44 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
- Neil Heffernan, Professor, Computer Science h-index 44
Notable: “The ASSISTments Ecosystem: Building a Platform that Brings Scientists and Teachers Together for Minimally Invasive Research on Human Learning and Teaching” (2014) · 566 citations
- Xiangnan Kong, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 39
Focus on data mining and machine learning, with emphasis on addressing the data science problems in biomedical and social applications. Data today involves an increasing number of data types that need to be handled differently from conventi
Notable: “Inferring anchor links across multiple heterogeneous social networks” (2013) · 370 citations
- Yanhua Li, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 37
Focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, with applications in smart cities in many contexts, including spatial-temporal data analytics, urban planning and optimization. Recently, his research has an emphasis on advancing imit
Notable: “Cancer survival in China, 2003–2005: A population‐based study” (2014) · 643 citations
- Mark Claypool, Professor, Computer Science h-index 35
Multimedia networking, congestion control, network games and information filtering.
Notable: “Combining Content-Based and Collaborative Filters in an Online Newspaper” (1999) · 782 citations
- Xiaoyan Sun, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 30
Lie in cybersecurity, including network and distributed system security, AI security, IoT & embedded system security, mobile & software security, privacy, security & digital forensics education and workforce training etc. Her wo
Notable: “Structure-Revealing Low-Light Image Enhancement Via Robust Retinex Model” (2018) · 1,206 citations
- Dmitry Korkin, Professor, Computer Science h-index 29
Notable: “A soybean cyst nematode resistance gene points to a new mechanism of plant resistance to pathogens” (2012) · 406 citations
- Xiaozhong Liu, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 28
Natural language processing (NLP), text/graph mining, information retrieval/recommendation, metadata, and computational social science. His dissertation at Syracuse University (advisor Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy) explored an innovative
Notable: “Heat Stress Injury in Relation to Membrane Lipid Peroxidation in Creeping Bentgrass” (2000) · 495 citations
- Craig Wills, Professor, Computer Science h-index 27
Internet Measurement Online Privacy Distributed Computing User Interfaces Scholarly Work Current list of publications available online. Professional Affiliations Vita contains professional affiliations. News Chev Right Icon of hollow arrow
Notable: “On the leakage of personally identifiable information via online social networks” (2009) · 374 citations
- Erin Solovey, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 26
Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence Brain-Computer Interfaces Accessibility Novel Interaction Modes & Techniques Adaptive User Interfaces Physiological and Wearable Computing Human Interaction with Artificial Intelligence
Notable: “Reality-based interaction” (2008) · 823 citations
- Kyumin Lee, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 26
In social computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval, over large-scale systems like the Web and social media. He focuses on threats to these systems and design methods to
Notable: “Uncovering social spammers” (2010) · 617 citations
- Gillian Smith, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 25
In computational creativity, game design, computer science education, and the intersection of traditional crafts and computation. In 2021 Professor Smith was appointed director of WPI’s Interactive Media and Games Development prog
Notable: “Analyzing the expressive range of a level generator” (2010) · 199 citations
- Jacob Whitehill, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 24
In applied machine learning, computer vision, data science and their applications to education, affective computing, and human behavior recognition. My work is highly interdisciplinary and frequently intersects cognitive science, psycho
Notable: “Whose Vote Should Count More: Optimal Integration of Labels from Labelers of Unknown Expertise” (2009) · 1,003 citations
- Walter Gerych, Assistant Professor, Computer Science h-index 24
Notable: “The effects of loss and latency on user performance in unreal tournament 2003®” (2004) · 321 citations
- Tian Guo, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 24
Cloud Computing Edge Computing AR/VR Deep learning Systems Distributed Systems Scholarly Work Professor Guo’s research includes work on cloud/edge resource management, big data frameworks, deep learning inference, distributed training, neur
Notable: “α-Lipoic acid improves abnormal behavior by mitigation of oxidative stress, inflammation, ferroptosis, and tauopathy in P301S Tau transgenic mice” (2017) · 301 citations
- George Heineman, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 20
Software Engineering Component-Based Software Engineering Software Architecture Modularity and Composition Scholarly Work J. Bessai, G. T. Heineman, B. Düdder, "Covariant Conversions (CoCo): A Design Pattern for Type-Safe Modular Software E
Notable: “Dynamic plan migration for continuous queries over data streams” (2004) · 143 citations
- Lane Harrison, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 20
Information Visualization Visual Analytics Human-Computer Interaction Scholarly Work Improving Bayesian Reasoning: The Effects of Phrasing, Visualization, and Spatial Ability 2015 News Chev Right Icon of hollow arrow pointing right Arrow Ri
Notable: “Ranking Visualizations of Correlation Using Weber's Law” (2014) · 219 citations
- Carolina Ruiz, Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Computer Science h-index 17
Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Data Mining Applications of Machine Learning to Medicine Digital Health Scholarly Work See full list of publications at this link. News Chev Right Icon of hollow arrow pointing right Arrow Right Icon
Notable: “Efficient Adaptive-Support Association Rule Mining for Recommender Systems” (2002) · 395 citations
- Craig Shue, Professor & Department Head, Computer Science h-index 17
Cybersecurity Computer Networking Distributed Systems Scholarly Work Publications list in Prof. Shue’s website Complete list of publications in Google Scholar Complete list of publications in DBLP Complete list of publications in Scopus Pro
