SPEAKER/ORGANIZER BIOS
Tyson Henry, Ph.D received his bachelor's degree in physics from Vassar College in 1984 and master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science form the University of Arizona in 1987 and 1992. He was a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico for three years, did contract work for the Air Force Research Laboratory for three years, and worked at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories for three years. He joined the faculty at California State University Chico in the Fall of 2001. Dr. Henry's primary research areas are computer science education, and socio-technical software engineering (the human side of software engineering).
Hilary Holz, Ph.D., received her bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1984 from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, and her master's (1989) and Sc.D. (1999) from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford Medical School before coming to CSU, Hayward in 2001. She has done research in both human and machine learning, and is interested in cognitive modeling for acquisition of computer science information.
Catherine (Kate) Reed, Ph.D. Prior to earning my Ph.D. in Educational Psychology - Gifted with a concentration in Mathematics Education, I was a public school classroom teacher for 19 years and then a Resource Teacher and Mathematics Coach to the Faculties of 3 Middle Schools. As a classroom teacher, I taught mathematics in all grades from 6th through Community College and 2 foreign languages at the high school level. During and immediately after my Ph.D. studies, I was Adjunct Faculty for the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, teaching in both Mathematics Education and Gifted Education.
Clarke Steinback, Ph.D. has a diverse experiential and academic background including biology, biomedical engineering, computer graphics, web technologies, computer science, and assistive technologies. He currently teaches Computer Science and Computer Graphics courses at CSU, Chico, and acts as the Undergraduate Advising Coordinator for the Department of Computer Science. He is the faculty advisor for student organizations such as ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), CSLUG (Chico State Linux UserŐs Group), and CGC (Computer Graphics Consortium).
Ken Yasuhara is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research focus is on computer science education, and his current work focuses on gender equity and retention in introductory computer science courses. He is also active in the department's teaching, K-12 outreach, and diversity efforts. He is currently a research assistant with the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education.