Sherif G. Aly, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Sherif Aly is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, Professional Engineer, and senior member of IEEE. He has research interests in mobile and pervasive computing, especially as relates to context awareness, software engineering, and networking. He is the former Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Director of a PhD program, and Associate Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He worked as a Senior Scientist of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as a Senior Member of Technical Staff for General Dynamics, a Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies, a Visiting Scientist at NIST, and Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Aly is also a commissioner for the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET). He received his Doctor of Science from the George Washington University, and is a recipient of numerous diverse national and international recognitions for outstanding contributions.
Monica D. Anderson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Dr. Monica Anderson is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at The University of Alabama. Her research interests include autonomous robot teaming, Computer Science education, and broadening participation. She served as an executive member of the ARTSI and iAAMCS BPC alliances, national consortiums of researchers that focus on increasing African Americans’ number and success in Computer Science. As a software engineer for Target, Northwest Airlines, and IBM, she specialized in developing and maintaining internal standards on distributed technologies and development tools. Monica has been the faculty advisor to the UA student chapter of ACM since 2008, and she received the 2008 UPE Excellence in Instruction Award. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Computer Science from Chicago State University.
Brett A. Becker, University College Dublin, Ireland
Brett A. Becker is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University College Dublin, Ireland. His main research area is Computing Education. He is the Steering Committee Chair of the ACM Global Computing Education Conference and the SIGCSE Technical Symposium Global Liaison. He is an Associate Editor at ACM TOCE and has won several recent best paper awards including at ICER and SIGCSE. He is the author of a high school Computer Science textbook aligned with the Irish National Curriculum. He is also an Irish National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow, the highest individual national distinction the sector offers to those teaching in higher education. Brett holds a PhD in Parallel Computing, an MSc in Computational Science, and an MA in Higher Education.
Richard L. Blumenthal, Regis University, Denver, CO, USA
Richard Blumenthal is a Professor and Chair of the Computer and Cyber Sciences department at Regis University, Denver Colorado. His research interests include Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Computing for the Social Good in Education. Richard is a Senior Member of the ACM, on the Executive Committee of ACM SIGCAS, the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Computers and Society, and a member of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE). Prior to joining Regis, he worked as a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories and U S WEST Advanced Technologies, and Senior Software Engineer at Athene Software. Rick has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Eric Eaton, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Eric Eaton is a research associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the GRASP (General Robotics Automation, Sensing, Perception) lab. Prior to joining Penn, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the computer science department at Bryn Mawr College. His primary research interests lie in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence with applications to robotics and precision medicine. Before moving into academia, Eric was a senior research scientist at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories working in applied research. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Susan L. Epstein, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
Susan L. Epstein is a Professor of Computer Science at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Her extensive interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence focuses on knowledge representation and machine learning, with a current focus on spatial cognition and cognitive robotics. She is an Executive Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a co-PI at the National Science Foundation’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a senior member of the ACM, and a former chair of the Cognitive Science Society. Her most recent educational innovation is an interdisciplinary introduction to cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence for first-year undergraduates.
Michael Goldweber, Denison University, Granville, OH, USA
Mikey Goldweber is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Denison University in Granville, OH, USA. His main area of research is Computing Education with a primary focus on operating systems. Mikey was the primary author of the Kaya Operating System project, which has recently been updated and renamed as the Pandos project. Additionally, Mikey is one of the founders of the Computing for Social Good in CS Education movement which encourages CS educators to focus on best practices for educating ethical and socially motivated computing professionals. Previously, Mikey served on and chaired the SIGCSE ITiCSE Steering Committee, and is a past Chair and current Executive Board member of ACM SIGCAS. Furthermore, he is also an Associate Editor of ACM Inroads. Author of multiple operating system project manuals, including one graduate text on virtualization systems, Mikey was also the lead author of two ITiCSE Working Group Best paper award designees. Mikey holds a PhD and Masters in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, along with a BA in Mathematics and a BSBA in Finance from Boston University.
Pankaj Jalote, IIIT Delhi, India
Pankaj Jalote is Distinguished Professor at IIIT-Delhi, of which he is also the founding Director. He has been a Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the IIT Kanpur, and an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland at College Park. On leave from academia, he was Vice President at Infosys Technologies Ltd. for 2 years, and a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond for a year. He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, MS from Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of six books including the recent Building Research Universities in India. He writes a blog on Higher Education in India. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE.
Douglas Lea, SUNY Oswego, NY, USA
Doug Lea is a professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Oswego. He is an author of books, articles, reports, and standardization efforts on object oriented software development including those on specification, design and implementation techniques, distributed, concurrent, and parallel object systems, and software reusability; and has served as chair, organizer, or program committee member for many conferences and workshops in these areas. He is the primary author of several widely used software packages and components, and an ACM Fellow.
