Name:Mihaela Sabin

Bio:

Mihaela Sabin is Professor of Computer Science at University of New Hampshire. Her current research includes computing education and curriculum development, with emphasis on professional competencies and faculty role modeling. She has contributed to the AI field of constraint satisfaction with a new representational model based on conditional constraints. Sabin chaired the ACM/IEEE Computer Society IT2017 task group, who authored the “Curriculum Guidelines for Baccalaureate Degree Programs in Information Technology” report. She received external funding awards from the National Science Foundation, New Hampshire Innovation Research Center, Google for Education, and other private and corporate foundations for projects that support computing learning by students and teachers. Sabin serves on the ACM Education Board and on the ACM SIGITE Executive Committee as Vice-Chair for Education. She also represents SIGITE on the ACM Education Advisory Committee and serves on the board of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges North Eastern Region. She is a founding member of the Computer Science Teacher Association New Hampshire Chapter and of the CS4NH alliance. Sabin is an ABET Program Evaluator, a member of the ABET CS Accreditation Board, and a member of the ABET CAC/CSAB Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee.

Sabin has an M.S. in Computer Science from “Politehnica” University in Bucharest, Romania, and an M.S. for Teachers in College Teaching and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of New Hampshire.

Country:United States

Affiliation:University of New Hampshire

Research interests:computing education, curriculum development, professional competency and competency-based learning, faculty role modeling