Computer Science at Bowdoin College

11 faculty and 29 courses in Computer Science at Bowdoin College.

Faculty

• David Byrd, Marvin H. Green Jr. Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 57
  Notable: “The Eighth Edition AJCC Cancer Staging Manual: Continuing to build a bridge from a population‐based to a more “personalized” approach to cancer staging” (2017) · 6,531 citations
• Jeffrey Knockel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 17
  Notable: “DrugCentral: online drug compendium” (2016) · 344 citations
• Sean K. Barker, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Chair h-index 15
  Broadly in the areas of energy, smart buildings, sustainability, and distributed systems. Recent and past projects have included analyzing smart meter data (e.g., for high-performance compression or virtual power meters ), resource mana
  Notable: “Empirical evaluation of latency-sensitive application performance in the cloud” (2010) · 183 citations
• Laura I. Toma, Professor of Computer Science h-index 14
  Notable: “Efficient Flow Computation on Massive Grid Terrain Datasets” (2003) · 103 citations
• Bobak Kiani, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 11
  Notable: “Quantum variational algorithms are swamped with traps” (2022) · 221 citations
• Mohammad T. Irfan, John F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies and Computer Science h-index 9
  Computational game theory and economics; image analysis of art
  Notable: “On influence, stable behavior, and the most influential individuals in networks: A game-theoretic approach” (2014) · 44 citations
• Sarah M. Harmon, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 5
  Notable: “From Mechanics to Meaning” (2017) · 15 citations
• Stephen Houser, Senior Director of Academic Technology and Consulting, Adjunct Lecturer in Computer Science h-index 1
  Notable: “Analysis Of Disk Workloads In Network File Server Environments.” (1995) · 3 citations
• Christopher Martin, Visiting Lecturer in Computer Science
• Cibele Matos Freire, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  Broadly theoretical computer science, more specifically, complexity results of database theory problems. I have worked on the problems of resilience and responsibility in databases, query sensitivity, and evaluation of aggregate queries.
• Jeova Farias, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Courses

• Introduction to Computer Science CSCI 1101
• Accelerated Introduction to Computer Science CSCI 1103
• Accelerated Data Structures and Advanced Programming I CSCI 2100
• Data Structures and Advanced Programming I CSCI 2101
• Data Structures and Advanced Programming II CSCI 2102
• Algorithms CSCI 2200
• Theory of Computation CSCI 2210
• Principles of Programming Languages CSCI 2320
• Foundations of Computer Systems CSCI 2330
• Software Engineering CSCI 2335
• Social and Economic Networks CSCI 2350
• Artificial Intelligence CSCI 2400
• Dependently Typed Functional Programming CSCI 2520
• Human-Computer Interaction CSCI 2715
• Computational Game Theory CSCI 3210
• Logic in Computer Science CSCI 3220
• Algorithms for GIS CSCI 3225
• Computational Complexity Theory CSCI 3240
• Computational Geometry CSCI 3250
• Quantum Computation CSCI 3260
• Operating Systems CSCI 3310
• Distributed Systems CSCI 3325
• Cybersecurity CSCI 3330
• Cognitive Architecture CSCI 3400
• Financial Machine Learning CSCI 3465
• Deep Learning for Computer Vision CSCI 3485
• Software and Cognition CSCI 3500
• Computational Creativity CSCI 3725
• Playable Media CSCI 3735

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.