By Shandana Mufti

As the new school year begins and students settle into the rhythms of the fall semester, CCIS is welcoming eight new tenure and tenure track faculty members to the college.

“I am delighted to welcome eight new tenure and tenure track faculty joining us this fall,” CCIS Dean Carla Brodley says. “We hired across all areas of computer science ranging from traditional CS fields such as software engineering, formal methods, cryptography and optimization to emerging fields such as probabilistic programming languages, visual analytics, and machine learning applied to health care, robotics and security.”

Making up the new hires are professor Frank Tip; associate professors Abhi Shelat, Alina Oprea and Cody Dunne; and assistant professors Jan-Willem van de Meent, Christopher Amato, Byron Wallace and Huy Lê Nguyen.

Tip joins CCIS from Samsung Research America, where he was a senior principal engineer. He received his PhD in 1995 from the University of Amsterdam.

Abhi Shelat was previously an associate professor at the University of Virginia, and received his PhD from MIT in 2005.

Alina Oprea earned her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007, and previously worked at RSA, the security division of EMC, as a consultant research scientist.

Cody Dunne joins the college from IBM’s Cognitive Visualization Lab, where he worked as a research scientist. He earned his PhD in 2013 from the University of Maryland.

Jan-Willem van de Meent previously held a post-doc position at the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University.

Christopher Amato earned his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and previously worked at Aptima, Inc. as a research scientist.

Byron Wallace was previously an assistant professor at the University of Texas, Austin. He earned his PhD at Tufts University, where he was advised by Brodley.

Huy Lê Nguyen joins CCIS from the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago, where he was a research assistant professor. He earned his PhD at Princeton University.

“We are now a faculty of 59 tenure and tenure track faculty with 15 of the faculty holding interdisciplinary appointments with other colleges at Northeastern,” Brodley says. “We plan to continue our exciting rate of growth in light of the stampede of students into CS.”