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Angela E.B. Stewart

  • Assistant Professor
  • Research Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center

Angela joined SCI in 2022, with a joint appointment in the Department of Informatics and Network Science and Learning Research and Development Center. Prior to that, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder (2020) and a Bachelor of Software Engineering from Auburn University (2015).

Angela conducts research at the intersection of the learning sciences, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. She uses multimodal data to understand students' social and cognitive states, particularly in collaborative STEM learning. She also creates equitable educational spaces by designing technologies that support the agency of students and teachers. Angela applies a culturally-responsive lens to her research, with a particular focus in emboldening Black girls' design of transformative technologies. Angela was named a 2021 - 2022 Emerging Scholar by the International Society of the Learning Sciences.

Institution of Highest Degree

  • PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

Representative Publications

Jaemarie Solyst, Tara Nkrumah, Angela E.B. Stewart, Jina Lee, Erin Walker, Amy Ogan. Understanding instructors' cultivation of connectedness in K-12 online synchronous culturally responsive STEM and computing education. Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW '22.

Samuel L. Pugh, Arjun Ramesh Rao, Angela E.B. Stewart, Sidney K. D’Mello. Do speech-based collaboration analytics generalize across task contexts? Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK '22.

Angela E.B. Stewart, Jaemarie Solyst, Amanda Buddemeyer, Leshell Hatley, Sharon Henderson-Singer, Kimberly Scott, Erin Walker and Amy Ogan. Explaining engagement: Learner behaviors in a virtual coding camp. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Angela E.B. Stewart, Zachary Keirn, and Sidney K. D'Mello. Multimodal modeling of collaborative problem solving in triads. User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, 2021.

Research Interests

computing education, equity, culturally-responsive technology, and social computing