Faculty in Hunter's Computer Science Department

Faculty

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:

	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.
	Saptarshi Debroy, Assistant Professor Office: Huunter North 1090-I Email: saptarshi.debroy@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-650-3989 Fax: 212-772-5217 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.
	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
	Raffi Khatchadourian, Assistant Professor Office: Hunter North 1090-H Email: raffi.khatchadourian@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772- Fax: 212-650-3988 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
	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.
	Katherine, St. John, Professor Office: Hunter North 10090 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.
	Cullen Schaffer, Associate Professor Office: Hunter North 1090-D Email: cullen.schaffer@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-772-4283 Fax: 212-772-5219 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.
	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.
	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.
	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: 1) Range Image Segmentation for Modeling and Object Detection in Urban Scenes, C. Chen and I. Stamos, The 6th International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling, Montreal, Canada, August 2007 (To appear), and; 2) Multiview Geometry for Texture Mapping 2D Images Onto 3D Range Data, L. Liu, I. Stamos, etal., IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, New York, June 17-22 2006, Vol. II, pp. 2293-2300.
	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.
	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.
	Lei Xie, Associate 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
	Jia Xu, Assistant Professor Office: Hunter North 1090-G Email: jx146@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-650-5031 Fax: 212-772-5219 Homepage: www.jiaxu.org Areas of Specialization: Machine Learning and Machine Translation Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, RWTH-Aachen University Areas of Specialty: I am creating methods to push machine translation systems beyond the current state-of-the-art. My interest is in competitive machine translation systems. To achieve this, I am devising new and general learning methods, studying their empirical and theoretical limitations, introducing techniques in ensemble learning and bringing geometric techniques in the study of structured prediction. Courses Taught: Software Design and Analysis I (Hunter), Natural Language Processing (Hunter), Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (Tsinghua), Pattern Classification and Machine Learning (Tsinghua), Speech Communication for Human and Machines (Tsinghua), Language Technology (Saarland). Recent Publications: On the Power and Limits of Distance-Based Learning. In Proceedings of ICML, 2016. Complete listing available at my web site.
	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
	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)
	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)
	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).