2025 Guest Editorial in AI Magazine: 'Introduction to special issue on AI literacy and AI education' (with Dave Touretzky and Michael Wollowski)
2025 paper 'AI Literacy as a Core Component of AI Education' (with Tadimalla S.Y.) published in AI Magazine
Principal investigator of NSF-funded project 'Pique: Personalized Curiosity' (#1618810), using computational creativity to enhance intrinsic motivation and knowledge retention
Leads the 'Human-Centered Co-Creative AI' project series exploring human interaction with deep learning models
Collaborative NSF IUSE project (#2111376) studying course climate impacts on students with intersectional identities; developed the CALI inventory
Research Experience
Professor (Education Focussed), School of Computer Science, University of Sydney
Professor Emeritus, College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte
Former Director of Research Community Initiatives and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) at CRA
Former Director of the Center for Education Innovation (CEI) at UNC Charlotte (established 2013), leading over 20 externally funded projects in flipped classrooms, lightweight teams, digital education technologies, and service learning
Former Co-Director of the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Lab at UNC Charlotte, focusing on creativity, ubiquitous computing, novel interaction technologies, recommender systems, big data interaction, and usable security
Chair of the Department of Software and Information Systems at UNC Charlotte (2012–2020), achieving 100% faculty participation in external grant proposals