Notable: “The SDN Shuffle” (2015) · 104 citations
- Robert Walls, Associate Professor, Computer Science; Program Director, Cybersecurity h-index 15
Es on systems security and performance. Consequently, my projects often lie at the intersection of software and hardware. Some of my projects include developing compiler-based defenses for embedded microcontrollers, providing security
Notable: “Building an ontology of cyber security” (2014) · 64 citations
- Daniel Reichman, Assistant Professor, Computer Science h-index 14
Theoretical Computer Science Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence THE CAMPAIGN FOR WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE BEYOND THESE TOWERS Now, more than ever, the world needs what we have created and what we do at WPI. Chev Right Icon of h
Notable: “Using large-scale experiments and machine learning to discover theories of human decision-making” (2021) · 263 citations
- Roee Shraga, Assistant Professor, Computer Science h-index 12
Data Integration Data Discovery Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning Information Retrieval Natural Language Processing (NLP) Large Language Models (LLMs) Scholarly Work Web table retrieval using multimodal deep learning Adnev: Cross-domain sc
Notable: “SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search” (2023) · 52 citations
- Sakire Arslan Ay, Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science h-index 10
In data management and database systems, specifically geospatial and multidimensional data management. My research has primarily focused on large-scale geospatial data indexing, sensor-rich video annotation and search, and spatiotempora
Notable: “Viewable scene modeling for geospatial video search” (2008) · 101 citations
- Raha Moraffah, Assistant Professor, Computer Science h-index 9
Notable: “Causal Interpretability for Machine Learning - Problems, Methods and Evaluation” (2020) · 230 citations
- Jun Dai, Associate Professor, Computer Science h-index 9
Notable: “Using Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Identification of Zero-Day Attack Paths” (2018) · 142 citations
- Hanmeng Zhan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science h-index 9
- Rodica Neamtu, Professor of Teaching, Computer Science h-index 8
Data Mining Machine Learning Big Data Time Series Analytics Brain Waves Analytics Information Retrieval and Integration Exploratory and Predictive Financial Tools Alternative Augmentative Communication for People with Disabilities Scholarly
Notable: “Interactive time series exploration powered by the marriage of similarity distances” (2016) · 26 citations
- Ethan Prihar, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science h-index 7
Notable: “MathBERT: A Pre-trained Language Model for General NLP Tasks in\n Mathematics Education” (2021) · 34 citations
- Shubbhi Taneja, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science h-index 5
Lie in energy-efficient computing and big data systems. She collaborates actively with researchers at national labs, faculty engaged in pedagogical research and other disciplines of computer science, particularly computer a
Notable: “aHDFS: An Erasure-Coded Data Archival System for Hadoop Clusters” (2017) · 16 citations
- Maxim Lisnic, Assistant Professor, Computer Science h-index 4
Notable: “Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People Actually Lie with Charts” (2023) · 47 citations
- Cheng Zhang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science h-index 3
Program Verification Semantics of Programming Language Kleene Algebra Transition Systems -- Coalgebra Logic in Computer Science Lightweight Formal Method THE CAMPAIGN FOR WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE BEYOND THESE TOWERS Now, more than ev
Notable: “Optimization of parameters for specified path generation using an atlas of coupler curves of geared five-bar linkages” (1984) · 55 citations
- Bahman Moraffah, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Computer Science
- Charles Roberts, Associate Professor, Computer Science
- Dachun Sun, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science
- Elke Rundensteiner, Professor, Computer Science; Program Head, Data Science
Es on how to make use of data and information effectively, towards achieving goals in business, scientific discovery, and digital health. With interconnectivityvity of the internet, the availability of computing power, and digital data ever
- Emmanuel Agu, Professor, Computer Science
In the areas of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Mobile Health, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and computer graphics. He is especially interested in research into how to use a smartphone or smartwatch as a platform to deliver be
- Gabor Sarkozy, Professor, Computer Science
In graph theory, discrete mathematics, and theoretical computer science. I am especially interested in studying the structure of very large graphs,; an area that is getting more and more important these days. I enjoy teaching at WPI; in
- Jennifer Mortensen, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science
Ed on computational modeling of protein structures and the properties of protein interactions. Her work has revealed the important role of steric interactions in protein cores and reframed the prior understanding of the atomic packing of am
- Joshua Cuneo, Senior Instructor, Computer Science
- Matthew Ahrens, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science
- Michael Engling, Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science
Computer Science Education, Security and Privacy, Cryptography, and Combinatorial Games. I am ever alert for new ways to convince his students that mathematics is fun. Along with my wife Joey, I am a Volunteer Crew Leader for Friend
- Qi Zhang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
- Taylor Andrews, Instructor, Computer Science
- Wilson Wong, Associate Professor of Teaching, Computer Science
Software Engineering and Information Systems Capstone Innovations Computer Science Education Social network analysis Computer Systems and Architecture Scholarly Work Englander, I., Wong. W. The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Sof
- Yu-Shan Sun, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science
Computer science education, software engineering, and formal methods & verification. Recently, he was a co-PI on an NSF Research Grant that studied student impediments in understanding and reasoning about code through a novel online
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.