Kaan Onarlioglu

Part-Time Lecturer

Kaan Onarlioglu is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College and an architect with Akamai’s security intelligence team. His research interests span a wide array of systems and Internet security topics, but emphasize operating systems security problems with real-life impacts.

Kaushal Paneri

Part-Time Lecturer

Themis A. Papageorge

Associate Clinical Professor, Director - Cybersecurity & Information Assurance Employer Relations

Themis Papageorge is an associate clinical professor and director of cybersecurity and information assurance employer relations at Khoury College. His primary research interest is risk management; from 2008-2017 he served as the director of the Master of Science in information assurance and cyber security program, overseeing the program curriculum and introducing the online version worldwide.

John Park

Clinical Instructor

Daniel Patterson

Assistant Teaching Professor

Daniel Patterson is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. He is particularly interested in the first few years of a computer science curriculum, and uses his background in programming languages, logic, and specification to help students with no experience in computer science establish a strong grasp on the fundamentals.

Virgil Pavlu

Associate Teaching Professor

Virgil Pavlu is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. His research focuses on information retrieval and organization, and the potential to use machine learning algorithms for the discovery and indexing of text data.

Cristian Penarrieta

Part-Time Lecturer

Cristian Penarrieta is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and a senior software engineer at HR software company Gusto. Prior to joining Northeastern, Penarrieta worked as a senior software engineer at Electronic Arts.

Geoffrey Phipps

Part-Time Lecturer

Adam C. Powell

Part-Time Lecturer

Adam Powell is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College, and the founder and president of the healthcare management consulting firm Payer+Provider Syndicate. His work as a researcher focuses on healthcare economics, and he teaches classes in the health informatics graduate program.

Mirjana Prpa

Assistant Teaching Professor

Mirjana Prpa is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College. She leads an interdisciplinary research program focused on solving complex problems of designing technologies at the intersection of mixed reality (XR) and human-computer Interaction to support human health and well-being, collaborative and creative tasks, and social interactions in VR.

John Rachlin

Associate Teaching Professor

John Rachlin is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. He researches the development of scalable multi-objective optimization and decision-support systems using evolutionary algorithms.

Ryan M. Rad

Assistant Teaching Professor

Ryan Rad is an assistant teaching professor at Khoury College with backgrounds in teaching, research, engineering, and management. He has founded two companies in the last decade and is currently active in computational biology, machine learning, and personal health informatics research.

Parsa Rajabi

Part-Time Lecturer

Parsa Rajabi is a part-time teaching faculty member at Khoury College, as well as the director of the Artificial Intelligence for Education Lab and an open education researcher with Simon Fraser University’s learning and instructional services. He is interested in computer science education – particularly the domains of AI education and computational thinking – and on human-computer interaction.

Vishal Rajpal

Part-Time Lecturer

Vishal Rajpal is a part-time lecturer at Khoury College and a senior software engineer at Amazon Ads. He teaches courses on scalable distributed systems and large-scale data processing.

Ronak Razavisousan

Part-Time Lecturer

Leena Razzaq

Associate Teaching Professor

Leena Razzaq is an associate teaching professor at Khoury College. Her research focuses on educational technologies, like intelligent tutoring systems that can adapt to students’ performance.