CS - Key Persons


Aayushya Nair

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate / LWSN

Aditya P. Mathur

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor Emeritus

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

Ahmed Qureshi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Alan H. Rebar

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Alex Pothen

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Alex Psomas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Amanda Hint

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Amber Stanley

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Student Concerns Page / Communications
  • Undergraduate Programs Specialist

Andres M. Bejarano Posada

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Practice
  • Assistant Professor of Practice of Computer Science

Andrews Fellowship

Job Titles:
  • Grouped, Post Doc Research Associate

Angela Mills

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Executive Assistant to the Dept. Head

Aniket Bera

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Aniket Kate

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science
  • Privacy Researcher
Aniket Kate is an applied cryptographer and a privacy researcher. His research builds on and expands applied cryptography, distributed computing, and data-driven analysis to solve security/privacy problems in decentralized environments. His current projects focuses on communication freedom, distributed ledgers (or blockchains), and multi-party computation.

Antonio Bianchi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Beatrice Bevilacqua

BB: I am Beatrice Bevilacqua from Italy. I am a second-year master student in Engineering in Computer Science at Sapienza, University of Rome. My background in computer science topics range from low-level programming to data-related topics. This leads me to always seek for solutions that not only solve the task, but that also are optimized. I like discovering new things, I love traveling and I am always looking for opportunities.

Bedrich Benes

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Belinda Morrow

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Program Coordinator

Benjamin Delaware

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Berkay Celik

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Bharat Bhargava

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Bill Crum

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Brad Lucier

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Brian Bullins

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Briar Qualizza

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Yield Recruiter
  • Yield Specialist

Brittany Bacon

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Business Office Account Clerk

Brittany Lock

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Bruno Ribeiro

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Professor

Carrie Harris

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Changhee Jung

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Changlong Wu

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate

Charles Fultz

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • CoS UNIX Systems Administrator

Chelsea Clements

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Support Staff Member
  • Instructional Specialist

Christina Garman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Christoph Hoffmann


Christopher W. Clifton

Job Titles:
  • Interim Department Head and Professor
  • Professor and Interim Head of Computer Science
  • Professor of Computer Science / Interim Department Head

Chulhee Cho


Chunyi Peng

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Daisuke Kihara

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biology and Computer Science

Dan Goldwasser

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Daniel G. Aliaga

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science

Daniel Trinkle

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Lead Research Computing Specialist

Dave Tian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

David Ebert

Job Titles:
  • Director

David Gleich

Job Titles:
  • Professor

David Leonard

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Building Deputy
  • Senior Operations Clerk

Dongyan Xu

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Douglas Comer

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Dr. Amber Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Founder of the an Apparel Brand, the Kidult Life
Dr. Amber Johnson was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in computer science from Purdue University. Listen to Johnson discuss her time at Purdue when she was featured on the This is Purdue Podcast, the official podcast of Purdue Univeristy. Johnson is the founder of the an apparel brand, The Kidult Life.

Edward J. Delp

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering )

Elena Grigorescu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Elias Bareinboim

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science

Elias Houstis

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Elisa Bertino

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • ICDS Director

Elisha Sacks

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Elizabeth Lee

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Eman Diyab

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Emily Kinsell

Job Titles:
  • Communications Specialist
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Director of Marketing & Communication

Eric Samperton

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Quantum Information Science

Eugene Spafford

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director Emeritus
  • Professor

Gary Bertoline


Gaurav Chopra

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( Chemistry )

George Adams

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Practice

Greg Frederickson

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Guannan Wei

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate

Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Practice

H. E. Dunsmore

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Ha Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Hemanta Maji

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Hisham Benotman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Practice

Hyungsub Kim


Ioannis Tzannetos


Itay Moshe Safran

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate

Jaime Keyster

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Academic Advisor, Lead

Jean Honorio Carrillo

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Jean Shidler

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Jeff Turkstra

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Practice

Jeffery S. Vitter


Jennifer L. Neville

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Computer Science / Professor of Statistics
  • Senior Principal Researcher at Research
Professor Neville's research focuses on data mining and machine learning techniques for relational data. In relational domains such as social network analysis, citation analysis, epidemiology, fraud detection, and web analytics, there is often limited information about any one entity in isolation, instead it is the connections among entities that are of crucial importance to pattern discovery. Relational data mining techniques move beyond the conventional analysis of entities in isolation to analyze networks of interconnected entities, exploiting the connections among entities to improve both descriptive and predictive models. Professor Neville's research interests lie in the development and analysis of relational learning algorithms and the application of those algorithms to real-world tasks. Jennifer Neville is a Senior Principal Researcher at Research at Microsoft Redmond and the Samuel Conte Chair Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at Purdue University. Her research focuses on developing data mining and machine learning techniques for complex relational and network domains, including social, information, and physical networks. This work has produced over 100 publications with 10K citations. Her awards include an NSF Career Award (2012), ICDM Best Paper (2009), and IEEE's "10 to Watch in AI" (2008). She was an elected member of the AAAI Executive Council from 2015-2018 and a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group in 2007-2008. She was PC chair of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining in 2019 and the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data in 2016.

