Gerald Soosairaj

Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

I study effective, equitable, and inclusive ways to teach computing to a diverse set of learners. Specifically, I focus on understanding the barriers that non-native English speakers face while learning programming, reducing these barriers by designing and evaluating suitable interventions/tools to help them overcome those barriers. I also study the effectiveness of live coding, a teaching method based on cognitive apprenticeship, to teach programming processes (e.g., incremental development) for students with no prior programming experience.