Computer Science Department at Boston University


Jonathan Appavoo Assistant Professor PhD 2005, U Toronto Operating Systems, Parallel Architecture and Software, Cloud Computing, and Exploratory Hybrid Systems	Azer Bestavros Professor PhD 1992, Harvard U Networking, Internet/Web Systems, and Real-Time Systems	Margrit Betke Professor PhD 1995, MIT Computer Vision, Human Computer Interfaces, and Object Recognition

John Byers Associate Professor PhD 1997, UC Berkeley Networking, Content Delivery, and Analysis of Algorithms	Ran Canetti Professor PhD 1995, Weizmann Institute Cryptography and Information Security	Mark Crovella Professor PhD 1994, U Rochester Networking, Internet Characterization, and Performance Evaluation

Peter Gacs Professor PhD 1978, Frankfurt U Cellular Automata, Fault-Tolerant Computing, and Algorithmic Information Theory	Sharon Goldberg Assistant Professor PhD 2009, Princeton U Network Security, Crytography, Game-Theory, and Networking	Steve Homer Professor PhD 1978, MIT Complexity theory, Learning theory, Parallel and Probabilistic Algorithms

Assaf Kfoury Professor PhD 1973, MIT Programming Languages and Type Theory	George Kollios Associate Professor PhD 2000, Polytechnic U Database Systems, Indexing for Non-textual Information, and Data Mining	Leonid Levin Professor PhD, Moscow U and MIT Theory of Computation

Ibrahim Matta Associate Professor PhD 1995, U Maryland, College Park Networking, Performance Evaluation, and QoS Management	Leonid Reyzin Associate Professor PhD 2001, MIT Security, Cryptography, and Theory of Computation	Stan Sclaroff Professor and Chair PhD 1995, MIT Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Pattern Recognition

Wayne Snyder Associate Professor PhD 1988, U Pennsylvania Automated Theorem Proving, Unification, and Rewriting Systems	Evimaria Terzi Assistant Professor PhD 2007, U Helsinki Data Mining, Social Networks, Sequence Analysis	Richard West Associate Professor PhD 2000, Georgia Tech Operating Systems, Real-Time Systems, and QoS Management

Hongwei Xi Associate Professor PhD 1998, CMU Compilers, Software Systems, and Programming Languages

Instructors and Lecturers

Research Scientists

Andras Kornai, (PhD, Eotvos U and Stanford U)
Senior Research Scientist
Areas: Mathematical Linguistics, Human Language Technology

Joint Faculty Members

Gary Benson, (PhD 1992, U Maryland at College Park)
Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science
Areas: Bioinformatics, Algorithms for Sequence Analysis and Multiple Sequence Alignment

Michael Cohen (PhD, Harvard U)
Associate Professor of Cognitive Neural Sciences and Computer Science
Areas: Speech and Natural Language Processing

Nikos Triandopoulos (PhD 2007, Brown U)
Adjunct Assistant Professor RISCS Center and Computer Science
Areas: Security, Cryptography, and Algorithms

Affiliated Faculty Members

Joyce Friedman, (PhD 1965, Harvard U)
Professor Emerita
Areas: Mathematical and Computational Logic and Linguistics

Simon Kasif (PhD 1985, U Maryland at College Park)
Professor of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics
Areas: Computational Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational Learning, and Algorithms