Kendra M.L. Cooper
The University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Cooper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia and has published extensively in journals, conferences, symposia, and workshops. Dr. Cooper has worked in the early phases of the software development lifecycle in industrial and academic settings. In industry, she worked on defining and maintaining the requirements and architecture for a variety of complex, large-scale systems including a project management, air traffic control, and the core network for a wireless GPRS system. Her research interests center on systems and software engineering (component-based architecture) and education. CV is available here.

What's New?

CSEE&T 2013 Program Committee Dr. Cooper has been invited to serve on the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) program committee, the "foremost meeting for software engineering educators worldwide", http://conferences.computer.org/cseet. CSEE&T is co-located with ICSE 2013 in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Ms. Bharathi Balasubramaniam successfully defended her thesis "Automated Assessment and Gameplay Adaptation in Serious Educational Games", part of the SimSYS research project. Congratulations Bharathi!!!

Submission to the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012) Workshop on Game based learning for 21st century transferable skills has been accepted! The paper "Developing a Meta-Model for Serious Games in Higher Education", is part of the SimSYS research project; this work is co-authored with Dr. Shaun Longstreet, Marquette University.

SimSYS project showcased in the Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) December 2011 newsletter. Newsletter is here (.mht file).

MITACS-Accelerate Graduate Research Internship Program Award
"A Canadian Testbed for SmartCities" project, lead by Dr. Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada, has been awarded a three year grant, funding 5 students. Industry partners on the award are Barrodale Computing Services and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Canada). Dr. Cooper is a supervisor (collaborator) on the award.

ICSE 2012 news

2nd International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering proposal has been accepted! Co-organized with Dr. Gail Kaiser, Columbia University.

Tutorial on "Positive Transitions from the Classroom to the Cubicle: Strategies for Augmenting Professional Development in the Software Engineering Curriculum" proposal has been accepted! Co-organized with Dr. Shaun Longstreet, Marquette University.

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