
Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Simon Levy
Professor of Computer Science and Interim Department Head
- Parmly Hall 407B
- Email: levys@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8417
Levy teaches courses on artificial intelligence, neural networks, and robotics. His current research involves high-fidelity simulation of autonomous aerial vehicles (drones).
Sara Sprenkle
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Department Head
On Leave Winter 2025
- Parmly Hall 410
- Email: sprenkles@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8309
Sprenkle teaches courses in programming, software development, and upper-level electives in software engineering. Her research focuses on automatically testing web applications to make sure they are behaving properly.
Taha Khan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Parmly Hall 406
- Email: tkhan@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4861
Khan teaches Fundamentals of Programming II. His research focuses on computer security, privacy and human-computer interaction, including cybercrime, commercial VPN services privacy, and privacy-centric management of longitudinal data in the personal cloud.
Kefu Lu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Parmly Hall 412
- Email: klu@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8813
Lu teaches introductory computer science, courses in computer science theory, and upper-level electives in parallel computing and big data analysis from both a data science and computer science perspective. He researches how to best harness the power of complex systems.
Elizabeth Matthews
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Parmly Hall 408
- Email: lmatthews@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8811
Matthews’ research interests include video game design, measuring enjoyment of digital media, and procedural content generation. She teaches courses in programming, software development and video game design.
William Tolley
Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Parmly Hall 407A
- Email: wtolley@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8809
Emeritus Faculty
Kenneth Lambert
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Philosophy
Lambert taught courses in programming, software development and mobile application development. He was also a member of the Philosophy Department and taught courses on the philosophy of history and Hegel.
Staff
Carolyn Wingrove-Moore
Administrative Assistant
- Parmly Hall 407
- Email: wingrove-moorec@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8151
Department Info
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Department of Computer Science
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450