Faculty and Staff

Department Leadership

CS department leadership oversee the workings of the department while also fulfilling the duties of full-time faculty. The Department Head's responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the operation the department, the development of CS faculty, and quality of the programs and facilities within CS. The Associate Department Head's responsibilities include, but are not limited to, matters related to CS minor and program review and the department schedule of courses.

Craig Shue
Professor & Department Head, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4933

I am interested in computer networking and security. Given the significance of the Internet in our economy and society, I am interested in improvements and studies that can have a real-world impact. My recent work has focused on how to make both enterprise and residential networks more secure. In my research work, I am exploring ways to change the traditional computer network communication model using techniques such as software-defined networking and network function virtualization. ...

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George Heineman
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5502

Computer programming makes it possible to solve problems that otherwise could never be attempted. You can create worlds that could never be possible and help make this world a better place. Most of my professional and personal accomplishments were possible directly because of my understanding and practice of computer programming. For me, programming led me to appreciate fundamental concepts in computer science and directed me to major in CS. I’ve always been passionate about the possibilities of computer programming; this forms the basis for all of my teaching. ...

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Computer Science Faculty

CS faculty teach, advise, perform groundbreaking research, and much more. Visit individual profiles below for in-depth looks at each of our faculty members, and catch up on their highlights and accomplishments through our annual SIGBITS newsletter.

Emmanuel Agu
Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5568

Emmanuel Agu is currently the Harold L. Jurist '61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean's Professor in the computer science department at WPI having received his Masters and PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research interests are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Mobile Health, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer graphics. He is especially interested in research into how to use a smartphone or smartwatch as a platform to deliver better healthcare. ...

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Matthew Ahrens
Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6390

Matthew studied Programming Language Design and CS Education for his PhD work at Tufts University (August 2022).

His focus was on the design and implementation of CS course curricula to support self-efficacy and self regulated learning by providing learning environments and tools to explore the computational thinking needed to make software that resembles the technology learners use on a regular basis. ...

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Taylor Andrews
Instructor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6066

Taylor Andrews completed a dual-master’s degree program jointly offered by MIT’s School of Engineering and MIT’s Sloan School of Management created for engineering industry leaders. After earning an M.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and in System Design and Management (SDM), Taylor has teaching interests in improving the ethics and safety of cyber-physical software systems and engineering processes in the era of Artificial Intelligence.  ...

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Sakire Arslan Ay
Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6712

I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Before joining WPI, I was an Associate Teaching Professor at Washington State University (WSU) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2013-2023) where I served as the coordinator of the Software Engineering MS and BS programs. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2010. My research interests are in data management and database systems, specifically geospatial and multidimensional data management. ...

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Mark Claypool
Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5409

Mark Claypool has been a professor of Computer Science and Interactive Media Game Development at WPI since 1997. Mark has a B.A. in Mathematics from Colorado College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and written two books on computer games. He has chaired several ACM conferences on networks, games and multimedia and served on the technical program committee for over 40 of them. ...

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Joshua Cuneo
Senior Instructor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6207

I’m a transplanted San Francisco hippie who’s found his way to New England through Georgia. My interests are in digital media, programming, scientific computing, space exploration, green technology, and the interdisciplinary uses of computing. When not teaching, I enjoy computer programming, reading, creative writing, video production, astronomy, hiking, traveling, and science fiction, among other interests. I also volunteer with FIRST Lego League and with the videography staff at DragonCon in Atlanta. I’m an avid Star Trek fan, but I usually leave my Vulcan ears at home. ...

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Jun Dai
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6069

Dr. Jun Dai is currently an Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and networked and distributed systems, with recent emphasis on large language model (LLM) security, autonomous agent security, advanced attack detection, vulnerability analysis, secure coding, and cybersecurity education. Dr. Dai has published papers in prestigious academic venues, such as NDSS, ICML, SenSys, SIGMOD, TDSC, TIFS, and SIGCSE. ...

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Michael Engling
Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6317

I was most recently Associate Director for Graduate Programs in Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. While there I also served as supervisor of Curricular Practical Training and lectured on Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Discrete Structures, and the Theory of Computation, among other topics. I previously taught Mathematics at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida. ...

