Khoury College.
Our people are our power

Akram Bayat

Assistant Teaching Professor

Rasika Bhalerao

Assistant Teaching Professor

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.

Thea Celestine

Graduate Experiential Learning and Career Services Advisor, Network

Crane He Chen

Assistant Teaching Professor

Crane He Chen is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College, based in Oakland and Silicon Valley, where she teachers computer graphics. Chen enjoys teaching students not just to solve problems, but to determine which problems to solve. She also aims to develop their critical and creative thinking skills in line with the philosophy that “knowledge has a life span, but modes of thinking are timeless.”

Maryam Farahmand-Asil

Assistant Teaching Professor

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.

Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera

Associate Teaching Professor

Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera is an associate teaching professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Oakland. Before joining Khoury College in 2023, Fuentes-Cabrera built his research career at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, where he used computational physics techniques to investigate nanomaterials.

John Alexis Guerra Gomez

Associate Teaching Professor

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.

Almudena Konrad

Visting Teaching Professor

Almudena Konrad is a visiting teaching professor at Khoury College. She teaches courses on discrete structures and mathematics of data models, and previously held a faculty position in the Math and Computer Science Department at Mills College.

Alvaro Monge

Teaching Professor

Alvaro Monge is a teaching professor at Khoury College, and assistant dean and director of computing programs for the college’s California campuses. He is passionate about supporting and retaining underrepresented students in computing and preparing them to thrive in the tech industry.

Lace Padilla

Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary with College of Science

Lace Padilla is an assistant professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Science. She combines cognitive, neural, and computer sciences to study how people process data visualizations and how those visualizations can communicate more accurately and effectively.

Sami Rollins

Teaching Professor, Director of Graduate Computing Programs - Oakland

Sami Rollins is a teaching professor and director of graduate computing programs at the Oakland campus. Her research includes broadening participation in computing, computer science education, and mobile and distributed computing.

Ellen Spertus

Teaching Professor

Ellen Spertus is a teaching professor at Khoury College. She had previously served as a professor of computer science and periodic department head at Mills College, and her research spans domains ranging from parallel computing to online communities to computer science education.

Jessica Staddon

Professor of the Practice

Jessica Staddon is a professor of the practice at Khoury College. Her research explores AI safety, security, and privacy, and her role with Khoury College encompasses elements of teaching, research, and partnership development.

Chung Xiong

Graduate Student Services Coordinator