Congratulations to the Class of 2021!

During doctoral studies, Greg focused on learning technology for formal systems and improving research. Greg was fortunate to have great mentors like Amy Ko, Jeff Heer, Ras Bodik, Steve Tanimoto, Richard Ladner, and many others, as well as amazing collaborators at UW like Matt Kay, Dominik Moritz, Eric Whitmire, and Benji Xie, leading to paper awards at ACM CHI, IEEE InfoVis, and ACM ICER, the top conference for computer science education research. Greg has a B.S. in CS and Physics from Georgetown University. Greg is thankful for the support of his research by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and other NSF grants. Greg also had the lucky opportunity to do early envisioning work on mixed reality during an internship at Facebook Reality Labs. Before graduate school, Greg worked in industry, including scaling bank closing infrastructure at the FDIC during the Great Financial Crisis, and leading the development of a management database for greater transparency, accountability, and coordination across the Rwandan health system, working with the Rwandan Ministry of Health, USAID, the World Bank, and 120+ other organizations. Greg also enjoys aikido, choral singing, sailing, and nature!

If you want to make programming education better, Greg would love to hear from you!