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Amal Ahmed

Professor

Amal Ahmed is a professor at Khoury College. Her programming languages research has touched on semantics, type systems, secure compilation, gradual typing, and software contracts.

Malihe Alikhani

Assistant Professor

Malihe Alikhani is an assistant professor at Khoury College. Both enthused and wary of the transformative power of AI, Alikhani teaches courses and conducts research on AI ethics and equitable natural language processing.

Christopher Amato

Associate Professor

Christopher Amato is an associate professor at Khoury College and head of the Lab for Learning and Planning in Robotics. His research lies at the intersection of robotics, AI, and machine learning, including planning and reinforcement learning in partially observable and multi-agent/multi-robot systems.

Silvio Amir

Assistant Professor

Silvio Amir is an assistant professor at Khoury College. By applying natural language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval methods to personal and user-generated data, he aims to improve the reliability, interpretability, and fairness of predictive models and analytics.

Javed Aslam

Professor, Chief of Artificial Intelligence

Javed Aslam is a professor at Khoury College. His research emphasizes machine learning and information retrieval, with forays into human computation, transportation, computer security, wireless networking, and medical informatics.

Kenneth Baclawski

Associate Professor Emeritus

Albert-László Barabási

Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, University Distinguished Professor, Interdisciplinary with College of Science

Albert-László Barabási is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, director of the Center for Complex Network Research, and a joint appointee within Khoury College and the College of Science. His award-winning work includes the discovery of scale-free networks and the Barabási-Albert model to explain their prevalence in natural, technological, and social systems.

David Bau

Assistant Professor

David Bau is an assistant professor at Khoury College and the lead principal investigator of the National Deep Inference Fabric project. His research centers on human–computer interaction and machine learning, including the gap between the efficacy of AI and scientists’ ability to explain it.

Soheil Behnezhad

Assistant Professor

Soheil Behnezhad is an associate professor at Khoury College. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science, with much of his work focused on graph algorithms and the theoretical foundations of big data algorithms.

Jonathan Bell

Associate Professor

Jonathan Bell is an assistant professor at Khoury College. His research focuses on automated approaches to help developers write better software, particularly in Java and JavaScript.

Enrico Bertini

Associate Professor

Enrico Bertini is an associate professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Arts, Media and Design. Through his research and his podcast Data Stories, he works to make data visualization more understandable and useful for broad audiences.

Timothy W. Bickmore

Professor

Timothy Bickmore is a professor at Khoury College and the director of the Relational Agents Group. He develops and evaluates computer agents that emulate face-to-face interactions between health providers and patients, with human–computer interaction, natural language processing, and animation playing a role.

Elettra Bietti

Assistant Professor

Elettra Bietti is an assistant professor jointly appointed between Khoury College and the School of Law. She became interested in tech while working as an antitrust and intellectual property litigator representing tech and pharmaceutical clients, and now researches how technology overlps with data law, privacy, and antitrust laws in the digital economy.

Michelle Borkin

Associate Professor

Michelle Borkin is an associate professor at Khoury College. She develops novel visualization techniques and tools to enable new data discoveries in fields ranging from cardiology to astronomy.

Carla E. Brodley

Professor, Dean of Inclusive Computing, Northeastern University, Founding Executive Director, Center for Inclusive Computing

Carla Brodley is the dean of inclusive computing at Khoury College and the founding executive director of Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing, which aims to remove barriers to participation in the field. She was dean of Khoury College from 2014 to 2021.

Agnes H. Chan

Professor Emeritus

Agnes Chan is a professor emeritus and the executive director of information assurance and cybersecurity at Khoury College. Her cryptography and security research has spanned mutual authentication algorithms, communications security, and open clouds, and she holds patents on ultrafast pseudorandom sequence generators and software-based stream ciphers.