New Faculty to Join Department starting 2014-2015 Academic Year

July 10, 2014

We are delighted to announce that Eytan Ruppin, Andrew Childs, Thomas Goldstein, Michelle Mazurek, Anwar Mamat, and Pedram Sadeghian will be joining us shortly.

Eytan Ruppin will join the department as a Professor and Director of the Center for BioInformatics and Computational Biology. His main area of expertise is in computational systems biology, with an emphasis on genome scale metabolic system modeling of human, microbial and plant metabolism.  His lab projects focused on the study of metabolic alterations in cancer and aging, which aimed to identify and explore novel disease biomarkers and drug targets in collaboration with pertaining experimental research groups.

Andrew Childs will join the department as an Associate Professor. His main area of expertise is in theory of quantum information processing. Childs
will also serve as co-director of QuiCS, the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, which is a joint cooperation between UMIACS and NIST. He has given numerous research talks, his most recent being on exponential improvement in precision for simulating Hamiltonians at the NIST-UMD Workshop on Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland in March 2014, and at the University of Waterloo Tutte seminar in May 2014.

Thomas Goldstein will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and UMIACS. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles in 2010. His main area of expertise is large-scale optimization and distributed algorithms for big data. He is a recipient of the Richard C. DiPrima Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which is awarded to one person every two years for outstanding research in Applied Mathematics.

 

Michelle Mazurek will join the department as an Assistant Professor in CS and UMIACS, and will also be a part of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center. She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University this year. During her time at CMU, Dr. Mazurek was awarded Facebook and NSF IGERT fellowships. Her areas of expertise include the area of useable privacy and security, and her work focuses on human behavior in the design of security applications.

 

Anwar Mamat will be joining the department as a lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011. His teaching expertise includes Operating Systems, Real-time Systems, Distributed Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Parallel Programming, Auto Mata, and Graph Theory.

 

Pedram Sadeghian will be joining the department as a lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisville in 2006. Before he came to Maryland to be a lecturer at Howard Community College in 2007, Sadeghian taught for a brief period in Kentucky. At Howard Community College, Sadeghian coordinated and taught classes for the Computer Science and Information Systems programs.

 

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