Ngozi Okidegbe
Ngozi Okidegbe is Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development associate professor of law and an assistant professor of computing & data sciences—the first dual-appointed professor to the School of Law and the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. The author of scholarly work at the intersection of Law and Computing Technologies, including Discredited Data (2022), The Democratizing Potential of Algorithms? (2021), […]
Allison McDonald
Allison McDonald is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University. Working at the nexus of security, privacy, and human-computer interaction (HCI), McDonald’s research emphasizes how technology impacts digital safety and exacerbates marginalization of often-overlooked groups such as refugees, political dissidents, and victims of domestic abuse. To that end, she leverages […]
Tanima Chatterjee
Tanima Chatterjee is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS). As a Clinical Assistant Professor, Tanima’s primary responsibilities revolve around teaching basic competencies and practical skills that are necessary for students to tackle more advanced subjects and pursue applications that require practical knowledge. Tanima […]
Pawel Przytycki
Pawel Przytycki is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and a core faculty member in the Bioinformatics Program. Prior to joining BU, Pawel was a Bioinformatics Fellow at the Gladstone Institutes at the University of California, San Francisco. His research is focused on the development of novel computational methods to understand the regulatory effects […]
Azer Bestavros
Azer Bestavros is the inaugural Associate Provost for Computing & Data Sciences appointed in 2019 to oversee the development and launch of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) a university-wide tenure-home and degree-granting academic unit focused on broadening BU’s footprint in computational and data-driven research as well as introduce new educational pathways for […]
Brian Cleary
Brian Cleary is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and a core faculty member in the Bioinformatics Program. Brian also holds appointments in the Biology and Biomedical Engineering departments, and the Biological Design Center (BDC) at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering. Prior to joining BU, Brian was an Independent Broad Fellow at the Broad […]
Mayank Varia
Mayank Varia is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. He also serves as the Director of Admissions for the PhD program in CDS and leads the Hub for Civic Tech research, which is focusing on advancing computing and data science technologies in the public interest. His research […]
Kevin Gold
Kevin Gold is Associate Professor of the Practice and Preceptor for Instruction in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. Before landing at Boston University he was an algorithm design engineer at Epson, a software engineer at Google, a research scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and a professor at Wellesley, RIT, and Northeastern. His interests […]
Langdon White
Langdon White is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. Langdon comes to CDS after nearly a decade at Red Hat, Inc. where he was most recently a Technical Marketing Manager. While at Red Hat, he worked on re-architecting Fedora (a Linux Distribution) for more flexibility in […]
Ashok Cutkosky
Ashok Cutkosky is an Assistant Professor in the ECE department. His current work is in optimization algorithms for machine learning.