Khoury College.
Our people are our power
As part of one of the world’s leading colleges of computer science, our faculty and staff are committed to the success of our students. Team Khoury is on your side.
- Top faculty dedicated to teaching and mentoring in the classroom and in the lab
- Advisors and coordinators supporting students during every step of their educational journey from course selection to co-op placement
- Staff committed to creating a supportive environment, where productivity and collaboration flourish
Meet the people of Khoury College
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Amal Ahmed
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.
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Malihe Alikhani
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.
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Christopher Amato
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.
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Silvio Amir
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.
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Javed Aslam
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.
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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.
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Albert-László Barabási
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.
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David Bau
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.
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Jonathan Bell
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.
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Enrico Bertini
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.
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Timothy W. Bickmore
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.