Maryam Farahmand Asil

Assistant Teaching Professor

  • PhD in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), University of California Berkeley 
  • MSc in Mathematics (Analysis), Northeastern University 
  • MSc in Mathematics (Graph Theory), University of Tehran — Iran 
  • BSc in Mathematics, University of Tehran — Iran 

 

Maryam Farahmand-Asil is an assistant teaching professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Silicon Valley and Oakland. 

Farahmand-Asil's teaching expertise spans discrete and data structures, algorithms, and programming for data science. She is passionate about instilling a deep appreciation for mathematics and computer science in her students. Outside the classroom, Farahmand-Asil's research is centered on computer science education, and she received the 2023 Khoury Teaching Innovation Award for an ongoing project that aims to enhance student engagement in computing courses. 

Before joining Khoury College in 2022, Farahmand-Asil held positions as an assistant professor of mathematics at Mills College and a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was honored with the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award at UC Berkeley in 2016.