Theoretical Computer Science at Northeastern

See our members and alumni.

Faculty

Soheil Behnezhad
Algorithms for Massive Data
Mahsa Derakhshan
Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Lunjia Hu
Trustworthy Machine Learning
Zhengzhong Jin
Cryptography and Information Security
Huy Nguyen
Algorithms for Massive Data
Luowen Qian
Quantum Computing and Cryptography
Rajmohan Rajaraman
Algorithms and Distributed Computing
abhi shelat
Cryptography and Information Security
Ravi Sundaram
Algorithms and Networks
Jonathan Ullman
Privacy and Trustworthy Machine Learning
Emanuele Viola
Complexity Theory and Cryptography
Daniel Wichs
Cryptography and Information Security
Hongyang R. Zhang
Machine Learning and Algorithms

Accomplishments

Awards and Honors
Soheil Behnezhad was named a Sloan Fellow in 2026
Lunjia Hu won the Outstanding Paper Award at TCC 2026
Soheil Behnezhad won the Best Paper Award at STOC 2025
Luciana Kiffer and Rajmohan Rajaraman won the Best Paper Award at SIROCCO 2024
Soheil Behnezhad won the Best Paper Award at SODA 2023
Daniel Wichs, Wei-Kai Lin, and Ethan Mook won the Best Paper Award at STOC 2023
Lunjia Hu won the Best Student Paper Award at ITCS 2023
Lunjia Hu won the Best Student Paper Award at ALT 2022
Daniel Wichs was named a Sloan Fellow in 2018
Rajmohan Rajaraman won the Outstanding Paper Award at SPAA 2016
Rajmohan Rajaraman and Daniel Wichs received an honorable mention for the Best Paper at EUROCRYPT 2016
Emanuele Viola won the Best Paper Award at CCC 2008
Alumni in Faculty Positions
Maryam Aliakbarpour → Rice University
Ran Cohen → Reichman University
Jack Doerner → University of Virginia
Siyao Guo → NYU Shanghai
Chethan Kamath → IIT Bombay
Lucianna Kiffer → IMDEA
Chin Ho Lee → NC State
Eysa Lee → Barnard College
Wei-Kai Lin → University of Virginia
Omer Paneth → Tel Aviv University
Willy Quach → CISPA Helmholtz
Ron Rothblum → Technion
Alessandra Scafuro → NC State
Mor Weiss → Bar-Ilan University
Lydia Zakynthinou → Johns Hopkins University

Students and Postdocs

Postdocs
Khoury Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Khoury Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow

Related NEU Faculty with TCS Interests

Computational Complexity
Signal Recovery
Databases
Topological Data Analysis
Data Privacy

Alumni

Postdocs
2023–2025 → Postdoc at MIT Khoury Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
2023–2025 → Research Assistant Professor at TTIC Khoury Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
2022–2023 → Faculty at University of Virginia
2021–2022 → Faculty at Rice University
2018–2020 → Research Scientist at Apple
2017–2020 → Faculty at Reichman University
2017–2018 → Faculty at Technion
2017–2018 → Faculty at NYU Shanghai
2016–2018 → Faculty at Bar-Ilan University
2015–2016 → Akamai Technologies
2015–2016 → Faculty at NC State
2014–2016 → Postdoc at Harvard
2020-2020 → Faculty at IIT Bombay
2016-2018 → Faculty at Tel Aviv University
2011–2012 → Twitter
PhD Students (Our Older Records are Spotty)
PhD 2026 → Postdoc at University of Toronto
PhD 2026 → Postdoc at Aarhus University
PhD 2025
PhD 2025 → Postdoc at Aarhus University
PhD 2025
PhD 2025 → Contextual AI
PhD 2024 → Northeastern University, Seattle
PhD 2024 → Teaching Faculty at Northeastern
PhD 2024
PhD 2024 → Lendbuzz
PhD 2024 → Postdoc at Institute of Science and Technology Austria
PhD 2023 → Postdoc at Brown University → Faculty at Barnard College
PhD 2023 → NVIDIA
PhD 2022 → Postdoc at Technion, Reichman University, and Brown University → Faculty at UVA
PhD 2022 → Postdoc at Weizmann Institute → Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz
PhD 2023 → Postdoc at UC Berkeley → Faculty at Johns Hopkins Facebook Fellow and Khoury PhD Research Award
PhD 2023
PhD 2022 → CYD Fellow at ETH Zurich → Faculty at IMDEA Madrid Facebook Fellow
PhD 2022 → Google
PhD 2022 → Postdoc at Aarhus University
PhD 2021 → Postdoc at University of Waterloo → OpenDP
PhD 2021 → Postdoc at Georgetown University → Research Scientist at Google Khoury PhD Research Award
PhD 2021 → MIT Lincoln Laboratory → Teaching Faculty at Northeastern
PhD 2020 → Postdoc at University of Maryland
PhD 2019 → Facebook
PhD 2019 → Postdoc at Columbia University → Faculty at NC State University
PhD 2018 → Google
PhD 2018 → Postdoc at Aarhus University
PhD
PhD
PhD → Postdoc at UCLA
PhD → Network Scientist at BBN Technologies
PhD → Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
PhD
PhD
Visitors
Visitor 2015–2018 ← Faculty at UC Riverside
Visitor 2020 ← Faculty at Purdue University, 2020
Visitor 2017–2018 ← Faculty at NYU
Visitor 2017 ← PhD Student at UCLA
Visitor 2016 ← UG at IIT Madras
Visitor 2016 ← Faculty at IIT Madras
Visitor 2014–2016
2015–2016 ← PhD Student at ENS
Visitor 2015 ← Faculty at Santa Fe Institute
Visitor 2014–2015 ← PhD Student at Aarhus
Visitor 2013 ← PhD Student at Aarhus