Derek Egolf

PhD Student

Upol Ehsan

Assistant Professor

Upon Ehsan is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. His work pioneered the field of Human-centered Explainable AI (HCXAI) from coining the term to cultivating a vibrant research community.

Ehsan Elhamifar

Associate Professor, Affiliate Faculty with the College of Engineering

Ehsan Elhamifar is an associate professor at Khoury College, affiliated with the College of Engineering. The overarching goal of his research is to develop AI that learns from and makes inferences about visual data analogous to humans.

Tina Eliassi-Rad

Inaugural Joseph E. Aoun Professor

Tina Eliassi-Rad is the inaugural Joseph E. Aoun professor at Khoury College, as well as an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and the Vermont Complex Systems Center. Her research at the intersection of data mining, machine learning, and network science has earned her a place as a core faculty member at both Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, and the Institute for Experiential AI.

Cailyn Ellard

Assistant Director of Graduate Student Services

Mai ElSherief

Assistant Professor

Mai ElSherief is an assistant professor at Khoury College. Her research strives to minimize harm and improve prosocial behavior online by detecting and mitigating biases in natural language processing systems.

Elif Emiroglu

Graduate Student Services

Austin Escalera

Assistant Director - Graduate Student Services

Alexander Estornell

PhD Student

Michael Everett

Assistant Professor, Jointly Appointed with College of Engineering

Michael Everett is an assistant professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Engineering. His research sits at the nexus of robotics, deep learning, and control theory, with the goal of developing certifiable learning machines in which robots can safely, reliably, and efficiently perform tasks.

Kaylah Facey

PhD Student

Mina Fallah

PhD Student

Don Fallis

Professor, Jointly Appointed with College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Don Fallis is a professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. His research blends epistemology, philosophy of information, and philosophy of mathematics, and focuses primarily on adversarial epistemology — how people learn in a disinformation-filled world.

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.

Usama Fayyad

Professor of the Practice, Executive Director Institute for EAI

Usama Fayyad is a professor of the practice at Khoury College and the director of Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI. A recipient of awards from the ACM and NASA, he specializes in data science, machine learning, AI, and data mining.

Sina Fazelpour

Assistant Professor, Jointly Appointed with College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Sina Fazelpour is an assistant professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. His research draws on tools and techniques from philosophy, cognitive science, agent-based simulation, and machine learning to analyze issues of justice, diversity, and reliability in data-driven and AI technologies.