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Dr. Qiong Cheng worked as a Lecturer and currently she is in the rank of Teaching Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). Prior to working at UNCC, Dr. Cheng had experience in diverse institutions and labs, working as a PostDoc Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Center of Computational Science at the University of Miami.
Dr. Cheng's project interest is broad in applying computational and statistical methods to solve problems for scientific and educational domains. The main topic directions of her projects are in two folds: 1) supporting domain users in actionable decision making in complex dynamic interconnected systems and 2) developing practical applications to support and enhance learning and teaching in education, and specifically in CS education. Specifically, her project focus has been in the following areas: 1) DNS: dynamic network systems, with an emphasis on optimization algorithms, graph mining techniques, and their applications in networks and systems biology; 2) ACS: adaptive computer-based systems, providing a framework of automatically semantic aggregation of educational data and resources and developing adaptive learning platforms and tools to support and enhance teaching and learning; 3) CSE: computer science education, focusing on learning theory-guided, workforce-oriented, and technology-enabled teaching and instructions.
Software
Adaptive pre-learning app, auto-grading of open-ended responses in an algorithms course, big data studio
Adaptive feedback
Feedback of open-ended responses in a graduate Algorithms and Data Structures course
Big Data Workflow
AI tutoring
MetNetAligner(Network alignment tool) (service demo1 demo2 demo3)
CrayfishSim(Behavior-based simulation of crayfish and its predator): code demo
SelfManRoutMobNet(Simulation of self-management routing of mobile sensor network): code demo
Awards or Funding Support
GRFP grant (Aug. 2024 - December 2025)
SoTL grant (2023-2024)
CS Education Innovation Grants (2021 )
Parallel and Distributed Computing Education External Fund (2019 - 2020)
Parallel and Distributed Computing Education Internal Fund at UNCC (2019)
Faculty Teaching Development Award (inner support from NSF funded Connected Learner project investigators) (2019 - 2020)
Top 40 academy, tier 1 and 2 (2020)
CompEd travel award (2019)
SIGCSE travel award (2019)
One of my papers was nominated as “Top ten paper award in the field of Regulatory and Systems Genomics, 2012-13”
Selected Academic Activities
Reviewer of two NSF review panels
NCSEF external judge 2025
AI undergraduate program development committee 2025 (Jan - Feb)
PC member (reviewer) of SIGCSE TC 2025
Judge of Congressional App Challenges 2022/2024
PC member (panel reviewer) of SIGCSE Virtual 2024
Reviewer of FIE 2020 & 2021 & 2022 & 2023 & 2024
iTiCSE Reviewer 2021& 2022 & 2023 & 2024
Reviewer of SIGCSE 2020 & 2021 & 2022 & 2024
Session Moderator of FIE 2020 & 2023
Member of the Wake Forest Baptist Center for Biomedical Informatics (WFBMI) 12/2018 - Present
Reviewer of Journal of Bioinformatics & Journal of BMC Bioinformatics (supplements)
Sub-reviewer of BMC Special Issue devoted to ICCABS 2015
Reviewer of BMC Systems Biology, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC), Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, and Journal of Computers in Biology and Medicine
External reviewer of ICWS2010, 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, the 13th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics, and the First International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Application.
News
May 28: Registered QM Summit (Sep 26)
May 21 2025: Become a member of The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC)
May 16 2025: Two papers got accepted by FIE 2025
May 7 & 9 2025: Panel Review
May 5-6 2025: Attended CMU LearnLab Summit
April 17 2025: Presented in CTL SoTL
March 2025: NCSEF judge
Jan. - Feb 2025: AI undergraduate program development committee 2025
Jan. - May 2025: Technology-driven Instruction Assistant - Ganesh Vasa, Samhith Dara
Jan. - May 2025: Graduate Capstone - Zane Hutchens
Jan. - May 2025: Research Assistant - Rahul Das
Jan. - May 2025: Undergraduate Capstone - Swetha Balaji (Honors), Rowan Amanna
Jan. - March 2025: NSF external reviewer (9 proposals)
Jan. - May 2025: Instructed a new course ITCS 6160 & 8180
Dec 2024: NSF external Reviewer (17 proposals)
Nov 2024: Judge of Congressional App Challenges
Oct. 2024 - April 2025: Lecturer Search Committee Chair
Nov. 2024: Submitted an NSF proposal
Aug.: FIE 2024 paper accepted.
Aug. - Dec. 2024: Technology-driven Instruction Assistant - Samhith Dara, Danish Mohammed
May 28: Received the FRG grant to support our project, titled "FRG High-performance Computing for Interconnected Digital Twins to Recommend Dynamic Team Strategies"
March 24: FIE 2024 Abstract Reviewer
March 22 2024: Graduate Research Symposium - Judges
Jan. 2024: Submitted an NSF proposal
Jan. - May 2024: Undergraduate Capstone - Zane Hutchens
Nov. 2023 - April 2024: College Teaching Faculty Search Committee (chair)
Nov. 27: Membership in the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR)
Nov 2: Received the SoTL grant to support our project, titled "Odonata: Adaptive to Promote Equity and Diversity in Computer Science Education" (SOTL Fund No. 102477)
Oct 20: Presented in FIE 2023 (Univ. A & T)
July 2023: FIE 2023 paper got accepted.
