Khaled Bugrara
Teaching Professor and Executive Director,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs
Contact
- k.bugrara@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 512 DA
- 617.373.5424
About
Dr. Kal Bugrara is the Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs at Northeastern University.
Dr. Kal Bugrara holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. While at the University, he focused on algorithm design and backtrack search. Dr. Bugrara is the second generation of Donald Knuth, the father of computer science, and was an advisee of Paul Purdom. Dr. Bugrara has invented the COiN technique for extracting contract intelligence and new engineering techniques used for building eco-system scale applications.
Dr. Bugrara has over 25 years of experience in management and technology consulting for Fortune 100 companies. On one of his most recent projects, he served as the strategist for transforming the Canadian Imperial Bank’s Management Consulting Services into a world-class leadership university, the first of its kind. His strategy formulation and implementation processes have been the key determinant for the success of projects.
As Executive Director, he oversees the educational pursuits of over 1500 masters’ students in over 80 classes, and with over 40 full and part time faculty members. He has dedicated his career to studying, educating students from across the globe, and developing software engineering solutions to solve real-world software challenges that address the issues of society.
Selected Publications
- Mannai, Dhamir & Bugrara, Khaled. (1993). Enhancing Inter-Operability and Data Sharing In Medical Information Systems.. Sigmod Record. 22. 495-498. 10.1145/170036.170151.
- Bugrara, Khaled & Pan, Youfang & Purdom, Paul. (1989). Exponential Average Time for the Pure Literal Rule. SIAM J. Comput.. 18. 409-418. 10.1137/0218028.
- Bugrara, Khaled & Purdom, Paul. (1993). Average Time Analysis of Clause Order Backtracking. SIAM J. Comput.. 22. 303-317. 10.1137/0222023.
Aug 22, 2025
Building Sustainable Technology Solutions
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Bridging Technical Skills With Business Impact
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The Total MSIS Package: Courses, Mentoring, Co-op
Sai Kale joined the MS in information systems (MSIS) program in Spring 2020, immediately jumping into topics such as application engineering, web development, and user experience engineering. When asked why […]
Mar 16, 2021
MS in Information Systems Co-op as Business Intelligence Engineer at Dell Technologies
The MS in information systems program at Northeastern University always stood out to Jayshil Jain, MS’21, information systems, as being at the forefront of their domain by blending industry relevant […]
Oct 30, 2018
Increasing Cybersecurity Standards
A group of MS students from the Information Systems program are working on co-op with Granite Telecommunications to elevate U.S. cybersecurity standards.
May 05, 2015
COE Faculty and Staff Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2015 winners of the COE Faculty and Staff Awards: Outstanding Teachers of First Year Engineering Students Thomas Gilbert, Chemistry Joshua Hertz, Engineering Marco Rainho, Mathematics Swastik Kar, Physics […]
May 05, 2015
COE Faculty & Staff Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2015 winners of the COE Faculty and Staff Awards.