CS Department Welcomes New Faculty

We are very pleased to welcome several new core and visiting faculty members for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Dr. Nam-Wook Kim joins us as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. He comes to us from Harvard University, where he completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Dr. Kim's research focuses on data visualization. He will offer a course on that topic in the fall of 2019.

Dr. Joseph Tassarotti joins us as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. He arrives from a postdoctoral position at MIT, following completion of his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Tassarotti does research in the field of formal verification of software systems, and will offer courses on related topics in the future.

Ms. Anjum Biswas, M.S., who has been a Visiting Lecturer in our department for the past two years, returns in a new role as a core Lecturer. She will continue teaching courses in Computer Organization and other subjects.

Dr. Rafael Ubal joins us as a Visiting Associate Professor, following several years as an Assistant Teaching Professor and Associate Research Engineer at Northeastern University. Dr. Ubal earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. He will offer a variety of courses, including Operating Systems this fall.

Dr. Carl McTague will be a Visiting Assistant Professor. He received a PhD from Cambridge University, and has accrued teaching and research experience at several institutions, and in several areas, since then. He will teach Logic and Computation in the fall.