Elizabeth Mynatt

Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Elizabeth Mynatt is the Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences. She joined Northeastern University in January 2022 after a 23-year career at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where she most recently served as Regents’ and Distinguished Professor in the College of Computing and executive director of the Institute of People and Technology.

Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Professor, Executive Director - Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute

Cristina Nita-Rotaru is a professor at Khoury College and the executive director and a founding member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. In her research, she designs and builds secure, resilient distributed systems and network protocols.

Alina Oprea

Professor, Assistant Dean of Faculty Affairs

Alina Oprea is the assistant dean of faculty affairs and a professor at Khoury College specializing in cloud security, applied cryptography, and security analytics. Over many years in industry and academia, she has researched and designed machine learning techniques to predict and protect against hacker behavior.

Predrag Radivojac

Professor, Associate Dean for Research

Predrag Radivojac is the associate dean for research and a professor at Khoury College. His work strives to grasp the molecular basis for higher-level phenotypes and genetic disorders, and to develop algorithms and analysis techniques related to the function of biological macromolecules, mass spectrometry proteomics, genome interpretation, and precision health.

Rajmohan Rajaraman

Professor, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs

Rajmohan Rajamaran is a professor and the associate dean of faculty affairs at Khoury College. He has made important contributions in the areas of distributed hash tables and fundamental combinatorial optimization problems, with the former being incorporated in peer-to-peer systems.

Aanjhan Ranganathan

Associate Professor, Director of BS in Cybersecurity Program

Aanjhan Ranganathan is an assistant professor and the director of the BS in Cybersecurity program at Khoury College. His research encompasses physical-layer security of wireless systems, secure localization and proximity verification, trusted computing architectures, and side channels.

Adam Rodrigues

Associate Dean of Administration & Finance

Martin Schedlbauer

Teaching Professor, Director of Online Faculty and Programs

Martin Schedlbauer is a teaching professor, and the director of online faculty and programs at Khoury College. He is also the founder, CEO, and CTO of Technology Resource Group, Inc. and a CTO at BEA Systems, and he teaches courses in data and information science.

Logan Schmidt

Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Computing Programs – Vancouver

Logan Schmidt is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College, and the director of computing programs for Northeastern's Vancouver campus. He is a graduate of the Align program himself, and in both his research and teaching work he aims to introduce newcomers to computer science fundamentals in a way that helps them effectively build new careers.

David Ayman Shamma

Professor of the Practice, Director of Computing Programs - Oakland

David Ayman Shamma is the director of computing programs and a professor of the practice at Khoury College, based in Oakland. His research focuses on human-centered AI, HCI, and machine learning, with the goal of building supportive, scalable systems and technologies that amplify people in their work and everyday lives.

Amit Shesh

Teaching Professor, Assistant Dean of Master’s Programs, Co-Director of AI Curricular Transformation

Amit Shesh is a teaching professor, an assistant dean of master's programs, and co-director of AI curricular transformation at Khoury College. He most enjoys teaching programming-intensive courses, in particular computer graphics; his research includes problems of visual computing and the use of graphics in computer science education.

Andrea Stith

Assistant Dean for Research Development

Andrea Stith is the assistant dean for research development at Khoury College. In her role, she facilitates faculty securing larger and more diverse grants, the development and implementation of college-level research strategy, and community-building.

Laney Strange

Teaching Professor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, Co-Director of AI Curricular Transformation

Laney Strange is a teaching professor, associate dean for undergraduate programs, and co-director of AI curricular transformation 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.

Jack Thomas

Assistant Teaching Professor, Assistant Director of Computing Programs – Vancouver

Jack Thomas is an assistant teaching professor and assistant director of computing programs at Khoury College, based in Vancouver. 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.

Melanie Tory

Professor of the Practice, Director of Non-Tenure-Track Research

Melanie Tory is a professor of the practice and director of non-tenure-track research at Khoury College. She previously worked as a research scientist for Tableau Software.

Andrew van der Poel

Assistant Teaching Professor, Assistant Director of Teaching Faculty — Boston

Andrew van der Poel is an assistant teaching professor, and assistant director of teaching faculty in Boston at Khoury College. He is interested in the theories underlying computation, and both his teaching work related to algorithms and discrete structures, and his research work related to algorithms, graphs, and fixed-parameter tractability, have a strong focus on theory.