Lucía Nuñez

Assistant Teaching Professor

  • PhD in Computer Science, Tufts University
  • MS in Computer Science, Tufts University
  • BA in Computer Science, Williams College

She/Her/Hers

Lucia Nuñez is an assistant teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.

Nuñez’s PhD work focused on improving memory management for application-level key-value stores and reducing garbage collection costs using application-specific behavior, with one such project being featured at OOPSLA’s SPLASH 2016. Her previous work also includes adding infrastructure to change the memory allocator in Google’s Dart VM.

Nuñez joined Khoury College as a clinical instructor in 2019, then became a lecturer in 2020. She teaches introductory courses, both theoretic (like Discrete Structures) and programming, like Fundamentals II. Currently, her work focuses on making space-time tradeoffs more explicit in applications, as well as leveraging tracing garbage collectors to gather information about data structures and relaying that information back to the program.