Smaranda Sandu
Lecturer in Computer Science
Interested in the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and human decision making, as well as improving science education and communication */
My research background is in epistemic modal logic and game theory, revolving around modeling human decision making under uncertainty.
Throughout my teaching, I aim to encourage students to engage deeply with the course material, bring their own perspectives and backgrounds into the discussions, and employ their curiosity, with the hopes of making learning as empowering a process as possible. This year, I'll be teaching CS230.
I'm interested in promoting STEM subjects, like Computer Science and Mathematics, and in increasing accessibility around both these subjects and the theory behind them, especially for female students. I'm also engaged in science communication projects, hosting a researcher interview podcast.
Current and upcoming courses
Theory of Computation
CS235
This course offers an introduction to the theory of computation. Topics include languages, regular expressions, finite automata, grammars, pushdown automata, and Turing machines. The first part of the course covers the Chomsky hierarchy of languages and their associated computational models. The second part of the course focuses on decidability issues and unsolvable problems. The final part of the course investigates complexity theory.