Khoury Stories

Students. Faculty. Alumni. Community. These are our stories.

  • Praful Mathur

    Praful Mathur

    Since his childhood days, Praful Mathur relished computer science. He just didn’t always know what to do with it. “I wanted to do anything with computers. I would stay up […]

  • Natasha Noy

    Natasha Noy

    Research has been a driving force of Natasha Noy’s career. After completing her bachelor’s degree at Moscow State University, Noy began applying for United States-based PhD programs in computer science […]

  • Maggie Xu

    Maggie Xu

      Affiliation:
    • Align Alumni

    Location: Seattle

    In the middle of the pandemic, Maggie Xu became a mother. Having completed the Align program in 2016, her roles at major tech companies helped her support her new family […]

  • Melody Biringer

    Melody Biringer

    Melody Biringer calls herself a connection engineer. “I think about how I can engineer an event so that the audience gets seen and heard and connected to each other, versus […]

  • Laurel Yamaguchi

    Laurel Yamaguchi

    Pivotal Ventures was founded by Melinda French Gates to bring more equality and opportunity to people in the United States. Laurel Yamaguchi, Pivotal’s lead for women and tech innovation, focuses […]

  • Padmaja Vrudhula

    Padmaja Vrudhula

    Padmaja Vrudhula considers herself a reluctant technologist. In fact, she originally planned on being a neurosurgeon, but her early experience with an internship at a Seattle software company led her […]

  • Daron Green

    Daron Green

    When Daron Green managed operations and academic relations for Facebook Research in 2018, he saw an issue in its hiring pool: a nominal proportion of women and groups historically underrepresented […]

  • Doreen Hodgkin

    Doreen Hodgkin

    During her 35 years at Northeastern, Doreen Hodgkin developed a reputation as a can-do manager, rising quickly through three different departments, finally reaching one of the top positions at Khoury […]

  • Melvin Simms

    Melvin Simms

    Melvin Simms launched Khoury College’s successful co-op program right from the beginning of the College in 1982. Little did he know at the time, he would shepherd the program for […]

  • Harriet Fell

    Harriet Fell

    In 1982, the cohort of mathematics professors who founded the College of Computer Science (now Khoury College) included three women and three men, a unique balance in an emerging field […]

  • Betty Salzberg

    Betty Salzberg

    Creating one of the first colleges of computer sciences was groundbreaking forty years ago—especially when four of the six champions were women. One of those leaders was Betty Salzberg, Khoury […]

  • Molly White

    Molly White

    Since graduating from Khoury College, Molly White has continued to pursue her two passions: programming and promoting accuracy in online platforms. In short order, she has proven herself a leader […]

  • Mitch Wand

    Mitch Wand

    One of the best-known features of the computer science curriculum at Khoury College is its approach to teaching programming languages, specifically its focus on functional languages. This is due in […]

  • Bill Lakeland

    Bill Lakeland

    When the Vancouver Northeastern campus started looking for business partners to support the research work of its CS master’s students, Bill Lakeland did not hesitate to offer support. In fact, […]

  • Fiona McCrae

    Fiona McCrae

    “Fiona’s list of accomplishments is so long, and stretches back so far, that it makes me question how I spent my time in high school and college,” says Professor and […]

  • Richard Rasala

    The revolutionary combined majors degree program at Khoury College allows for the integration of computing with a legion of other disciplines across Northeastern. Instrumental to the creation of this program […]