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.
	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
	Saad Mneimneh, Assistant Professor Office: Hunter North HN 1090-F Email: saad at hunter dot cuny dot edu Phone: 212-772-5209 Fax: 212-772-5219 Home Page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~saad/ Area of Specialty: Algorithms for fast network switches, optical routing, graph problems, and 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 Recent Publications: Complete listing available at web site. Recent Talks: 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.
	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)
	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-G 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.
	Virginia Teller, Professor Emeritus Email: virginia.teller@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212-650-3074 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).
	Daniel I. A. 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)
	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 (on sabbatical F'15 - S'16) 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:  HN -1043 Email: jx146@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: Fax: 212-772-5219 Homepage:  www.jiaxu.orgAreas of Specialization: Machine Learning and Machine Translation Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, RWTH-Aachen UniversityBio: 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 (Tsighua), 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.

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