Computer Science Theory at Northeastern

Faculty

Soheil Behnezhad Large-scale Algorithms	Mahsa Derakhshan Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Lunjia Hu Theory and machine learning with a focus on trustworthiness; Joining AY 2025-26	Zhengzhong Jin Cryptography and Information Security
Huy Nguyen Algorithms for Massive Data	Luowen Qian Quantum Computing and Cryptography; Joining AY 2025-26
Rajmohan Rajaraman Algorithms and Distributed Computing	abhi shelat Cryptography and Information Security
Ravi Sundaram Networks and Algorithms	Jonathan Ullman Privacy and Machine Learning Theory
Emanuele Viola Complexity Theory and Cryptography	Daniel Wichs Cryptography and Information Security
Hongyang R. Zhang Machine Learning and Algorithms

Related NEU Faculty with TCS Interests

Javed Aslam (Information Retrieval) Ehsan Elhamifar (Machine Learning) Paul Hand (Signal Recovery) Jose Perea (Topological Data Analysis)

Harm Derksen (Computational Complexity) Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Databases) Guevara Noubir (Networks)

Postdocs

Cody Freitag Jad Silbak

Mahdi Haghifam Tegan Wilson

PhD Students

John Abascal Konstantina Bairaktari Xuangui Huang Matthew Jones Zeno Kujawa Ethan Mook Thien Nguyen Rose Silver LaKyah Tyner Omer Wasim Tao Yu

Sushant Agarwal Andisheh Ghassemi Peter Ivanov Manu Kondapaneni Mingqi Lu Quan Luu Matt Piekenbrock Schuyler Rosefield Amanuel Tesfaye Akshar Varma John Wilkins Zhenshuo Zhang

Postdoc Alumni

Wei-Kai Lin Postdoc → Professor at University of Virginia Chethan Kamath Postdoc → Postdoc at Tel Aviv → Professor at IIT Bombay Omer Paneth Postdoc → Professor at Tel Aviv University Maryam Aliakbarpour (joint with Boston University) Audra McMillan Summer '18 - Spring '20 → Researcher at Apple Ran Cohen Fall '17 - Spring '20 → Principal Researcher at Northeastern University Ron Rothblum Fall '17 - Summer '18 → Professor at Technion

Siyao Guo Summer '17 - Fall '18 → Professor at NYU Shanghai Mor Weiss Fall '16 - Summer '18 → Postdoc at IDC Herzliya Erez Kantor Fall '15 - Fall '16 Alessandra Scafuro Spring '15 - Summer '16 → Professor at North Carolina State Elad Haramaty Fall '14 - Summer '16 → Postdoc at Harvard Chinmoy Dutta Spring '11 - Fall '12 → Twitter

Graduates (past PhD and MS graduates)

Jack Doerner PhD'22 → Postdoc at Technion, Reichman University, and Brown University → Assistant professor UVA Willy Quach PhD → Postdoc at Weizmann Institute → Professor at CISPA Lydia Zakynthinou PhD'23 → Postdoc at UC Berkeley Haotian Ju Lucianna Kiffer PhD'22 → CYD Fellow at ETH Zurich → Assistant Professor at IMDEA Madrid Mehraneh Liaee PhD'22 → Google Yashvanth Kondi PhD'22 → Postdoc at Aarhus University Vikrant Singhal PhD'21 → Postdoc at University of Waterloo Albert Cheu PhD'21 → Postdoc at Georgetown University Ariel Hamlin PhD'21 → MIT Lincoln Laboratory Giorgos Zirdelis PhD'20 → Postdoc at University of Maryland Matt Dippel PhD'19 → Facebook Chin Ho Lee PhD'19 → Postdoc at Columbia University → Postdoc at Harvard → Professor at North Carolina State University Anamay Chaturvedi PhD'24 → Postdoc at Institute of Science and Technology Austria Searidang Pa Tanay Mehta Dustin Lin

Eysa Lee PhD'23 → Postdoc at Brown University Hamid Jahanjou PhD'18 → Google Biswaroop Maiti Daria Antonova Abhishek Chaubey Jiangzhuo Chen Research Scientist at U. Virginia Saber Shokat Fadaee Zahra Jafargholi (Postdoc at Aarhus University) Lujun Jia PhD → Director at Verizon Labs Guolong Lin PhD → VP of Engineering, Cambridge Mobile Telematics Xin Liu Eric Miles PhD'14 → Postdoc at UCLA Laura Poplawski PhD → Network Scientist at BBN Technologies Scott Roche PhD → Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies Bochao Shen Tim Smith David Stalfa Zhifeng Sun PhD → Google → Director at Coupang San Tan Thy Nguyen

Past Visitors

Neal E. Young Professor, UC Riverside Elena Grigorescu Professor, Purdue University, Spring '20 Yevgeniy Dodis Professor, NYU, Spring '13 - Summer '13, Summer '17 - Summer '18 Saikrishna Badrinarayanan PhD Student, UCLA, Summer '17 Mitali Bafna Undergrad, IIT Madras, Fall '16

C. Pandu Rangan Professor, IIT Madras, Summer '16 Ryo Nishimaki Researcher, NTT Japan, Oct '14 - Jan '16 Alain Passelègue PhD Student, ENS, Sept '15 - Jan '16 Cris Moore Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Fall '15 Pratyay Mukherjee PhD Student, Aarhus, Summer '14 - Summer '15 Pavel Hubacek PhD Student, Aarhus Fall '13