Cristian Penarrieta

Part-Time Lecturer

Geoffrey Phipps

Part-Time Lecturer

Geoffrey Phipps is an adjunct professor at Khoury College. He is excited to train the next generation of engineers to take over the large-scale distributed systems of the modern web, which he sees as the most complex technology humans have ever built.

Adam C. Powell

Part-Time Lecturer

Adam Powell is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and the founder and president of the healthcare management consulting firm Payer+Provider Syndicate. His work as a researcher focuses on healthcare economics, and he teaches classes in the health informatics graduate program.

John Rachlin

Associate Teaching Professor

John Rachlin is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. He researches the development of scalable multi-objective optimization and decision-support systems using evolutionary algorithms.

Ryan M. Rad

Associate Teaching Professor

Ryan Rad is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College with backgrounds in teaching, research, engineering, and management. He has founded two companies in the last decade and is currently active in computational biology, machine learning, and personal health informatics research.

Parsa Rajabi

Part-Time Lecturer

Parsa Rajabi is a part-time teaching faculty member at Khoury College, as well as the director of the Artificial Intelligence for Education Lab and an open education researcher with Simon Fraser University’s learning and instructional services. He is interested in computer science education – particularly the domains of AI education and computational thinking – and on human-computer interaction.

Vishal Rajpal

Part-Time Lecturer

Vishal Rajpal is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College and a senior software engineer at Amazon Ads. He teaches courses on scalable distributed systems and large-scale data processing.

Leena Razzaq

Associate Teaching Professor

Leena Razzaq is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. Her research focuses on educational technologies, like intelligent tutoring systems that can adapt to students’ performance.

Vance Ricks

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

Vance Ricks is a teaching professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. His teaching and research focus on ethical dimensions of computer technologies, and he is affiliated with the Algorithm Auditing Research Group.

Daniel Ries

Part-Time Lecturer

Daniel Ries is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and the chief technology officer at the nutritional tools and services startup Good Measures LLC. He has extensive experience using information systems to enable business and technology leaders in healthcare and other industries.

Shari Robbins

Part-Time Lecturer

Shari Robbins is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and a member of the consulting team at international healthcare management consulting company Vynamic. Her work focuses on organizational behavior, workflow analysis, and change management, with a particular focus on the healthcare industry.

Monique Roth

Part-Time Lecturer

Monique Roth is a part-time lecturer at the Khoury College. She is interested in health informatics, and applies her 23 years of experience as an Informaticist at Atrius Health to the subject.

Nadim Saad

Assistant Teaching Professor

Nadim Saad is an assistant teaching professor in the Khoury College. He enjoys teaching foundational computer science and data science courses where he can guide students in subjects that might be new to them, and his research has historically explored partial differential equations.

Abir Saha

Assistant Teaching Professor

Ryon Sajnovsky

Part-Time Lecturer

Rush Sanghrajka

Assistant Teaching Professor

Rush Sanghrajka is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. His dual passions are computer intelligence as a storytelling medium, and computer science pedagogy.