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At the Center for Inclusive Computing, we have gathered a team of leaders, domain experts, and staff to advise and enable our grant making, technical assistance, and data analysis.
We are committed to supporting universities across the country to ensure women are fully represented and thriving in undergraduate computing.
At the Center for Inclusive Computing, we have gathered a team of leaders, domain experts, and staff to advise and enable our grant making, technical assistance, and data analysis.
We are committed to supporting universities across the country to ensure women are fully represented and thriving in undergraduate computing.
At the Center for Inclusive Computing, we have gathered a team of leaders, domain experts, and staff to advise and enable our grant making, technical assistance, and data analysis.
We are committed to supporting universities across the country to ensure women are fully represented and thriving in undergraduate computing.
At the Center for Inclusive Computing, we have gathered a team of leaders, domain experts, and staff to advise and enable our grant making, technical assistance, and data analysis.
We are committed to supporting universities across the country to ensure women are fully represented and thriving in undergraduate computing.
Carla E. Brodley is the Dean of Inclusive Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. A $50M initiative, the CIC funds and advises universities in the United States to remove systemic barriers that prevent women of all races and ethnicities from discovering and persisting in computing. In this role, she works with presidents, provosts, deans and chairs at over 80 universities, raising money from government, corporations and philanthropists.
Previously, she served as Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences (2014-2021) and as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, serving as a senior advisor to President Aoun (2019-2021). Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a professor of the Department of Computer Science (2004-2014) and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center (2011-2014), and Chair of the Department of Computer Science (2010-2013) at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (1994-2004).
A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dean Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning research led to advances not only in computer science, but in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content- based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine.
Dean Brodley’s leadership positions include serving as program co-chair of International Conference on Machine Learning, co-chair of AAAI, and serving as associate editor of Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She served on the Defense Science Study Group, the board of the International Machine Learning Society, the AAAI Council, the executive committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Board, as a member-at-large of the Section on Information, Computing, and Communication of AAAS, and as a member of the advisory committee for the NSF’s CISE Directorate. Currently she serves on the boards/advisory councils of the Computing Research Association, Mass Technology Leadership Council, and the Jackson Laboratory (Vice Chair).
Catherine Gill oversees business development and strategic partnerships for Khoury College. She is also currently the managing director for the Align Master’s Program at Northeastern University. Align provides a direct path to a Master’s in Computer Science for non-computer science majors and people without programming experience.
Prior to assuming this role, Gill was Executive Vice President at Root Capital, a social enterprise that provides financing and advisory services to rural businesses in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. At Root Capital, she also played a leadership role in developing the Women in Agriculture Initiative, which has invested in more than one hundred gender-inclusive businesses across the globe. Gill holds a bilingual MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Wellesley College; and serves on the boards of the Partnership for Gender Equity and the Criterion Institute.
Megan Giordano is the Program Manager of Diagnostic Grants for the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, she held multiple roles in Khoury College of Computer Sciences, most recently as the Assistant Director of Student Services, creating and managing student success and engagement initiatives. She also served as an academic advisor for Khoury students. Megan earned a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University, a BS in mathematics education from Purdue University, and previously was a middle and high school math teacher.
Laura Herr is the Senior Portfolio Manager of Implementation Grants at the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, Laura held roles at Northeastern in the Chancellor’s Office and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Before moving into higher education, Laura worked in the art industry at galleries, auction houses, and art advisory firms. She earned her bachelor’s degree in History at Northeastern and is currently pursuing an MBA at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
LaToya Shuler is the CIC Program Coordinator, focusing on contracting, portfolio operations, and events. Before joining the CIC she worked in the Dean’s office at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and, most recently, was a member of the College’s Human Resources team overseeing online Teacher Assistant hiring. LaToya earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Springfield College. Prior to joining Northeastern, LaToya worked at UMass Boston where she was responsible for connecting students with the resources they needed to pursue their studies.
Carla E. Brodley is the Dean of Inclusive Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. A $50M initiative, the CIC funds and advises universities in the United States to remove systemic barriers that prevent women of all races and ethnicities from discovering and persisting in computing. In this role, she works with presidents, provosts, deans and chairs at over 80 universities, raising money from government, corporations and philanthropists.
Previously, she served as Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences (2014-2021) and as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, serving as a senior advisor to President Aoun (2019-2021). Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a professor of the Department of Computer Science (2004-2014) and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center (2011-2014), and Chair of the Department of Computer Science (2010-2013) at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (1994-2004).
A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dean Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning research led to advances not only in computer science, but in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content- based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine.
Dean Brodley’s leadership positions include serving as program co-chair of International Conference on Machine Learning, co-chair of AAAI, and serving as associate editor of Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She served on the Defense Science Study Group, the board of the International Machine Learning Society, the AAAI Council, the executive committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Board, as a member-at-large of the Section on Information, Computing, and Communication of AAAS, and as a member of the advisory committee for the NSF’s CISE Directorate. Currently she serves on the boards/advisory councils of the Computing Research Association, Mass Technology Leadership Council, and the Jackson Laboratory (Vice Chair).
Catherine Gill oversees business development and strategic partnerships for Khoury College. She is also currently the managing director for the Align Master’s Program at Northeastern University. Align provides a direct path to a Master’s in Computer Science for non-computer science majors and people without programming experience.
Prior to assuming this role, Gill was Executive Vice President at Root Capital, a social enterprise that provides financing and advisory services to rural businesses in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. At Root Capital, she also played a leadership role in developing the Women in Agriculture Initiative, which has invested in more than one hundred gender-inclusive businesses across the globe. Gill holds a bilingual MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Wellesley College; and serves on the boards of the Partnership for Gender Equity and the Criterion Institute.
Megan Giordano is the Program Manager of Diagnostic Grants for the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, she held multiple roles in Khoury College of Computer Sciences, most recently as the Assistant Director of Student Services, creating and managing student success and engagement initiatives. She also served as an academic advisor for Khoury students. Megan earned a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University, a BS in mathematics education from Purdue University, and previously was a middle and high school math teacher.
Laura Herr is the Senior Portfolio Manager of Implementation Grants at the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, Laura held roles at Northeastern in the Chancellor’s Office and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Before moving into higher education, Laura worked in the art industry at galleries, auction houses, and art advisory firms. She earned her bachelor’s degree in History at Northeastern and is currently pursuing an MBA at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
LaToya Shuler is the CIC Program Coordinator, focusing on contracting, portfolio operations, and events. Before joining the CIC she worked in the Dean’s office at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and, most recently, was a member of the College’s Human Resources team overseeing online Teacher Assistant hiring. LaToya earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Springfield College. Prior to joining Northeastern, LaToya worked at UMass Boston where she was responsible for connecting students with the resources they needed to pursue their studies.
Carla E. Brodley is the Dean of Inclusive Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. A $50M initiative, the CIC funds and advises universities in the United States to remove systemic barriers that prevent women of all races and ethnicities from discovering and persisting in computing. In this role, she works with presidents, provosts, deans and chairs at over 80 universities, raising money from government, corporations and philanthropists.
Previously, she served as Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences (2014-2021) and as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, serving as a senior advisor to President Aoun (2019-2021). Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a professor of the Department of Computer Science (2004-2014) and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center (2011-2014), and Chair of the Department of Computer Science (2010-2013) at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (1994-2004).
A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dean Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning research led to advances not only in computer science, but in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content- based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine.
Dean Brodley’s leadership positions include serving as program co-chair of International Conference on Machine Learning, co-chair of AAAI, and serving as associate editor of Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She served on the Defense Science Study Group, the board of the International Machine Learning Society, the AAAI Council, the executive committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Board, as a member-at-large of the Section on Information, Computing, and Communication of AAAS, and as a member of the advisory committee for the NSF’s CISE Directorate. Currently she serves on the boards/advisory councils of the Computing Research Association, Mass Technology Leadership Council, and the Jackson Laboratory (Vice Chair).
Catherine Gill oversees business development and strategic partnerships for Khoury College. She is also currently the managing director for the Align Master’s Program at Northeastern University. Align provides a direct path to a Master’s in Computer Science for non-computer science majors and people without programming experience.
Prior to assuming this role, Gill was Executive Vice President at Root Capital, a social enterprise that provides financing and advisory services to rural businesses in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. At Root Capital, she also played a leadership role in developing the Women in Agriculture Initiative, which has invested in more than one hundred gender-inclusive businesses across the globe. Gill holds a bilingual MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Wellesley College; and serves on the boards of the Partnership for Gender Equity and the Criterion Institute.
Megan Giordano is the Program Manager of Diagnostic Grants for the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, she held multiple roles in Khoury College of Computer Sciences, most recently as the Assistant Director of Student Services, creating and managing student success and engagement initiatives. She also served as an academic advisor for Khoury students. Megan earned a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University, a BS in mathematics education from Purdue University, and previously was a middle and high school math teacher.
Laura Herr is the Senior Portfolio Manager of Implementation Grants at the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, Laura held roles at Northeastern in the Chancellor’s Office and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Before moving into higher education, Laura worked in the art industry at galleries, auction houses, and art advisory firms. She earned her bachelor’s degree in History at Northeastern and is currently pursuing an MBA at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
LaToya Shuler is the CIC Program Coordinator, focusing on contracting, portfolio operations, and events. Before joining the CIC she worked in the Dean’s office at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and, most recently, was a member of the College’s Human Resources team overseeing online Teacher Assistant hiring. LaToya earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Springfield College. Prior to joining Northeastern, LaToya worked at UMass Boston where she was responsible for connecting students with the resources they needed to pursue their studies.
Carla E. Brodley is the Dean of Inclusive Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. A $50M initiative, the CIC funds and advises universities in the United States to remove systemic barriers that prevent women of all races and ethnicities from discovering and persisting in computing. In this role, she works with presidents, provosts, deans and chairs at over 80 universities, raising money from government, corporations and philanthropists.
Previously, she served as Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences (2014-2021) and as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, serving as a senior advisor to President Aoun (2019-2021). Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a professor of the Department of Computer Science (2004-2014) and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center (2011-2014), and Chair of the Department of Computer Science (2010-2013) at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (1994-2004).
A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dean Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning research led to advances not only in computer science, but in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content- based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine.
Dean Brodley’s leadership positions include serving as program co-chair of International Conference on Machine Learning, co-chair of AAAI, and serving as associate editor of Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She served on the Defense Science Study Group, the board of the International Machine Learning Society, the AAAI Council, the executive committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Board, as a member-at-large of the Section on Information, Computing, and Communication of AAAS, and as a member of the advisory committee for the NSF’s CISE Directorate. Currently she serves on the boards/advisory councils of the Computing Research Association, Mass Technology Leadership Council, and the Jackson Laboratory (Vice Chair).
Catherine Gill oversees business development and strategic partnerships for Khoury College. She is also currently the managing director for the Align Master’s Program at Northeastern University. Align provides a direct path to a Master’s in Computer Science for non-computer science majors and people without programming experience.
Prior to assuming this role, Gill was Executive Vice President at Root Capital, a social enterprise that provides financing and advisory services to rural businesses in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. At Root Capital, she also played a leadership role in developing the Women in Agriculture Initiative, which has invested in more than one hundred gender-inclusive businesses across the globe. Gill holds a bilingual MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Wellesley College; and serves on the boards of the Partnership for Gender Equity and the Criterion Institute.
