Regular Faculty
Justin Li, Chair
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science and Computer Science
B.S., Northwestern University; Ph.D, University of Michigan
Justin Li teaches in cognitive science and computer science, and is interested in how people and artificial agents perform knowledge search.
Hector M. Camarillo Abad
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,Universidad de las Am茅ricas Puebla
Hector M. Camarillo Abad has a background in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Intelligent Systems.
Kathryn Leonard
Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College; Professor, Computer Science
B.S., University of New Mexico; M.S., Ph.D., Brown University
Kathryn Leonard studies geometric models for computer graphics, computer vision, and data analysis, with an emphasis on explainability.
Teddy Pozo
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Teddy Pozo is a multimedia writer and artist. Their art practice combines conductive materials with clay sculptures and original game designs to create unique game arcade machine and console installations.
Joel Walsh
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.A. University of California, Davis; M.Ed. University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin
Dr. Joel Walsh's research explores the intersection of educational technology, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. He specializes in designing novel learning technologies that utilize machine learning, multimodal models, and knowledge representation. His academic work is informed by a diverse background, including postdoctoral research at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, industry experience as a machine learning engineer, and foundational years as a high school mathematics teacher in Los Angeles.
Meiqing Zhang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.A. Harbin Engineering University; M.A. University of Chicago; M.Sc., Ph.D. University of Southern California
Meiqing Zhang鈥檚 research and teaching interests lie in natural language processing, computational social science and data science. Her research draws on computational methods to study media and politics.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Hsing-Hau Chen
Resident Associate Professor, Computer Science
B.A., B.S., M.S., National Taiwan University; M.S., Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California
Chris Cianci
Resident Assistant Professor, Computer Science
A.B. 重口50度灰; B.S. Caltech; Ph.D. 脡cole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne
Chris has devoted his career (and much of his life) to robots of all flavors, shapes, and sizes; from swarm systems and sensor networks to self-driving cars and dexterous humanoids.
Alan Knoerr
Associate Professor, Mathematics, Cognitive Science, Emeritus
B.A., Oberlin College; Sc.M., Ph.D., Brown University
Alan Knoerr is an applied mathematician who teaches a broad range of courses in mathematics; he also teaches in the cognitive science and computer science programs.
Tuyetdong Phan-Yamada
Visiting Instructor, Computer Science
B.S., University of California, Irvine; M.S., California State University, Los Angeles
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Affiliated Faculty
Treena Basu
Associate Professor, Mathematics
M.S., Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas; Ph.D., Applied and Computational Mathematics, University of South Carolina
Treena Basu primarily works on developing numerical solutions to fractional partial differential equations. She is currently pursuing research in applications of data science in the field of educational data mining and medical data. Read her Oxy Story profile.