Faculty

Biography: Naomi Alterman is an assistant teaching professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and data science fellow at the eScience Institute. She is a STEM education researcher and systems software hacker with a background in computer networking and electrical engineering. The primary focus of her work is on building inclusive and effective pedagogy at all levels of CS education. She also thinks a lot about how to nurture organic learning communities and how to critically reflect on the influence technology has on how we learn and how we live. She loves spending time at the interfaces between complex domains of information, be they hardware, software, or people. Prior to joining the Allen School she worked at the UW’s eScience Institute as a Technical Education Specialist where she supported data science learning for researchers across the university. She has also taught engineering and data science courses at Mills College and the University of Illinois’s iSchool. Before moving into education she worked in industry as a systems software engineer where, among other projects, she collaborated on the pioneering network programming language P4 and worked on the kernel networking team at Apple. She holds an M.S. (2013) and a B.S. (2012) in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.