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  • Omar Alonso

    Omar Alonso is a part-time lecturer at the Khoury College and a senior manager of applied science at Amazon. His main research areas include information retrieval, search quality evaluation, and knowledge graphs.

  • Tehmina Amjad

    Tehmina Amjad is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. She conducts research on a variety of topics within the umbrellas of library sciences and machine learning, and her courses on discrete structures and information retrieval aim to connect Align students to more advanced computing concepts.

  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates

    Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a professor of the practice and the director of research at Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI. He has held leadership positions in tech companies on three continents, taught in Spain and Chile, and co-wrote the best-selling textbook Modern Information Retrieval — among more than 600 other publications.

  • Rasika Bhalerao

    Rasika Bhalerao is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. Her areas of teaching include introductory courses (Fundamentals of Computer Science and the Align program), artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and ethical computing.

  • Anurag Bhardwaj

    Anurag Bhardwaj is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College and a Bay Area-based data scientist. He researches large scale machine learning, computer vision, and deep learning, and his work on online visual fashion recommendation has received significant media attention.

  • Zhuoqun Cheng

    Zhuoqun Cheng is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College. He researches computer fundamentals and systems, and teaches courses on object-oriented design.

  • Kenneth Church

    Kenneth Church is a professor of the practice at Khoury College and a senior principal research scientist at Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

  • Maryam Farahmand Asil

    Maryam Farahmand-Asil is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College, specializing in algorithms, discrete and data structures, and programming for data science. She received the 2023 Khoury Teaching Innovation Award for a project aimed at enhancing student engagement in computing courses.

  • John Alexis Guerra Gomez

    John Alexis Guerra Gomez is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. Throughout his career in academia and industry, he has worked on data, user interface design, network visualization, and human–computer interaction projects, both in the US and in his native Colombia.

  • Philip Gust

    Philip Gust is a clinical instructor at Khoury College. His human-computer interaction research emphasizes user interface design and computer-mediated collaboration, and he has more recently begun to explore questions related to preserving long-term access to born-digital content.

  • Brent Hailpern

    Brent Hailpern is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and the former head of computer science for IBM Research. Hailpern’s research has focused on cognitive software, programming languages, and software engineering, and he is a fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE.