{"id":7823,"date":"2024-11-12T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:37","slug":"the-school-of-computer-science-is-proud-to-welcome-three-new-faculty-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/the-school-of-computer-science-is-proud-to-welcome-three-new-faculty-members\/","title":{"rendered":"The School of Computer Science is proud to welcome three new faculty members!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The School of Computer Science is proud to welcome three new faculty members!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span lang=\"en-CA\">The School of Computer Science is proud to welcome three new faculty members.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alina-1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"en-CA\">Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/people\/alina-shaikhet-2\/\">Alina Shaikhet<\/a>, appointed as an Instructor, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carleton University. She is an expert in algorithms, computational geometry and visualization. In the upcoming academic year, she will be teaching computational thinking, discrete structures, Web applications and algorithms.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alexa-sharp-960.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"en-CA\">Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/people\/alexa-sharp\/\">Alexa Sharp<\/a> is joining us as an Instructor. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Her areas of expertise are theoretical computer science, including algorithmic game theory and combinatorial optimization. For her first year at Carleton, she will be teaching discrete structures and abstract data types.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/alan-tsang-800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"en-CA\">Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/people\/alan-tsang\/\">Alan Tsang<\/a> is a new Assistant Professor. He has obtained a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Waterloo. His research interests are artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, game theory, graph theory and social networks. He will be teaching computing, society and ethics and multiagent systems.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"en-CA\">Congratulations to Alina, Alexa and Alan for joining our faculty! Your experience and knowledge are a great addition to our school. Welcome on behalf of all the people in the School of Computer Science. We are looking forward to working with you.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michel Barbeau (Director of the School of Computer Science)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Computer Science is proud to welcome three new faculty members. Dr. Alina Shaikhet, appointed as an Instructor, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carleton University. She is an expert in algorithms, computational geometry and visualization. In the upcoming academic year, she will be teaching computational thinking, discrete structures, Web applications and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carleton-news","category-world-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}