Computer Science at Brandeis University

24 faculty and 35 courses in Computer Science at Brandeis University.

Faculty

• James Pustejovsky, TJX Feldberg Professor of Computer Science; Chair h-index 59
  Notable: “The syntax of event structure” (1991) · 734 citations
• Nianwen Bert Xue, Professor of Computer Science; Chair h-index 39
  Notable: “The Penn Chinese TreeBank: Phrase structure annotation of a large corpus” (2005) · 694 citations
• Pengyu Hong, Professor of Computer Science h-index 32
  Notable: “Evidence of off-target effects associated with long dsRNAs in Drosophila melanogaster cell-based assays” (2006) · 300 citations
• Hongfu Liu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
  Notable: “K-Means-Based Consensus Clustering: A Unified View” (2014) · 229 citations
• Liuba Shrira, Professor of Computer Science; Co-Chair h-index 24
  Notable: “Providing high availability using lazy replication” (1992) · 386 citations
• Harry Mairson, Professor of Computer Science h-index 22
  Notable: “Deciding ML typability is complete for deterministic exponential time” (1990) · 107 citations
• Marc Verhagen, Senior Research Scientist h-index 21
  Notable: “SemEval-2013 Task 1: TempEval-3: Evaluating Time Expressions, Events, and Temporal Relations” (2013) · 360 citations
• Ben Wellner, Lecturer in Computer Science h-index 19
  Notable: “Machine learning of temporal relations” (2006) · 288 citations
• Olga Papaemmanouil, Professor of Computer Science h-index 19
  Notable: “Neo” (2019) · 341 citations
• Tim Hickey, Professor of Computer Science h-index 19
  Notable: “Interval arithmetic” (2001) · 339 citations
• Subhadeep Sarkar, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 14
  Notable: “Assessment of the Suitability of Fog Computing in the Context of Internet of Things” (2015) · 637 citations
• Constantine Lignos, Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics h-index 13
  Notable: “MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages” (2021) · 236 citations
• Sophia Malamud, Associate Professor of Linguistics h-index 9
  Notable: “Three Ways to Avoid Commitments: Declarative Force Modifiers in the Conversational Scoreboard” (2014) · 181 citations
• Ju Hyoung Mun, Assistant Professor; Industry Liaison h-index 9
  Notable: “New Approach for Efficient IP Address Lookup Using a Bloom Filter in Trie-Based Algorithms” (2015) · 64 citations
• Dylan Cashman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 6
  Notable: “White (but Not Black) Americans Continue to See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game; White Conservatives (but Not Moderates or Liberals) See Themselves as Losing” (2022) · 53 citations
• Antonella Di Lillo, Professor of Computer Science; Undergraduate Advising Head h-index 4
  Notable: “Texture Classification Based on Discriminative Features Extracted in the Frequency Domain” (2007) · 14 citations
• Jessica Liebowitz, Research Scientist h-index 1
  Notable: “The Internal Internship: Enabling Novel Opportunities for Undergraduate Data Science Experiential Education” (2024)
• Elijah Rivera, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Hadi Mohammadi, Visiting Scholar and Lecturer
• Joe Delfino, Lecturer in Computer Science
• Keith Plaster, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
• Kostas Solomos, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Lotus Goldberg, Professor of Linguistics; Vice Chair
• Win Treese, Lecturer in Computer Science

Courses

• Introduction to Problem Solving in Python COSI 10a
• Advanced Programming Techniques in Java COSI 12b
• Data Structures and the Fundamentals of Computing COSI 21a
• Discrete Structures COSI 29a
• Effective Communication for Computer Scientists COSI 45a
• Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence COSI 101a
• Fundamentals of Software Engineering COSI 103a
• Introduction to Machine Learning COSI 104a
• Introduction to Computer Security COSI 107a
• Modal, Temporal, and Spatial Logic for Language COSI 112a
• Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing I COSI 114a
• Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing II COSI 115b
• Information Visualization COSI 116a
• Autonomous Robotics COSI 119a
• Topics in Computer Systems COSI 120a
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs COSI 121b
• Statistical Machine Learning COSI 123a
• Human-Computer Interaction COSI 125a
• Unsupervised Learning and Data Mining COSI 126a
• Database Management Systems COSI 127b
• Introduction to Computer Networking COSI 128a
• Introduction to the Theory of Computation COSI 130a
• Fundamentals of Computer Systems COSI 131a
• Information Retrieval COSI 132a
• Computational Semantics COSI 135b
• Automatic Speech Recognition COSI 136a
• Computational Linguistics Second Year Seminar COSI 138a
• System and Network Security COSI 141a
• Embedded Systems Development COSI 142a
• Data Management for Data Science COSI 143b
• Principles of Computer System Design COSI 146a
• Distributed Systems COSI 147a
• Practical Machine Learning with Big Data COSI 149b
• Compiler Design COSI 150a
• Web Application Development COSI 152a

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.