Megan Giordano is the Program Manager of Diagnostic Grants for the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, she held multiple roles in Khoury College of Computer Sciences, most recently as the Assistant Director of Student Services, creating and managing student success and engagement initiatives. She also served as an academic advisor for Khoury students. Megan earned a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University, a BS in mathematics education from Purdue University, and previously was a middle and high school math teacher.
Laura Herr is the Senior Portfolio Manager of Implementation Grants at the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, Laura held roles at Northeastern in the Chancellor’s Office and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Before moving into higher education, Laura worked in the art industry at galleries, auction houses, and art advisory firms. She earned her bachelor’s degree in History at Northeastern and is currently pursuing an MBA at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
LaToya Shuler is the CIC Program Coordinator, focusing on contracting, portfolio operations, and events. Before joining the CIC she worked in the Dean’s office at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and, most recently, was a member of the College’s Human Resources team overseeing online Teacher Assistant hiring. LaToya earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Springfield College. Prior to joining Northeastern, LaToya worked at UMass Boston where she was responsible for connecting students with the resources they needed to pursue their studies.
Carla E. Brodley is the Dean of Inclusive Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. A $50M initiative, the CIC funds and advises universities in the United States to remove systemic barriers that prevent women of all races and ethnicities from discovering and persisting in computing. In this role, she works with presidents, provosts, deans and chairs at over 80 universities, raising money from government, corporations and philanthropists.
Previously, she served as Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences (2014-2021) and as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, serving as a senior advisor to President Aoun (2019-2021). Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a professor of the Department of Computer Science (2004-2014) and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center (2011-2014), and Chair of the Department of Computer Science (2010-2013) at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (1994-2004).
A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dean Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning research led to advances not only in computer science, but in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content- based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine.
Dean Brodley’s leadership positions include serving as program co-chair of International Conference on Machine Learning, co-chair of AAAI, and serving as associate editor of Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She served on the Defense Science Study Group, the board of the International Machine Learning Society, the AAAI Council, the executive committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Board, as a member-at-large of the Section on Information, Computing, and Communication of AAAS, and as a member of the advisory committee for the NSF’s CISE Directorate. Currently she serves on the boards/advisory councils of the Computing Research Association, Mass Technology Leadership Council, and the Jackson Laboratory (Vice Chair).
Catherine Gill oversees business development and strategic partnerships for Khoury College. She is also currently the managing director for the Align Master’s Program at Northeastern University. Align provides a direct path to a Master’s in Computer Science for non-computer science majors and people without programming experience.
Prior to assuming this role, Gill was Executive Vice President at Root Capital, a social enterprise that provides financing and advisory services to rural businesses in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. At Root Capital, she also played a leadership role in developing the Women in Agriculture Initiative, which has invested in more than one hundred gender-inclusive businesses across the globe. Gill holds a bilingual MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Wellesley College; and serves on the boards of the Partnership for Gender Equity and the Criterion Institute.
Megan Giordano is the Program Manager of Diagnostic Grants for the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, she held multiple roles in Khoury College of Computer Sciences, most recently as the Assistant Director of Student Services, creating and managing student success and engagement initiatives. She also served as an academic advisor for Khoury students. Megan earned a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University, a BS in mathematics education from Purdue University, and previously was a middle and high school math teacher.
Laura Herr is the Senior Portfolio Manager of Implementation Grants at the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, Laura held roles at Northeastern in the Chancellor’s Office and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Before moving into higher education, Laura worked in the art industry at galleries, auction houses, and art advisory firms. She earned her bachelor’s degree in History at Northeastern and is currently pursuing an MBA at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
LaToya Shuler is the CIC Program Coordinator, focusing on contracting, portfolio operations, and events. Before joining the CIC she worked in the Dean’s office at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and, most recently, was a member of the College’s Human Resources team overseeing online Teacher Assistant hiring. LaToya earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Springfield College. Prior to joining Northeastern, LaToya worked at UMass Boston where she was responsible for connecting students with the resources they needed to pursue their studies.
Carla E. Brodley is the Dean of Inclusive Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. A $50M initiative, the CIC funds and advises universities in the United States to remove systemic barriers that prevent women of all races and ethnicities from discovering and persisting in computing. In this role, she works with presidents, provosts, deans and chairs at over 80 universities, raising money from government, corporations and philanthropists.
Previously, she served as Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences (2014-2021) and as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, serving as a senior advisor to President Aoun (2019-2021). Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a professor of the Department of Computer Science (2004-2014) and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center (2011-2014), and Chair of the Department of Computer Science (2010-2013) at Tufts University. Before joining Tufts she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (1994-2004).
A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dean Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning research led to advances not only in computer science, but in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content- based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine.
Dean Brodley’s leadership positions include serving as program co-chair of International Conference on Machine Learning, co-chair of AAAI, and serving as associate editor of Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She served on the Defense Science Study Group, the board of the International Machine Learning Society, the AAAI Council, the executive committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Board, as a member-at-large of the Section on Information, Computing, and Communication of AAAS, and as a member of the advisory committee for the NSF’s CISE Directorate. Currently she serves on the boards/advisory councils of the Computing Research Association, Mass Technology Leadership Council, and the Jackson Laboratory (Vice Chair).
Catherine Gill oversees business development and strategic partnerships for Khoury College. She is also currently the managing director for the Align Master’s Program at Northeastern University. Align provides a direct path to a Master’s in Computer Science for non-computer science majors and people without programming experience.
Prior to assuming this role, Gill was Executive Vice President at Root Capital, a social enterprise that provides financing and advisory services to rural businesses in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. At Root Capital, she also played a leadership role in developing the Women in Agriculture Initiative, which has invested in more than one hundred gender-inclusive businesses across the globe. Gill holds a bilingual MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Wellesley College; and serves on the boards of the Partnership for Gender Equity and the Criterion Institute.
Megan Giordano is the Program Manager of Diagnostic Grants for the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, she held multiple roles in Khoury College of Computer Sciences, most recently as the Assistant Director of Student Services, creating and managing student success and engagement initiatives. She also served as an academic advisor for Khoury students. Megan earned a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University, a BS in mathematics education from Purdue University, and previously was a middle and high school math teacher.
Laura Herr is the Senior Portfolio Manager of Implementation Grants at the Center for Inclusive Computing. Prior to joining the Center, Laura held roles at Northeastern in the Chancellor’s Office and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Before moving into higher education, Laura worked in the art industry at galleries, auction houses, and art advisory firms. She earned her bachelor’s degree in History at Northeastern and is currently pursuing an MBA at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
LaToya Shuler is the CIC Program Coordinator, focusing on contracting, portfolio operations, and events. Before joining the CIC she worked in the Dean’s office at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and, most recently, was a member of the College’s Human Resources team overseeing online Teacher Assistant hiring. LaToya earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Springfield College. Prior to joining Northeastern, LaToya worked at UMass Boston where she was responsible for connecting students with the resources they needed to pursue their studies.
Program Managers and Technical Advisors are senior level computing faculty who have firsthand experience in implementing changes that have led to significant increases in representation of women in computing.
They are recruited from universities across the country to provide guidance, expertise, and support throughout the life of an Implementation Grant.
Program Managers and Technical Advisors are senior level computing faculty who have firsthand experience in implementing changes that have led to significant increases in representation of women in computing.
They are recruited from universities across the country to provide guidance, expertise, and support throughout the life of an Implementation Grant.
Program Managers and Technical Advisors are senior level computing faculty who have firsthand experience in implementing changes that have led to significant increases in representation of women in computing.
They are recruited from universities across the country to provide guidance, expertise, and support throughout the life of an Implementation Grant.
Program Managers and Technical Advisors are senior level computing faculty who have firsthand experience in implementing changes that have led to significant increases in representation of women in computing.
They are recruited from universities across the country to provide guidance, expertise, and support throughout the life of an Implementation Grant.
Christine Alvarado is a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department and Associate Dean for Students in the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Her current efforts are focused on designing curriculum and programs to make computing and computing education more accessible and appealing, with the specific goal of increasing the number of all women and Black, Latinx and Native American students who study computing. Her work is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation including a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and a CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) award and a Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) award. She has won several awards for her teaching and contributions to education including the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award (2013), the UC San Diego Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2017), the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2019), and in 2018 was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.
Dr. Alvarado received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Dartmouth in 1998, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from MIT in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is currently a member of the AP Computer Science Principles development committee and serves on the CRA’s Education committee. She previously served on the College Board’s commission to design the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles, as a co-chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance and as general co-chair for the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Shaundra B. Daily is an associate professor of the practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at Duke University. She is also co-founder and creative director of DEEP Designs, LLC. Prior to joining Duke, she was an associate professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. She also served as an associate professor and interim co-chair in the School of Computing at Clemson University. Dr. Daily’s research and teaching interests include: promoting alternative pathways to engage with computing in order to diversify the computing landscape and developing and integrating applications of affective computing into a variety of contexts. Dr. Daily earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University – Florida State University College of Engineering, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in media art and sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
Ed Lazowska is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
A long-time advocate for increasing participation in the field, he serves on the Executive Advisory Council of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; he served on the study committee that authored the Academies’ 2018 report on the impacts of sexual harassment in academia.
His scholarship concerns the design, implementation, and analysis of computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery. He also has been active on public policy issues, ranging from STEM education to Federal strategies for research and innovation. He is a Member and Councillor of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Jamie Payton is Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. Her research interests include pervasive computing systems for smart health and well-being, broadening participation in computing, and evidence-based approaches to improving computer science education. She is the Director of the STARS Computing Corps, a national alliance with the mission to broaden participation of groups that are underrepresented in computing. With support from the National Science Foundation, the STARS Computing Corps operates as a community of practice that engages computing faculty and students at institutions of higher education (IHEs) with a shared commitment to take action to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. STARS has engaged more than 50 colleges and universities in projects designed to promote persistence by connecting computing to community and societal impacts, reinforcing computing knowledge through teaching and practice, and developing professional, entrepreneurial, and creative skills. STARS student members have positive gains in GPA, self-efficacy, computing identity, and commitment to computing, with enhanced outcomes for women, African American/Black, and Hispanic/Latinx students.
Through her work with STARS, Payton has also helped to foster an academic community centered around broadening participation in computing through the annual STARS Celebration conference, which builds capacity for students and faculty through education and ignites action for adoption of evidence-based BPC practices, and as a co-founder of the IEEE STCBP RESPECT research conference, which advances peer-reviewed scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. Payton is also a founding member of the Connected Learner project, which aims to revolutionize undergraduate computer science education by connecting students to peers, connecting students to the profession, and connecting computing to a purpose and by transforming faculty classroom practices and departmental culture to emphasize inclusive pedagogy.
Lori Pollock is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on code and software artifact analysis for software evolution and maintenance, software testing, energy-efficient software, and computer science education. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, well known for her research to help programmers maintain correct software as it evolves over time, by automating tedious, error-prone program analyses that provides useful information for searching, understanding, and testing programs.
She is noted for her national, state, and university leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as an active board member of the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) since 2001 and was the Co-Chair from 2005-2009. In those roles, she has organized and participated in many mentoring workshops for graduate students, faculty, and industry researchers of underrepresented groups in computing. She was on the board when CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Public Service Award by the National Science Board in 2005, and when the CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in 2004. She also currently serves as Co-Chair of CRA Committee on Education (CRA-E) where she has co-led activities to broaden the undergraduate research pipeline and supporting teaching track faculty. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s E. A. Trabant Award for Women’s Equity, and College of Engineering Deans Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement.