Jeremiah Blocki

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jesse Goldsmith

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Senior Director of Development
  • Director of Development, College of Science

Jessica Brewer

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • K - 12 Outreach Administrator

Jessica Conner-Strunk

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Jianguo Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jianlin Xia

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Mathematics )

Joanna Harrell

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Joel Rasmus - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Joey Xie

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Admin of Research Operations

Jonathan Morris

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Instructional Support Staff Member
  • Instructional Specialist

Julia Hamrick

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Lead Academic Advisor

Julio Augusto Vera Sancho

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar

Junmin Zhu


Justin Gillingham

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Senior Curriculum Development Specialist

Kailin Yin

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar

Kathleen Campbell

Kathleen Campbell (M.S. '75) was awarded the College of Science Outstanding Alumni Award in 2014. Kathleen (Mapes) Campbell graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business Education from Indiana State University and later earned her masters in Computer Science from Purdue in 1975. Kathleen then joined TRW, now part of Northrop Grumman. During Kathleen's 24-year career at TRW she held many management positions. Her early responsibilities included design of simulators to support training exercises for both the Army and Air Force. Later she managed several large software development efforts including the design and development of onboard payload software for the MILSTAR communication satellite constellation that provides secure communications capability for all branches of the military. Kathleen also served for several years as manager of a department of 50+ engineers and software developers. For 10 years Kathleen led a TRW team of Purdue alumni returning to Purdue for one week each semester to recruit graduating students. She resides with her husband in Manhattan Beach, California.

Kathryn Van Ness

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Senior Academic Advisor

Kaylee Gad

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Administrative Assistant, ISS / PISA Department Contact

Kazem Taram

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kelly Cunningham

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Kent Quanrud

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kevin Jones

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Associate Director, Advising

Kihong Park

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Kirsten Mikesell

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Acadmic Advisor

Kristal Doty

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Lacey Siefers

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Graduate and Academic Program Administrator

Lorenzo Martino

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Instructional Quality Control Coordinator

Lori O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Academic Services Coordinator

Maison Lois Elain Wooldridge

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Majid Kazemian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Computer Science

Manoja Rajalakshmi Aravindakshan

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar

Mark Ward

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Statistics )

Marsha Rhees

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Marta Crowe

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Mary J. Elmore

Job Titles:
  • New Frontiers Professor of Data Science and Professor of Computer Science

Matthew James Nickle

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Operations Clerk

Max Rees

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Mike Motuliak

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • CoS Network Engineer

Mikhail Atallah

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Milind Kulkarni

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Electrical and Computer Engineering )

Ming Yin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Monica Shively

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Head
  • Assistant Department Head for Academic Programs

Muhammad Shahbaz


Nadya Ortiz

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer
Nadya Ortiz is a software engineer and an international chess woman grandmaster. She earned her MS in computer science at Purdue University in 2014 and is a senior software engineer at Apple. Her story was covered by Purdue news, telling the story of how she came to Purdue and how chess formed her experiences.

Nagender Aneja

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar

Nina Haghighi

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • CoS Web Application Programmer / 49 - 49517 / LWSN B116C

Noah Davis

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • CoS Web Systems Administrator

Pankaj Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Patricia Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

Patrick Wolfe

Job Titles:
  • Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity

Paul Sewell

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Paul Valiant

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Pedro Fonseca

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Petros Drineas

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Associate Department Head

Rajiv Khanna

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Raymond Yeh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Robert Lynch

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Ron Castongia

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Manager of Research & Instructional Laboratories

Roopsha Samanta

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Ruqi Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Ryan Newton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of ECE and Computer Science

Sabre Kais

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor ( Chemistry )

Sally Luzader

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Manager of Corporate Relations

Samuel D. Conte

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Computer Science

Samuel Fultz

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Desktop Support Specialist

Samuel Wagstaff

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Sanjay Rao

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Electrical and Computer Engineering )

Sarah Flook

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Business Office Lead Account Clerk

Sarah Sellke

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Practice

Saugata Basu

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Saul Rosen

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

Saurabh Bagchi

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Electrical and Computer Engineering )

Shelley Straley

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Graduate Office Administrative Assistant

Simina Branzei

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

SM Ferdous

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar

Sonia Fahmy

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Associate Department Head

Sooyeon Jeong

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Stephanie Draper

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Research Account Specialist

Steve Hanneke

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Steve Plite

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member
  • Manager, CoS UNIX Systems Administration

Sunil Prabhakar

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Susanne Hambrusch

Job Titles:
  • Professor

T.N. Vijaykumar

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Electrical and Computer Engineering )

Tamal Dey

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Tammy Muthig

Job Titles:
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Tapti Palit

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate

Thanaa M. Ghanem


Tianyi Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Tiark Rompf


Tony Bergstrom

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Practice

Vassilis Zikas

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Vernon Rego

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Victoria Rubio-Cervantes

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Computer Science Staff Member

Vinayak Rao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( Statistics )

Voicu Popescu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Walid G. Aref

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Walter Gautschi

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Xavier Tricoche

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Xiaojin Liu

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Xuehai Qian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Y Charlie Hu

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Electrical and Computer Engineering )

Yexiang Xue

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Yongle Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Yu Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Yulia Belyakova

Job Titles:
  • Post Doc Research Associate

Yung-Hsiang Lu

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Electrical and Computer Engineering )

Zhiyuan Li

Job Titles:
  • Professor