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Members of the Engaging Computing Group
Dr. Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi joined UT San Antonio 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.
Kayleigh Stallings is a doctoral student in Computer Science at UT San Antonio. She received her BS in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy in 2019, and MS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023. Kayleigh’s research focus is on the development of AI Tools for K–12 Education.
Nicole Tian began her PhD program in Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2025. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating AI Tools for K–12 Education. She earned her MS in Computer Science, with a concentration in Software Engineering, from UT San Antonio in 2024.
Pragathi Durga Rajarajan is an undergraduate student in Computer Science at UT San Antonio. Durga is working on AI Tools for K–12 Education. 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.
Past Members
UT San Antonio alums of the ECG are Saniya Vahedian Movahed (PhD student) and Neha Bhosale, Nat Broyles, Rashi Rautela, and Liam Skinner (undergraduate students).
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 |