Dr. Pollock has led significant efforts in undergraduate research mentoring, computer science education research, and K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Award, UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and NCWIT Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Her NSF-funded University of Delaware Partner4CS team has partnered with the Delaware Dept of Education since 2012, organizing annual teacher professional development in CS, developing a service-learning, field experience course that partners undergraduates with practicing teachers for ongoing support and expanding this model to other institutions, growing a statewide community dedicated to CS for All by establishing strong partnerships with school districts, teachers, policy makers and STEM leaders at the state level; and influencing policy changes at the state level to broaden participation in CS. She also has co-led a project to broaden participation in computational thinking through supporting faculty in various disciplines in adapting courses to integrate CS into their discipline-specific courses.
Christine Alvarado is a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department and Associate Dean for Students in the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Her current efforts are focused on designing curriculum and programs to make computing and computing education more accessible and appealing, with the specific goal of increasing the number of all women and Black, Latinx and Native American students who study computing. Her work is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation including a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and a CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) award and a Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) award. She has won several awards for her teaching and contributions to education including the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award (2013), the UC San Diego Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2017), the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2019), and in 2018 was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.
Dr. Alvarado received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Dartmouth in 1998, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from MIT in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is currently a member of the AP Computer Science Principles development committee and serves on the CRA’s Education committee. She previously served on the College Board’s commission to design the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles, as a co-chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance and as general co-chair for the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Shaundra B. Daily is an associate professor of the practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at Duke University. She is also co-founder and creative director of DEEP Designs, LLC. Prior to joining Duke, she was an associate professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. She also served as an associate professor and interim co-chair in the School of Computing at Clemson University. Dr. Daily’s research and teaching interests include: promoting alternative pathways to engage with computing in order to diversify the computing landscape and developing and integrating applications of affective computing into a variety of contexts. Dr. Daily earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University – Florida State University College of Engineering, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in media art and sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
Ed Lazowska is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
A long-time advocate for increasing participation in the field, he serves on the Executive Advisory Council of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; he served on the study committee that authored the Academies’ 2018 report on the impacts of sexual harassment in academia.
His scholarship concerns the design, implementation, and analysis of computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery. He also has been active on public policy issues, ranging from STEM education to Federal strategies for research and innovation. He is a Member and Councillor of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Jamie Payton is Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. Her research interests include pervasive computing systems for smart health and well-being, broadening participation in computing, and evidence-based approaches to improving computer science education. She is the Director of the STARS Computing Corps, a national alliance with the mission to broaden participation of groups that are underrepresented in computing. With support from the National Science Foundation, the STARS Computing Corps operates as a community of practice that engages computing faculty and students at institutions of higher education (IHEs) with a shared commitment to take action to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. STARS has engaged more than 50 colleges and universities in projects designed to promote persistence by connecting computing to community and societal impacts, reinforcing computing knowledge through teaching and practice, and developing professional, entrepreneurial, and creative skills. STARS student members have positive gains in GPA, self-efficacy, computing identity, and commitment to computing, with enhanced outcomes for women, African American/Black, and Hispanic/Latinx students.
Through her work with STARS, Payton has also helped to foster an academic community centered around broadening participation in computing through the annual STARS Celebration conference, which builds capacity for students and faculty through education and ignites action for adoption of evidence-based BPC practices, and as a co-founder of the IEEE STCBP RESPECT research conference, which advances peer-reviewed scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. Payton is also a founding member of the Connected Learner project, which aims to revolutionize undergraduate computer science education by connecting students to peers, connecting students to the profession, and connecting computing to a purpose and by transforming faculty classroom practices and departmental culture to emphasize inclusive pedagogy.
Lori Pollock is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on code and software artifact analysis for software evolution and maintenance, software testing, energy-efficient software, and computer science education. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, well known for her research to help programmers maintain correct software as it evolves over time, by automating tedious, error-prone program analyses that provides useful information for searching, understanding, and testing programs.
She is noted for her national, state, and university leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as an active board member of the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) since 2001 and was the Co-Chair from 2005-2009. In those roles, she has organized and participated in many mentoring workshops for graduate students, faculty, and industry researchers of underrepresented groups in computing. She was on the board when CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Public Service Award by the National Science Board in 2005, and when the CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in 2004. She also currently serves as Co-Chair of CRA Committee on Education (CRA-E) where she has co-led activities to broaden the undergraduate research pipeline and supporting teaching track faculty. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s E. A. Trabant Award for Women’s Equity, and College of Engineering Deans Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement.
Dr. Pollock has led significant efforts in undergraduate research mentoring, computer science education research, and K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Award, UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and NCWIT Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Her NSF-funded University of Delaware Partner4CS team has partnered with the Delaware Dept of Education since 2012, organizing annual teacher professional development in CS, developing a service-learning, field experience course that partners undergraduates with practicing teachers for ongoing support and expanding this model to other institutions, growing a statewide community dedicated to CS for All by establishing strong partnerships with school districts, teachers, policy makers and STEM leaders at the state level; and influencing policy changes at the state level to broaden participation in CS. She also has co-led a project to broaden participation in computational thinking through supporting faculty in various disciplines in adapting courses to integrate CS into their discipline-specific courses.
Christine Alvarado is a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department and Associate Dean for Students in the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Her current efforts are focused on designing curriculum and programs to make computing and computing education more accessible and appealing, with the specific goal of increasing the number of all women and Black, Latinx and Native American students who study computing. Her work is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation including a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and a CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) award and a Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) award. She has won several awards for her teaching and contributions to education including the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award (2013), the UC San Diego Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2017), the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2019), and in 2018 was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.
Dr. Alvarado received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Dartmouth in 1998, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from MIT in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is currently a member of the AP Computer Science Principles development committee and serves on the CRA’s Education committee. She previously served on the College Board’s commission to design the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles, as a co-chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance and as general co-chair for the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Shaundra B. Daily is an associate professor of the practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at Duke University. She is also co-founder and creative director of DEEP Designs, LLC. Prior to joining Duke, she was an associate professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. She also served as an associate professor and interim co-chair in the School of Computing at Clemson University. Dr. Daily’s research and teaching interests include: promoting alternative pathways to engage with computing in order to diversify the computing landscape and developing and integrating applications of affective computing into a variety of contexts. Dr. Daily earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University – Florida State University College of Engineering, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in media art and sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
Ed Lazowska is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
A long-time advocate for increasing participation in the field, he serves on the Executive Advisory Council of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; he served on the study committee that authored the Academies’ 2018 report on the impacts of sexual harassment in academia.
His scholarship concerns the design, implementation, and analysis of computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery. He also has been active on public policy issues, ranging from STEM education to Federal strategies for research and innovation. He is a Member and Councillor of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Jamie Payton is Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. Her research interests include pervasive computing systems for smart health and well-being, broadening participation in computing, and evidence-based approaches to improving computer science education. She is the Director of the STARS Computing Corps, a national alliance with the mission to broaden participation of groups that are underrepresented in computing. With support from the National Science Foundation, the STARS Computing Corps operates as a community of practice that engages computing faculty and students at institutions of higher education (IHEs) with a shared commitment to take action to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. STARS has engaged more than 50 colleges and universities in projects designed to promote persistence by connecting computing to community and societal impacts, reinforcing computing knowledge through teaching and practice, and developing professional, entrepreneurial, and creative skills. STARS student members have positive gains in GPA, self-efficacy, computing identity, and commitment to computing, with enhanced outcomes for women, African American/Black, and Hispanic/Latinx students.
Through her work with STARS, Payton has also helped to foster an academic community centered around broadening participation in computing through the annual STARS Celebration conference, which builds capacity for students and faculty through education and ignites action for adoption of evidence-based BPC practices, and as a co-founder of the IEEE STCBP RESPECT research conference, which advances peer-reviewed scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. Payton is also a founding member of the Connected Learner project, which aims to revolutionize undergraduate computer science education by connecting students to peers, connecting students to the profession, and connecting computing to a purpose and by transforming faculty classroom practices and departmental culture to emphasize inclusive pedagogy.
Lori Pollock is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on code and software artifact analysis for software evolution and maintenance, software testing, energy-efficient software, and computer science education. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, well known for her research to help programmers maintain correct software as it evolves over time, by automating tedious, error-prone program analyses that provides useful information for searching, understanding, and testing programs.
She is noted for her national, state, and university leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as an active board member of the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) since 2001 and was the Co-Chair from 2005-2009. In those roles, she has organized and participated in many mentoring workshops for graduate students, faculty, and industry researchers of underrepresented groups in computing. She was on the board when CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Public Service Award by the National Science Board in 2005, and when the CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in 2004. She also currently serves as Co-Chair of CRA Committee on Education (CRA-E) where she has co-led activities to broaden the undergraduate research pipeline and supporting teaching track faculty. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s E. A. Trabant Award for Women’s Equity, and College of Engineering Deans Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement.
Dr. Pollock has led significant efforts in undergraduate research mentoring, computer science education research, and K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Award, UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and NCWIT Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Her NSF-funded University of Delaware Partner4CS team has partnered with the Delaware Dept of Education since 2012, organizing annual teacher professional development in CS, developing a service-learning, field experience course that partners undergraduates with practicing teachers for ongoing support and expanding this model to other institutions, growing a statewide community dedicated to CS for All by establishing strong partnerships with school districts, teachers, policy makers and STEM leaders at the state level; and influencing policy changes at the state level to broaden participation in CS. She also has co-led a project to broaden participation in computational thinking through supporting faculty in various disciplines in adapting courses to integrate CS into their discipline-specific courses.
Christine Alvarado is a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department and Associate Dean for Students in the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Her current efforts are focused on designing curriculum and programs to make computing and computing education more accessible and appealing, with the specific goal of increasing the number of all women and Black, Latinx and Native American students who study computing. Her work is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation including a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and a CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) award and a Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) award. She has won several awards for her teaching and contributions to education including the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award (2013), the UC San Diego Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2017), the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2019), and in 2018 was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.
Dr. Alvarado received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Dartmouth in 1998, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from MIT in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is currently a member of the AP Computer Science Principles development committee and serves on the CRA’s Education committee. She previously served on the College Board’s commission to design the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles, as a co-chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance and as general co-chair for the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Shaundra B. Daily is an associate professor of the practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at Duke University. She is also co-founder and creative director of DEEP Designs, LLC. Prior to joining Duke, she was an associate professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. She also served as an associate professor and interim co-chair in the School of Computing at Clemson University. Dr. Daily’s research and teaching interests include: promoting alternative pathways to engage with computing in order to diversify the computing landscape and developing and integrating applications of affective computing into a variety of contexts. Dr. Daily earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University – Florida State University College of Engineering, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in media art and sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
Ed Lazowska is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
A long-time advocate for increasing participation in the field, he serves on the Executive Advisory Council of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; he served on the study committee that authored the Academies’ 2018 report on the impacts of sexual harassment in academia.
