Computer Science at Swarthmore College

19 faculty and 0 courses in Computer Science at Swarthmore College.

Faculty

• Lisa Meeden, Neil R. Grabois '57 Professor, Division Chair h-index 17
  Notable: “A robot laboratory for teaching artificial intelligence” (1998) · 125 citations
• Kevin Webb, Associate Professor, Department Chair h-index 12
  Networks, distributed systems, and computer science education. Spring 2026 Schedule CS 21: Intro to Computer Science Class (Section 1) Monday / Wednesday / Friday 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM Martin 213
  Notable: “Stateful bulk processing for incremental analytics” (2010) · 156 citations
• Tia Newhall, Centennial Chair Professor h-index 11
  Parallel and distributed systems. Current Semester Spring 2026 Schedule CS 21: Introduction to Computer Science 11:30 MWF Martin 213 CS 21.C 1:05: W Martin 213 CS93: TBA . Office Ho
  Notable: “The Paradyn parallel performance measurement tool” (1995) · 828 citations
• Joshua Brody, Associate Professor h-index 10
  Theoretical computer science. I am particularly interested in query complexity and communication complexity, and in how communication lower bounds give you lower bounds in areas such as streaming algorithms, property testing, and data st
  Notable: “Property Testing Lower Bounds via Communication Complexity” (2012) · 138 citations
• Andrew Danner, Professor h-index 10
  In I/O-efficient algorithms (also called out-of-core or external-memory algorithms). On data sets larger than the amount of available internal memory of a computer, the transfer of data between slow hard disks and faster internal memory
  Notable: “TerraStream” (2007) · 72 citations
• Sukrit Venkatagiri, Assistant Professor h-index 9
  Lie at the intersection of social computing and usable security & privacy. At Swarthmore College, I direct the Collective Resilience Lab where we help people resist technologically-mediated harm, ranging from strategic misinformation and ha
  Notable: “The Psychological Well-Being of Content Moderators” (2021) · 161 citations
• Ameet Soni, Associate Professor h-index 8
  In the areas of machine learning and its application to problems in computational biology and medicine. Current Semester I am on leave for the 2025-26 academic year. Spring 2018 Schedule CPSC 35: Data Structures and Algorithms &n
  Notable: “Deep Residual Nets for Improved Alzheimer's Diagnosis” (2017) · 66 citations
• Neil Lutz, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “Examining the reuse of open textbooks” (2012) · 37 citations
• Vasanta Chaganti, Associate Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “Open-source testbed for Body Area Networks: 200 sample/sec, 12 hrs continuous measurement” (2010) · 54 citations
• Lila Fontes, Associate Professor h-index 5
  Theoretical computer science, and I am interested in problems involving privacy and communication. More generally, I enjoy using math to explore the limits of computation, which spans a broad range of interests including algorithm design
  Notable: “Formal Theories for Linear Algebra” (2012) · 30 citations
• Zachary Palmer, Associate Professor h-index 5
  Software engineering, compile-time metaprogramming, subtype constraint theory, and related program analyses. I completed my Ph.D. in the Spring of 2015 at Johns Hopkins University , where I had the pleasure of being advised by Dr. S
  Notable: “Backstage Java” (2011) · 9 citations
• Charlie Kazer, Laboratory Instructor h-index 2
  Es on the measurement of and simulation of large scale data center networks. More generally, I am interested in networking, cloud computing, and distributed systems design. Before UPenn, I graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor's
  Notable: “MimicNet” (2021) · 53 citations
• Ben Mitchell, Assistant Professor h-index 1
  My primary research interests lie in the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning; much of my recent research has been on the topic of deep learning. I am also interested in computer ethics, especially in relation to the
  Notable: “The Impact of Imputation Timing on Model Performance Estimation” (2025)
• Gabriel Hope, Visiting Assistant Professor
• Jocelyn Corey, Laboratory Lecturer
• Keith O'Hara, Associate Professor
  Robotics, interactive software systems, and computing education. I taught at Bard College from . From , I directed Bard's Computer Science Program . I was a founding member of our Center for Experimental Humanities
• Nathaniel Grammel, Visiting Assistant Professor
• Ranysha Ware, Assistant Professor
• Rich Wicentowski, Professor, Provost & Dean of Faculty
  In the area of computational linguistics, or natural language processing. I have focused my work in two major areas: computational morphology and semantic disambiguation. To find out more about my work in computational linguistics, see

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.