Gene Cooperman

Gene Cooperman is a professor at Khoury College and leader of the High Performance Computing Laboratory. He researches a slew of interdisciplinary computing, math, and physics topics, and contributed to “GEANT4 – A Simulation Toolkit” — the most widely cited paper in high-energy physics.

Kathleen (Katie) Creel

Maitraye Das

Maitraye Das is an assistant professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Arts, Media and Design. Her human–computer interaction research blends interviews, field work, and iterative design to bridge equity and accessibility gaps in education, employment, and creative work.

Bob De Schutter

Bob De Schutter is an associate professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Arts, Media and Design. His game design work emphasizes the importance of older gamers and lifelong play, a mission reflected in his ownership of award-winning game company Lifelong Games LLC.

Mahsa Derakhshan

Peter Desnoyers

Peter Desnoyers is an associate professor at Khoury College and a co-founder of the Massachusetts Open Cloud, a multi-institutional collaboration that develops new cloud computing models. His research examines storage issues in operating systems, namely the integration of emerging storage tech into existing software infrastructures.

Michael Ann DeVito

Michael Ann DeVito is an assistant professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Arts, Media and Design. Her AI and machine learning research aims to address inequalities and unfairness toward marginalized populations through inclusive, equitable design.

Cody Dunne

Cody Dunne is an assistant professor at Khoury College. His work, which lies at the nexus of information visualization, network science, and human–computer interaction, strives to make data and visualizations easier to analyze and share.

Laura Edelson

Laura Edelson is an assistant professor at Khoury College and former chief technologist for the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She studies the spread of harmful content through large online networks with the goal of making social media platforms safer and more beneficial for users.

Ehsan Elhamifar

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

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.

Mai ElSherief

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.

Michael Everett

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.

Don Fallis

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.

Sina Fazelpour

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.

Matthias Felleisen

Matthias Felleisen is a trustee professor at Khoury College and an oft-awarded, 40-year scholar in programming languages and software engineering. Among other contributions, he has developed a K–12 math and programming outreach project, the Racket programming language that supports it, and a widely used theoretical framework for modeling programming languages.