His scholarship concerns the design, implementation, and analysis of computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery. He also has been active on public policy issues, ranging from STEM education to Federal strategies for research and innovation. He is a Member and Councillor of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Jamie Payton is Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. Her research interests include pervasive computing systems for smart health and well-being, broadening participation in computing, and evidence-based approaches to improving computer science education. She is the Director of the STARS Computing Corps, a national alliance with the mission to broaden participation of groups that are underrepresented in computing. With support from the National Science Foundation, the STARS Computing Corps operates as a community of practice that engages computing faculty and students at institutions of higher education (IHEs) with a shared commitment to take action to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. STARS has engaged more than 50 colleges and universities in projects designed to promote persistence by connecting computing to community and societal impacts, reinforcing computing knowledge through teaching and practice, and developing professional, entrepreneurial, and creative skills. STARS student members have positive gains in GPA, self-efficacy, computing identity, and commitment to computing, with enhanced outcomes for women, African American/Black, and Hispanic/Latinx students.
Through her work with STARS, Payton has also helped to foster an academic community centered around broadening participation in computing through the annual STARS Celebration conference, which builds capacity for students and faculty through education and ignites action for adoption of evidence-based BPC practices, and as a co-founder of the IEEE STCBP RESPECT research conference, which advances peer-reviewed scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. Payton is also a founding member of the Connected Learner project, which aims to revolutionize undergraduate computer science education by connecting students to peers, connecting students to the profession, and connecting computing to a purpose and by transforming faculty classroom practices and departmental culture to emphasize inclusive pedagogy.
Lori Pollock is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on code and software artifact analysis for software evolution and maintenance, software testing, energy-efficient software, and computer science education. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, well known for her research to help programmers maintain correct software as it evolves over time, by automating tedious, error-prone program analyses that provides useful information for searching, understanding, and testing programs.
She is noted for her national, state, and university leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as an active board member of the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) since 2001 and was the Co-Chair from 2005-2009. In those roles, she has organized and participated in many mentoring workshops for graduate students, faculty, and industry researchers of underrepresented groups in computing. She was on the board when CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Public Service Award by the National Science Board in 2005, and when the CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in 2004. She also currently serves as Co-Chair of CRA Committee on Education (CRA-E) where she has co-led activities to broaden the undergraduate research pipeline and supporting teaching track faculty. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s E. A. Trabant Award for Women’s Equity, and College of Engineering Deans Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement.
Dr. Pollock has led significant efforts in undergraduate research mentoring, computer science education research, and K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Award, UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and NCWIT Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Her NSF-funded University of Delaware Partner4CS team has partnered with the Delaware Dept of Education since 2012, organizing annual teacher professional development in CS, developing a service-learning, field experience course that partners undergraduates with practicing teachers for ongoing support and expanding this model to other institutions, growing a statewide community dedicated to CS for All by establishing strong partnerships with school districts, teachers, policy makers and STEM leaders at the state level; and influencing policy changes at the state level to broaden participation in CS. She also has co-led a project to broaden participation in computational thinking through supporting faculty in various disciplines in adapting courses to integrate CS into their discipline-specific courses.
Christine Alvarado is a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department and Associate Dean for Students in the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Her current efforts are focused on designing curriculum and programs to make computing and computing education more accessible and appealing, with the specific goal of increasing the number of all women and Black, Latinx and Native American students who study computing. Her work is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation including a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and a CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) award and a Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) award. She has won several awards for her teaching and contributions to education including the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award (2013), the UC San Diego Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2017), the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2019), and in 2018 was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.
Dr. Alvarado received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Dartmouth in 1998, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from MIT in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is currently a member of the AP Computer Science Principles development committee and serves on the CRA’s Education committee. She previously served on the College Board’s commission to design the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles, as a co-chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance and as general co-chair for the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Shaundra B. Daily is an associate professor of the practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at Duke University. She is also co-founder and creative director of DEEP Designs, LLC. Prior to joining Duke, she was an associate professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. She also served as an associate professor and interim co-chair in the School of Computing at Clemson University. Dr. Daily’s research and teaching interests include: promoting alternative pathways to engage with computing in order to diversify the computing landscape and developing and integrating applications of affective computing into a variety of contexts. Dr. Daily earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University – Florida State University College of Engineering, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in media art and sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
Ed Lazowska is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
A long-time advocate for increasing participation in the field, he serves on the Executive Advisory Council of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; he served on the study committee that authored the Academies’ 2018 report on the impacts of sexual harassment in academia.
His scholarship concerns the design, implementation, and analysis of computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery. He also has been active on public policy issues, ranging from STEM education to Federal strategies for research and innovation. He is a Member and Councillor of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Jamie Payton is Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. Her research interests include pervasive computing systems for smart health and well-being, broadening participation in computing, and evidence-based approaches to improving computer science education. She is the Director of the STARS Computing Corps, a national alliance with the mission to broaden participation of groups that are underrepresented in computing. With support from the National Science Foundation, the STARS Computing Corps operates as a community of practice that engages computing faculty and students at institutions of higher education (IHEs) with a shared commitment to take action to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. STARS has engaged more than 50 colleges and universities in projects designed to promote persistence by connecting computing to community and societal impacts, reinforcing computing knowledge through teaching and practice, and developing professional, entrepreneurial, and creative skills. STARS student members have positive gains in GPA, self-efficacy, computing identity, and commitment to computing, with enhanced outcomes for women, African American/Black, and Hispanic/Latinx students.
Through her work with STARS, Payton has also helped to foster an academic community centered around broadening participation in computing through the annual STARS Celebration conference, which builds capacity for students and faculty through education and ignites action for adoption of evidence-based BPC practices, and as a co-founder of the IEEE STCBP RESPECT research conference, which advances peer-reviewed scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. Payton is also a founding member of the Connected Learner project, which aims to revolutionize undergraduate computer science education by connecting students to peers, connecting students to the profession, and connecting computing to a purpose and by transforming faculty classroom practices and departmental culture to emphasize inclusive pedagogy.
Lori Pollock is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on code and software artifact analysis for software evolution and maintenance, software testing, energy-efficient software, and computer science education. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, well known for her research to help programmers maintain correct software as it evolves over time, by automating tedious, error-prone program analyses that provides useful information for searching, understanding, and testing programs.
She is noted for her national, state, and university leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as an active board member of the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) since 2001 and was the Co-Chair from 2005-2009. In those roles, she has organized and participated in many mentoring workshops for graduate students, faculty, and industry researchers of underrepresented groups in computing. She was on the board when CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Public Service Award by the National Science Board in 2005, and when the CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in 2004. She also currently serves as Co-Chair of CRA Committee on Education (CRA-E) where she has co-led activities to broaden the undergraduate research pipeline and supporting teaching track faculty. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s E. A. Trabant Award for Women’s Equity, and College of Engineering Deans Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement.
Dr. Pollock has led significant efforts in undergraduate research mentoring, computer science education research, and K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Award, UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and NCWIT Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Her NSF-funded University of Delaware Partner4CS team has partnered with the Delaware Dept of Education since 2012, organizing annual teacher professional development in CS, developing a service-learning, field experience course that partners undergraduates with practicing teachers for ongoing support and expanding this model to other institutions, growing a statewide community dedicated to CS for All by establishing strong partnerships with school districts, teachers, policy makers and STEM leaders at the state level; and influencing policy changes at the state level to broaden participation in CS. She also has co-led a project to broaden participation in computational thinking through supporting faculty in various disciplines in adapting courses to integrate CS into their discipline-specific courses.
Christine Alvarado is a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department and Associate Dean for Students in the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Her current efforts are focused on designing curriculum and programs to make computing and computing education more accessible and appealing, with the specific goal of increasing the number of all women and Black, Latinx and Native American students who study computing. Her work is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation including a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and a CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) award and a Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) award. She has won several awards for her teaching and contributions to education including the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award (2013), the UC San Diego Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2017), the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2019), and in 2018 was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.
Dr. Alvarado received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Dartmouth in 1998, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from MIT in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is currently a member of the AP Computer Science Principles development committee and serves on the CRA’s Education committee. She previously served on the College Board’s commission to design the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles, as a co-chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance and as general co-chair for the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Shaundra B. Daily is an associate professor of the practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at Duke University. She is also co-founder and creative director of DEEP Designs, LLC. Prior to joining Duke, she was an associate professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. She also served as an associate professor and interim co-chair in the School of Computing at Clemson University. Dr. Daily’s research and teaching interests include: promoting alternative pathways to engage with computing in order to diversify the computing landscape and developing and integrating applications of affective computing into a variety of contexts. Dr. Daily earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University – Florida State University College of Engineering, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in media art and sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
Ed Lazowska is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
A long-time advocate for increasing participation in the field, he serves on the Executive Advisory Council of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; he served on the study committee that authored the Academies’ 2018 report on the impacts of sexual harassment in academia.
His scholarship concerns the design, implementation, and analysis of computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery. He also has been active on public policy issues, ranging from STEM education to Federal strategies for research and innovation. He is a Member and Councillor of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Jamie Payton is Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. Her research interests include pervasive computing systems for smart health and well-being, broadening participation in computing, and evidence-based approaches to improving computer science education. She is the Director of the STARS Computing Corps, a national alliance with the mission to broaden participation of groups that are underrepresented in computing. With support from the National Science Foundation, the STARS Computing Corps operates as a community of practice that engages computing faculty and students at institutions of higher education (IHEs) with a shared commitment to take action to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. STARS has engaged more than 50 colleges and universities in projects designed to promote persistence by connecting computing to community and societal impacts, reinforcing computing knowledge through teaching and practice, and developing professional, entrepreneurial, and creative skills. STARS student members have positive gains in GPA, self-efficacy, computing identity, and commitment to computing, with enhanced outcomes for women, African American/Black, and Hispanic/Latinx students.
Through her work with STARS, Payton has also helped to foster an academic community centered around broadening participation in computing through the annual STARS Celebration conference, which builds capacity for students and faculty through education and ignites action for adoption of evidence-based BPC practices, and as a co-founder of the IEEE STCBP RESPECT research conference, which advances peer-reviewed scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing. Payton is also a founding member of the Connected Learner project, which aims to revolutionize undergraduate computer science education by connecting students to peers, connecting students to the profession, and connecting computing to a purpose and by transforming faculty classroom practices and departmental culture to emphasize inclusive pedagogy.
Lori Pollock is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on code and software artifact analysis for software evolution and maintenance, software testing, energy-efficient software, and computer science education. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, well known for her research to help programmers maintain correct software as it evolves over time, by automating tedious, error-prone program analyses that provides useful information for searching, understanding, and testing programs.
She is noted for her national, state, and university leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as an active board member of the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) since 2001 and was the Co-Chair from 2005-2009. In those roles, she has organized and participated in many mentoring workshops for graduate students, faculty, and industry researchers of underrepresented groups in computing. She was on the board when CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Public Service Award by the National Science Board in 2005, and when the CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in 2004. She also currently serves as Co-Chair of CRA Committee on Education (CRA-E) where she has co-led activities to broaden the undergraduate research pipeline and supporting teaching track faculty. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s E. A. Trabant Award for Women’s Equity, and College of Engineering Deans Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement.
Dr. Pollock has led significant efforts in undergraduate research mentoring, computer science education research, and K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Award, UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and NCWIT Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Her NSF-funded University of Delaware Partner4CS team has partnered with the Delaware Dept of Education since 2012, organizing annual teacher professional development in CS, developing a service-learning, field experience course that partners undergraduates with practicing teachers for ongoing support and expanding this model to other institutions, growing a statewide community dedicated to CS for All by establishing strong partnerships with school districts, teachers, policy makers and STEM leaders at the state level; and influencing policy changes at the state level to broaden participation in CS. She also has co-led a project to broaden participation in computational thinking through supporting faculty in various disciplines in adapting courses to integrate CS into their discipline-specific courses.
