About Us

San Jose State is a WASC accredited university. The Computer Science Department consists of students, faculty, lecturers, teaching associates, and staff.

• The Department Chair is Chris Pollett.
• The Associate Chair is Katerina Potika.

Graduate Coordinators:

• Faranak Abri (Computer Science) **
• Wendy Lee (Bioinformatics)
• Teng Moh (Data Science)
• Jon Rawski (Computational Linguistics)

Undergraduate Coordinator:

• Rula Khayrallah
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science and Linguistics
  • Data Science

Certificate Coordinators:

• Amith Kamath Belman (Fundamental AI Certificate)
• Maryam Khazaei (Advanced AI Certificate)
• Melody Moh (Cybersecurity Certificate)

** Dr. Abri will begin in the MSCS Graduate Coordinator role at the start of the Fall semester. During Summer sessions, the Department Chair serves as the Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinator.

Our faculty and students are engaged in projects and research in many areas of Computer Science. Read more about Student and Faculty Accomplishments.