It can be hard to build meaningful rapport with your professors when you’re in huge, crowded computer science lectures. Or maybe you’d like to conduct interesting research alongside an inspirational professor in the department yet don’t know how to approach them. McWiCS has got you covered! On Tuesday, January 31st, 2023, McWiCS held its biannual Meet the Profs event! This is a great opportunity for you to meet other students, get to know your professors one-on-one, ask them about available research opportunities they know of, receive insider tips on how to do well in their courses, or just chat!
Here are the professors who were at this semester’s Meet & Greet:
Prof. Brigitte Pientka
Courses Taught: COMP 302 Programming Languages and Paradigms (Past), COMP 523 Language-Based Security (Past), COMP 527 Logic and Computation
Research Interests: Logic and computation, programming language theory, safe and reliable software systems
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Prof. Bettina Kemme
Courses Taught: COMP 512 Distributed Systems, COMP 421 Database Systems
Research Interests: Design and development of distributed information systems, in-database analytics, performance monitoring in the cloud, and software design for micro-architecture. Detailed information can be found at the webpage of the Distributed Information Systems Group
Prof. Giulia Alberini
Courses Taught: COMP 202 Foundations of Programming (Past), COMP 250 Introduction to Computer Science, COMP 251 Algorithms and Data Structures
Research Interests: Cryptography
Prof. Faten M’hiri
Courses Taught: Comp 202 Foundations of Programming, COMP 208 Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and Engineering, COMP 396 Undergraduate Research Project, COMP 400 Project in Computer Science, COMP 480 Independent Studies in Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning, medical imaging, healthcare technologies, image analysis, teaching and learning methodologies
Prof. Lili Wei
Courses Taught: ECSE 688 Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering 1 (Past)
Research Interests: Software analysis, testing, and mining code repositories with a focus on Android applications, smart contracts and IoT software
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Prof. Mona Elsaadawy
Courses Taught: COMP 273 Introduction to Computer Systems, COMP 421 Database Systems
Research Interests: Database systems, field intelligent networks, software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), cloud computing, clustering techniques and network security
We hope to see you at future iterations of our Meet & Greet 😊