Mirjana Prpa

Assistant Teaching Professor

Mirjana Prpa is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. She leads an interdisciplinary research program focused on solving complex problems of designing technologies at the intersection of mixed reality (XR) and human-computer Interaction to support human health and well-being, collaborative and creative tasks, and social interactions in VR.

John Rachlin

Associate Teaching Professor

John Rachlin is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. He researches the development of scalable multi-objective optimization and decision-support systems using evolutionary algorithms.

Ryan M. Rad

Assistant Teaching Professor

Ryan Rad is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College with backgrounds in teaching, research, engineering, and management. He has founded two companies in the last decade and is currently active in computational biology, machine learning, and personal health informatics research.

Parsa Rajabi

Part-Time Lecturer

Parsa Rajabi is a part-time teaching faculty member at Khoury College, as well as the director of the Artificial Intelligence for Education Lab and an open education researcher with Simon Fraser University’s learning and instructional services. He is interested in computer science education – particularly the domains of AI education and computational thinking – and on human-computer interaction.

Vishal Rajpal

Part-Time Lecturer

Vishal Rajpal is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College and a senior software engineer at Amazon Ads. He teaches courses on scalable distributed systems and large-scale data processing.

Ronak Razavisousan

Part-Time Lecturer

Leena Razzaq

Associate Teaching Professor

Leena Razzaq is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. Her research focuses on educational technologies, like intelligent tutoring systems that can adapt to students’ performance.

Vance Ricks

Associate Teaching Professor

Vance Ricks is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. His teaching and research focus on ethical dimensions of computer technologies, and he is affiliated with the Algorithm Auditing Research Group.

Daniel Ries

Part-Time Lecturer

Daniel Ries is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and the chief technology officer at the nutritional tools and services startup Good Measures LLC. He has extensive experience using information systems to enable business and technology leaders in healthcare and other industries.

Shari Robbins

Part-Time Lecturer

Shari Robbins is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and a member of the consulting team at international healthcare management consulting company Vynamic. Her work focuses on organizational behavior, workflow analysis, and change management, with a particular focus on the healthcare industry.

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.

Monique Roth

Part-Time Lecturer

Monique Roth is a part-time lecturer at the Khoury College. She is interested in health informatics, and applies her 23 years of experience as an Informaticist at Atrius Health to the subject.

Joseph J. Rushanan

Part-Time Lecturer

Joseph Rushanan is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and a principal mathematician at the MITRE Corporation. He researches and teaches courses in security, cryptography, and mathematics, and is currently exploring questions related to nagivation and GPS.

Nadim Saad

Assistant Teaching Professor

Nadim Saad is an assistant teaching professor in the Khoury College. He enjoys teaching foundational computer science and data science courses where he can guide students in subjects that might be new to them, and his research has historically explored partial differential equations.

Abir Saha

Assistant Teaching Professor

Ryon Sajnovsky

Part-Time Lecturer