Teaching Professor & Director of Broadening Participation

Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Northeastern University

Laney Strange (she/her) is a Teaching Professor and Director of Broadening Participation at Northeastern University.  Inside and outside the classroom, she works on making computer science inclusive and welcoming for students who have been historically marginalized in our field. Laney strongly believes that computer science is for everyone, and she participates in many Khoury initiatives that support populations who have historically been marginalized in computer science. Read more about Laney Strange here.

Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs

Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Northeastern University

Christo Wilson is a Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is a founding member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern and serves as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs in Khoury College. Professor Wilson’s research covers a wide range of digital consumer protection topics using measurement-driven approaches. This includes areas like online tracking and privacy, deceptive “dark pattern” user interfaces, misinformation and radicalization, fairness and bias in machine learning, algorithm auditing, and empirical antitrust investigations of tech platforms. Read more about Christo Wilson here.

Associate Teaching Professor

Khoury College of Computer Sciences 

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Northeastern University

Vance Ricks is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, holding joint appointments in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. His teaching and research focus on moral philosophy, ranging from the ethics of digital technologies to the works of John Stuart Mill.  His current research projects are on computer ethics pedagogy and (separately) on social robots. He has published on the implications of social networks for friendship and gossip and has co-authored publications on autonomous vehicles and on designing ethics modules for computer science courses. He has also edited and contributed chapters to the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computer Science Playbook, a guide for computer science instructors who want to incorporate ethical reasoning into their curricula.

AssistantProfessor and Director of the Civic A.I. Lab

Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Northeastern University

Saiph Savage is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, where she directs the Civic A.I. Lab. Recognized as one of MIT Tech Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 and Forbes’ top 20 AI leaders in Mexico, her impactful research has earned accolades from UNESCO and awards at leading scientific venues like ACM CHI and CSCW. Dr. Savage advises federal governments and senators in the U.S. and Mexico and is an expert member of OECD’s Global Partnership on AI. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara and an undergraduate degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has worked at leading institutions, including Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft.