Team

Susanne E. Hambrusch is a professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. She served as the Department Head from 2002-07 and as the Interim Head 2018-19. From 2010 to 2013, she served as the Director of the Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Division in the CISE Directorate at NSF. Her research interests are in query and data management, computer science education, and analysis of algorithms. She has been involved in a number of computer science education projects focused on computational thinking, CS AP Principles, and professional development for teachers. Susanne currently serves on CRA’s board and she is a co-chair on CRA’s Education committee (CRA-E). She was a member of the CRA committee publishing the Generation CS report on the undergraduate enrollments. She co-chaired a National Academies Committee on the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments which published a report on the many drivers of the surge in undergraduate enrollments.

Larry Birnbaum is Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, where he focuses on applied AI and natural language processing, including intelligent information systems, social media data analytics, machine learning, computational journalism and media, conversational interfaces, and automatic content generation. He served as Chair of CS at Northwestern from 2014 to 2019.

Larry is also Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of Narrative Science, which builds and markets technology to automatically generate narratives from data, with the goal of making the world’s data meaningful to people through stories.

Clayton's Lewis is Professor of Computer Science and Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, at the University of Colorado Boulder, and serves as Co-Director for Technology for the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. Lewis has served previously as Fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Delmenhorst, Germany) and as technology advisor to the director of the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Department of Education. He has been honored by appointment to the ACM SIGCHI Academy and by the SIGCHI Social Impact Award. He has been named a President’s Teaching Scholar, a life title signifying the University of Colorado’s highest recognition for teaching.

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