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Faculty in Hunter's Computer Science Department

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: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/cs/Faculty/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. Undergraduate Courses Taught: Software Analysis and Design I (Introduction to programming in C++), Software Analysis and Design II (Data Structures), Operating Systems, Discrete Math. Graduate Courses Taught: Mechanisms of Syntax Acquisition, Introduction to Natural Language Learning. Recent Publications: Sakas, W.G. and Fodor, J.D. (2001) The Structural Triggers Learner, in S. Bertolo (ed.), Language Acquisition and Learnability, Cambridge University Press. More Info: (including research overview and links to online papers) here.
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Saptarshi Debroy, Assistant Professor
Office: Huunter 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. Undergraduate Courses Taught: Computer Architecture, Software Analysis and Design, Computer Networks. Graduate Courses Taught: Computer Networking, Advanced Networking & Security. Recent Publications: Complete list available at website.
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Sven Dietrich, Professor
Office: TBD Email: spock AT hunter DOT cuny DOT 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 Undergraduate Courses Taught: Capstone in Cyber Security, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis, Advanced Data Structures Graduate Courses Taught: Software Security, Advanced Network Security and Malware Recent Publications: Complete list available at website.
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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. Undergraduate Courses Taught: Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Analysis and Design, Discrete Structures, Machine Learning Graduate Courses Taught: Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Genetic Algorithms, Data Mining Recent Publications: Epstein, S.L. 1998. Pragmatic Navigation: Reactivity, Heuristics, and Search.Artificial Intelligence, 100 (1-2):275-322
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Raffi Khatchadourian, Assistant 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 Courses Taught: Software Design and Analysis I, Software Engineering, Capstone Course in Computer Science, Programming Projects Seminar for Minors Recent Publications: See website here
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Sarah Levitan, Assistant Professor
Office: TBD Email: sarah.levitan@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: TBD Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sarahita/ (Hunter page coming soon) 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 Courses Taught: Spoken Language Processing, Computational Models of Speech and Language Recent Publications: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sarahita/#publications
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Tiziana Ligorio, Doctoral Lecturer
Office: Hunter North 520-H Email: tligorio@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-396-6123 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: https://www.ligoriotiziana.info/ Areas of Specialty: Machine Learning, Spoken Dialogue Systems, Constraint Satisfaction Educational background: Ph.D., The Graduate Center of The City University of New York Courses Taught: Introduction to Computer Science, Software Design and Analysis I (with supervised programming lab) and Software Design and Analysis II (Data Structures), Discrete Mathematics
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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. Courses Taught: Software Analysis and Design I (with Supervised Programming Lab), Introduction to Computer Science, Introduction to Programming for Arts and Design, Advanced Applications: A Capstone for Majors, Programming Projects Minor Capstone Seminar, Programming for Everyone, Computers and Money.
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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 Courses Taught: Introduction to Computers, Software Design and Analysis I, Discrete Mathematics, Data Communication Networks, Theory of Computation, Bioinformatics Algorithms, Algorithms, Bayesian Statistics. Recent Publications: Complete listing available at website. Recent Talks: Chess, other games, and the interaction of RNAs, MIT Quantitative Biology Workshop; Do proteins speak binary, Graduate Center of CUNY; Evolution with Bayes rule and simple tree combinatorics, Graduate Center of CUNY; RNA-RNA interaction algorithms, ACG workshop at UNT; Some lower and upper bounds in load balancing of switches, Graduate Center of CUNY; How to waste 2/3 of the throughput of a switch, Brooklyn Poly ECE.
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Oyewole Oyekoya, Associate Professor
Office: Hunter North 1001T Email: oo700@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 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 Courses Taught: Advanced Visual Tools
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Anita Raja, Professor
Office: Hunter North 1090G 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. Recent Publications: https://anraja.commons.gc.cuny.edu/research/publications/
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Katherine St. John, Professor
Office: Hunter North 1090D 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: Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles Courses Taught: Introductory Programming, Bioinformatics, Database systems, Dat Science, Data Structures and Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science. Recent Publications: Complete list available at website.
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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 degrees in MATH from SUNY Stony Brook Courses Taught: Introduction to Computers, Discrete Structures, Computer Architecture 2, Computer Theory 1, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Theory 2, Topics in Computer Science.
