Computer Science Theory at Northeastern

Theory Group Faculty

Soheil Behnezhad Large-scale Algorithms	Mahsa Derakhshan Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Huy Nguyen Algorithms for Massive Data	Rajmohan Rajaraman Algorithms and Distributed Computing
abhi shelat Cryptography and Information Security	Ravi Sundaram Networks and Algorithms
Jonathan Ullman Privacy and Machine Learning Theory	Emanuele Viola Complexity Theory and Cryptography
Daniel Wichs Cryptography and Information Security	Hongyang Zhang Machine Learning Algorithms

Other Faculty with Theory Interests

• Paul Hand (Applied Math)
• Jose Perea (Applied Math)
• Harm Derksen (Applied Math)
• Javed Aslam (Information Retrieval)
• Ehsan Elhamifar (Machine Learning and Computer Vision)
• Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Databases)
• Guevara Noubir (Networked Systems)

Visitors

Current Neal E. Young (Professor, UC Riverside)

Former Elena Grigorescu Professor, Purdue University, Spring '20 Yevgeniy Dodis Professor, NYU, Spring '13 - Summer '13, Summer '17 - Summer '18 Saikrishna Badrinarayanan PhD Student, UCLA, Summer '17 Mitali Bafna Undergrad, IIT Madras, Fall '16 C. Pandu Rangan Professor, IIT Madras, Summer '16 Ryo Nishimaki Researcher, NTT Japan, Oct '14 - Jan '16 Alain Passelègue PhD Student, ENS, Sept '15 - Jan '16 Cris Moore Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Fall '15 Pratyay Mukherjee PhD Student, Aarhus, Summer '14 - Summer '15 Pavel Hubacek PhD Student, Aarhus Fall '13

Postdocs

Current Maryam Aliakbarpour (joint with Boston University)

Former Audra McMillan Summer '18 - Spring '20 → Researcher at Apple Ran Cohen Fall '17 - Spring '20 → Principal Researcher at Northeastern University Ron Rothblum Fall '17 - Summer '18 → Professor at Technion Siyao Guo Summer '17 - Fall '18 → Professor at NYU Shanghai Mor Weiss Fall '16 - Summer '18 → Postdoc at IDC Herzliya Erez Kantor Fall '15 - Fall '16 Alessandra Scafuro Spring '15 - Summer '16 → Professor at North Carolina State Elad Haramaty Fall '14 - Summer '16 → Postdoc at Harvard Chinmoy Dutta Spring '11 - Fall '12 → Twitter

PhD Students

Current John Abascal Konstantina Bairaktari Anamay Chaturvedi Jack Doerner Xuangui Huang Peter Ivanov Matthew Jones Lucianna Kiffer Eysa Lee Mehraneh Liaee Minghao Liu Biswaroop Maiti Ethan Mook Tanay Mehta Thien Nguyen Thy Nguyen Searidang Pa Matt Piekenbrock Willy Quach Schuyler Rosefield Rose Silver David Stalfa LaKyah Tyner Akshar Varma Omer Wasim Lydia Zakynthinou

Former Yashvanth Kondi PhD'22 → Postdoc at Aarhus University Vikrant Singhal PhD'21 → Postdoc at University of Waterloo Albert Cheu PhD'21 → Postdoc at Georgetown University Ariel Hamlin PhD'21 → MIT Lincoln Laboratory Giorgos Zirdelis PhD'20 → Postdoc at University of Maryland Matt Dippel PhD'19 → Facebook Chin Ho Lee PhD'19 → Postdoc at Columbia University Hamid Jahanjou PhD'18 → Lecturer at Northeastern University Silicon Valley Daria Antonova Abhishek Chaubey Jiangzhuo Chen Saber Shokat Fadaee Zahra Jafargholi (Postdoc at Aarhus University) Lujun Jia Guolong Lin Xin Liu Eric Miles PhD'14 → Postdoc at UCLA Laura Poplawski Scott Roche Bochao Shen Tim Smith Zhifeng Sun San Tan