March 2023: SIS Teaching Professor Search Committee
Feb. 2023 - June 2023: To serve as FIE 2023 Technical program committee as reviewer
Feb. - March 2023: To serve as a reviewer of Journal of Bioinformatics
Feb. 1 - 17 2023: Served as a reviewer of iTiCSE 2023
Nov. 2022: Worked on a SOTL draft
Nov. 2022: Served as a judge of the Congressional App Challenge
Oct. - Nov. 2022: Served as an external review in SIGCSE 2023 (Nifty Assignments)
Oct. 2022: Submitted a demo paper ->In November, the demo paper got accepted in SIGCSE 2023
Sep. 2022: Submitted a paper to a journal
Sep. 2022: Reviewer of CSAE 2022 (The 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering)
Appointed as Honors Faculty (2022-2027) [Jul 5, 2022 ]
Fall 2022: Teaching four courses (ITSC 2214, ITCS 3145, ITCS 3160, ITCS 6114&8114, in total of 305 students) + Advising 84 students
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023: Participating in three committees (TRC, GCC, Core UC)
Aug. 2022: Submitted a paper to a conference ->In October, the paper got accepted in BIBM 2022
July 2022: Submitted a paper to a journal
Summer 2022 - May 2023: participated in a CCI competency integration group
Sep. 2021 - May 2022: Teaching review committee chair: finished a teaching review handbook
2021 - 2022: Organized a computing club with Ellen Wei at the Harris Road Middle School
May 2022: FIE Reviewer
April 2022: Graduate School Summer Fellows (GSSF) Reviewer
March 2022: Two paper abstractions accepted in FIE 2022
Feb. 2022: iTiCSE 2022 Reviewer
Dec. 2021: F21 preceptor funding has been approved ($1000)
Nov. 2021: A judge of Congressional App Challenge(2021)
Oct. 2021: Two FIE papers published
Sep. 2021 - May 2022: Chair of TRC
April 29, 2021: IRB 19-0746 has been approved (no end date).
April 27, 2021: F21 preceptor funding has been approved ($1000)
April 26, 2021: Awarded with CS Education Innovation Grant ($3500) (CCI CEI at UNCC)
March 2021: Two abstracts have been accepted in FIE 2021
Teaching review committee (2020 Spring - present)
ITiCSE 2021 program committee
Got a preceptor in 2020 Fall and two in 2021 Spring ($3000)
Invited to be a judge of national congress app competition in 2020
Worked as a Session Moderator in FIE 2020
Working as a thesis committee (Changlin Li thesis proposal on Sep. 17)
Aug.8, invited to the program committee of SIGCSE 2021 (Aug. - Oct. review)
July 19, accepted to be in the program of Top 40 Academy, Tier 1 and Tier 2 (at UNCC) ($2250)
June 29, FIE 2020 paper got accepted!
Realizeit Preparation Work Replay (Data Structures course) (https://sites.google.com/site/qiongcheng5/home/RealizeITPreparationWorkReplay.mp4?attredirects=0&d=1)
May 1- 6, reviewer of FIE 2020
April 24, nominated as SGA’s Faculty Member of the Year
May 29 CCSC 2020
April 30 Second Workshop on HPC Education and Training for Emerging Technologies (HETET20) @ISC20
March 8. Tips, techniques and courseware in ITiCSE 2020 https://iticse.acm.org
Teaching review committee at UNCC
Feb. 23 Submit a poster to EduPar workshop 2020
Feb. 9 2020 Submit a paper abstract to FIE 2020 (March 28 paper deadline)
Dec. 5 2019 Family Code Night at Myers Park Traditional School (MPTS) (with Cathy Moor)
Oct. 5 2019 Charlotte Kids Festival [Coding in magic]
Oct. 2019: UNCC.CCI.CS undergraduate curriculum committee
Nov. + Dec. 2019: Being a judge in the Congressional App Challenge www.congressionalappchallenge.us
Nov. 6 2019: Joined SIGHPC Edu. Chapter (8990932)
Nov. 2019: SIGCSE 2020 BoF reviewer
Fall 2019 + Spring 2020: ALA
Oct. 17-18: FIE paper (slides)
Aug. 5-9 2019: CDER training workshop (Univ of Maryland)
2019-Spring: Parallel Class Internal Fund $25000
2019-Spring: Parallel Class External Fund $5000
2019-Spring: CompEd travel award $1000
2019-Spring: Teaching Faculty Development award (2019-2021) $7000
2019-Spring: CompEd 2019 Reviewer
2019-5-17: TPC member of FIE 2019
2019-5-10: 2019 WFBMI Colloquium (Poster Kinase Similarity Analysis)
2019-1-31: Q. joined in AppInventor Community (http://teach.appinventor.mit.edu)
2019-1-22: Q. submitted a paper abstract to FIE 2019
2019-1-15: Q. got a travel award to SIGCSE 2019 (Feb. 27 - March 2) $500 https://sigcse.org/sigcse/programs/travel-grants/awards
2018-12-4: Q. got a poster accepted in SIGCSE 2019.
2018-12-7: Q. is accepted as a member of the Wake Forest Baptist Center for Biomedical Informatics (WFBMI)
2018-10-23: Q. is accepted as Editorial Board Member of SCIREA Journal of Computer(http://www.scirea.org/journal/Computer)
2018-10-18: Q. serves in the program committee of CompEd 2019
2018-10-15: Q. got a paper accepted in BIBM SEPDA 2018
2018-09-15: Q. has the membership in ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE - 6022188)
2018-09-01: Q. was selected to be in New Faculty Academy at UNCC.
2013: PLoS Genetics paper (Cheng et al) voted in "top 10 papers in regulatory genomics for 2012-13" (paper link, award link)
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