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.

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Faculty

Jim Boerkoel

Csilla and Walt Foley Professor of Computer ScienceChair, Department of Computer ScienceProfessorMcGregor 309909.607.4522boerkoel@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Human-Robot Teams, Scheduling, and Planning, Artificial Intelligence.

Julie Medero

Associate Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 317909.621.8072julie@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Natural Language Processing, especially its applications to literacy education.

Lucas Bang

Associate Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 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

Associate Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 319909.607.3462kb@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Computer Graphics, Human Gaze Response, Computational Geometry.

Jonathan Chang ’17

Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 322 909.621.8570jonachang@g.hmc.edu

Research: Algorithms, models to promote healthy online interactions

Zach Dodds

Leonhard-Johnson-Rae Professor of Computer ScienceEntrepreneurship Studio DirectorMcGregor 326909.607.1813dodds@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Robot Vision and Spatial Reasoning, CS Outreach.

Lynn Kirabo

Maria M. Klawe Assistant Professor of Climate and Computer ScienceHixon Center for Climate and the Environment, Computer ScienceOlin 1253 & McGregor 313 (TR)lkirabo@g.hmc.edu

Research: Human-Computer Interaction and Accessibility

George Montañez

Associate Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 301909.607.9945montanez@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Machine Learning and why it works!

Vidushi Ojha ’17

Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 316, x18127909.621.8127vojha@g.hmc.edu

Research: Policies, practices that foster learning and well-being.

Melissa O’Neill

Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 314909.607.9661oneill@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Parallel and Distributed Systems and Programming Languages.

Arthi Padmanabhan POM ’14

Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 321arpadmanabhan@g.hmc.edu

Research: Systems and Networking; Systems for Machine Learning

Tim Randolph

Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 327909.607.4173trandolph@g.hmc.edu

Research: Intersection of computer science and mathematics.

Xanda Schofield ’13

Associate Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 330909.607.2105xanda@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Natural Language Processing, with applications to text analysis for the humanities and social sciences.

Chris Stone

Professor of Computer ScienceComputer Science Capstone Program DirectorMcGregor 320909.607.8975stone@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Types in Programming Languages and Compilers.

Erin Talvitie

Associate Professor of Computer ScienceMcGregor 323909.607.1381erin@cs.hmc.edu

Research: Applications of machine learning to artificial intelligence, creation of artificial autonomous agents that can act flexibly and competently in unknown environments.