Department of Computer, Data, and Mathematical Sciences
The Department of Computer, Data, and Mathematical Sciences has a long history of preparing both traditional and nontraditional women students for successful careers and for graduate school.
Empowering our students in the field
We provide an environment that empowers women in mathematics, computer science, and statistics and helps them to realize their potential in those fields. Sensitive to varied learning styles as well as to the changing workplace, we use a range of teaching methods to address students' individual needs. These include cooperative learning groups, use of computer laboratory investigations, and independent learning, as well as traditional teacher-directed learning. An important focus in our curriculum is modeling and real-world applications.
Students will learn to think critically, logically, and abstractly and gain a strong theoretical foundation on which to build their understanding of current technologies—and to imagine new innovations. Through hands-on class projects, students experiment with the design and development of websites, databases, applications, software, and other technologies. Building bridges between communication and programming, design and technical abilities, these students go on to careers in a wide range of industries.
Simmons Language Lab (SLANG)
Simmons Language Lab is a collaborative center for work on computational linguistics at Simmons University. Ongoing research attempts to bridge the gap between human understanding and machine processing of natural language. In SLANG, Professors of Computer Science Nanette Veilleux and Amber Stubbs conducts research on both written and spoken text, including syntactic and semantic annotations, automated text processing, and studies in speech prosody.
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Computer, Data, and Mathematical Sciences Faculty and Staff
Our full-time faculty are leaders in their fields and mentors in the classroom.
Chair
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Amber Stubbs
Associate Professor and Chair of Computer, Data & Mathematical Sciences, and Undergraduate Computer Science & Informatics Program Director
Full-time Faculty
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Donna Beers
Professor
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Denise Carroll
Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of the Computer Science Complete Degree program
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Margaret Menzin
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics and Program Director of Mathematical Sciences
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Hong Pan
Assistant Professor
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Lauren Trichtinger
Assistant Professor
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Nanette Veilleux
Professor