Elizabeth (Beth) Hawthorne

Director of Cybersecurity - Arlington, Professor of the Practice

Elizabeth “Beth” Hawthorne is a professor and a cybersecurity graduate program director at Khoury College. As the founding director and curriculum developer for Rider University’s cybersecurity graduate program, she is passionate about good cybersecurity education, and she teaches courses on both cybersecurity and digital forensics.

Benjamin Hescott

Teaching Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Student Experience

Benjamin Hescott is a teaching professor, and the senior associate dean of academic programs and student experience at Khoury College. His research interests include computational complexity, approximation algorithms, and computational biology, and he is passionate about making sure computer science education is accessible to all.

Matt Higger

Associate Teaching Professor

Matt Higger is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. He develops interfaces that allow paralyzed people to communicate efficiently with user-specific movements; he also segments populations of images to identify regions which show statistically significant relationships.

Ally Hoffman

Part-Time Lecturer

Ally Hoffman is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and a senior risk specialist in banking supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She researches cyber threats to the financial services industry with a particular focus on emerging technologies, and studies the role of policy and legal enforcement in the advancement of cybersecurity.

Richard Hoshino

Teaching Professor

Richard Hoshino is a teaching professor at Khoury College focusing on discrete structures, algorithms, and AI. He owns the boutique math consulting firm Hoshino Math Services and is the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious Adrien Pouliot Award for math education.

Yifan Hu

Professor of the Practice

Yifan Hu is a professor of the practice at Khoury College. He researches the interdisciplinary intersections of information visualization, AI, machine learning, and natural language processing, questions to quick he brings three decades of industry experience.

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.

Aaron Hunter

Part-time Lecturer

Ahmed Mahmoud A. Ibrahim

Part-Time Lecturer

Hazra Imran

Associate Teaching Professor

Damian Isla

Part-Time Lecturer

Damian Isla is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, as well as the design director and co-founder of the game studio The Molasses Flood. He teaches courses on artificial intelligence and game development.

Carter Ithier

Full-Time Teaching Faculty

Carter Ithier is a clinical instructor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

Alden Jackson

Associate Clinical Professor

Alden Jackson is an associate clinical professor at Khoury College whose interests include SDN architecture, network security, reliability and robustness of massively distributed systems, network protocol design and implementation, policy-based configuration and operation of network elements, and network traffic analysis and monitoring.

Alan Jamieson

Teaching Professor, Associate Dean of Computing Programs – East Coast

Alan Jamieson is a teaching professor at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern's Portland campus and in the Roux Institute at Northeastern University, as well as associate dean of computing programs, East Coast. In addition to his research into algorithms and combinatorial graph theory, Jamieson also studies broadening participation in computer science.

Lindsay Jamieson

Teaching Professor, Associate Dean of Teaching Faculty

Lindsay Jamieson is a teaching professor and associate dean of teaching faculty at Khoury College, and a member of the executive committee for ACM-W North America. She researches algorithms and theory, and also investigates K-12 computer science education, which intersects with her interest in supporting women’s full participation in computer science.

Andrew Jelani

Part-Time Lecturer

Andrew Jelani is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and a software engineer at Amazon. As a researcher, he is interested in information retrieval and machine learning algorithms.