Dr. Melissa Dark is committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education in the United States. She has worked in this area for the past 20 years where she has been fortunate to lead a number of creative and impactful projects ranging from studying the effect of various representational forms on cryptography learning and neural connections to developing cybersecurity concepts lessons for integration into the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles high school course. Her early work in cybersecurity education focused on the graduate level and has progressively grown down to community college, and now high school, in response to two needs: robust cybersecurity literacy among all cybercitizens and closing the cybersecurity workforce gap. In 2015, she founded DARK Enterprises, Inc., a non-profit which advances the mission of developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education initiatives in the United States.
Dr. Jenny Daugherty is a Research and Curriculum Lead for DARK Enterprises, Inc. Jenny has over 15 years of experience in K-12 STEM education with expertise in curriculum development, teacher professional development, and educational research and evaluation. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects in the fields of Cybersecurity, Science, Technology, and Engineering education. Jenny earned her doctoral degree in Human Resource Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she was awarded a doctoral fellowship with the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education. Prior to her position with DARK Enterprises, she worked at Purdue University, where she earned tenure as an Associate Professor, and at Louisiana State University, where she served as the Leadership Development Institute Director.
Nate Derbinsky is Assistant Dean for Teaching Faculty at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is part of the Center’s technical assistance capacity.
Teaching is his passion, and developing and delivering quality computer science education content is his mission. He has been involved in teaching computer science for nearly 20 years, including at the K-12, college, and graduate levels. He constantly seeks new ways to make complex computer science topics accessible and help an increasingly diverse group understand how fun and transformative computing can be. He has recently dipped his toes in the waters of computer science education, investigating effective methods of service learning and grad-school preparation.
Derbinsky has a strong personal interest in applying technologies that scale to solve important problems in the world. In 1998 he founded BitX Solutions, a small corporation based in North Carolina. For 11 years, Derbinsky led software-development teams to track evidence for law-enforcement agencies, manage supplies at food banks, provide diagnostic training for neurology interns, and supply comprehensive web-based fellowship/scholarship advising for thousands of students and faculty members at two universities. Derbinsky has also served as a volunteer teacher and technology consultant for Powering Potential, an NGO that uses technology to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes in rural Tanzania.
Derbinsky’s research interests combine artificial intelligence, optimization, machine learning, and database systems.
Albert Lionelle is the director of Align Online, and associate teaching professor at Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He teaches a variety of courses online, focusing on improving online pedagogy and course delivery.
Before working at Khoury, he worked for Colorado State University in a variety of roles including academic success coordinate, instructor, director of undergraduate advising and education for computer science, and curriculum specialist. Throughout those roles, he has experienced computer science though both advising and instruction. During his years there he helped redesign the course prerequisite structure, develop the program into multiple concentrations including the ability for students to focus in CS+x, built a CS0 course focusing on inclusive culture and programing that was the first course in the State of Colorado to be accepted into the guaranteed transfer agreement for the state, built the CSU Online – CS degree programs for undergraduate students, and worked with the state and other universities to formalize a state wide transfer agreement between community collages and the state universities.
His primary focus of research is CS Education, focusing in course pedagogy and inclusive design. He built the spiral model pedagogy for computer science 1 based on the principles of memory and recall, improving both retention and performance of students. He is currently looking at grading policies and curriculum barriers.
Briana Morrison is an Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty in Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, Briana worked for IBM for 8 years as a software developer and then transitioned to academia. She was an Assistant Professor at Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) for 20 years in the Computer Science department. She was the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Computer Science and Software Engineering programs, helped to found the Computer Game Design and Development degree program, and served as the lead for 2 successful ABET accreditation visits. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master’s in Computer Science, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. She also was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha for 5 years where she taught programming courses and classes in the Masters of Computer Science Education Program. She has served on the ACM SIGCSE Board and the ACM Education Committee and is co-editor of EngageCSEdu. Her research area is Computer Science Education where she explores cognitive load theory within programming, broadening participation in computing and expanding and preparing computing high school teachers.
Monique Ross, Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on broadening participation in computing by exploring: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She earned a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University, M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College. Before joining OSU she was a tenured professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University.
As the assistant dean of University College at IUPUI, Matthew Rust leads the development, implementation, and assessment of campus-wide programs designed to foster the access and academic achievement of students with a focus on retention. Rust’s portfolio includes 20 programs in the areas of advising and career education (first year advising, career exploration, student employment, internship programs, transfer and adult students), transition and mentoring (orientation, tutoring, success coaching, first year seminar mentoring), and educational equity programs (diversity enrichment and achievement, state aid program, TRIO programs, and independent youth). Rust also serves as PI on the JP Morgan Chase New Skills Ready Network grant, overseeing pathway alignment and articulation improvements between IUPUI, the Indianapolis Public School System, and Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis.
Prior to his current appointment, Rust served in a variety of related roles at IUPUI and North Carolina State University. At IUPUI, he worked as the director of student affairs for the School of Science from 2012 to 2014, before joining the Division of Undergraduate Education as the inaugural director of Campus Career and Advising Services in 2014. Rust has taught first year seminars and undergraduate courses in employment law as an adjunct faculty member throughout his time at IUPUI. During his time at North Carolina State University’s University College, Rust held a Lecturer appointment teaching first year seminars, career exploration, and mentoring classes. He also served as an academic adviser and then Assistant Director leading the College’s recruitment and outcomes assessment efforts.
Beyond these roles, Rust has authored publications and delivered numerous conference presentations related to student success, advising, career development, and legal issues in higher education. Outside the university, Rust has served on the NACADA Journal’s editorial board and as a board member and officer for Indiana INTERNnet, a statewide nonprofit connecting employers to early talent. Rust currently serves on the governing board for the Institute for Workforce Excellence based at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and he serves on the EmployIndy Workforce Investment Board.
Elena (Laney) Strange is the director of broadening participation and an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She teaches across the undergraduate curriculum, as well as in the Align program, which allows students with bachelor’s degrees in fields beyond computer science to pursue a master’s degree.
After receiving her doctorate from Dartmouth College, she began working as a senior software engineer for Amazon Web Services. After Amazon, she became the product director for TechSoup Global, an international nonprofit that builds software for social change instigators worldwide
In addition to her position at Northeastern, Strange is a passionate advocate for underrepresented groups in computer science. She is fond of teaching Women’s Community of Code programming workshops that empower girls, women, and even local Girl Scout troops.
Elizabeth Zulick, PhD, MPH is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Lowell Institute School. Additionally, Dr. Zulick serves lead faculty for the Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Programs and Faculty Director for the Healthcare, Biotechnology, Regulatory and Quality Domain, which includes certificate, undergraduate, masters and doctoral degree programs in the College of Professional Studies. In these roles, Dr. Zulick is responsible for curriculum design, review and implementation, including learning outcome development, program-wide assessment, and development of new, industry-aligned courses, badges, programs and certificates. In addition, she leads local community college outreach and program alignment, and cultivates relationships with local companies to create learning opportunities for students. Dr. Zulick works closely with colleagues within the college, university and across New England to create access to quality STEM education for all learners, increase student retention and graduation rates, and create pathways to high-quality jobs for our diverse learner population.
Dr. Zulick serves as the Associate Dean for Research, Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship for the college. In this role, she supports faculty in exploring and applying for research and development opportunities and highlighting the research of our faculty members externally.
Dr. Zulick is the principal investigator (PI) of a $4.4 Million NSF S-STEM grant: An Accelerated Pathway from Associates to Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, which is a collaboration with Middlesex Community College, Northeastern University College of Science, and the College of Professional Studies.
Dr. Melissa Dark is committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education in the United States. She has worked in this area for the past 20 years where she has been fortunate to lead a number of creative and impactful projects ranging from studying the effect of various representational forms on cryptography learning and neural connections to developing cybersecurity concepts lessons for integration into the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles high school course. Her early work in cybersecurity education focused on the graduate level and has progressively grown down to community college, and now high school, in response to two needs: robust cybersecurity literacy among all cybercitizens and closing the cybersecurity workforce gap. In 2015, she founded DARK Enterprises, Inc., a non-profit which advances the mission of developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education initiatives in the United States.
Dr. Jenny Daugherty is a Research and Curriculum Lead for DARK Enterprises, Inc. Jenny has over 15 years of experience in K-12 STEM education with expertise in curriculum development, teacher professional development, and educational research and evaluation. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects in the fields of Cybersecurity, Science, Technology, and Engineering education. Jenny earned her doctoral degree in Human Resource Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she was awarded a doctoral fellowship with the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education. Prior to her position with DARK Enterprises, she worked at Purdue University, where she earned tenure as an Associate Professor, and at Louisiana State University, where she served as the Leadership Development Institute Director.
Nate Derbinsky is Assistant Dean for Teaching Faculty at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is part of the Center’s technical assistance capacity.
Teaching is his passion, and developing and delivering quality computer science education content is his mission. He has been involved in teaching computer science for nearly 20 years, including at the K-12, college, and graduate levels. He constantly seeks new ways to make complex computer science topics accessible and help an increasingly diverse group understand how fun and transformative computing can be. He has recently dipped his toes in the waters of computer science education, investigating effective methods of service learning and grad-school preparation.
Derbinsky has a strong personal interest in applying technologies that scale to solve important problems in the world. In 1998 he founded BitX Solutions, a small corporation based in North Carolina. For 11 years, Derbinsky led software-development teams to track evidence for law-enforcement agencies, manage supplies at food banks, provide diagnostic training for neurology interns, and supply comprehensive web-based fellowship/scholarship advising for thousands of students and faculty members at two universities. Derbinsky has also served as a volunteer teacher and technology consultant for Powering Potential, an NGO that uses technology to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes in rural Tanzania.
Derbinsky’s research interests combine artificial intelligence, optimization, machine learning, and database systems.
Albert Lionelle is the director of Align Online, and associate teaching professor at Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He teaches a variety of courses online, focusing on improving online pedagogy and course delivery.
Before working at Khoury, he worked for Colorado State University in a variety of roles including academic success coordinate, instructor, director of undergraduate advising and education for computer science, and curriculum specialist. Throughout those roles, he has experienced computer science though both advising and instruction. During his years there he helped redesign the course prerequisite structure, develop the program into multiple concentrations including the ability for students to focus in CS+x, built a CS0 course focusing on inclusive culture and programing that was the first course in the State of Colorado to be accepted into the guaranteed transfer agreement for the state, built the CSU Online – CS degree programs for undergraduate students, and worked with the state and other universities to formalize a state wide transfer agreement between community collages and the state universities.
His primary focus of research is CS Education, focusing in course pedagogy and inclusive design. He built the spiral model pedagogy for computer science 1 based on the principles of memory and recall, improving both retention and performance of students. He is currently looking at grading policies and curriculum barriers.