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Walter Gerych
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6245

Walter’s research is primarily centered around trustworthy AI, such as removing harmful behaviors and inaccurate correlations from models, making models fairer, AI safety, and developing robust measures of confidence and uncertainty to determine when a model’s prediction can be trusted. His work has a particular focus on efficient and "minimally invasive" techniques to improve the robustness of models without harming their generalizability. His work also typically includes multi-modal foundation models, generative AI, and applying machine learning and AI for healthcare. ...

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Tian Guo
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6860

I am a system researcher by training and am particularly passionate about designing systems mechanisms and policies to handle trade-offs in cost, performance, and efficiency for emerging applications. Since joining WPI, my group’s research has focused on improving system support and performance for machine learning (ML)-related workloads. Because ML is widely adopted in many applications, it is critical to have performant systems that can effectively train, serve, and manage ML models. ...

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Lane Harrison
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5952

Information visualization is a powerful means for understanding data and informing human minds. As people begin to rely on visualizations to make high-impact and even life-critical decisions, there is a growing need to ensure that information can be perceived accurately and precisely. ...

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Neil Heffernan
Professor & Program Director of Learning Sciences and Technologies, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5569

Neil T. Heffernan enjoys doing educational data mining and running the ASSISTments system. ASSISTments helps schools teach better. It’s a web service hosted at WPI that allows teachers to assign nightly homework or daily class work. Students get instant feedback while teachers get live reports. Professor Heffernan enjoys supervising WPI students in creating ASSISTments content and features. He has  6 dozens paper in educational data mining, and 20+ papers in comparing different ways to optimize student learning. ...

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Xiangnan Kong
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5860

Professor Kong’s research interests focus on data mining and machine learning, with emphasis on addressing the data science problems in biomedical and social applications. Data today involves an increasing number of data types that need to be handled differently from conventional data records, and an increasing number of data sources that need to be fused together. Dr. Kong is particularly interested in designing algorithms to tame data variety issues in various research fields, such as biomedical research, social computing, neuroscience, and business intelligence. ...

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Dmitry Korkin
Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4916

My research is interdisciplinary and spans the fields of bioinformatics of complex diseases, computational genomics, systems biology, and biomedical data analytics. We bring expertise in machine learning, data mining, and massive data analytics to study molecular mechanisms underlying genetic disorders, such as cancer, diabetes, and autism, and deadly infections, such as pandemic flu. Our approaches benefit from integrating multi-omic, systems, and structural biology data. ...

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Kyumin Lee
Professor and Program Director of Data Science & AI, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6826

Professor Lee is the Program Director of Data Science and AI programs. His research interests are in machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information retrieval, and social computing. He is broadly interested in conducting research on emerging topics and practical applications that have real-world impact. ...

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Yanhua Li
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5785

Yanhua Li is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and Data Science Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). His research interests focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, with applications in smart cities in many contexts, including spatial-temporal data analytics, urban planning and optimization. ...

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Xiaozhong Liu
Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5911

Dr. Xiaozhong Liu is a Professor of Data Science and Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, data science, and their applications in healthcare, with particular interests in longitudinal patient modeling, chronic disease management, clinical decision support, human-AI collaboration, and trustworthy personalized AI. ...

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Bahman Moraffah
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6442

Dr. Bahman Moraffah joined the Department of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2025. His expertise centers on generative models, Bayesian inference, Bayesian nonparametrics, and scalable approximation methods. He focuses on the theoretical foundations of probabilistic machine learning, with recent contributions to diffusion models, variational inference, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for high-dimensional and structured data. ...

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Raha Moraffah
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6933

Raha Moraffah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Prior to joining WPI, she earned her Ph.D. in computer science from Arizona State University. Raha’s research spans machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, and causal inference, with a specific focus on developing trustworthy and responsible machine learning and generative AI algorithms. She is also interested in integrating a causality perspective into machine learning, paving the way for the advancement of causal machine learning. ...

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Jennifer Mortensen
Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5493

Jennifer’s academic interests lie at the intersection of computer science and biophysics. Her prior research focused on computational modeling of protein structures and the properties of protein interactions. Her work has revealed the important role of steric interactions in protein cores and reframed the prior understanding of the atomic packing of amino acids. She was most recently an IRACDA postdoctoral scholar in the Chemistry department at Tufts University and an adjunct professor at Bunker Hill Community College.

