R. Benjamin Shapiro -

Registered user since Sun 6 Feb 2022

Name:R. Benjamin Shapiro

Bio:

Ben Shapiro leads the Learning Sciences team in Machine Intelligence at Apple.

He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and, by courtesy, in the School of Education and the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research group, the Laboratory for Playful Computation, investigates how to enable kids from diverse backgrounds to learn computer science through collaborative, creative expression and through the design of networked technologies to solve problems in their homes and communities. He received his PhD in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

Country:United States

Affiliation:Apple, Inc. and University of Colorado, Boulder

Personal website:https://benshapi.ro

Research interests:Computing Education Research, ML Education, End User Programming, Learning Sciences

Contributions

ICER 2023	Author in Senior Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
ICER 2022	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track Session Chair of Lightning Talks (part of Doctoral Consortium) Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee Session Chair of Posters (part of Doctoral Consortium) Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee within the Doctoral Consortium-track
ICER 2021	Program Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track Session Chair of Tools (part of Research Papers)
VL/HCC 2020	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
ICER 2020	Program Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
Convivial Computing Salon 2020	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Salon 2020-track
TyDe 2019	Author of Flexible Structure Editing of Well-Typed Expressions within the TyDe 2019-track
SPLASH 2018	Committee Member in Program Committee within the SPLASH-E-track
BLOCKS+ 2018	Author of Thinking Outside the Blocks within the BLOCKS+-track