NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Teaching Professor, Director of Computing Programs - Roux Institute / Portland
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- Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech, Khoury College Courtesy Appointment
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- Part - Time Lecturer / Seattle
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Arjun Guha is an associate professor of computer science at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, he was an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University.
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- Part - Time Lecturer / Seattle
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- Associate Dean
- Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Director - BS in Data Science Program / Boston
Byron Wallace is an associate dean of graduate programs, director for the data science program, and the Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He earned his PhD from Tufts University in 2012, after which he taught at Brown University as research faculty. He joined Northeastern from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was an assistant professor in the School of Information from 2014-2016.
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- Dean of Inclusive Computing
- Professor, Dean of Inclusive Computing, Northeastern University, Founding Executive Director, Center for Inclusive Computing / Boston
Carla E. Brodley is the Dean of Inclusive Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. A $50M initiative, the CIC funds and advises universities in the United States to create systemic, sustainable change to remove institutional barriers that impact the discovery, retention and persistence in computing. In this role, she works with presidents, provosts, deans, chairs and faculty at over 80 universities, raising money from government, corporations and philanthropists.
Previously, she served as Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences (2014-2021) and as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, serving as a senior advisor to President Aoun (2019-2021). Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a professor of the Department of Computer Science (2004-2014) and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center (2011-2014), and Chair of the Department of Computer Science (2010-2013) at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (1994-2004).
A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dean Brodley's interdisciplinary machine learning research led to advances not only in computer science, but in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content- based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at North
- Khoury College Professor
David Bau is an assistant professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He earned his bachelor's in mathematics from Harvard University, master's in computer science from Cornell University, and PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on human-computer interaction and machine learning.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Bau worked as a software engineer at Google, BEA, and Crossgain. He has been published in journals such as CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ECCV, and SIGGRAPH.
Outside of research, he enjoys astronomy and puzzle collecting.
Khoury College professor David Bau is the lead PI of the groundbreaking National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF), a revolutionary project aimed at unraveling the mysteries of large-scale AI systems
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- Dean
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- Professor of Computer Science at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences
- Visiting Associate Teaching Professor / Vancouver
Dr. Michal Aibin is a visiting associate teaching professor of computer science at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University's Vancouver campus. Outside of his role at Northeastern, he is also a research faculty member at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. His research interests include the optimization of various processes using adaptive approaches, such as machine learning. His recent focus is on cognitive networking. In particular, data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning concepts applied to optical networks to enable cognitive network data analysis.
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- Associate Teaching Professor / Portland
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- BSCS ‘04, MS Psycholinguistics ‘05, PhD ‘08
- Chief Data Officer at SonderMind
"We didn't know much about each other, but within the first ten minutes we were completely aligned on how to redesign and hopefully fix the mental health care system," Coppersmith remembered. "Frank said, ‘This might be a little forward, but could we acquire you? It looks like we're building two halves of the same company.' Four months later, we were on stage together doing a fireside chat all unified at SonderMind."
Coppersmith now works as the chief data officer at SonderMind. Switching from the "lonely" CEO job at a small company to a C-suite with colleagues and collaborators has been rewarding for Coppersmith.
"It's exciting to be part of a larger team again," he said. "I've learned so much from Mark and my colleagues at SonderMind. It's been a continuation of the journey and a total paradigm shift at the same time."
At SonderMind, Coppersmith leads the team towards a data-driven method of mental health treatment. They want to address the critical problem of matching patients and mental health providers to improve their access and clinical outcomes. The SonderMind team has acquired companies with apps around self-care that facilitate interaction with the platform, which is a rich source of data for a feedback loop of improving care. Other possible ideas include sleep tracking through wearables.
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- Associate Teaching Professor / Vancouver
Herman Saksono is an assistant professor at Northeastern University with a joint appointment at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and Bouvé College of Health Sciences. He earned his bachelor's from Universitas Gadjah Mada - Indonesia, and his master's and doctorate degrees in computer science from Northeastern University.
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- Teaching Professor, Director of Computing Programs - Silicon Valley / Silicon Valley
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- Associate
- Associate Teaching Professor / Boston
John Rachlin is an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. His research is focused on the development of scalable multi-objective optimization and decision-support systems using evolutionary algorithms. Rachlin is based in Fountain Hills, Arizona, where he focuses on developing and delivering online courses.
Before joining Northeastern, he was a staff software engineer at Fitbit and a principal software engineer at Optum Analytics. At Optum, he developed tools and technologies to integrate and analyze patient electronic medical record (EMR) data as part of the company's transition to Hadoop-based distributed computing. Rachlin is also the co-founder of Diatom, LLC, a software consultancy specializing in bioinformatics, healthcare, and big-data solutions.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Jonathan Bell is an associate professor of computer science at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is a member of the Programming Research Laboratory at Northeastern University.
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- Director
- Director of Partnership Relations and Student Engagement / Boston
Lauren Heywood is the director of partnership relations and student engagement at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of Southern Maine. The key aspects of her role are to seek and develop beneficial relationships between Northeastern and outside companies regarding experiential learning, research, corporate learning, philanthropy, and programming. Heywood's favorite aspects of her role are the initial reach out and cultivation of a relationship.
Prior to joining Northeastern University, Heywood worked at Unam Insurance for nine years as a manager of a large case implementation team.
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- Associate Teaching Professor / Vancouver
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- Director
- Director - Strategic Partnerships / Seattle
- Director of the Strategic Partnerships
Mary Trimarco is a director of the strategic partnerships at Northeastern's campus in Seattle, Washington. She earned her bachelor's in finance from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana. In her role, Trimarco builds an ecosystem of employers across the country who engage and hire Khoury College students and help them understand the vast opportunities open to them as computer scientists. She enjoys helping create economic opportunities especially for those who might not otherwise have access to technology, and how the rigor of the Align program is underpinned with cutting-edge research and faculty.
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- Director of Industry
- Director of Industry Partnerships and Engagement / Boston
Michelle Gardner is a director of industry partnerships and engagements at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. After graduating with a degree in business administration from Trinity College of Vermont, Gardner joined IBM in Massachusetts where she enjoyed a long and successful career in client and partner executive roles. Her experience includes building joint technology solutions and go-to-market plans that leverage cloud, data, and AI in partnership with independent software vendors, systems integrators, and cloud service providers from startups to technology leaders across various industries. She is a certified Alliance Manager and a member and past chapter leader in the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals.
In her current role at Khoury College, Gardner works to identify, develop, and grow multi-faceted strategic partnerships. As a collaborator focused on mutual success, she looks forward to working with faculty, staff, and students and building new partnerships that bring value to partners, opportunities for a diverse community of Northeastern students, and advancements in fields of computer science.
Gardner is greatly impressed with the caliber of expertise, deep knowledge, and skills in computer science that is recognized at Khoury College - across the faculty and research institutes, and in talented students bringing value to industry partners through their experiential learning experiences. The focused programs and results of increasing diversity in computer science over the past decade are outstanding, and the focus on building an ecosystem of partnerships is evidence of how well attuned the college is to industry needs.
Gardner grew up in Vermont, north of Burlington and not far from Lake Champlain and the Canadian border. She enjoys visiting her family and the beauty of the Green Mountain state whenever she can.
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- Assistant Teaching Professor / Seattle
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- Part - Time Lecturer / Seattle
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- Part - Time Lecturer / Vancouver
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- Part - Time Lecturer / Silicon Valley