Computer Science Faculty: Fall 2022

Science of science, computational social science, AI for science

Yueqi Chen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CU Boulder. His research area is system and software security with a focus on weird machine, exploitability escalation & formalization, and advanced protection design for infrastructure cyber-systems (e.g., OS kernels and cryptography libraries). Yueqi received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University and was awarded IBM Ph.D. Fellowship 2020-2022. He competed in DEFCON CTF final and was BlackHat speaker and Linux...

Jim is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and M.S. in Statistics from Utah State University, and an M.S. in Information Science from the University of Colorado Boulder. He has over 30 years of experience as a statistician in social and medical research, and as a technologist in computer architecture and security. His work...

David Knox received his BA from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1982. He spent the next 30+ years as an architect, designer, and developer in the computer industry in startups and Fortune 500 companies. He returned to academia to complete his MS in Computer Science at CU Boulder in 2010 and received a PhD in Computational Bioscience from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2015. In 2012,...

Kathy Nielsen is a multi-disciplinary scholar and an experienced professional in the field of software engineering. She is an agile product engineering coach and has designed and developed software systems in a variety of domains. She is interested in how students and professionals learn their craft and in collaborative approaches to creating and sharing knowledge.

My primary interests are in multivariate regression models in conjunction with machine learning models to estimate weather patterns, glacier recession behavior, as well as looking into financial models pertaining to profit gains, losses, and revenue. I am also interested in planetary systems, abiogenesis, philosophy, and theology.

Willem (Vlakkies) Schreüder is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a B.S. in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics/Computational Fluid Dynamics from the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and and MS and PhD in Computer Science/Parallel Systems from the University of Colorado Boulder. He has...

Dr. Piotr Windyga is a Venezuela-born Polish American Computer Scientist and a researcher in data science applied to biomedical engineering and cybersecurity of medical systems. Dr. Windyga holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Systems Engineering, a Masters degree in Digital Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging Processing. During his 25-year long teaching career, Dr. Windyga has taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela,...