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Fabricio Murai
Assistant Professor, Data Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6490

Before joining WPI Data Science/Computer Science, Fabricio Murai was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at  University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2016. His research lies in the application of mathematical modeling, statistics and machine learning to computer, informational and social networks. He has published in top scientific journals such as Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, ACM TKDD and PLOS ONE. ...

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Rodica Neamtu
Professor of Teaching, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6208

I am a data mining researcher who investigates how to develop and leverage ground-breaking techniques to explore time series datasets at the confluence of theoretical computer science and application domains like medicine, neuroscience, economics, transportation, and complex decision making. With more than fifteen years of teaching experience in various academic institutions, I am committed to using my love and talent for teaching and research to empower others through education to make a difference in the world...

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Ethan Prihar
Ethan Prihar  (He/Him)
Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4617

Hi, I’m Prof. Ethan Prihar.

I’m an Assistant Teaching Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, with affiliations with the Data Science and Learning Sciences & Technology programs.

Please see my personal website for an up-to-date list of my publications and projects.

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Daniel Reichman
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6571

I have completed my PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2014. Afterwards, I have been a postdoc at Cornell, UC Berkeley and Princeton. 

I am interested in how theoretical insights from computer science, discrete mathematics and probability theory can lead to better algorithms in the domains of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Recently I have been studying theoretical questions related to Neural Networks.

 

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Charles Roberts
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6276

My research examines human-centered computing in digital arts practice. I designed and developed a creative coding environment for the browser, Gibber (http://gibber.cc), that I use both for educational research and audiovisual performances. Gibber is used to teach computational media to middle school, high school and university students in locations around the world, and I’ve performed with it throughout the US, UK and Asia in the experimental performance genre known as live coding.

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Carolina Ruiz
Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences and Harold L. Jurist ’61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean’s Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5640

Carolina Ruiz is the Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Harold L. Jurist ’61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean’s Professor of Computer Science. She joined the WPI faculty in 1997. Prof. Ruiz’s research is in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, and their applications to Medicine and Health. She has worked on several clinical domains including sleep, pain, stroke, obesity and pancreatic cancer. Prof. ...

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Elke Rundensteiner
Professor, Computer Science, Program Head, Data Science, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5815

As founding Head of the interdisciplinary Data Science program here at WPI, I take great pleasure in doing all in my power to support the Data Science community in all its facets from research collaborations, and new educational initiatives to our innovative industry-sponsored and mentored Graduate Qualifying projects at the graduate level. ...

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Gabor Sarkozy
Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5408

My research interests are in graph theory, discrete mathematics, and theoretical computer science. I am especially interested in studying the structure of very large graphs,; an area that is getting more and more important these days. I enjoy teaching at WPI; in particular, I enjoy the project experience. I am the founder and director of the Budapest Project Center, the first and only WPI Project Center in Eastern Europe. I love sports, especially tennis and soccer.

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Roee Shraga
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6081

Before joining WPI, Roee Shraga was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University in Boston. His research mainly revolves around data discovery and integration and combines techniques from data management, machine learning, information retrieval and human-in-the-loop. His research has been published in top-tier conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, SIGIR, WWW, and ICDE. He is a recipient of the Council for Higher Education [VATAT] scholarship for outstanding data science postdocs. ...

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Gillian Smith
Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6986

Gillian Smith, an award-winning game designer, joined WPI in 2017. Her interdisciplinary work merges technical research in AI and HCI with creative practice in textiles and games, with a view towards addressing social issues and broadening participation and perspectives on computing. Their research interests are in computational creativity, game design, computer science education, and the intersection of traditional crafts and computation. ...

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Dachun Sun
Dachun Sun  (He/Him/His)
Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5646

Dr. Dachun Sun is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his work centers on understanding polarization in online communities, integrating graph neural networks, large language models (LLMs), and retrieval-augmented generation to detect ideological positions and model community responses to events. ...

