June 2026: Join me at ConnectUR 2026 where I’ll be speaking on the future of undergraduate research.

April 2026: Research with the OSU team on the impact of SES on student registration was presented at ACM SIGCHI ’26.

March 2026: Delighted to be named a CUR Fellow; working with CAHSI’s LREU program and Kean’s talented students and faculty makes this possible!

Nov 2025: Our paper on developing faculty mentors to positively impact STEM student retention and success was presented at IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE ’25).

Sept 2025: Kean’s new, first-in-NJ BS in Artificial Intelligence program is featured in the news.

Sept 2025: Research with OSU on measuring SES-related traits related to technology usage was published in Empirical Software Engineering.

July 2025: Our paper on the impact of conferences on undergraduate CS students received an honorable mention at ACM RESPECT ’25.

February 2025: Join me at ACM SIGCSE ’25, where I’ll discuss universal design, research collaborations, and software engineering.

October 2024: Our paper on how peer instructional skills can improve student outcomes will be presented at IEEE FIE ’24.

August 2024: Research on teaching universal design to students, conducted in collaboration with OSU, was presented at ACM ICER ’24.

May 2024: Research with the OSU team on The Matchmaker Design Curriculum was presented at ACM SIGCHI ’24.

April 2024:  Spoke at the NJ AI Summit on AI Education and Workforce Development, hosted by Princeton; full recording here.

March 2024: Our paper “From Workshops to Classrooms: Faculty Experiences with Implementing Universal Design Principles” was presented at ACM SIGCSE’24.

October 2023: Our research on expanding graduate study and improving undergraduate research mentoring was presented at IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE ’23).

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Prior work from Kean University Multimedia and Network Laboratory