Pittsburgh, PA
Cell: +1 (415) 602-3824
Email: abegel@cmu.edu
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Andrew Begel is known internationally for his pioneering research and leadership on cooperative and human aspects of software engineering, in which he combines empirical studies of professional software engineers with organizational behavior. His work has had significant impact on development processes used in practice. He has created many tools to help software engineers communicate and collaborate across teams. He was one of the first to study emotions in software engineering, now an active research field with 100+ researchers. With biometric sensors (eye tracking, fMRI), he helped software engineers be more productive in code comprehension, pair programming, and code review. To build a more inclusive technology workplace, he ran the first study of autistic software developers to identify their unique strengths and challenges. He created the Neurodiversity at Work Research Workshop series, bringing together dozens of interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and autism self-advocates to help autistic engineers find and keep jobs. As a member of the Microsoft-wide AI Ethics Board, he helped Microsoft's efforts to disseminate best practices for responsible AI engineering.
Dr. Begel has been deeply involved in the academic and professional communities, organizing and serving on program committees for top software engineering conferences co-sponsored by ACM and IEEE, He ran FSE and ICSE's ACM Student Research Competitions, ICSME's Doctoral Symposium, and taught two courses in software engineering at University of Washington's iSchool and two online coding camps for autistic youth. He regularly builds community by organizing workshops on emerging topics. He serves as an associate editor for Automated Software Engineering and served as an associate editor for Transactions on Software Engineering. He has published 50+ papers in top conferences and journals, which have been cited over 7,300 times with an h-index of 37. One of his papers received a Lasting Impact Award [ICER22], a Most Influential Paper Award (10 Year) [ICER19], three have received Best Paper awards [SIGCSE21, ICSE19, ASSETS15], and two received Honorable Mentions [CSCW19, CHI17]. He holds 3 patents.
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Dissertation:Spoken Language Support for Software Development [pdf] [pptx]
Advisor: Prof. Susan L. Graham
Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Master's Thesis: Bongo: a Kids' Programming Environment for Creating Video Games on the Web [pdf] [html]
Advisor: Prof. Mitchel Resnick
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
Advanced Undergraduate Project: LogoBlocks: A Graphical Programming Language for Interacting with the World [pdf] [html]
Advisor: Prof. Mitchel Resnick
Research Focus: Human Aspects of Software Engineering, Accessibility, Neurodiversity
Research Focus: Human Aspects of Software Engineering
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Collaborator: Prof. Eric Klopfer
Architected and designed StarLogo TNG. Helped run teacher education workshops on complex systems modeling and experimental science.
Supervisor: Michael Spreitzer
Developed object type system for HTTP-NG protocol supporting independent, anarchic evolution and extension.
Advisor: Prof. Mitchel Resnick
Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department
Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department and Clemson University Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department
Clemson University Department of Computer Science
Clemson University Department of Computer Science
Clemson University Department of Computer Science
University of Washington, Seattle Information School
University of Washington, Seattle
Information School
University of California, Berkeley Department of Computer Science
Instructors: Lecturer with Security of Employment Daniel D. Garcia and Andrew Begel
Received grant from GSI Teaching and Resource Center to revise and redesign course.
University of California, Berkeley Department of Computer Science
Instructors: Prof. Alex Aiken and Prof. George Necula
University of California, Berkeley Department of Computer Science
Instructor: Lecturer with Security of Employment Brian Harvey
University of California, Berkeley Spring Orientation and Teaching Conference for Graduate Student Instructors [html]
University of California, Berkeley Fall Orientation and Teaching Conference for Graduate Student Instructors [html]
University of California, Berkeley Spring Orientation and Teaching Conference for Graduate Student Instructors [html]
University of California, Berkeley Fall Orientation and Teaching Conference for Graduate Student Instructors [html]
University of California, Berkeley Fall Orientation and Teaching Conference for Graduate Student Instructors [html]