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Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Professor of the Practice

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.

Florin Bidian

Professor of the Practice, Coordinator of the Economics/Data Science Program

Florin Bidian is a professor of the practice and the coordinator of the economics–data science program in the Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH). His research explores the intersection of data science, machine learning, and economics.

Kenneth Church

Professor of the Practice

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.

Michael Correll

Associate Research Professor

Michael Correll is an associate research professor at Khoury College. His work in the worlds of data science and visualization aim to create reliable, inclusive, and informative visualizations for nonexpert audiences, and to help people make accurate decisions based on data.

Ryan Doenges

Distinguished Research Fellow

Upol Ehsan

Assistant Professor, Senior Research Fellow

Usama Fayyad

Professor of the Practice, Executive Director Institute for EAI

Usama Fayyad is a professor of the practice at Khoury College and the director of Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI. A recipient of awards from the ACM and NASA, he specializes in data science, machine learning, AI, and data mining.

Cliff Forlines

Associate Research Professor

Clifton Forlines is an associate research professor at Khoury College, affiliated with the Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis). His human-computer interaction research focuses on the relationship between input and visual data manipulation, to provide meaningful insights from data and support better decision-making.

Cody Freitag

Distinguished Research Fellow

Mahdi Haghifam

Distinguished Research Fellow

Holly Jimison

Research Professor, Interdisciplinary with Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Holly B. Jimison is a research professor jointly appointed between Khoury College and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, and the director of the Consortium on Technology for Proactive Care at Northeastern University. Her research contributions exploring technology for successful aging and scalable remote care for older adults have earned her a position as a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

Mario Nascimento

Professor of the Practice, Director of Pacific Northwest Research

Mario Nascimento is a professor of the practice and the director of Pacific Northwest research at Khoury College. His research focuses on data science, specifically spatiotemporal databases.

Mahsan Nourani

Research Professor

Mahsan Nourani is a research assistant professor at Khoury College. Her research explores how people of varying backgrounds understand and interact with AI-assisted decision-making systems and the impact those systems have on societies, with the goal of enabling human-centered and responsible AI.

Misha Pavel

Research Professor, Interdisciplinary with Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Misha Pavel is a research professor, jointly appointed between Khoury College and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. He researches behavioral informatics with a focus on multi-scale computational modeling of behaviors and their control, which can be applied to everything from elder care to the augmentation of human performance.

Xiang (Jenny) Ren

Senior Research Fellow

Jayshree Sarathy

Senior Research Fellow, Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2025)

Jayshree Sarathy is a senior research fellow and incoming assistant professor at Khoury College. She researches the sociotechnical dynamics of responsible data science, with a focus on privacy and data access.