¡Bienvenidos!
Welcome! I am a Professor of Software and Information Systems in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
As of February 2022, I am under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Mobility assignment to the National Science Foundation (NSF) - aka I am a Program Officer (Rotator) at NSF. I will be working in the Education and Workforce Cluster part of the Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Division in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate.
Research
My research is in Human-computer interaction and Computer Science Education. Some areas that I have studied include personal information management, information refinding, tools for building interactive systems, digital libraries, use of computers for education, and cultural influence in interface design.
Teaching
I am on leave at NSF and thus not teaching right now.
Professional Service
I participate on a number of groups and organizations inside and outside of UNCC as part of my commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in academia and professional service.
- Member of the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and coauthor of the consensus study report on Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech.
- Co-Founder of the Hispanics in Computing group and manager their listserv and website.