Computer Science at Williams College

14 faculty and 0 courses in Computer Science at Williams College.

Faculty

• Kelly Shaw, Professor h-index 33
  Parallel architectures, including heterogeneous architectures, Internet of Things, particularly with respect to data consistency correctness, memory systems, workload characterization of emerging applications.
  Notable: “Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2016” (2020) · 3,854 citations
• Stephen N. Freund, Professor h-index 28
  Es on light-weight checkers to identify defects in software, such as race conditions, atomicity errors, and specification violations. He typically teaches courses on introductory computer science, data structures and algorithms, and programming languages.
  Notable: “FastTrack” (2009) · 671 citations
• Jeannie Albrecht, Professor & Chair h-index 19
  Distributed systems and computer networks, particularly focusing on reliability and scalability achieved over the wide-area; smart homes, federated learning.
  Notable: “Finding a "Kneedle" in a Haystack: Detecting Knee Points in System Behavior” (2011) · 1,256 citations
• Aaron Williams, Associate Professor h-index 19
  Algorithms, combinatorics, computational complexity, puzzles and games, history of video games.
  Notable: “A surprisingly simple de Bruijn sequence construction” (2015) · 58 citations
• Iris Howley, Assistant Professor h-index 17
  Human-Computer Interaction, technology enhanced learning environments, computer-supported collaborative learning, information visualization, automated linguistic analysis for education.
  Notable: “Can a Social Robot Stimulate Science Curiosity in Classrooms?” (2015) · 128 citations
• Rohit Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor h-index 13
  Causal inference, graphical models, missing data, oncogenomics.
  Notable: “Evolution of Neoantigen Landscape during Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer” (2016) · 899 citations
• James Bern, Assistant Professor h-index 12
  Soft and rigid robotics, computational design, numerical simulation, computer graphics, toys & games, robotic art.
  Notable: “Soft Robot Control With a Learned Differentiable Model” (2020) · 95 citations
• Shikha Singh, Associate Professor h-index 10
  Algorithmic game theory, algorithms & data structures, combinatorial optimization, complexity theory.
  Notable: “Forecasting Directional Movement of Stock Prices using Deep Learning” (2022) · 66 citations
• William Jannen, Associate Professor h-index 9
  Ed on file systems and storage. He is part of the team that made BetrFS, a Linux file system built using write-optimized dictionaries. Research Bill is involved in ongoing projects at all levels of the storage stack. At the block layer, he is working on a
  Notable: “Cooperation and security isolation of library OSes for multi-process applications” (2014) · 123 citations
• Daniel Barowy, Associate Professor h-index 9
  End-user programming, crowdsourcing, program synthesis, debugging techniques, nonparametric statistical methods.
  Notable: “AutoMan” (2012) · 120 citations
• Samuel McCauley, Associate Professor h-index 9
  Algorithms and data structures, hashing and randomization, similarity search, I/O-efficient algorithms, and scheduling.
  Notable: “Cache-adaptive algorithms” (2014) · 33 citations
• John Parker, Visiting Professor
  Focus on applying mathematical, computational, and machine learning techniques to address problems across a range of scientific domains.
• Katie Keith, Assistant Professor
  At the intersection of natural language processing, computational social science, and causal inference. In the past, she co-organized the First Workshop on Causal Inference and NLP, hosted the podcast Diaries of Social Data Research, and co-organized the f
• Mark Hopkins, Associate Professor
  Machine learning, machine translation, automated question answering, computational typology.

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.