CS Faculty and Staff
CS Department and Chair’s Office Contact
To contact the Computer Science Department or Chair’s Office please call 909.607.0299 or email chair@cs.hmc.edu.
Faculty

Jim Boerkoel
Department ChairAssociate ProfessorMcGregor 309909.607.4522boerkoel@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Human-Robot Teams, Scheduling, and Planning, Artificial Intelligence.

Julie Medero
Department Associate ChairAssociate ProfessorMcGregor 317909.621.8072julie@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Natural Language Processing, especially its applications to literacy education.

Lucas Bang
Assistant ProfessorMcGregor 328bang@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Combining combinatorics and information theory to software analysis problems. Recent work has been in synthesizing adaptive side-channel exploits.

Katherine Breeden
Clinic Administrative DirectorAssistant ProfessorMcGregor 319909.607.3462kb@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Computer Graphics, Human Gaze Response, Computational Geometry.

Zach Dodds
Clinic Relations DirectorProfessorMcGregor 326909.607.1813dodds@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Robot Vision and Spatial Reasoning, CS Outreach.

Lynn Kirabo
Assistant ProfessorClimate and Computer ScienceOlin 1253lkirabo@g.hmc.edu
Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction and Accessibility

George Montañez
Assistant ProfessorMcGregor 301909.607.9945montanez@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Machine Learning and why it works!

Melissa O’Neill
ProfessorMcGregor 314909.607.9661oneill@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Parallel and Distributed Systems and Programming Languages.

Arthi Padmanabhan POM ’14
Assistant ProfessorMcGregor 321arpadmanabhan@g.hmc.edu
Research: Machine Learning

Xanda Schofield ’13
Assistant ProfessorMcGregor 330909.607.2105xanda@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Natural Language Processing, with applications to text analysis for the humanities and social sciences.

Chris Stone
ProfessorMcGregor 320909.607.8975stone@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Types in Programming Languages and Compilers.


Beth Trushkowsky
Associate ProfessorMcGregor 318 909.621.8035beth@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Crowdsourcing and Databases.

Ben Wiedermann
ProfessorOn Sabbatical 2023/24McGregor 315909.607.5330benw@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Programming Languages and improving the Human/Program Interface.


Yi-Chieh (Jessica) Wu
Associate ProfessorOn Leave 2023/24McGregor 316 909.621.8127yjw@cs.hmc.edu
Research: Computational Biology.
Visiting and Adjunct Faculty
Gabe Hope
Visiting Assistant ProfessorMcGregor 322 909.607.4522ghope@g.hmc.edu
Mark Kampe
Visiting Assistant ProfessorMcGregor 304kampe@g.hmc.edu
Carter Slocum
Visiting Assistant ProfessorMcGregor 327909.607.1610cslocum@g.hmc.edu
Emeritus & Memoriam Faculty
Staff

Tim Buchheim ’01
Systems AdministratorMcGregor 305909.607.3485tcb@cs.hmc.edu
- Department Servers
- Faculty Research Servers
- Knuth Accounts and CS Server Email Addresses

Chelsey Calingo
Program AssistantMcGregor 308 (main office)909.607.2715ccalingo@g.hmc.edu
- Student Engagement
- Grutor Logistics
- Department Record Keeping
- Faculty Service Task Assistant

Nic Dodds
Assistant Systems AdministratorMcGregor 304909.607.4136ndodds@g.hmc.edu
- CS Course Server Setup
- Clinic Equipment Management
- Department Machines Management
- DevOps Team(s) Supervision

Surani Gunasena
Clinic & Administrative Project ManagerMcGregor 307909.621.8570sgunasena@g.hmc.edu
Oversees all projects in the department, both administrative and systems, as well as assisting with Clinic course management.

Kevin Herrera ’17
Course Coordinator & Lab ManagerMcGregor 332909.607.0279kherrera@hmc.edu
- Support for all CS Courses
- Set up Gradescope, Canvas, and Autograders
- Grutoring Program
- CS Lab Manager

Morgan McArdle
Administrative AssistantMcGregor 306909.607.0299mmcardle@g.hmc.edu
- Clinic Management
- Reimbursement Lead
- Department Publications and Communications
- Department calendars and room reservations