Michael Oudshoorn, High Point University, High Point, NC, USA
Michael Oudshoorn is a Professor of Computer Science and Dean of Engineering at High Point University, North Carolina. His research interests include computer science education, parallel and distributed systems, autonomic computing, and programming languages and compilers. Michael currently serves on the Executive Committee of ABET’s Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC). From 2014-2018 he served on the CAC’s Criteria Committee, which revised the accreditation criteria for computing programs, including that of computer science. Michael is a member of the IEEE and a Senior Member of the ACM. Michael has a PhD from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Marcelo Pias, Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil
Marcelo Pias is an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Computational Science Centre (C3), Brazil. His research interests comprise embedded A.I., smart wireless sensors and distributed systems. Marcelo is currently coordinating the R&D in smart sensor technology under the H2020 European project ASTRAL. Spanning his interests in education, he recently supervised research students on predictive modelling to anticipate student dropout in computer science courses. Prior to joining FURG, he worked as a researcher at University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology. Marcelo is a member of the IEEE and ACM. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University College London (UCL), United Kingdom.
Susan Reiser, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC, USA
Senior Lecturer Susan Reiser teaches in the departments of computer science, new media and engineering; and serves as Senior Advisor to the Provost. Prior to her first appointment as an adjunct in computer science, she worked in industry for 15 years with the typical progression of positions ranging from Programmer to Principal Engineer. Similarly, her research has evolved from 3D mapping potential gradients in an electrophysiology lab at Duke’s Cardiology Department to digital fabrication. Susan has published articles in Leonardo, SIGCSE, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Computers in Cardiology, and other journals. Her data-informed creative work with Courtney Starrett has been exhibited at the Center for Craft, the Palmer Gallery at Vassar College, the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, the City Museum of New York and was featured in Metalsmith Magazine. Her course projects and collaborative transdisciplinary work at STEAM Studio has been shown at New York’s Times Square and Asheville. She is on the co-founding team of STEAM Studio, a 12,000 square foot making place at UNC Asheville; and developed or co-developed many courses that meld computer science and engineering with art through human-centered design.
Christian Servin, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, USA
Christian Servin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at El Paso Community College. His research areas include Fuzzy Logic, Intelligent Computing, and Computer Science Education. He serves as vice-chair for the ACM Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges, chair for the Fuzzy Education Committee for the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, and chair for the IEEE Region V El Paso Section. He has developed several Open Educational Resources for Computer Science Education. He is a recipient of the 2021 Great Minds in STEM Education Award and the 2015 NAFIPS Young Researcher Award. Previously, he served on the Steering Committee of ACM Data Science Taskforce, ACM CS Transfer, and ACM Cyber-2Y. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Titus Winters, Google Inc., New York, NY, USA
Titus is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he has worked since 2010. At Google, he is the library lead for Google’s C++ codebase: 250 million lines of code that will be edited by 12K distinct engineers in a month. He served several years as the chair of the subcommittee for the design of the C++ standard library. For the last 10 years, Titus and his teams have been organizing, maintaining, and evolving the foundational components of Google’s C++ codebase using modern automation and tooling. Along the way he has started several Google projects that are believed to be in the top 10 largest refactorings in human history. That unique scale and perspective has informed all of his thinking on the care and feeding of software systems. His most recent project is the book “Software Engineering at Google” (aka “The Flamingo Book”), published by O’Reilly in early 2020.
Qiao Xiang, Xiamen University, China
Qiao Xiang is a Professor of Computer Science at Xiamen University, China. Before that, he worked at Yale University as a postdoc and later a research assistant professor. He received his PhD from Wayne State University in 2014. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and CCF. His research interests include interdomain routing, network verification, SDN, and IoT. He publishes extensively on top-tier networking and system conferences and journals, such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE/ACM SC, IEEE JSAC, IEEE/ACM TON, etc. He is a recipient of the 2019 Facebook Research Award – Networking, and the 2019 IEEE MASS Best Paper Award. He serves as PC members of top tier conferences including INFOCOM 2021, 2022, IWQoS 2021, 2022, etc. He has extensive teaching experiences in computer science, with a focus on networking, computer systems and programming. He is a recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Teaching Award at Wayne State University. His ORCID is 0000-0002-3394-6279
Amruth N. Kumar, Ramapo College of NJ, Mahwah, NJ, USA
Amruth Kumar is a Professor of Computer Science. His research interests include Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Computer Science Education Research. He has developed several software tutoring suites for introductory programming including problets (problets.org), epplets (epplets.org) and solvelets (solvelets.org), funded by the National Science Foundation. He is a Distinguished Member of the ACM and Senior Member of IEEE. Previously, he served on the Steering Committee of CS 2013, the previous iteration of ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science curricular guidelines. He has a PhD from the University at Buffalo.
Rajendra K. Raj, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY, USA
Rajendra K. Raj is a Professor of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, whose research focuses on data science, distributed systems, and cybersecurity, applied to critical infrastructure protection and healthcare. Interested in program development, quality, and accreditation, Raj currently serves on the Executive Committee of ABET’s Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC). From 2016-2018, he chaired CAC’s Criteria Committee, which substantially revised accreditation criteria for computing programs, and created accreditation criteria for cybersecurity. Previously, as a vice president of information technology at a New York City financial services company, Raj designed, implemented, and managed high-performance private-cloud infrastructures for globally distributed financial applications. Raj is a member of ACM, ASEE, and IEEE Computer Society. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington, Seattle.