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Akram Bayat

Assistant Teaching Professor

Omar Alonso

Part-Time Lecturer

Omar Alonso is a part-time lecturer at the Khoury College and a senior manager of applied science at Amazon. His main research areas include information retrieval, search quality evaluation, and knowledge graphs.

Tehmina Amjad

Associate Teaching Professor

Tehmina Amjad is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. She conducts research on a variety of topics within the umbrellas of library sciences and machine learning, and her courses on discrete structures and information retrieval aim to connect Align students to more advanced computing concepts.

Rasika Bhalerao

Assistant Teaching Professor

Rasika Bhalerao is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. Her areas of teaching include introductory courses (Fundamentals of Computer Science and the Align program), artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and ethical computing.

Zhuoqun Cheng

Part-Time Lecturer

Zhuoqun Cheng is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College. He researches computer fundamentals and systems, and teaches courses on object-oriented design.

Maryam Farahmand-Asil

Assistant Teaching Professor

Maryam Farahmand-Asil is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College, specializing in algorithms, discrete and data structures, and programming for data science. She received the 2023 Khoury Teaching Innovation Award for a project aimed at enhancing student engagement in computing courses.

John Alexis Guerra Gomez

Associate Teaching Professor

John Alexis Guerra Gomez is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. Throughout his career in academia and industry, he has worked on data, user interface design, network visualization, and human–computer interaction projects, both in the US and in his native Colombia.

Philip Gust

Visiting Clinical Instructor

Philip Gust is a clinical instructor at Khoury College. His human-computer interaction research emphasizes user interface design and computer-mediated collaboration, and he has more recently begun to explore questions related to preserving long-term access to born-digital content.

Brent Hailpern

Part-Time Lecturer

Brent Hailpern is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and the former head of computer science for IBM Research. Hailpern’s research has focused on cognitive software, programming languages, and software engineering, and he is a fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE.

Lama Hamandi

Associate Teaching Professor

Lama Hamandi is an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on systems and networking.

Jiaji Huang

Part-Time Lecturer

Jiaji Huang is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and a senior applied scientist with Amazon Web Services’ machine learning algorithm team. His research explores large language models with human preferences, speech recognition, and language models.

Eunji Lee

Part-Time Lecturer

Eunji Lee is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College. She is passionate about making sure people from all backgrounds can understand, organize, and use data.

Jeongkyu Lee

Teaching Professor

Jeongkyu Lee is a teaching professor at Khoury College and a former database administrator with Hana Bank and IBM. He teaches courses in big data, NoSQL databases, Python, and statistics.

Shivakumar Mathapathi

Part-Time Lecturer

Shivakumar Mathapathi is an adjunct faculty member at Khoury College, as well as at UC San Diego, Extension; he also teaches at regional community colleges such as Ohlone and De-Anza College. He has founded or co-founded multiple companies related to education and technology, and he teaches and conducts research about the internet of things, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Mark Miller

Part-Time Lecturer - Align Program

Mark Miller is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and the president and executive director of technology education company Learningtech.org. He is interested in inclusive, equitable computer science education, and is an active participant in California’s growing efforts to bring computer science into K-12 classrooms.

Alvaro Monge

Director of Computing Programs, Academic – Oakland

Alvaro Monge is a teaching professor at Khoury College, and director of computing programs, academic in Oakland. He is passionate about supporting and retaining underrepresented students in computing and preparing them to thrive in the tech industry.