WPI Computer Science 2005-2009

Milestones

2005: CS faculty collaborate with Humanities and Arts faculty to launch the Interactive Media & Game Development program, one of the nation's earliest video game majors
2007: The nation's first bachelor's degree program in Robotics Engineering is inaugurated with faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
Nov 2009: Founding Dept Head Norm Sondak dies.

Number of Faculty, BS Degrees and MS Degrees


Number of Faculty	Number of BS Degrees	Number of MS Degrees

Faculty

Mike Gennert, Dept Head
Robert Kinicki
David Brown
Stanley Selkow
Karen Lemone
Matt Ward
David Finkel
Craig Wills
Glynis Hamel
Elke Rundensteiner
George Heineman
Carolina Ruiz
Mark Claypool
Micha Hofri
Mike Ciaraldi
Kathi Fisler
Emmanuel Agu
Dan Dougherty
Neil Heffernan
Murali Mani
Gary Pollice
Rob Lindeman
Chuck Rich
Joe Beck
Joshua Guttman

Staff

Sharon Demaine
Jessica Pollock
Refie Cane
Charlene Swalec
Tashawna Walker
Christine Caron
Tricia Desmarais
Diane Baxter
Jesse Banning
Michael Voorhis
John Leveillee

PhDs

2005 Janet E. Burge (Brown), Jing Yang (Ward), Jae Chung (Claypool/Kinicki), Maged El-Sayed (Rundensteiner), Bin Liu (Rundensteiner), Songting Chen (Rundensteiner), Hong Su (Rundensteiner)
2006 Hao Shang (Wills), Huahui Wu (Claypool/Kinicki), Ling Wang (Rundensteiner), Aparna Varde (Rundensteiner), Yali Zhu (Rundensteiner)
2007 Mingzhe Li (Claypool/Kinicki)
2008 Luping Ding (Rundensteiner), David Toth (Finkel), Song Wang (Rundensteiner), Yubing Wang (Claypool/Kinicki), Fan Wu (Agu)
2009 Songxiang Gu (Gennert), Mingyu Feng (Heffernan), Leena Razzaq (Heffernan)

Faculty and Alums Share Memories

"The first time that I taught CS-4513 and asked the class to divide into teams and make presentations on the Map-Reduce algorithm, which had just been published that year. They totally blew me away with the quality and professionalism of their presentations." -- '06

"Gary pollice" -- '09

"All nighters in the basement of Fuller Labs and watching the sun rise on the way home." -- '06

"I loved the computer science curriculum, especially the more advanced classes. My favorites were Operating Systems with Prof. Wills; Networking with Prof. Kinicki; Computer Graphics with Prof Agu. I'm also super grateful for the opportunity to level up my writing and communication skills by taking humanity courses from Prof. Sokal. " -- '06

"I loved playing soccer and basketball with some of the profs while I was a grad student. It fostered a different kind of relationship that I couldn't have developed anywhere else." -- '05

Faculty and Alums Identify WPI People Who Made a Personal Impact

"Mike Gennert" -- '06

"Gary Pollice" -- '09

"The professors above taught me to not be afraid of hard problems and to believe in myself. " -- '06

"Profs Selkow, Dougherty; Gennert; and Finkel had the greatest impacts on me. Each of them made a significant contribution to me being where I am today. If you're reading this guys; THANK YOU!!!" -- '05

Photos

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Gabor Sarkozy	Bob Kinicki	Elke Rundensteiner	ACM Coffee House

Gary Pollice at ACM Coffee House	Glynis Hamel at ACM Coffee House	Mike Gennert	Carolina Ruiz and Glynis Hamel

Matt Ward	Mike Ciaraldi and Emmanuel Agu	Murali Mani	Neil Heffernan

Rob Lindeman, Emmanuel Agu and Stan Selkow