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      <h1 class="display-4">¡Bienvenidos!</h1>
      <p class="lead">Welcome! I am a professor of computer science/computing. My current position is Full Professor in Software and Information Systems in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.</p>
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          <i>En la vida todo es ir<br>
          a lo que el tiempo deshace.<br>
          Sabe el hombre donde nace<br>
          y no donde va a morir.</i><br>
          -- Juan A. Corretjer
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    I will be receiving the 2025 ACM SIGCSE Distinguished Service to Computer Science Education in Pittsburgh, PA!
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    <h3>Research</h3>
    <p>My research is in Human-computer interaction and Computer Science Education. Some areas that I have studied include personal information management, information refinding, tools for building interactive systems, digital libraries, use of computers for education, and cultural influence in interface design.</p>
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        <li><a href="students.html">Students</a></li>
        <li><a href="https://sites.google.com/uncc.edu/hci-cci/home">Human-Centered Computing Group at CCI</a></li>
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    <h3>Teaching</h3>
    <p>Currently I teach and I'm the course coordinator of ITSC 2214 Data Structures and Algorithms.</p>

    <h3>Professional Service</h3>
    <p>I participate on a number of groups and organizations inside and outside of UNCC as part of my commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in academia and professional service.</p>

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      <li>Deputy Chair of the ACM Distinguished Service Award committee.</li>

      <li>Member of the Board of Directors for the <a href="https://cra.org/">Computing Research Association</a>, and co-chair of the CRA Leadership Academy.</li>

      <li>Member of the <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/cwsem/committee-on-women-in-science-engineering-and-medicine">Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine</a> at the National Academies of Science, Engineering.</li>

      <li>Co-Founder of the <a href="http://hispanicsincomputing.org">Hispanics in Computing</a> group and manager of their listserv and website.</li>

      <li>Website manager for the <a href="http://sigcse.org">SIGCSE organization</a>.</li>
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    <h3>Recent Publications</h3>
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      <li>Valerie Barr, Carla E. Brodley, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2024. <b>Visualizing Progress in Broadening Participation in Computing: The Value of Context</b>. Communications of the ACM 67, 7 (July 2024), 46–55. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3635471">https://doi.org/10.1145/3635471</a>.</li>
      <li>Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Debarati Basu. 2024. <b>Equitable Computing Education</b>, In Proceedings ASEE 2024. Potland, OR. June 23-26, 2024.</li>
      <li>Adrienne Decker, Stephen H. Edwards, Brian M. McSkimming, Bob Edmison, Audrey Rorrer, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2024. <b>Transforming Grading Practices in the Computing Education Community</b>. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 276–282. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630953">https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630953</a>.</li>
      <li>Syeda Fatema Mazumder and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2024. <b>The Correctness of the Mental Model of Arrays After Instruction for CS1 Students</b>. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 806–811. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630943">https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630943</a>.</li>
      <li>Debarati Basu, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2023. <b>Equity in Computing Education is Not a Political Agenda</b>. In 2023 RESPECT Conference, Atlanta, GA. June 20th, 2023. IEEE Press.</li>
      <li>Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Debarati Basu. 2023. Computing Faculty Perspectives on Equity, In 2023 RESPECT Conference, Atlanta, GA. June 20th, 2023. IEEE Press. </li>
      <li>Syeda Fatema Mazumder and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2023. <b>Incoming CS1 Students' Misconceptions on Arrays</b>. In 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), College Station, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 1-9, <a href="http://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10342927">http://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10342927</a>.</li>
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