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Yu-Shan Sun
Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6082

Yu-Shan is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Before joining WPI, he was a Lecturer at Clemson University’s School of Computing (2019-2023) and an Adjunct Instructor of CS at the University of South Carolina Upstate (2018). He received a BS in Computer Science from Denison University and a PhD in Computer Science from Clemson University. His research interests are computer science education, software engineering, and formal methods & verification. ...

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Robert Walls
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Program Director, Cybersecurity, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6343

My research focuses on systems security and performance.  Consequently, my projects often lie at the intersection of software and hardware. Some of my projects include developing compiler-based defenses for embedded microcontrollers, providing security and privacy for deep learning, and reverse-engineering the behavior of proprietary GPU microarchitectures to improve system performance. 

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Jacob Whitehill
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6370

My research interests are in applied machine learning, computer vision, data science and their applications to education, affective computing, and human behavior recognition. My work is highly interdisciplinary and frequently intersects cognitive science, psychology, and education. Before joining WPI, I was a research scientist at the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University. In 2012, I co-founded Emotient, a San Diego-based startup company for automatic emotion and facial expression recognition. ...

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Craig Wills
Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5622

My research has primarily focused on Internet application performance and measurement with more recent work examining issues related to Internet privacy. This work has led to a number of research publications and presentations as well as visibility in venues such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and NPR Science Friday. ...

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Wilson Wong
Associate Professor of Teaching, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5706

Prior to entering academia, I worked as Chief Technologist, Director of Information Systems, and Director of Technical Operations at various corporations in the information systems and software field. For the past 22 years teaching in university courses, I have aimed to impart this industry experience in my software engineering and databases courses by incorporating real life projects, examples, and whenever possible, collaborations with business organizations such as Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the US Treasury, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital. ...

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Hanmeng Zhan
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6084

My research lies in the intersection of algebraic graph theory and quantum computation. Roughly speaking, I translate problems in quantum computation to problems on graphs, and tackle them using (mostly linear) algebraic methods. My interdisciplinary work on quantum walks and SIC-POVMs has been published on journals spanning a wide range of topics, including quantum information, combinatorics, algebra and physics. I have also coauthored an introductory book about discrete quantum walks on graphs and digraphs. ...

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Cheng Zhang
Cheng Zhang  (He/Him or They/Them)
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4130

I study programming-language semantics, with applications to verification, testing, and optimization. My work uses algebraic, coalgebraic, and iteration-theoretic perspectives to make complex computational systems intelligible, then builds modular frameworks that serve practical needs without sacrificing mathematical elegance or rigor. ...

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CS Office Staff and Lab Managers

CS office staff and lab managers provide administrative and logistical support to department leadership, faculty, and students. Visit individual profiles below for more information about specific responsibilities and points of contact within the department.

Refie Cane
Administrative Associate, Graduate Administrative Assistant, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5670

I joined WPI in September 2004 as Administrative Assistant for the School of Business and two years later I moved to the Computer Science Department as Graduate Administrative Assistant, a position I still hold.

I assist the prospective Graduate students with applying  to Computer Science Graduate programs, and I assist the  CS Graduate Coordinator in screening the applications for Admission. ...

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Katherine Crighton
Katherine Crighton  (they/them)
Operations Manager, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5678

Katherine (they/them) is the Operations Manager for the Computer Science Department. Their responsibilities include working with the Department Head, developing tools and help documentation for faculty and staff, assisting students, and managing budgetary and financial matters. They previously worked for the Robotics Engineering department, where they were honored to receive the 2020 Rho Beta Epsilon Award for Excellence in Robotics Education. They have a B.A. ...

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Beckley Schowalter
Scholarship for Service Program Manager, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6018

Beckley came to WPI in 2018 to assist Professor Craig Shue in administering the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program (SFS). Funded by the National Science Foundation, SFS awards federal scholarships to cybersecurity students pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees at WPI. Beckley manages outreach, selection, administration, and evaluation for SFS, with particular emphasis on advising and supporting the students in WPI’s SFS cohort. ...

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Nan Zhang
Administrative Assistant, Computer Science

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6677

I am an Administrative Assistant for the Computer Science Department and Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BCB Program). My responsibility includes working with Department Heads and faculty with undergraduate administrative assistants, purchasing, hourly hiring, timesheet approval, and building/lab access. Before joining WPI, I was an independent college counselor assisting students with their undergraduate and graduate applications. I also held several software engineering positions, including 16 years as a principal software developer at Dell EMC Corporation. ...