Briana Morrison is an Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty in Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, Briana worked for IBM for 8 years as a software developer and then transitioned to academia. She was an Assistant Professor at Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) for 20 years in the Computer Science department. She was the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Computer Science and Software Engineering programs, helped to found the Computer Game Design and Development degree program, and served as the lead for 2 successful ABET accreditation visits. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master’s in Computer Science, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. She also was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha for 5 years where she taught programming courses and classes in the Masters of Computer Science Education Program. She has served on the ACM SIGCSE Board and the ACM Education Committee and is co-editor of EngageCSEdu. Her research area is Computer Science Education where she explores cognitive load theory within programming, broadening participation in computing and expanding and preparing computing high school teachers.
Monique Ross, Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on broadening participation in computing by exploring: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She earned a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University, M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College. Before joining OSU she was a tenured professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University.
As the assistant dean of University College at IUPUI, Matthew Rust leads the development, implementation, and assessment of campus-wide programs designed to foster the access and academic achievement of students with a focus on retention. Rust’s portfolio includes 20 programs in the areas of advising and career education (first year advising, career exploration, student employment, internship programs, transfer and adult students), transition and mentoring (orientation, tutoring, success coaching, first year seminar mentoring), and educational equity programs (diversity enrichment and achievement, state aid program, TRIO programs, and independent youth). Rust also serves as PI on the JP Morgan Chase New Skills Ready Network grant, overseeing pathway alignment and articulation improvements between IUPUI, the Indianapolis Public School System, and Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis.
Prior to his current appointment, Rust served in a variety of related roles at IUPUI and North Carolina State University. At IUPUI, he worked as the director of student affairs for the School of Science from 2012 to 2014, before joining the Division of Undergraduate Education as the inaugural director of Campus Career and Advising Services in 2014. Rust has taught first year seminars and undergraduate courses in employment law as an adjunct faculty member throughout his time at IUPUI. During his time at North Carolina State University’s University College, Rust held a Lecturer appointment teaching first year seminars, career exploration, and mentoring classes. He also served as an academic adviser and then Assistant Director leading the College’s recruitment and outcomes assessment efforts.
Beyond these roles, Rust has authored publications and delivered numerous conference presentations related to student success, advising, career development, and legal issues in higher education. Outside the university, Rust has served on the NACADA Journal’s editorial board and as a board member and officer for Indiana INTERNnet, a statewide nonprofit connecting employers to early talent. Rust currently serves on the governing board for the Institute for Workforce Excellence based at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and he serves on the EmployIndy Workforce Investment Board.
Elena (Laney) Strange is the director of broadening participation and an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She teaches across the undergraduate curriculum, as well as in the Align program, which allows students with bachelor’s degrees in fields beyond computer science to pursue a master’s degree.
After receiving her doctorate from Dartmouth College, she began working as a senior software engineer for Amazon Web Services. After Amazon, she became the product director for TechSoup Global, an international nonprofit that builds software for social change instigators worldwide
In addition to her position at Northeastern, Strange is a passionate advocate for underrepresented groups in computer science. She is fond of teaching Women’s Community of Code programming workshops that empower girls, women, and even local Girl Scout troops.
Elizabeth Zulick, PhD, MPH is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Lowell Institute School. Additionally, Dr. Zulick serves lead faculty for the Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Programs and Faculty Director for the Healthcare, Biotechnology, Regulatory and Quality Domain, which includes certificate, undergraduate, masters and doctoral degree programs in the College of Professional Studies. In these roles, Dr. Zulick is responsible for curriculum design, review and implementation, including learning outcome development, program-wide assessment, and development of new, industry-aligned courses, badges, programs and certificates. In addition, she leads local community college outreach and program alignment, and cultivates relationships with local companies to create learning opportunities for students. Dr. Zulick works closely with colleagues within the college, university and across New England to create access to quality STEM education for all learners, increase student retention and graduation rates, and create pathways to high-quality jobs for our diverse learner population.
Dr. Zulick serves as the Associate Dean for Research, Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship for the college. In this role, she supports faculty in exploring and applying for research and development opportunities and highlighting the research of our faculty members externally.
Dr. Zulick is the principal investigator (PI) of a $4.4 Million NSF S-STEM grant: An Accelerated Pathway from Associates to Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, which is a collaboration with Middlesex Community College, Northeastern University College of Science, and the College of Professional Studies.
Dr. Melissa Dark is committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education in the United States. She has worked in this area for the past 20 years where she has been fortunate to lead a number of creative and impactful projects ranging from studying the effect of various representational forms on cryptography learning and neural connections to developing cybersecurity concepts lessons for integration into the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles high school course. Her early work in cybersecurity education focused on the graduate level and has progressively grown down to community college, and now high school, in response to two needs: robust cybersecurity literacy among all cybercitizens and closing the cybersecurity workforce gap. In 2015, she founded DARK Enterprises, Inc., a non-profit which advances the mission of developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education initiatives in the United States.
Dr. Jenny Daugherty is a Research and Curriculum Lead for DARK Enterprises, Inc. Jenny has over 15 years of experience in K-12 STEM education with expertise in curriculum development, teacher professional development, and educational research and evaluation. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects in the fields of Cybersecurity, Science, Technology, and Engineering education. Jenny earned her doctoral degree in Human Resource Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she was awarded a doctoral fellowship with the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education. Prior to her position with DARK Enterprises, she worked at Purdue University, where she earned tenure as an Associate Professor, and at Louisiana State University, where she served as the Leadership Development Institute Director.
Nate Derbinsky is Assistant Dean for Teaching Faculty at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is part of the Center’s technical assistance capacity.
Teaching is his passion, and developing and delivering quality computer science education content is his mission. He has been involved in teaching computer science for nearly 20 years, including at the K-12, college, and graduate levels. He constantly seeks new ways to make complex computer science topics accessible and help an increasingly diverse group understand how fun and transformative computing can be. He has recently dipped his toes in the waters of computer science education, investigating effective methods of service learning and grad-school preparation.
Derbinsky has a strong personal interest in applying technologies that scale to solve important problems in the world. In 1998 he founded BitX Solutions, a small corporation based in North Carolina. For 11 years, Derbinsky led software-development teams to track evidence for law-enforcement agencies, manage supplies at food banks, provide diagnostic training for neurology interns, and supply comprehensive web-based fellowship/scholarship advising for thousands of students and faculty members at two universities. Derbinsky has also served as a volunteer teacher and technology consultant for Powering Potential, an NGO that uses technology to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes in rural Tanzania.
Derbinsky’s research interests combine artificial intelligence, optimization, machine learning, and database systems.
Albert Lionelle is the director of Align Online, and associate teaching professor at Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He teaches a variety of courses online, focusing on improving online pedagogy and course delivery.
Before working at Khoury, he worked for Colorado State University in a variety of roles including academic success coordinate, instructor, director of undergraduate advising and education for computer science, and curriculum specialist. Throughout those roles, he has experienced computer science though both advising and instruction. During his years there he helped redesign the course prerequisite structure, develop the program into multiple concentrations including the ability for students to focus in CS+x, built a CS0 course focusing on inclusive culture and programing that was the first course in the State of Colorado to be accepted into the guaranteed transfer agreement for the state, built the CSU Online – CS degree programs for undergraduate students, and worked with the state and other universities to formalize a state wide transfer agreement between community collages and the state universities.
His primary focus of research is CS Education, focusing in course pedagogy and inclusive design. He built the spiral model pedagogy for computer science 1 based on the principles of memory and recall, improving both retention and performance of students. He is currently looking at grading policies and curriculum barriers.
Briana Morrison is an Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty in Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, Briana worked for IBM for 8 years as a software developer and then transitioned to academia. She was an Assistant Professor at Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) for 20 years in the Computer Science department. She was the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Computer Science and Software Engineering programs, helped to found the Computer Game Design and Development degree program, and served as the lead for 2 successful ABET accreditation visits. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master’s in Computer Science, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. She also was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha for 5 years where she taught programming courses and classes in the Masters of Computer Science Education Program. She has served on the ACM SIGCSE Board and the ACM Education Committee and is co-editor of EngageCSEdu. Her research area is Computer Science Education where she explores cognitive load theory within programming, broadening participation in computing and expanding and preparing computing high school teachers.
Monique Ross, Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on broadening participation in computing by exploring: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She earned a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University, M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College. Before joining OSU she was a tenured professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University.
As the assistant dean of University College at IUPUI, Matthew Rust leads the development, implementation, and assessment of campus-wide programs designed to foster the access and academic achievement of students with a focus on retention. Rust’s portfolio includes 20 programs in the areas of advising and career education (first year advising, career exploration, student employment, internship programs, transfer and adult students), transition and mentoring (orientation, tutoring, success coaching, first year seminar mentoring), and educational equity programs (diversity enrichment and achievement, state aid program, TRIO programs, and independent youth). Rust also serves as PI on the JP Morgan Chase New Skills Ready Network grant, overseeing pathway alignment and articulation improvements between IUPUI, the Indianapolis Public School System, and Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis.
Prior to his current appointment, Rust served in a variety of related roles at IUPUI and North Carolina State University. At IUPUI, he worked as the director of student affairs for the School of Science from 2012 to 2014, before joining the Division of Undergraduate Education as the inaugural director of Campus Career and Advising Services in 2014. Rust has taught first year seminars and undergraduate courses in employment law as an adjunct faculty member throughout his time at IUPUI. During his time at North Carolina State University’s University College, Rust held a Lecturer appointment teaching first year seminars, career exploration, and mentoring classes. He also served as an academic adviser and then Assistant Director leading the College’s recruitment and outcomes assessment efforts.
Beyond these roles, Rust has authored publications and delivered numerous conference presentations related to student success, advising, career development, and legal issues in higher education. Outside the university, Rust has served on the NACADA Journal’s editorial board and as a board member and officer for Indiana INTERNnet, a statewide nonprofit connecting employers to early talent. Rust currently serves on the governing board for the Institute for Workforce Excellence based at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and he serves on the EmployIndy Workforce Investment Board.
Elena (Laney) Strange is the director of broadening participation and an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She teaches across the undergraduate curriculum, as well as in the Align program, which allows students with bachelor’s degrees in fields beyond computer science to pursue a master’s degree.
After receiving her doctorate from Dartmouth College, she began working as a senior software engineer for Amazon Web Services. After Amazon, she became the product director for TechSoup Global, an international nonprofit that builds software for social change instigators worldwide
In addition to her position at Northeastern, Strange is a passionate advocate for underrepresented groups in computer science. She is fond of teaching Women’s Community of Code programming workshops that empower girls, women, and even local Girl Scout troops.
Elizabeth Zulick, PhD, MPH is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Lowell Institute School. Additionally, Dr. Zulick serves lead faculty for the Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Programs and Faculty Director for the Healthcare, Biotechnology, Regulatory and Quality Domain, which includes certificate, undergraduate, masters and doctoral degree programs in the College of Professional Studies. In these roles, Dr. Zulick is responsible for curriculum design, review and implementation, including learning outcome development, program-wide assessment, and development of new, industry-aligned courses, badges, programs and certificates. In addition, she leads local community college outreach and program alignment, and cultivates relationships with local companies to create learning opportunities for students. Dr. Zulick works closely with colleagues within the college, university and across New England to create access to quality STEM education for all learners, increase student retention and graduation rates, and create pathways to high-quality jobs for our diverse learner population.
Dr. Zulick serves as the Associate Dean for Research, Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship for the college. In this role, she supports faculty in exploring and applying for research and development opportunities and highlighting the research of our faculty members externally.
