Research Honors and Awards
Khoury College faculty are regularly published, recognized, and awarded for their work and research in their fields. They are passionate and lead the industry to routinely make meaningful contributions in a wide range of areas in computer science and technology. From data science to machine learning, our faculty are shaping the future.
ACM Fellows
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recognizes ACM professional members for outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology.
Kenneth Church (2024), Kevin Fu (2023), Carla Brodley (2016), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (2009), Usama Fayyad (2007), Mitchell Wand (2007), Matthias Felleisen (2006)
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Kenneth Church
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.
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Kevin Fu
Kevin Fu is a professor at Khoury College and the College of Engineering, and founder and director of the Archimedes Center for Health Care and Medical Device Cybersecurity. He strives to understand and improve the security of embedded systems and devices, particularly in health care.
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Carla E. Brodley
Carla Brodley is the dean of inclusive computing at Khoury College and the founding executive director of Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing, which aims to remove barriers to participation in the field. She was dean of Khoury College from 2014 to 2021.
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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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Usama Fayyad
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.
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Mitchell Wand
Mitchell Wand is a professor emeritus and part-time lecturer at Khoury College. His interests center around the semantics of programming languages and issues of compiler correctness, and he has published over 120 papers and three books on the subjects.
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Matthias Felleisen
Matthias Felleisen is a trustee professor at Khoury College and an oft-awarded, 40-year scholar in programming languages and software engineering. Among other contributions, he has developed a K–12 math and programming outreach project, the Racket programming language that supports it, and a widely used theoretical framework for modeling programming languages.
AAAS Fellows
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recognizes members who advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.
Kevin Fu (2023), Yun Raymond Fu (2023), Alessandro Vespignani (2023), Elizabeth Mynatt (2021), Carla Brodley (2020), David Madigan (2012)
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Kevin Fu
Kevin Fu is a professor at Khoury College and the College of Engineering, and founder and director of the Archimedes Center for Health Care and Medical Device Cybersecurity. He strives to understand and improve the security of embedded systems and devices, particularly in health care.
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Yun Raymond Fu
Yun Raymond Fu is a University Distinguished Professor jointly appointed between the College of Engineering and Khoury College. He is a widely renowned scholar in AI, machine learning, data mining, and computer vision whose resume includes 500+ scientific publications and 40+ patented inventions.
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Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani is the Sternberg Distinguished University Professor, and an interdisciplinary appointee between Khoury College and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. He uses statistical and numerical simulation methods to study the behavior of complex biological, social, and technological networks.
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Elizabeth Mynatt
Elizabeth Mynatt is the Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences. She joined Northeastern University in January 2022 after a 23-year career at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where she most recently served as Regents’ and Distinguished Professor in the College of Computing and executive director of the Institute of People and Technology.
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Carla E. Brodley
Carla Brodley is the dean of inclusive computing at Khoury College and the founding executive director of Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing, which aims to remove barriers to participation in the field. She was dean of Khoury College from 2014 to 2021.
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David Madigan
David Madigan is a professor at Khoury College, and the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern University. He brings extensive academic leadership experience at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the University of Washington to the role, and has authored over 200 publications in Bayesian statistics, text mining, Monte Carlo methods, pharmacovigilance, and probabilistic graphical models over the course of his career.
AAAI Fellows
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) recognizes individuals who have made significant and sustained long-term contributions to the field of computer science.
Carla Brodley (2014), Usama Fayyad (2006)
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Carla E. Brodley
Carla Brodley is the dean of inclusive computing at Khoury College and the founding executive director of Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing, which aims to remove barriers to participation in the field. She was dean of Khoury College from 2014 to 2021.
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Usama Fayyad
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.
Sloan Fellows
The Sloan Research Fellowship recognizes and provides support to early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.
Christo Wilson (2019), Daniel Wichs (2018)
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Christo Wilson
Christo Wilson is an associate professor and associate dean of undergraduate programs at Khoury College. His research, which draws on computational, political, and economic methods, delves into the data, security, and privacy issues at the heart of our internet use.
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Daniel Wichs
Daniel Wichs is a professor at Khoury College. An expert in modern cryptography, Wichs researches all aspects of the field, including its theoretical foundations and its applications to information security. Wichs’ work was recognized in 2018 with the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, which honors early-career scholars whose achievements mark them among the top scientific minds.
