Spotlight Archive
Ajit Vijaykumar Kulkarni
For Student Ajit Vijaykumar Kulkarni, MET Offers Standout Professors and Practical Projects. Ajit is pursuing a MS in Computer Information Systems with a concentration in Web Application Development and has a BS from State University of New York College at Buffalo. He is a Solution Architect at ITC Infotech as a service partner of PTC. What compelled you to return to school and pursue a graduate education? What is your long-term objective? In the information technology world, upgrading knowledge and skill is a survival need. I wish to maintain my educational growth, so my objective is to brush up on concepts I... More
James Christensen
Meet James Christensen, Business Analyst and Data Administrator at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Mr. Christensen received a Master of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Data Analytics (MET’18), was the May 2018 Excellence in Graduate Studies Award Recipient and completed his BA at Boston University. “In his graduate studies, James concentrated on data analytics. This is one of the most challenging concentrations in the department. James proved himself to be a truly exceptional student, excelling in all the courses he took.”—Dr. Anatoly Temkin, Chair of Computer Science Why did you choose MET for your graduate studies? What set... More
Dr. Suresh Kalathur
Faculty Spotlight Learning from Dr. Suresh Kalathur, Practical Techniques Learned in Class Apply on the Job. Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Director of Analytics Programs PhD, MA, Brandeis University; MS, Indian Institute of Technology; BS, National Institute of Technology (India) What is your area of expertise? My main areas of expertise are programming languages and analytics. I helped to coordinate the analytics curriculum here at Metropolitan College. There is a great need for data analysts, data scientists, business analytics and business intelligence developers, and others who can apply skills in data analytics. There is no shortage of opportunity, and in fact there are more... More
Dr. Eric Braude
Faculty Spotlight. Meet Dr. Eric Braude, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Coordinator of the Master of Science in Software Development program. Dr. Braude holds a PhD from Columbia University, MS from University of Miami, MS from University of Illinois and a BSc from University of Natal. What is your area of expertise? Machine learning and software engineering. Tell us about your work—can you share any current research or recent publications? A paper, "Generalizing Morley's and Other Theorems with Automated Realization," by my student (and recent MSCS graduate) Satbek Abdyldayev and myself, appeared in April’s issue of the Journal of Automated Reasoning. Morley’s Theorem... More
Jason Van Schooneveld
Alumni Spotlight. Meet Jason Van Schooneveld, Web Application Developer and recent graduate from the Master of Science in Software Development (MET’18) program as well as the May 2018 Excellence in Graduate Studies Award Recipient. In honoring Mr. Van Schooneveld at the commencement ceremony, Professor Eric Braude explained, “He excelled in his courses and has a high reputation among his peers. His projects, written in various languages, have served as examples for fellow students.” Braude also noted that Mr. Van Schooneveld’s research and development work on the PREXEL system for the automatic generation of Unified Modeling Language class models qualified for the International... More
Atsunori Hattori
Alumni Spotlight. Meet Atsunori Hattori, candidate for the MS Computer Information Systems degree with a concentration in Security, Computer Networks, and IT Project Management. He is a Cybersecurity Analyst Intern at Technical Consulting and Research, Inc. and holds a BS Computer Science from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Please tell us about yourself. My name is Atsunori Hattori, originally from Japan. I am a former kickboxer in the K-1 league, currently practicing Taekwondo. I am also a hiker for 4000m class mountains as a landscape photographer, a rescue scuba diver, a motorcyclist, a backpacker, and a dog lover. What is your undergraduate background and your current... More
Dr. Kia Teymourian
Faculty Spotlight. Meet Dr. Kia Teymourian, Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Teymourian holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin as well as a MS and BS from Berlin University of Technology (TU-Berlin). What is your area of expertise? My expertise is in real-time data stream analytics and distributed event-based systems. Data stream is an unbound sequence of data items that arrive and systems need to process them as soon as possible, such as live stream of sensor data, market trade data, and social media streams. In my PhD, I have worked on knowledge-based data stream processing and developed a novel system for using... More
Ronette Lyle
Staff Spotlight. Meet the Department of Computer Science's newest staff member, Ronette Lyle, academic program administrator. Ronette has a BS in business administration from Emmanuel College and an MS in nonprofit leadership from Wheelock College. She has worked at Wheelock for the past 19 years in several different offices, including the registrar’s office, the dean’s office, graduate admissions, and, most recently, student accounts. Ronette, what is your role in the Computer Science department? My role involves a variety of student services. I work with on-campus students on the admissions process all the way through graduation. I help students navigate their way through their... More
Dr. Guanglan Zhang
Faculty Spotlight. Meet Dr. Guanglan Zhang, Assistant Professor at MET Computer Science and the faculty coordinator of the Health Informatics program. Dr. Zhang earned a PhD and MS from Nanyang Technological University, MS from Northwestern Polytechnic University and a BS from Luoyang Institute of Technology. She has been teaching online and on campus courses at BU since 2011. This summer, she is the instructor for MET CS 544 S A1 Foundations of Analytics with R on the Charles River campus. What is your area of expertise? I have a broad background in bioinformatics and health informatics. My expertise includes computational modeling of complex... More