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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 Courses Taught: Architecture, Logic, Computer Theory, Programming Languages, Software Engineering. Recent Publications: 1) with Masahiro Fujita, Bottom-Up Equivalence Checking for SpecC Programs, IEICE Workshop on VLSI Design Technologies, 2006; 2) with Sinan Asa, Vladimir Sipos, Xiaowei Xu, Reasoning about Real-Time Statecharts in the Presence of Semantic Variations, Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2005, and; 3) with E.M. Clarke, M. Fujita, S.P. Rajan, T. Reps, T. Teitelbaum, Program Slicing for VHDL, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 2002.
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Pavel Shostak, Doctoral Lecturer
Office: Hunter North 520-F Email: ps57@hunter.cuny.edu 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. Courses Taught: Operating Systems, Software Analysis and Design 2 and 3, Computer Architecture 2 and 3, Capstone.
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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. Courses Taught: Software Design and Analysis II (Data Structures), Discrete Structures, Computer Theory I & II, Computer Vision, and 3D Photography. Recent Publications: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~ioannis/publications.html
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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 AT 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. Courses Taught: Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Software Analysis and Design 1, 2, and 3, Computer Theory, special topics in Parallel Computer, Software Development, and Unix tools. Recent Publications: All-uses versus mutation testing: "An experimental comparison of effectiveness," Journal of Systems and Software; An experimental Comparison of branch and data-flow testing Conference on Testing Computer Software, "Efficient mutation analysis: A new approach," in Proceedings of the 1994 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.
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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. Recent Publications: http://compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~leixie/publication.html
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Tong Yi, Doctoral Lecturer
Office: TBD 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 Courses Taught: Computer Programming 1 & 2
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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. Courses Taught: Architecture Logic, Linear Programming, Graph Theory. Recent Publications: New Complexity Indices based on Edge Covers w/S. Bertz, Cyclic and Cliquewise connectedness in Line Graphs (Discrete Math), Intersection of Largest Cycles in Grid Graphs III w/B. Meuke
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Affiliated Faculty
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Mike Zamansky, Distinguished Lecturer (School of Education)
Office: Hunter North 1001-K Emaill: mz631@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-5211 Fax: 212-772-5219 Homepage: https://mike.zamansky.net Areas of Specialization: Computer Science Education, software engineering, entrepreneurship Education: MS in Computer Science, New York University; BA in Computer Science, New York University Courses Taught: Intro to Computer Science, Software Analysis and Design 1 and 2 (Data Structures), Modern Topics in Computer Science, Ethics and Computer Science, Methods for Teaching Computer Science, Curriculum Design for Computer Science
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Emeritus Faculty
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Daniel Cohen, Professor Emeritus
Phone: 212-772-5213 Fax: 212-772-5219 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 Courses Taught: Almost all courses at one time or another Text Books: Basic Techniques in Combinatorial Theory, 1978 (J.Wiley and Son), Introduction to Computer Theory, 2nd ed. 1999 (J. Wiley and Son)
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Constantin Negoita, Professor Emeritus
Email: cnegoita@hunter.cuny.edu Home Page: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/cs/Faculty/Negoita Area of Specialty: Computer Logic, Fuzzy Sets and Systems. Educational Background: Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Bucharest Courses Taught: Computer Architecture, Logic, and Discrete Structures. Recent Publications: Cybernetics and Systems (Deckker, NY, 1992) Implications (Hunter, NY, 1994), On Fuzzy Systems, Kybernets, 5 (1999) Books: Fuzzy Sets (New Falcon, Tempe, 2000)
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Cullen Schaffer, Professor Emeritus
Email: cullen.schaffer@hunter.cuny.edu Area of Specialty: Dr. Schaffer's research centers around computation-intensive approaches to data analysis. He collaborates or consults with researchers in business, industry and medicine. Educational Background: BA from Harvard, PhD from Rutgers. Courses Taught: Software Analysis and Design 1, 2, and 3, Computers and Money, Programming for Everyone. Recent Publications: Since 1986: 2 book chapters, 14 refereed articles; editor of one international journal, co-chair of four international conferences.
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Virginia Teller, Professor Emeritus
Email: virginia.teller@hunter.cuny.edu 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. Courses Taught: Advanced Programming Languages, Artificial Intelligence, Language and Technology. Recent Publications: CUNY CoMoLA (Computational Models of Language Acquisition).
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