Prof. Angela Zavaleta Bernuy – Faculty of Engineering

Prof. Angela Zavaleta Bernuy

Expertise

Computing Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Educational Technology, Randomized Experimentation, Adaptive Intelligent Systems

Current status

  • Accepting graduate students

  • Lecturer

    Computing and Software

Overview

Angela Zavaleta Bernuy is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Software at McMaster University. Angela is currently defending her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto (expected 2025), where she also completed her M.Sc. in Computer Science and B.Sc. in Software Engineering and Mathematics.

Angela’s research integrates perspectives from human-computer interaction, experimental psychology, and educational psychology frameworks into computing education research. She emphasizes practical experiments and cross-disciplinary partnerships involving behavioural interventions and creative educational software to improve the learning experience for her students. As a scholarly teacher, Angela applies her research into her teaching by using data-driven systems to provide personalized, and positive, experiences for her students.

Angela serves as a member of ACM Women and is an active member of the ACM Special Interest Group in Computing Education Research.

Some fun things about me: I am bilingual (English and Spanish) and an avid traveler! I also love to build Lego (large or small!) and enjoy both playing and watching tennis!

Did you know?

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2022-2025: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada (expected). 2020-2021: M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada. 2015-2020: Honours B.Sc. in Software Engineering and Mathematics, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.

  • Best research paper award, ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education (2022).

For an up-to-date list of my publications please check my Google Scholar and my DBLP pages.