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Emeritus Faculty

Emeritus faculty are those faculty who, upon retirement, have been awarded this additional, honorary title by the WPI Board of Trustees.

David Brown Emeritus Professor dcb@wpi.edu 
Daniel Dougherty Emeritus Professor dd@wpi.edu 
Michael Gennert Emeritus Professor michaelg@wpi.edu
Micha Hofri Emeritus Professor hofri@wpi.edu
Robert Kinicki Emeritus Professor rek@wpi.edu
Gary Pollice Emeritus Professor gpollice@wpi.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct faculty are instructors who join the department on a course-by-course basis to ensure that students have the opportunity to take the classes they need for the degree they want.

First Name Last Name Title Email Phone Extension Office Location
Richard LaRowe Adjunct Teaching Professor rlarowe@wpi.edu    
Hao Loi Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer hcloi@wpi.edu    
Lee Martie Adjunct Teaching Professor lmartie@wpi.edu    
Keith Pray Adjunct Instructor kap@wpi.edu 0926  
Mark Sheahan Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer msheahan@wpi.edu    
Larz White Adjunct Teaching Professor lwhite@wpi.edu    

 

Collaborative Faculty

Collaborative faculty are those outside the department who have been approved to advise CS students, research, and project work. CS double-majors who are looking for Major Qualifying Project advisors can review the list below or visit the CS Undergraduate Advising site for more information.

First Name Last Name Title Email Phone Extension Office Location
Scott Barton Associate Professor sdbarton@wpi.edu 5620 Alden 208
Berk Calli Associate Professor bcalli@wpi.edu 5448 Unity Hall 284
Constantinos Chamzas Assistant Professor cchamzas@wpi.edu 6294 Unity Hall 271
Loris Fichera Associate Professor lfichera@wpi.edu 5021 50 Prescott 4808
Fatemeh Ganji Associate Professor fganji@wpi.edu   Atwater Kent 204
Torumoy Ghoshal Assistant Teaching Professor tghoshal@wpi.edu 5082 Unity Hall 354
Xinming Huang Professor xhuang@wpi.edu 5771 Atwater Kent 303
Bashima Islam Assistant Professor bislam@wpi.edu   Atwater Kent 310
Kevin Leahy Assistant Professor kleahy@wpi.edu 6293 Unity Hall 250D
Jane Li Associate Professor zli11@wpi.edu 6351 Unity Hall 283
Oren Mangoubi AssociateProfessor omangoubi@wpi.edu 6881 Unity Hall 385
William Martin Professor martin@wpi.edu 6764 Stratton Hall 302A
William Michalson Professor wrm@wpi.edu 5766 Unity Hall 281
Koksal Mus Assistant Professor of Teaching kmus@wpi.edu   Atwater Kent 309
Chun-Kit Ngan Associate Teaching Professor cngan@wpi.edu 6253 Unity Hall 355
Randy Paffenroth Professor rcpaffenroth@wpi.edu 6562 Unity Hall 364
Carlo Pinciroli Associate Professor cpinciroli@wpi.edu 6853 Unity Hall 282
Nitin Sanket Assistant Professor nsanket@wpi.edu 6392 Unity Hall 250E
Patrick Schaumont Professor pschaumont@wpi.edu 6472 Atwater Kent 301
Griffin Tabor Assistant Teaching Professor gftabor@wpi.edu 6599 Unity Hall 286
Shahin Tajik Assistant Professor stajik@wpi.edu 5239 Atwater Kent 215
Bo Tang Associate Professor btang1@wpi.edu 6248 Atwater Kent 305
Andrew Trapp Adjunct Research Professor atrapp@wpi.edu 4935 Washburn 207
Alexander Wyglinski Professor alexw@wpi.edu 5491 Unity Hall 481
Jing Xiao Professor jxiao2@wpi.edu 6363 Unity Hall 250F
Haichong Zhang Associate Professor hzhang10@wpi.edu 6892 85 Prescott Suite 311
Ziming Zhang Associate Professor zzhang15@wpi.edu 6289 Atwater Kent 217