Assistant Teaching Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Biography
Dr. Maryam Farahmand-Asil joined the faculty of Northeastern in Silicon Valley in 2022. Her teaching expertise spans discrete and data structures, algorithms, and programming for data science. She is passionate about instilling a deep appreciation for mathematics and computer science in her students. Outside the classroom, Farahmand-Asil’s research is centered on computer science education, and she received the 2023 Khoury Teaching Innovation Award for an ongoing project that aims to enhance student engagement in computing courses.
Before joining Khoury College in 2022, Farahmand-Asil held positions as an assistant professor of mathematics at Mills College and a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was honored with the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award at UC Berkeley in 2016.
Education
- PhD in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), UC Berkeley
- MS in Mathematics (Analysis), Northeastern University
- MS in Mathematics (Graph Theory), University of Tehran
- BS in Mathematics, University of Tehran
