I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where I teach about human-computer interaction (HCI) and the US healthcare system. I also teach classes within our Engineering Design program. I graduated from Indiana University (IU) with a PhD in Health Informatics. My dissertation was on working with older adults to create with electronics using their crafting skills. Lately, I’ve been doing research in HCI education and HCI.
I’m a generalist with a PhD. I have wide ranging interests where I know some about many different topics, but I am still quite capable diving deep into answering questions about something unknown. I’ve published work in many different venues, from health to security to robotics to CS education to Engineering education. Some underlying themes across a lot of my work are understanding people, designing and evaluating technologies, and supporting people to do what they want to do.
My strengths as an educator are my ability to improve students’ experiences in a course, injecting more fun into courses, and taking a mentor-style approach to put them in a position to succeed. I teach several different courses on HCI, design, people skills, the US healthcare system, and introductory programming.
My PhD work was advised by Dr. Katie Siek in the ProHealth Lab at IU, and my work was supported through the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) and an NSF grant.