Workshop Bios for 2016 / To be updated for 2018

Photo	Name & Affiliation	Bio/blurb/career highlights/anecdotes/historical fiction
	Andrea Danyluk Dennis A. Meenan '54 Third Century Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Williams College	I attended Vassar College as an undergraduate and was so grateful for my wonderful professors that I decided I wanted to grow up to be just like them. As a grad student at Columbia University, I had the opportunity to teach a section of CS1, which reinforced my desire to teach. I stepped off the teaching path briefly after grad school, working for four years in an industrial research lab. It was a great opportunity to develop my own research program post-dissertation, but the pull of teaching was strong, and I moved to Williams College in the rural northwest corner of Massachusetts. I've been there for 20 years. At Williams I've taught courses at all levels -- from non-major to major core courses to electives -- as well as interdisciplinary courses in Cognitive Science. I've co-authored a textbook, been involved in both local and international curriculum design efforts, and served as department chair and acting dean of faculty. I'm a member of CRA-W and am especially interested in increasing the number of women and underrepresented minorities in CS. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Dave Reed Associate Professor, Director of Computer Science and Informatics, Department of Journalism, Media & Computing, Creighton University	I started teaching while a grad student at Duke University in the late 80's, and ended up teaching full-time at a historically-black women's college while finishing my degree. After graduation, I taught as visiting faculty at Duke and then at Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. Since 2000, I have been at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. In my career so far, I have: taught both large and extremely small classes, designed curriculum at the departmental, college, and disciplinary levels, written a text book, earned tenure twice, served as department chair, served as a program director, arranged a department split, arranged a department merger, and juggled priorities "solving" the two-body problem. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Colleen Lewis Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College	I did undergrad at UC Berkeley in EECS and went to work for a few years. I missed the teaching I got to do in undergrad so much that I decided to go back to Berkeley to do a PhD in education and a MS in computer science. Starting in 2012 I became an assistant professor of computer science at Harvey Mudd College teaching computer science and doing computer science education research. My research and teaching are focused on making CS accessible to students who are traditionally underrepresented in CS. I’ve done teaching including K-12, small and large college classes, and an EdX MOOC for kids to learn Scratch. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Darakhshan Mir Assistant Professor and Jane W. Griffith Faculty Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Bucknell University	I have been at Bucknell University since Fall 2015. Before that, for two years, I was the Norma Wilentz Hess Faculty Fellow at Wellesley College which is a really interesting, unique position! I earned my Ph.D. from Rutgers University, where I enjoyed teaching as a teaching assistant and instructor, volunteered to teach Math at an after-school program in an inner city middle school, and participated in "outreach" activities such as a robotics workshop for middle school girls in my native Kashmir. At some point it dawned on me that I enjoyed teaching and mentoring students one-on-one so much, that it made sense to make a career out of it. I really enjoy being a professor at a teaching-focused place -- getting to interact with students closely and having an opportunity to be part of their intellectual journey. Many of the students I have worked with both at Wellesley and Bucknell are a delight and I wouldn't trade this part of the job for anything else (grading is another matter!). My research interests are in the area of data privacy and I've had a whale of a time working with my students on research at Wellesley and I look forward to doing so at Bucknell. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Leo Porter Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Clifornia, San Diego	I received my BA at the University of San Diego and was inspired by my great professors to pursue a future as an academic. After a 4 year tour as an officer in the United States Navy, I went to UC San Diego where I finished my Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Architecture. Although I will always enjoy working on designing faster and more power efficient processors, even as a graduate student I knew I loved teaching. So much so, I TA'd for 17 terms and took side positions teaching computer architecture as an instructor at USD and UCSD. My first tenure track full-time position was as an Assistant Professor at Skidmore College. In 2014, I moved to UCSD as an Assistant Teaching Professor. Again, I've taught a wide array of classes but now the class sizes vary from 25 (small graduate class) to 360 (upper division undergraduate class) students. Recently, I also gained experience creating MOOCs with tens of thousands of enrolled students. These days, my research focus is primarily computer science education, specifically effective pedagogical practices, indicators of student success, and assessment of student learning. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Jodi Tims Professor, Department Chair, Department of Computer Science Baldwin Wallace University	Somehow I just always knew that was my calling. What I didn’t know was the path that would lead me to where I am today, a professor and department chair at Baldwin Wallace University. I attended the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown where I received a B.S. in Mathematics and one of the greatest gifts of my life – a mentor. When I was considering graduate school, my mentor (a Mathematician) encouraged me to consider Computer Science for my M.S. pursuits. I decided to give it a try and with the support of another wonderful mentor at the University of Pittsburgh, eventually earned the Ph.D. in Computer Science. My career path took me from an Instructor position to a tenured Associate Professor at Pitt Johnstown, then on to Saint Francis University, PA, and finally to my current position at Baldwin Wallace University. I teach a variety of undergraduate courses from Data Structures and Web Programming to Formal Languages and Algorithms and have the pleasure of working with several undergraduates on research and applied projects. I currently serve on the ACM-W Executive Council and lead the Celebrations Project, which brings Grace Hopper Conference-like experiences to undergraduate and graduate students at a regional level. -- Things I wish I had known...
	Steve Wolfman Professor of Teaching, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia	I attended Duke as an undergraduate and had an amazing first CS teacher named Doug Reed (or Dan Reed? something like that). TAing at Duke and then a grad student at UW was amazing; so, I jumped when I got a chance to be the instructor for UW's data structures course and then again for CS1. Thanks to my Ph.D. supervisor and UW engineering's teaching portfolio program, I took copious notes on my second class, which became my application materials when I searched for teaching positions. I've now been teaching-oriented faculty at UBC for 11 years, gone through the promotion process twice (and took copious notes on how to build a tenure packet), taught a whole bunch of offerings of a dozen courses, flipped two or three (depending on how you count!), mentored a small army of TAs, done a fair bit of CS education research, run the SIGCSE symposium, led UBC CS's second degree program for mature students, and (best of all) taught my daughter quite a bit of math and CS. -- Things I wish I had known...

2016 Participants