Dr. Zulick is the principal investigator (PI) of a $4.4 Million NSF S-STEM grant: An Accelerated Pathway from Associates to Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, which is a collaboration with Middlesex Community College, Northeastern University College of Science, and the College of Professional Studies.
Dr. Melissa Dark is committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education in the United States. She has worked in this area for the past 20 years where she has been fortunate to lead a number of creative and impactful projects ranging from studying the effect of various representational forms on cryptography learning and neural connections to developing cybersecurity concepts lessons for integration into the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles high school course. Her early work in cybersecurity education focused on the graduate level and has progressively grown down to community college, and now high school, in response to two needs: robust cybersecurity literacy among all cybercitizens and closing the cybersecurity workforce gap. In 2015, she founded DARK Enterprises, Inc., a non-profit which advances the mission of developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education initiatives in the United States.
Dr. Jenny Daugherty is a Research and Curriculum Lead for DARK Enterprises, Inc. Jenny has over 15 years of experience in K-12 STEM education with expertise in curriculum development, teacher professional development, and educational research and evaluation. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects in the fields of Cybersecurity, Science, Technology, and Engineering education. Jenny earned her doctoral degree in Human Resource Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she was awarded a doctoral fellowship with the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education. Prior to her position with DARK Enterprises, she worked at Purdue University, where she earned tenure as an Associate Professor, and at Louisiana State University, where she served as the Leadership Development Institute Director.
Nate Derbinsky is Assistant Dean for Teaching Faculty at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is part of the Center’s technical assistance capacity.
Teaching is his passion, and developing and delivering quality computer science education content is his mission. He has been involved in teaching computer science for nearly 20 years, including at the K-12, college, and graduate levels. He constantly seeks new ways to make complex computer science topics accessible and help an increasingly diverse group understand how fun and transformative computing can be. He has recently dipped his toes in the waters of computer science education, investigating effective methods of service learning and grad-school preparation.
Derbinsky has a strong personal interest in applying technologies that scale to solve important problems in the world. In 1998 he founded BitX Solutions, a small corporation based in North Carolina. For 11 years, Derbinsky led software-development teams to track evidence for law-enforcement agencies, manage supplies at food banks, provide diagnostic training for neurology interns, and supply comprehensive web-based fellowship/scholarship advising for thousands of students and faculty members at two universities. Derbinsky has also served as a volunteer teacher and technology consultant for Powering Potential, an NGO that uses technology to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes in rural Tanzania.
Derbinsky’s research interests combine artificial intelligence, optimization, machine learning, and database systems.
Albert Lionelle is the director of Align Online, and associate teaching professor at Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He teaches a variety of courses online, focusing on improving online pedagogy and course delivery.
Before working at Khoury, he worked for Colorado State University in a variety of roles including academic success coordinate, instructor, director of undergraduate advising and education for computer science, and curriculum specialist. Throughout those roles, he has experienced computer science though both advising and instruction. During his years there he helped redesign the course prerequisite structure, develop the program into multiple concentrations including the ability for students to focus in CS+x, built a CS0 course focusing on inclusive culture and programing that was the first course in the State of Colorado to be accepted into the guaranteed transfer agreement for the state, built the CSU Online – CS degree programs for undergraduate students, and worked with the state and other universities to formalize a state wide transfer agreement between community collages and the state universities.
His primary focus of research is CS Education, focusing in course pedagogy and inclusive design. He built the spiral model pedagogy for computer science 1 based on the principles of memory and recall, improving both retention and performance of students. He is currently looking at grading policies and curriculum barriers.
Briana Morrison is an Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty in Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, Briana worked for IBM for 8 years as a software developer and then transitioned to academia. She was an Assistant Professor at Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) for 20 years in the Computer Science department. She was the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Computer Science and Software Engineering programs, helped to found the Computer Game Design and Development degree program, and served as the lead for 2 successful ABET accreditation visits. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master’s in Computer Science, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. She also was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha for 5 years where she taught programming courses and classes in the Masters of Computer Science Education Program. She has served on the ACM SIGCSE Board and the ACM Education Committee and is co-editor of EngageCSEdu. Her research area is Computer Science Education where she explores cognitive load theory within programming, broadening participation in computing and expanding and preparing computing high school teachers.
Monique Ross, Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on broadening participation in computing by exploring: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She earned a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University, M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College. Before joining OSU she was a tenured professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University.
As the assistant dean of University College at IUPUI, Matthew Rust leads the development, implementation, and assessment of campus-wide programs designed to foster the access and academic achievement of students with a focus on retention. Rust’s portfolio includes 20 programs in the areas of advising and career education (first year advising, career exploration, student employment, internship programs, transfer and adult students), transition and mentoring (orientation, tutoring, success coaching, first year seminar mentoring), and educational equity programs (diversity enrichment and achievement, state aid program, TRIO programs, and independent youth). Rust also serves as PI on the JP Morgan Chase New Skills Ready Network grant, overseeing pathway alignment and articulation improvements between IUPUI, the Indianapolis Public School System, and Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis.
Prior to his current appointment, Rust served in a variety of related roles at IUPUI and North Carolina State University. At IUPUI, he worked as the director of student affairs for the School of Science from 2012 to 2014, before joining the Division of Undergraduate Education as the inaugural director of Campus Career and Advising Services in 2014. Rust has taught first year seminars and undergraduate courses in employment law as an adjunct faculty member throughout his time at IUPUI. During his time at North Carolina State University’s University College, Rust held a Lecturer appointment teaching first year seminars, career exploration, and mentoring classes. He also served as an academic adviser and then Assistant Director leading the College’s recruitment and outcomes assessment efforts.
Beyond these roles, Rust has authored publications and delivered numerous conference presentations related to student success, advising, career development, and legal issues in higher education. Outside the university, Rust has served on the NACADA Journal’s editorial board and as a board member and officer for Indiana INTERNnet, a statewide nonprofit connecting employers to early talent. Rust currently serves on the governing board for the Institute for Workforce Excellence based at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and he serves on the EmployIndy Workforce Investment Board.
Elena (Laney) Strange is the director of broadening participation and an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She teaches across the undergraduate curriculum, as well as in the Align program, which allows students with bachelor’s degrees in fields beyond computer science to pursue a master’s degree.
After receiving her doctorate from Dartmouth College, she began working as a senior software engineer for Amazon Web Services. After Amazon, she became the product director for TechSoup Global, an international nonprofit that builds software for social change instigators worldwide
In addition to her position at Northeastern, Strange is a passionate advocate for underrepresented groups in computer science. She is fond of teaching Women’s Community of Code programming workshops that empower girls, women, and even local Girl Scout troops.
Elizabeth Zulick, PhD, MPH is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Lowell Institute School. Additionally, Dr. Zulick serves lead faculty for the Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Programs and Faculty Director for the Healthcare, Biotechnology, Regulatory and Quality Domain, which includes certificate, undergraduate, masters and doctoral degree programs in the College of Professional Studies. In these roles, Dr. Zulick is responsible for curriculum design, review and implementation, including learning outcome development, program-wide assessment, and development of new, industry-aligned courses, badges, programs and certificates. In addition, she leads local community college outreach and program alignment, and cultivates relationships with local companies to create learning opportunities for students. Dr. Zulick works closely with colleagues within the college, university and across New England to create access to quality STEM education for all learners, increase student retention and graduation rates, and create pathways to high-quality jobs for our diverse learner population.
Dr. Zulick serves as the Associate Dean for Research, Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship for the college. In this role, she supports faculty in exploring and applying for research and development opportunities and highlighting the research of our faculty members externally.
Dr. Zulick is the principal investigator (PI) of a $4.4 Million NSF S-STEM grant: An Accelerated Pathway from Associates to Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, which is a collaboration with Middlesex Community College, Northeastern University College of Science, and the College of Professional Studies.
Dr. Melissa Dark is committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education in the United States. She has worked in this area for the past 20 years where she has been fortunate to lead a number of creative and impactful projects ranging from studying the effect of various representational forms on cryptography learning and neural connections to developing cybersecurity concepts lessons for integration into the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles high school course. Her early work in cybersecurity education focused on the graduate level and has progressively grown down to community college, and now high school, in response to two needs: robust cybersecurity literacy among all cybercitizens and closing the cybersecurity workforce gap. In 2015, she founded DARK Enterprises, Inc., a non-profit which advances the mission of developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education initiatives in the United States.
Dr. Jenny Daugherty is a Research and Curriculum Lead for DARK Enterprises, Inc. Jenny has over 15 years of experience in K-12 STEM education with expertise in curriculum development, teacher professional development, and educational research and evaluation. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects in the fields of Cybersecurity, Science, Technology, and Engineering education. Jenny earned her doctoral degree in Human Resource Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she was awarded a doctoral fellowship with the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education. Prior to her position with DARK Enterprises, she worked at Purdue University, where she earned tenure as an Associate Professor, and at Louisiana State University, where she served as the Leadership Development Institute Director.
Nate Derbinsky is Assistant Dean for Teaching Faculty at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is part of the Center’s technical assistance capacity.
Teaching is his passion, and developing and delivering quality computer science education content is his mission. He has been involved in teaching computer science for nearly 20 years, including at the K-12, college, and graduate levels. He constantly seeks new ways to make complex computer science topics accessible and help an increasingly diverse group understand how fun and transformative computing can be. He has recently dipped his toes in the waters of computer science education, investigating effective methods of service learning and grad-school preparation.
Derbinsky has a strong personal interest in applying technologies that scale to solve important problems in the world. In 1998 he founded BitX Solutions, a small corporation based in North Carolina. For 11 years, Derbinsky led software-development teams to track evidence for law-enforcement agencies, manage supplies at food banks, provide diagnostic training for neurology interns, and supply comprehensive web-based fellowship/scholarship advising for thousands of students and faculty members at two universities. Derbinsky has also served as a volunteer teacher and technology consultant for Powering Potential, an NGO that uses technology to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes in rural Tanzania.
Derbinsky’s research interests combine artificial intelligence, optimization, machine learning, and database systems.
Albert Lionelle is the director of Align Online, and associate teaching professor at Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He teaches a variety of courses online, focusing on improving online pedagogy and course delivery.
Before working at Khoury, he worked for Colorado State University in a variety of roles including academic success coordinate, instructor, director of undergraduate advising and education for computer science, and curriculum specialist. Throughout those roles, he has experienced computer science though both advising and instruction. During his years there he helped redesign the course prerequisite structure, develop the program into multiple concentrations including the ability for students to focus in CS+x, built a CS0 course focusing on inclusive culture and programing that was the first course in the State of Colorado to be accepted into the guaranteed transfer agreement for the state, built the CSU Online – CS degree programs for undergraduate students, and worked with the state and other universities to formalize a state wide transfer agreement between community collages and the state universities.
His primary focus of research is CS Education, focusing in course pedagogy and inclusive design. He built the spiral model pedagogy for computer science 1 based on the principles of memory and recall, improving both retention and performance of students. He is currently looking at grading policies and curriculum barriers.
Briana Morrison is an Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty in Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, Briana worked for IBM for 8 years as a software developer and then transitioned to academia. She was an Assistant Professor at Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) for 20 years in the Computer Science department. She was the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Computer Science and Software Engineering programs, helped to found the Computer Game Design and Development degree program, and served as the lead for 2 successful ABET accreditation visits. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master’s in Computer Science, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. She also was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha for 5 years where she taught programming courses and classes in the Masters of Computer Science Education Program. She has served on the ACM SIGCSE Board and the ACM Education Committee and is co-editor of EngageCSEdu. Her research area is Computer Science Education where she explores cognitive load theory within programming, broadening participation in computing and expanding and preparing computing high school teachers.