ASA Fellows
The American Statistical Association (ASA) recognizes members who have an established reputation and have made outstanding contributions to statistical science.
Olga Vitek (2021), David Madigan (2006)
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Olga Vitek
Olga Vitek is the Raymond Bradford Bradstreet Professor at Khoury College, and the director of the Barnett Institute for Chemical and Biological Analysis. Her lab, which has been recognized with multiple major awards, uses statistical science, machine learning, and large-scale mass spectrometry to understand the functioning of living organisms.
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David Madigan
David Madigan is a professor at Khoury College, and the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern University. He brings extensive academic leadership experience at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the University of Washington to the role, and has authored over 200 publications in Bayesian statistics, text mining, Monte Carlo methods, pharmacovigilance, and probabilistic graphical models over the course of his career.
IEEE Fellows
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of that prestigious grade elevation.
Yun Raymond Fu (2019), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (2011)
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Yun Raymond Fu
Yun Raymond Fu is a University Distinguished Professor jointly appointed between the College of Engineering and Khoury College. He is a widely renowned scholar in AI, machine learning, data mining, and computer vision whose resume includes 500+ scientific publications and 40+ patented inventions.
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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.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and world, and collaborate for the betterment of society.
Read about Dean Mynatt’s induction into the Academy, including the AI-knitted shawl she wore to the event.
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Elizabeth Mynatt
Elizabeth Mynatt is the Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences. She joined Northeastern University in January 2022 after a 23-year career at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where she most recently served as Regents’ and Distinguished Professor in the College of Computing and executive director of the Institute of People and Technology.
Awards by the numbers
132
proposals submitted in FY24 ($94,239,545 funding requested)
184
active grants, including 14 NSF CAREER grant awards (for early-career faculty) in FY24
88
Khoury College faculty with active grants in FY24
Early Career Awards
NSF CAREER Awards
National Science Foundation CAREER awards are presented to junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education in accordance with their organizations’ missions.
- Saiph Savage (2024)
- Alexandra To (2024)
- Cody Dunne (2022)
- Aanjhan Ranganathan (2022)
- Christopher Amato (2021)
- Jan-Willem Van De Meent (2021)
- Jonathan Bell (2019)
- Paul Hand (2019)
- Dave Choffnes (2018)
- Seth Cooper (2018)
- Huy Le Nguyen (2018)
- Rob Platt (2018)
- Jonathan Ullman (2018)
- Byron Wallace (2018)
- Daniel Wichs (2018)
- Wolfgang Gatterbauer (2017)
- Long Lu (2017)
- Raymond Fu (2016)
- Christo Wilson (2016)
- Amal Ahmed (2015)
- Rajmohan Rajaraman (2015)
- Ruimin Sun (2015)
- Thomas Wahl (2013)
- Peter Desnoyers (2012)
Best Paper Awards
From 2015 to the current year, Khoury College faculty and students won Best Paper or Test of Time Awards at the following conferences, forums, and workshops:
- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
- ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN)
- ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
- ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)
- ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT)
- ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec)
- Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW)
- Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
- Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS)
- Foundations of Digital Games (FDG)
- Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)
- IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS)
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
- IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev)
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
- International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
- International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS)
- International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC)
- The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
- Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
- Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)
- USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
- USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
DARPA Awards
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty awards are given to rising stars in junior research positions in order to develop the next generation of academic scientists who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and National Security Issues.
- Ehsan Elhamifar (2018)
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Ehsan Elhamifar
Ehsan Elhamifar is an associate professor at Khoury College, affiliated with the College of Engineering. The overarching goal of his research is to develop AI that learns from and makes inferences about visual data analogous to humans.
Defense Sciences Study Group
The Defense Sciences Study Group (DSSG) introduces outstanding science and engineering professors to security challenges in the United States and encourages them to apply their talents to these issues.
- William Robertson (2020)
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William Robertson
William Robertson is an associate professor at Khoury College, jointly appointed with the College of Engineering. Using techniques such as security by design, program analysis, and anomaly detection, he aims to enhance the security of operating systems, mobile devices, and the web.
