New incoming computer science faculty: 2023-2024

Huck Bennett is an assistant professor in the computer science department at the University of Colorado Boulder (starting January 2024). His research area is theoretical computer science, with a focus on geometric algorithms. He is particularly interested in lattices. Before coming to Colorado, Bennett was an assistant professor at Oregon State University from 2021 to 2023. Before that, Bennett was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Michigan and at...

Theodora Chaspari is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at University of Colorado Boulder. Before that, she was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU). She has received a B.S. (2010) in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and M.S. (2012) and Ph.D. (2017) in Electrical Engineering from the University of...

Stephen Kissler is an assistant professor of Computer Science. He studies epidemiology, pathogen evolution, and complex social systems. Stephen received his BS and MS degrees in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder and then earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. He worked for three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health before joining the faculty...

Maria works in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Computational Social Science. Before joining CU Boulder, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research NYC. Maria completed her PhD at Purdue University in the Department of Computer Science, and her BS in Computer Science & Engineering at the Universidad Simon Bolivar in her hometown of Caracas, Venezuela.

Michael Rivera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the ATLAS Institute. He researches digital fabrication, inventing and investigating hardware and software systems that empower people to create things. He has published award-winning articles on digital fabrication processes and interactive systems at Human-Computer Interaction venues including ACM CHI, UIST, DIS, and IMWUT. His work has been honored with a CRA/CCC Computing Innovation Fellowship, a Google -...

Divya E. Vernerey is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder as of Fall 2023. She moved a full building over from the Department of Mathematics at Boulder where she has been teaching since 2007. She was also the Director of Undergraduate Research in the Math department, starting a faculty seminar series (QED: Math Club) centered around undergraduate students to foster...