Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro he/him

Associate Professor of Computer Science

University of Washington

About Me

I am the Associate Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access (DEIA) in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), where I am am also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Education, and Co-director of the Center for Learning, Computing, and Imagination.

I am a learning scientist, and my research usually, though not always, focuses on helping youth learn computer science.

In addition to my role at UW, I am also a researcher in Apple’s Human-Centered Machine Learning group.

Education
  • PhD in Learning Sciences, 2009

    Northwestern University

  • BA in Independent Studies, 2002

    University of California San Diego

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(2024). Co-ML: Collaborative Machine Learning Model Building for Developing Dataset Design Practices. ACM Transactions on Computing Education.

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(2024). ContextQ: Generated Questions to Support Meaningful Parent-Child Dialogue While Co-Reading. Proceedings of ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2024.

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(2023). Collaborative Machine Learning Model Building with Families Using Co-ML. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.

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(2023). Improving Computing Education Research through Valuing Design. Communications of the ACM.

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(2023). Middle schoolers' trajectories of identification and wayfaring through a pet science workshop. Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference of the Learning Sciences.

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