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Faculty in Hunter's Computer Science Department
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Teaching Computer Science
Spend some time getting to know our professors and you'll discover why Hunter's computer science students thrive before and after graduation:
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William Sakas, Associate Professor, Department Chair
Office: Hunter North 1008-B Email: sakas@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-5211 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: https://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~sakas/ Area of Specialty: Computational modeling of human thought processes (in particular natural language), artificial intelligence, machine learning; I'm especially interested in modeling how children learn language. Educational Background: AB from Harvard (Economics), PhD from CUNY (Computer Science). Member, doctoral faculties of Computer Science and Linguistics, CUNY.
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Saptarshi Debroy, Assistant Professor
Office: Hunter North 1090-I Email: saptarshi.debroy@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-650-3989 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~S.Debroy99/ Research areas of particular interest: Computer Networking, Network security, Big Data Networking, Distributed & Cloud Computing, Wireless Networking, Dynamic Spectrum Access, Network Measurements, Internet of Things. Educational Background: BTech in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology, India; MTech in Distributed & Mobile Computing from Jadavpur University, India; PhD in Computer Engineering from University of Central Florida, USA.
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Sven Dietrich, Professor
Office: Hunter North 1009 Email:spock@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:TBD Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page:http://compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~spock
Research areas of particular interest: computer and network security (denial of service and malware (DDoS, botnets)), cryptography, anonymity, and privacy Educational Background: B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Adelphi University. M.S. in Mathematics, Adelphi University. PhD in Mathematics (with some significant work in Computer Science), Adelphi University
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Susan L. Epstein, Professor
Office: Hunter North 1090-C Email: susan.epstein@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-5210 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~epstein Research areas of particular interest: problem solving, cognitive modeling, machine learning, and knowledge representation with applications to constraint satisfaction programming, protein folding, two-dimensional layout design, and game playing. Educational Background: B.A. in mathematics from Smith College, M.S. in mathematicsfrom Courant Institute, M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers, New York University, and Ph.D. from Rutgers.
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Raffi Khatchadourian, Associate Professor
Office: Hunter North 1090-H Email:raffi.khatchadourian@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:212-650-3988 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: https://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~Raffi.Khatchadourian99 Areas of Specialty: Automated software evolution, secure software engineering, refactoring, program analysis, object-oriented programming, aspect-oriented programming, source code recommendation systems Educational background: BS. in Computer Science from Monmouth University, MS and PhD in Computer Science from Ohio State University
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Raj Korpan, Assistant Professor
Office: Hunter North 523-B Email: raj.korpan@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: N/A Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: https://opencuny.org/rajkorpan/ Areas of Specialty: Artificial Intelligence, human-robot interaction, robot navigation, explainable AI, cognitive modeling, machine learning Educational background: B.S. in Economics & Finance, Bentley University. M.S. in Statistics, Baruch College, CUNY. Ph.D. in Computer Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
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Sarah Levitan, Assistant Professor
Office: Hunter North 520-H Email:sarah.levitan@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:TBD Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~slevitan/
Areas of Specialty: spoken language processing, natural language processing, learning speaker states and traits from speech/language Educational Background: BS in Computer Science from Brooklyn College, MS and PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University
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Tiziana Ligorio, Doctoral Lecturer
Office:Hunter North 1001-K Email: tligorio@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:212-396-6123 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: https://tligorio.github.io/ Areas of Specialty: Machine Learning, Spoken Dialogue Systems, Constraint Satisfaction Educational background: Ph.D., The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
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Melissa Lynch, Lecturer
Office: Hunter North 1001-K Email: melissa.lynch@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: --- Areas of Specialty: Natural language processing, full-stack web development Educational background: B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A. in Computer Science from Hunter College, City University of New York
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Gennadiy Maryash, Lecturer
Office:Hunter North 1047 Email: gmaryash@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:212-772-4283 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: maryash.github.io Areas of Specialty: Educational methodology and scalable teaching practices for large lecture, hybrid, and online courses; industry aligned curriculum implementation. Educational background: BA (Philosophy) from Baruch College CUNY, MS (Computer Science) from Lehman College CUNY.
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Saad Mneimneh, Assistant Professor
Office:Hunter North 1090-L Email: saad@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-5209 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~saad/ Area of Specialty: Application of mathematical modeling and algorithmic techniques to scheduling, load balancing, and more recently computational biology. Educational Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Oyewole Oyekoya, Associate Professor
Office:Hunter North 1001-T Email: oo700@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:TBD Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: https://wolex.com/ Area of Specialty:visualization, virtual reality, eye tracking, and visual perception. Educational Background:Ph.D., University College London
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Anita Raja, Professor
Office:Hunter North 1090-G Email: anita.raja@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:212-650-5031 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: https://anraja.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ Area of Specialty: artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, metacognition, machine learning, bounded rationality, complex networks, game theory. Educational Background: B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Math from Temple University, M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science from UMass Amherst.
