Department Faculty
Alyce Brady
Ph. D., Rosemary K. Brown Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Phone: 269.337.7065
Email: Alyce.Brady@kzoo.edu
Office: 310 Olds/Upton Hall
You can find Alyce Brady’s office hours here.
Interests: Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Computer Science Education
Pam Cutter, Department Chair
Ph. D., Professor of Computer Science
Phone: 269.337.7064
Email: Pam.Cutter@kzoo.edu
Office: 203G Olds/Upton Hall
You can find Pam Cutter’s office hours here.
Interests: Computer Science Education, Computational Number Theory, Mobile Apps
Tasnim Gharaibeh
Ph.D., Bollinger Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Phone: 269.337.7526
Email: Tasnim.Gharaibeh@kzoo.edu
Office: 203F Olds/Upton Hall
You can find Tasnim Gharaibeh’s office hours here.
Interests: AI and Machine Learning Models, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, and Information Retrieval
On sabbatical for the Fall of 2025.
Nicholas Polanco
Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Phone: 269.337.7098
Email: Nicholas.Polanco@kzoo.edu
Office: 208A Olds/Upton Hall
You can find Nicholas Polanco’s office hours here.
Interests: Autonomous Vehicle, Formal Methods of Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Cybercrime
Sandino Vargas-Pérez
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science
Email: Sandino.VargasPerez@kzoo.edu
Office: 309 Olds/Upton Hall
You can find Sandino Vargas-Pérez’s office hours here.
Interests: High-Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, Computational Genomics, Data Structures and Compression
On sabbatical for the Winter and Spring of 2026.
Related Faculty and Staff
Peter Erdi
Ph. D., Henry R. Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies
Kristen Eldred
Office Coordinator