Katherine Socha

Associate Teaching Professor

Katherine Socha is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. She is passionate about ensuring her students develop the mathematical foundations needed to understand advanced computational concepts, and teaches courses on discrete structures and algorithms.

Ellen Spertus

Teaching Professor

Ellen Spertus is a teaching professor at Khoury College. She had previously served as a professor of computer science and periodic department head at Mills College, and her research spans domains ranging from parallel computing to online communities to computer science education.

Jay Spitulnik

Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Health Informatics Graduate Program, Jointly Appointed with Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Jay Spitulnik is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College, and the director of the Health Informatics graduate program. He brings a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and 10 years of project management experience in the healthcare industry to questions of project management technology, organizational behavior, and statistics in patient care.

David Stalfa

Part Time Lecturer

Jesse Stern

Assistant Teaching Professor

Jesse Stern is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. He teaches courses on discrete mathematics and algorithms, both because he loves the topics and because he believes they give students a suite of useful concepts and modes of thought to tackle other problems in computer science.

Laney Strange

Director of Broadening Participation, Director for Teaching Faculty - Boston, Teaching Professor

Laney Strange is a teaching professor, director for teaching faculty in Boston, and director of broadening participation at Khoury College. She advocates for underrepresented groups in computer science and holds Women’s Community of Code workshops that empower girls and women to pursue programming.

Zhifeng Sun

Part-Time Lecturer

Shanu Sushmita

Assistant Teaching Professor

Shanu Sushmita is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College and leader of the Generative AI Research Group. Her research focuses on machine learning techniques and the application side of information retrieval.

Carmen Taglienti

Part-Time Lecturer

Amir Tahmasebi

Part-Time Lecturer

Amir Tahmasebi is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and a director of data science at medical device company Becton Dickinson. He researches ways to tackle clinical problems using machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, and holds more than 30 patents worldwide.

Maryam Tanha

Mastercard Assistant Teaching Professor

Maryam Tanha is an assistant teaching professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Vancouver. Tanha’s research interests are deeply rooted in detecting Android malware and designing resilient software-defined networks.

Benjamin Tasker

Part-Time Lecturer

Jack Thomas

Assistant Teaching Professor

Jack Thomas is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. Robotics are what captures his imagination, both as a researcher and a teacher, although he also works in other areas including the social implications of computing, databases, data structures, algorithms and software engineering.

Mohammad Toutiaee

Assistant Teaching Professor

Mohammad Toutiaee is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. His research and teaching focuses on AI, machine learning, and data science.

Wendy Truran

Associate Teaching Professor

Wendy Truran is an associate teaching professor in the Khoury College. She teaches technical and professional communications.

Iraklis Tsekourakis

Associate Teaching Professor

Iraklis Tsekourakis is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. He is drawn to his research into three-dimensional reconstruction by the field’s many varied applications, and he is also passionate about engaging underrepresented groups in computer science.