Monique Ross, Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on broadening participation in computing by exploring: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She earned a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University, M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College. Before joining OSU she was a tenured professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University.
As the assistant dean of University College at IUPUI, Matthew Rust leads the development, implementation, and assessment of campus-wide programs designed to foster the access and academic achievement of students with a focus on retention. Rust’s portfolio includes 20 programs in the areas of advising and career education (first year advising, career exploration, student employment, internship programs, transfer and adult students), transition and mentoring (orientation, tutoring, success coaching, first year seminar mentoring), and educational equity programs (diversity enrichment and achievement, state aid program, TRIO programs, and independent youth). Rust also serves as PI on the JP Morgan Chase New Skills Ready Network grant, overseeing pathway alignment and articulation improvements between IUPUI, the Indianapolis Public School System, and Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis.
Prior to his current appointment, Rust served in a variety of related roles at IUPUI and North Carolina State University. At IUPUI, he worked as the director of student affairs for the School of Science from 2012 to 2014, before joining the Division of Undergraduate Education as the inaugural director of Campus Career and Advising Services in 2014. Rust has taught first year seminars and undergraduate courses in employment law as an adjunct faculty member throughout his time at IUPUI. During his time at North Carolina State University’s University College, Rust held a Lecturer appointment teaching first year seminars, career exploration, and mentoring classes. He also served as an academic adviser and then Assistant Director leading the College’s recruitment and outcomes assessment efforts.
Beyond these roles, Rust has authored publications and delivered numerous conference presentations related to student success, advising, career development, and legal issues in higher education. Outside the university, Rust has served on the NACADA Journal’s editorial board and as a board member and officer for Indiana INTERNnet, a statewide nonprofit connecting employers to early talent. Rust currently serves on the governing board for the Institute for Workforce Excellence based at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and he serves on the EmployIndy Workforce Investment Board.
Elena (Laney) Strange is the director of broadening participation and an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She teaches across the undergraduate curriculum, as well as in the Align program, which allows students with bachelor’s degrees in fields beyond computer science to pursue a master’s degree.
After receiving her doctorate from Dartmouth College, she began working as a senior software engineer for Amazon Web Services. After Amazon, she became the product director for TechSoup Global, an international nonprofit that builds software for social change instigators worldwide
In addition to her position at Northeastern, Strange is a passionate advocate for underrepresented groups in computer science. She is fond of teaching Women’s Community of Code programming workshops that empower girls, women, and even local Girl Scout troops.
Elizabeth Zulick, PhD, MPH is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Lowell Institute School. Additionally, Dr. Zulick serves lead faculty for the Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Programs and Faculty Director for the Healthcare, Biotechnology, Regulatory and Quality Domain, which includes certificate, undergraduate, masters and doctoral degree programs in the College of Professional Studies. In these roles, Dr. Zulick is responsible for curriculum design, review and implementation, including learning outcome development, program-wide assessment, and development of new, industry-aligned courses, badges, programs and certificates. In addition, she leads local community college outreach and program alignment, and cultivates relationships with local companies to create learning opportunities for students. Dr. Zulick works closely with colleagues within the college, university and across New England to create access to quality STEM education for all learners, increase student retention and graduation rates, and create pathways to high-quality jobs for our diverse learner population.
Dr. Zulick serves as the Associate Dean for Research, Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship for the college. In this role, she supports faculty in exploring and applying for research and development opportunities and highlighting the research of our faculty members externally.
Dr. Zulick is the principal investigator (PI) of a $4.4 Million NSF S-STEM grant: An Accelerated Pathway from Associates to Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, which is a collaboration with Middlesex Community College, Northeastern University College of Science, and the College of Professional Studies.
Dr. Melissa Dark is committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education in the United States. She has worked in this area for the past 20 years where she has been fortunate to lead a number of creative and impactful projects ranging from studying the effect of various representational forms on cryptography learning and neural connections to developing cybersecurity concepts lessons for integration into the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles high school course. Her early work in cybersecurity education focused on the graduate level and has progressively grown down to community college, and now high school, in response to two needs: robust cybersecurity literacy among all cybercitizens and closing the cybersecurity workforce gap. In 2015, she founded DARK Enterprises, Inc., a non-profit which advances the mission of developing, supporting, and stewarding cybersecurity education initiatives in the United States.
Dr. Jenny Daugherty is a Research and Curriculum Lead for DARK Enterprises, Inc. Jenny has over 15 years of experience in K-12 STEM education with expertise in curriculum development, teacher professional development, and educational research and evaluation. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects in the fields of Cybersecurity, Science, Technology, and Engineering education. Jenny earned her doctoral degree in Human Resource Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she was awarded a doctoral fellowship with the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education. Prior to her position with DARK Enterprises, she worked at Purdue University, where she earned tenure as an Associate Professor, and at Louisiana State University, where she served as the Leadership Development Institute Director.
Nate Derbinsky is Assistant Dean for Teaching Faculty at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is part of the Center’s technical assistance capacity.
Teaching is his passion, and developing and delivering quality computer science education content is his mission. He has been involved in teaching computer science for nearly 20 years, including at the K-12, college, and graduate levels. He constantly seeks new ways to make complex computer science topics accessible and help an increasingly diverse group understand how fun and transformative computing can be. He has recently dipped his toes in the waters of computer science education, investigating effective methods of service learning and grad-school preparation.
Derbinsky has a strong personal interest in applying technologies that scale to solve important problems in the world. In 1998 he founded BitX Solutions, a small corporation based in North Carolina. For 11 years, Derbinsky led software-development teams to track evidence for law-enforcement agencies, manage supplies at food banks, provide diagnostic training for neurology interns, and supply comprehensive web-based fellowship/scholarship advising for thousands of students and faculty members at two universities. Derbinsky has also served as a volunteer teacher and technology consultant for Powering Potential, an NGO that uses technology to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes in rural Tanzania.
Derbinsky’s research interests combine artificial intelligence, optimization, machine learning, and database systems.
Albert Lionelle is the director of Align Online, and associate teaching professor at Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He teaches a variety of courses online, focusing on improving online pedagogy and course delivery.
Before working at Khoury, he worked for Colorado State University in a variety of roles including academic success coordinate, instructor, director of undergraduate advising and education for computer science, and curriculum specialist. Throughout those roles, he has experienced computer science though both advising and instruction. During his years there he helped redesign the course prerequisite structure, develop the program into multiple concentrations including the ability for students to focus in CS+x, built a CS0 course focusing on inclusive culture and programing that was the first course in the State of Colorado to be accepted into the guaranteed transfer agreement for the state, built the CSU Online – CS degree programs for undergraduate students, and worked with the state and other universities to formalize a state wide transfer agreement between community collages and the state universities.
His primary focus of research is CS Education, focusing in course pedagogy and inclusive design. He built the spiral model pedagogy for computer science 1 based on the principles of memory and recall, improving both retention and performance of students. He is currently looking at grading policies and curriculum barriers.
Briana Morrison is an Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty in Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, Briana worked for IBM for 8 years as a software developer and then transitioned to academia. She was an Assistant Professor at Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) for 20 years in the Computer Science department. She was the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Computer Science and Software Engineering programs, helped to found the Computer Game Design and Development degree program, and served as the lead for 2 successful ABET accreditation visits. She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master’s in Computer Science, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. She also was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha for 5 years where she taught programming courses and classes in the Masters of Computer Science Education Program. She has served on the ACM SIGCSE Board and the ACM Education Committee and is co-editor of EngageCSEdu. Her research area is Computer Science Education where she explores cognitive load theory within programming, broadening participation in computing and expanding and preparing computing high school teachers.
Monique Ross, Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on broadening participation in computing by exploring: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She earned a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University, M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College. Before joining OSU she was a tenured professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University.
As the assistant dean of University College at IUPUI, Matthew Rust leads the development, implementation, and assessment of campus-wide programs designed to foster the access and academic achievement of students with a focus on retention. Rust’s portfolio includes 20 programs in the areas of advising and career education (first year advising, career exploration, student employment, internship programs, transfer and adult students), transition and mentoring (orientation, tutoring, success coaching, first year seminar mentoring), and educational equity programs (diversity enrichment and achievement, state aid program, TRIO programs, and independent youth). Rust also serves as PI on the JP Morgan Chase New Skills Ready Network grant, overseeing pathway alignment and articulation improvements between IUPUI, the Indianapolis Public School System, and Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis.
Prior to his current appointment, Rust served in a variety of related roles at IUPUI and North Carolina State University. At IUPUI, he worked as the director of student affairs for the School of Science from 2012 to 2014, before joining the Division of Undergraduate Education as the inaugural director of Campus Career and Advising Services in 2014. Rust has taught first year seminars and undergraduate courses in employment law as an adjunct faculty member throughout his time at IUPUI. During his time at North Carolina State University’s University College, Rust held a Lecturer appointment teaching first year seminars, career exploration, and mentoring classes. He also served as an academic adviser and then Assistant Director leading the College’s recruitment and outcomes assessment efforts.
Beyond these roles, Rust has authored publications and delivered numerous conference presentations related to student success, advising, career development, and legal issues in higher education. Outside the university, Rust has served on the NACADA Journal’s editorial board and as a board member and officer for Indiana INTERNnet, a statewide nonprofit connecting employers to early talent. Rust currently serves on the governing board for the Institute for Workforce Excellence based at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and he serves on the EmployIndy Workforce Investment Board.
Elena (Laney) Strange is the director of broadening participation and an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She teaches across the undergraduate curriculum, as well as in the Align program, which allows students with bachelor’s degrees in fields beyond computer science to pursue a master’s degree.
After receiving her doctorate from Dartmouth College, she began working as a senior software engineer for Amazon Web Services. After Amazon, she became the product director for TechSoup Global, an international nonprofit that builds software for social change instigators worldwide
In addition to her position at Northeastern, Strange is a passionate advocate for underrepresented groups in computer science. She is fond of teaching Women’s Community of Code programming workshops that empower girls, women, and even local Girl Scout troops.
Elizabeth Zulick, PhD, MPH is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Lowell Institute School. Additionally, Dr. Zulick serves lead faculty for the Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Programs and Faculty Director for the Healthcare, Biotechnology, Regulatory and Quality Domain, which includes certificate, undergraduate, masters and doctoral degree programs in the College of Professional Studies. In these roles, Dr. Zulick is responsible for curriculum design, review and implementation, including learning outcome development, program-wide assessment, and development of new, industry-aligned courses, badges, programs and certificates. In addition, she leads local community college outreach and program alignment, and cultivates relationships with local companies to create learning opportunities for students. Dr. Zulick works closely with colleagues within the college, university and across New England to create access to quality STEM education for all learners, increase student retention and graduation rates, and create pathways to high-quality jobs for our diverse learner population.
Dr. Zulick serves as the Associate Dean for Research, Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship for the college. In this role, she supports faculty in exploring and applying for research and development opportunities and highlighting the research of our faculty members externally.
Dr. Zulick is the principal investigator (PI) of a $4.4 Million NSF S-STEM grant: An Accelerated Pathway from Associates to Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, which is a collaboration with Middlesex Community College, Northeastern University College of Science, and the College of Professional Studies.
