Registered user since Thu 14 Jul 2016
Amy J. Ko is a Professor at the University of Washington Information School and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (courtesy). She directs the Code & Cognition Lab, where she and her students study computing education, human-computer interaction, and humanity’s individual and collective struggle to understand computing and harness it for creativity, equity, and justice. With her collaborators, she’s invented many tools and programming languages to support debugging, program understanding, reuse, and learning; founded and sold a venture-backed startup; developed numerous ways to weave equity and justice into computing education pedagogy, culture, and technology; and impacted local, state, and federal K-12 CS education policy through community organizing and advocacy. Her work spans more than 130 peer-reviewed publications, with 19 receiving paper awards and 4 receiving most influential paper awards. She is an ACM Distinguished Member and a member SIGCHI Academy, for her substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, computing education, and software engineering. She received her Ph.D. at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008, and degrees in Computer Science and Psychology with Honors from Oregon State University in 2002.
Contributions
2025
2024
ICER
- Author of Integrating Philosophy Teaching Perspectives to Foster Adolescents' Ethical Sensemaking of Computing Technologies within the Research Papers-track
- Session Chair of Student Support (part of Research Papers)
- Author of Exploring the Impact of Assessment Policies on Marginalized Students' Experiences in Post-Secondary Programming Courses within the Research Papers-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
SIGCSE TS
- Author of Disability and Accessibility in Computer Science Education within the Birds of a Feather-track
- Author of Cultivating and Celebrating LGBTQ+ Community in Computing Education within the Birds of a Feather-track
- Author of Facilitating Teens as Ethical Sensemakers of Technology within the Posters-track
- Author of Computing, Education, and Capitalism within the Birds of a Feather-track
- Author of Cultural-Centric Computational Embroidery within the Papers-track
2023
ICER
- Author of Funds of Knowledge used by Adolescents of Color in Scaffolded Sensemaking around Algorithmic Fairness within the Research Papers-track
- Author of Developing Novice Programmers' Self-Regulation Skills with Code Replays within the Research Papers-track
- Author of "A field where you will be accepted": Belonging in student and TA interactions in post-secondary CS education within the Research Papers-track
- Committee member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Author of Navigating a Blackbox: Students' Experiences and Perceptions of Automated Hiring within the Research Papers-track
SIGCSE TS
- Author of Disability in Computer Science Education within the Birds of a Feather-track
- Session Chair of Accessibility and Disability in CS Education (part of Affiliated Events)
- Session Chair of TOCE Papers: Teachers and Capacity (part of Sister Sessions)
- Author of Proposing, Planning, and Teaching an Equity- and Justice-Centered Secondary Pre-Service CS Teacher Education Program within the Papers-track
- Session Chair of TOCE Papers: Identity and Diversity (part of Sister Sessions)
- Organizer of Accessibility and Disability in CS Education within the Affiliated Events-track
2022
ICER
- Author of "I would be afraid to be a bad CS teacher": Factors Influencing Participation in Pre-Service Secondary Computing Teacher Education within the Research Papers-track
- Author of A Decade of Demographics in Computing Education Research: A Critical Review of Trends in Collection, Reporting, and Use within the Research Papers-track
2021
Requirements Engineering
ICER
- Session Chair of Closing (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Opening Coffee (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Opening (part of Plenary)
- Program Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Session Chair of Welcome session (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Announcements (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Welcome session (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Welcome session (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Keynote (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Welcome session (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Award (part of Plenary)
2020
ICER
- Co-chair of Conference opening within the Plenary-track
- Co-chair of Day 4 Welcome + Survey within the Plenary-track
- Program Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Session Chair of Asia Social (part of Socials)
- Session Chair of Closing Award Session (part of Plenary)
- Program Co-Chair in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Session Chair of Programming and Agency (part of Research Papers)
- Author of Learning Machine Learning with Personal Data Helps Stakeholders Ground Advocacy Arguments in Model Mechanics within the Research Papers-track
- Co-chair of Award Session within the Plenary-track
- Session Chair of Day 2 Closing (part of Plenary)
- Session Chair of Day 4 Opening (part of Plenary)
2018
ICSE
- Author of Most Most Influential Paper: Debugging reinvented: asking and answering why and why not questions about program behavior within the Plenary Sessions-track
- Session Chair of Studying Software Engineers I (part of Technical Papers )
- Committee Member in Program committee within the Technical Papers -track
Mining Software Repositories
International Conference on Program Comprehension
2017
Blog Posts
- Tentative program now available Tue 29 Jun 2021