40 faculty and 20 courses in Computer Science at Boston University.
- Ran Canetti, Wang Professor of Computer Science h-index 81
Span multiple aspects of cryptography and information security, with emphasis on the design, analysis and use of cryptographic protocols. Selected Publications R. Canetti, Universally Composable Security: A New Paradigm for Cryptographic Pr
Notable: “Universally composable security: a new paradigm for cryptographic protocols” (2001) · 3,288 citations
- Kate Saenko, Professor h-index 75
In the broad area of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Adaptive Machine Learning, Learning for Vision and Language Understanding, and Deep Learning.
Notable: “Long-term recurrent convolutional networks for visual recognition and description” (2015) · 5,283 citations
- Stan Sclaroff, Professor & Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences h-index 70
In computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning. He is an expert in the areas of tracking, video-based analysis of human motion and gesture, deformable shape matching and recognition, as well as image/video database indexi
Notable: “Photobook: Content-based manipulation of image databases” (1996) · 1,564 citations
- Mark Crovella, Professor h-index 64
Center on improving the understanding, design, and performance of networks and networked computer systems, mainly through the application of data mining, statistics, and performance evaluation. He has made contributions to understanding the
Notable: “Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes” (1997) · 2,703 citations
- Adam Smith, Professor h-index 55
Notable: “Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data” (2008) · 1,725 citations
- Azer Bestavros, Professor & Associate Provost for Computing & Data Sciences h-index 46
Notable: “Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes” (1997) · 2,703 citations
- George Kollios, Professor & Chair h-index 44
Temporal and spatio-temporal indexing, data mining, database security, multimedia indexing, and approximation algorithms for large scale data management problems. His research has been supported by NSF , including an NSF CAREER Awar
Notable: “Discovering similar multidimensional trajectories” (2003) · 1,458 citations
- Eran Tromer, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies h-index 42
Notable: “Hey, you, get off of my cloud” (2009) · 2,035 citations
- Leonid Reyzin, Professor & Associate Chair of Academics h-index 41
Notable: “Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data” (2008) · 1,725 citations
- John Byers, Professor & AI Advisor to the Provost h-index 38
Center on data-analytic and algorithmic challenges in two disciplines: the science of computer networking (e.g., transport protocols, network architecture) and the empirical study of Internet platforms (such as Airbnb, Groupon, and Yelp). H
Notable: “The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry” (2017) · 2,115 citations
- Abraham Matta, Professor h-index 37
Notable: “SEP: A Stable Election Protocol for clustered heterogeneous wireless sensor networks” (2004) · 1,454 citations
- Evimaria Terzi, Professor & Department Vice Chair h-index 33
In the area of algorithmic data mining with emphasis on (social) network analysis, recommendation systems, ranking and clustering. From 2007 to 2009, I was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Until 2007, I was with H
Notable: “Towards identity anonymization on graphs” (2008) · 782 citations
- Gary Benson, Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science h-index 30
Notable: “Tandem repeats finder: a program to analyze DNA sequences” (1999) · 9,914 citations
- Sharon Goldberg, Associate Professor h-index 30
Notable: “Eclipse attacks on Bitcoin's peer-to-peer network” (2015) · 467 citations
- Hongwei Xi, Associate Professor h-index 26
Notable: “Dependent types in practical programming” (1999) · 584 citations
- Sofya Raskhodnikova, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Smooth sensitivity and sampling in private data analysis” (2007) · 1,002 citations
- Manos Athanassoulis, Associate Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Monkey” (2017) · 237 citations
- Leonid Levin, Professor h-index 22
Notable: “A Pseudorandom Generator from any One-way Function” (1999) · 1,677 citations
- Emily Whiting, Associate Professor and Director of Ph.D. Admissions h-index 22
Notable: “Make it stand” (2013) · 289 citations
- Assaf Kfoury, Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Type reconstruction in the presence of polymorphic recursion” (1993) · 82 citations
- Deepti Ghadiyaram, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 21
In Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with a special focus improving the safety, interpretability, and robustness of computer vision systems. She is also a Member of Technical Staff at Runway. Previously she spent over 5 years at Met
Notable: “From Patches to Pictures (PaQ-2-PiQ): Mapping the Perceptual Space of Picture Quality” (2020) · 374 citations
- Jonathan Appavoo, Associate Professor h-index 21
Notable: “Tornado: maximizing locality and concurrency in a shared memory multiprocessor operating system” (1999) · 178 citations
- Mark Bun, Associate Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-Technical Audience” (2018) · 150 citations
- Renato Mancuso, Associate Professor h-index 20
Notable: “PALLOC: DRAM bank-aware memory allocator for performance isolation on multicore platforms” (2014) · 236 citations
- Alina Ene, Associate Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Fast exact and heuristic methods for role minimization problems” (2008) · 222 citations
- Nathan Klein, Assistant Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Fertilization and early embryology: Influence of maternal age on meiotic spindle assembly oocytes from naturally cycling women” (1996) · 646 citations
- Vasiliki Kalavri, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Distributed data processing, streaming computation, and large-scale graph analysis. She is a committer and PMC member of Apache Flink and co-author of the Stream Processing with Apache Flink book. Vasiliki also holds degrees from th
Notable: “The future is big graphs” (2021) · 152 citations
- Marco Gaboardi, Professor and Associate Chair of Instructional Support h-index 13
Notable: “Privacy Amplification by Subsampling: Tight Analyses via Couplings and Divergences” (2018) · 105 citations
- Sabrina Neuman, Assistant Professor h-index 12
In computer architecture design informed by explicit application-level and domain-specific insights. She is particularly focused on robotics applications because of their heavy computational demands and potential to improve the well-bei
Notable: “Self-aware computing in the Angstrom processor” (2012) · 78 citations
- John Liagouris, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Lie in distributed systems and databases. Personal Page Title Assistant Professor Office CDS 721
Notable: “Privacy preservation by disassociation” (2012) · 84 citations
- Aaron Mueller, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Quantity doesn’t buy quality syntax with neural language models” (2019) · 72 citations
- Ankush Das, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Broadly in the area of programming languages, with applications in cryptographic protocols, distributed systems, and recently in probabilistic and machine learning models. Title Assistant Professor Education PhD, Carnegie Mellon Univers
Notable: “Towards automatic resource bound analysis for OCaml” (2016) · 115 citations
- Alexander Poremba, Assistant Professor (Physics & Computer Science) h-index 7
Notable: “Quantum-assisted quantum compiling” (2019) · 378 citations
- Andrea Lincoln, Assistant Professor
- Boqing Gong, Assistant Professor
- Chang Xiao, Assistant Professor
- Ed Chien, Assistant Professor
- Kyle Deeds, Assistant Professor
Notable: “Reproducibility Report for ACM SIGMOD 2025 Paper: 'An Elephant Under the Microscope: Analyzing the Interaction of Optimizer Components in PostgreSQL'” (2025)
- Leonidas Kontothanassis, Professor of the Practice
Ed on societally relevant real-world problems. Professors of the Practice are officers of instruction who are distinguished practitioners who through teaching share their knowledge and experience in the profession. Leonidas’s decision to pi
- Rich West, Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.