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Members of the Engaging Computing Group
Dr. Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi joined UTSA and the Engaging Computing Group as a Postdoctoral Fellow in August 2024.
Dr. Sanusi received his PhD in Computer Science in 2023, with a specialization in Technologies for Learning and Development, from the School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland.
Saniya Vahedian Movahed is a doctoral candidate in Computer Science. She joined UTSA in August 2023.
Saniya’s research focuses on how childen learn AI, including their relationship to AI chatbots.
Pragathi Durga Rajarajan is an undergraduate student in Computer Science at UTSA. Durga is working on AI Tools for K-12. She is co-author of Fauna Forest, which introduces students to decision trees, and author of Into The Rabbit Hole, which teaches the depth- vs. breadth-first search algorithms.
Rashi Rautela is an undergraduate student in Computer Science at UTSA. Rashi is developing tooling for the iSENSE data visualization platform.
Past Members
UTSA alums of the ECG are Neha Bhosale, Nat Broyles, and Liam Skinner, all of whom worked on the iSENSE Project.
Fred led the Engaging Computing Group at UMass Lowell from 2002 to 2023. Students who earned MS and/or PhD degrees with me as lead advisor as noted.
Members included:
| Rajia Abdelaziz | Evana Gizzi | George Pantazopoulis |
| Chike Abuah | Erin Graceffa | Sam Patriquin |
| Chris Adoretti | Chris Granz (MS) | Michael Penta (MS) |
| Victoria Albanese | Alex Grinstein | Jeremy Poulin |
| Olmo Alonso Moreno Franco | Farzeen Harunani (MS) | Iryna Pseftis |
| Gaurav Bhatnagar | Christopher Huerta | Tyler Puleo |
| Chris Berns | Steven Huyhn | Vrinda Punj |
| Katharine Brunelle | Elena Izotova | Alan Rosenthal |
| Kaitlyn Carcia | Anshul Kamdar | Anthony Salani |
| David Ceddia | John Kelly | Doug Salvati |
| Yoo Min Cha | Jason Kiesling | Joel Savitz |
| Andrew Chanler | Jacob Kinsman | Lauren Seavey |
| Brian Cheung | Nipun Kisari | Mark Sherman (MS, PhD) |
| Billy Chin | Rory Kondrad | Patrick Sullivan |
| Grace Chin | Michael Kusmirek | Blake Skinner |
| Trevor Conway | Garima Jain | Joel Slebodnick |
| Chris Corcoran | David Jones-Martin | Patrick Son |
| Qiana Curcuru | Carmen Lara | Reed Spool |
| Glen Cote | Kyewook Lee | Ramya Srinatha (MS) |
| Jeremy Daigneau | Derrell Lipman (MS, PhD) | Mike Stowell |
| James Dalphond (MS) | Tim Mahan | Naveena Swamy |
| Nicholas Davidowicz | Justin Lu | John Swanson |
| James DeFilippo | Ryan Maradiaga | Joshua Sullivan |
| Matthew DiBello | Vaishali Mahipal (MS) | Bonnie Joyce Tacheron |
| Bobby Donald | Zachary McCann | Sachiko Tosa |
| Jaelyn Dones | Michael McGuinness | Nat Tuck |
| Kim Douglas | Hassan McKusick | Ryan Tucker |
| Jason Downing | Joel Michel | Arthea Valderrama |
| George Doyle | Charlie Mirabile | Keith Valin |
| James English | Bryan Montalvan | Nicholas Ver Voort |
| Joshua Everett | Eliane Motchoffo | Calvin Yee |
| Eric Fairbanks | Ian Ndicu | Eric Viscione |
| John Fertitta (MS) | David Nguyen | Angela Wang |
| Chris Galster | Chris Odom | Haiyang Zhang (PhD) |
| Srija Ghosh | Nathan Palmer | Sam Zuk |
| Dhruv Patel |