Organizers & Panel Members

Organizers

David Azcona is a PhD candidate in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University in Ireland. He was a Fulbright visiting research scholar at Arizona State University. His research focuses on personalizing Computer Science Education. His interests are representational learning for programming learning, Machine Learning & Deep Learning and Data Science for Social Good. Contact: David.Azcona@insight-centre.org

Yancy Vance Paredes is a PhD student at Arizona State University working under the Computing Systems and Informatics Research Lab. His research interests include adaptive educational systems, educational data mining, data analytics, machine learning, novice programmers, and intelligent tutoring systems. Contact: yvmparedes@asu.edu

Sharon I-Han Hsiao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, Informatics & Decision Systems Engineering in Arizona State University. Her research lies in the intersections of Informatics & Computational Technologies for Learning with a focus on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer Science Education, Adaptive Educational Systems, Open User Modeling, Data Sciences, Visualization, Social Computing, and Learning Technologies. Contact: Sharon.Hsiao@asu.edu

Thomas Price is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. His primary research goal is to develop learning environments that automatically support students through AI and data-driven help features. His work has focused on the domain of computing education, where he has developed techniques for automatically generating programming hints and feedback for students in real-time by leveraging student data. He has evaluated the efficacy of innovative programming technologies, including block-based and frame-based programming environments, and has designed intelligent support features that integrate with these technologies. Contact: twprice@ncsu.edu


Panel Members

Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Tiffany Barnes, North Carolina State University, USA