DINS is looking forward to welcoming our newest faculty members, Dr. Angela Stewart and Dr. Pengfei Zhou! Drs. Stewart and Zhou will officially join the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems in Fall 2022.
Dr. Stewart will have a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department and as a Research Scientist in the Learning Research and Development Center. Most recently, she served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Stewart earned her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research is at the intersection of education, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence with specific interests in education technology for justice and equity, cognition and social dynamics in learning spaces, and artificial intelligence in education.
Also joining us in Fall 2020 will be Pengfei Zhou, who will be an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining the Department, Dr. Zhou was a Research Scientist in the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Illinois at Singapore. He has also been a Research Fellow in the Alibaba-NTU Joint Research Institute, Singapore, and a Technical Advisor with Alibaba Group. Dr. Zhou earned his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include mobile and intelligent systems, Artificial Intelligence of Things, Autonomous Cyber Pysical Systems, and 5G Networking and Applications.
The Department of Informatics and Networked Systems looks forward to welcoming Dr. Stewart and Dr. Zhou to the community!