Joydeep Mitra

Assistant Teaching Professor

  • PhD in Computer Science, Kansas State University 
  • BTech in Information Technology, West Bengal University of Technology — India 

Joydeep Mitra is an assistant teaching professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.   

Because mobile apps have become integral to every part of our lives, from finance to entertainment to health, Mitra’s research interests center around mobile app security and privacy. He has been awarded two Android security rewards by Google for discovering vulnerabilities in the Android platform. 

Mitra has published in the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering and the Technical Symposium of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), and has presented at both the International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering and the International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis. Additionally, he has served as a journal reviewer for SIGCSE TS and Transactions in Software Engineering and Methodology. 

Mitra is also passionate about the opportunity to train the next generation of computing professionals, which is why he joined Khoury College in 2023. He gets immense joy from teaching students how their favorite programming languages work under the hood, as well as developing new teaching methods and evaluating existing ones to understand what engages students. He was previously awarded a Faculty Fellowship by Stony Brook University to study the effects of the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning methodology in a large classroom. 

Outside of work, Mitra likes to hike, run, and play the guitar.