expertise: Databases and systems supporting the management of "Big Data," software engineering.

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, Computer Science
781-736-2706 Gerstenzang 137
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
Chair and Professor, Computer Science
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  • 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
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  • Expertise: Phonological theory, historical linguistics, morphology, heritage linguistics.

Jordan Pollack
Jordan Pollack
PhD, University of Illinois
Professor, Computer Science
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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
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  • Expertise: Theoretical and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, corpus linguistics and annotation, lexical semantics, temporal and spatial reasoning.

R. Pito Salas
R. Pito Salas
BA, Brandeis University
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science and Undergraduate Advising Head, 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
Co-Chair and Professor, Computer Science
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  • Expertise: Distributed systems, reliable and scalable storage systems.

Jim Storer
Jim Storer
PhD, Princeton University
Professor, Computer Science
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  • Expertise: Computer algorithms, data compression, communications and archiving (including text, images, video and multi-media), image retrieval and classification, object recognition and parallel computing.

Iraklis Tsekourakis
Iraklis Tsekourakis
PhD, Stevens Institute of Technology
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies and Industry Liaison, Computer Science
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  • Expertise: Computer vision, multiple-view and video-based 3-D reconstruction.

Chuxu Zhang
Chuxu Zhang
PhD, University of Notre Dame
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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  • Expertise: Machine learning, deep learning, data mining, graph mining & learning, recommender systems, time series and spatial-temporal learning.

Nianwen Bert Xue
Nianwen Bert Xue
PhD, University of Delaware
Professor and Vice Chair, Computer Science
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  • 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

Jessica Liebowitz
Jessica Liebowitz
PhD, Harvard University
Research Scholar
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  • Expertise: Data science applications, higher education.

Marc Verhagen
Marc Verhagen
PhD, Brandeis University
Senior Research Scientist
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  • Expertise: Natural language processing, corpus annotation, technology extraction, temporal processing, tool development.

Ben Wellner
Ben Wellner
PhD, Brandeis University
Lecturer
  • Expertise: Machine learning, computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing.

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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