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Katherine St. John, Professor
Office: Hunter North 1090-D Email: katherine.stjohn@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-5368 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: https://stjohn.github.io Area of Specialty: Computaional Biology, Random Structures and Algorithms. Educational Background: A.B., Smith College, M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
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Eric Schweitzer, Lecturer
Office: Hunter North 1000-E Email: eric.schweitzer@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-4349 Fax: 212-772-5219 Area of Specialty: Theory of computation, logics of knowledge and probablistic reasoning. Educational Background: BS and MA from SUNY Stony Brook
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Subash Shankar, Associate Professor
Office: Hunter North 1000-F Email: subash.shankar@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-650-3992 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~sshankar Area of Specialty: Formal Methods, Software Engineering & Programming Languages, Artifical Intelligence Educational Background: BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech; MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; MS in Mathematics from University of Minnesota; PhD in Computer Science from Univ. of Minnesota
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Pavel Shostak, Doctoral Lecturer
Office:Hunter North 520-F Email: ps57@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: TBD Fax: 212-772-5219 Education: PhD in Computer Science from Graduate Center of CUNY, MS in Mathematics from Lomonosov's Moscow State University. Areas of Specialty: Cryptography, Group Theory.
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Justin Tojeira, Lecturer
Office:Hunter North 1008-C Email: justin.tojeira@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: TBD Fax: 212-772-5219 Education: MS in Computer Science from Graduate Center of CUNY, BS in Computer Science from Brooklyn College.
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Ioannis Stamos, Professor
Office: Hunter North 1090-K Email: istamos@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-5215 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~ioannis/ Area of Specialty: Computer Vision with an emphasis on 3-D modeling using range data, 3-D Visualization, Range and Image Sensor Fusion, Sensor Planning. Educational Background: Diploma of Engineering from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Greece. M.S. in Computer Science, M.Phil., and Ph.D, from Columbia University.
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Felisa Vázquez-Abad, Professor
Office: Hunter North, 1000-B Email: felisav@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-5634 Fax: 212-772-5219 Homepage: Under Construction Area of Speciality: Adaptive control of stochastic discrete event process, simulation, theory and applications of automatic learning for optimization, queueing networks, weak convergence theory, probability theory and Markov decision processes. Educational Background: Ph.D. Brown University, Applied Mathematics.
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Stewart Weiss, Associate Professor
Office: Hunter North 1090-J Email: stewart.weiss@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-5469 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss Area of Specialty: Software Quality Assurance theory and Methods. Educational Background: PhD in Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
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Lei Xie, Professor
Office: Hunter North, 1000-H Email: lxi0003@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:858-822-3686 Fax: 858-822-0873 Home Page: http://compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~leixie/ Area of Specialty: bioinformatics, systems biology, molecular modelling and simulation. Educational Background: B.S. in Polymer Physics from University of Science and Technology of China; M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University - New Brunswick; Ph.D. in Chemistry from Rutgers University - New Brunswick.
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Tong Yi, Doctoral Lecturer
Office: Hunter North 1001-L Emaill: ty680@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:TBD Fax: 212-772-5219 Homepage: TBD Areas of Interest:Computer Science Education Education: PhD in Computer Science, Louisiana State University
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Christina Zamfirescu, Professor
Office:Hunter North 1008-C Email: christina.zamfirescu@hunter.cuny.edu Phone:212-650-3854 Fax: 212-772-5219 Area of Specialty:Graph Theory: algorithmic combinatorics & networks, molecular complexity, intersection digraph representation. Educational Background:Master's in O.R. University of Bucharest, Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (Graph Theory /Computer Science)- RWTH-Aachen, Germany.
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Daniel Cohen, Professor Emeritus
Area of Specialty: Graph Theory, Algorithms, Combinatorics, Computer Law Educational Background: BS in Mathematics from Princeton, Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University, J.D. from Columbia University
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Constantin Negoita, Professor Emeritus
Area of Specialty: Computer Logic, Fuzzy Sets and Systems. Educational Background: Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Bucharest
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Cullen Schaffer, Professor Emeritus
Area of Specialty:Computation-intensive approaches to data analysis. Educational Background: BA from Harvard, PhD from Rutgers.
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Virginia Teller, Professor Emeritus
Area of Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence Educational Background: BA in French Literature from Cornell University, MA and Ph.D. in Linguistics from New York University.
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Prof Stamos and PhD Student Paper Accepted to IROS 2023!
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CSCI PhD Candidate Presented Paper at ASE 23!
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