Tamara Nelson-Fromm

PhD Student, University of Michigan Computer Science

I am creating visual computing-based tools to aid data inquiry in education, and exploring how non-computing professionals represent computing science concepts. My research interests are broadly in computing education, human-computer interaction, and visualization.

I am a PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Mark Guzdial. I earned my BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2020, where I worked primarily with Prof. Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider in the d7 group.

If you followed a really old link, you might've been looking for book reviews. You can still find many on my goodreads and in my blog archive. (in-progress)

Email: tamaranfumich.edu
Follow: @tamaraniac tamaraniac

Updates

September 1 2020 I started my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
May 22 2020 My poster, "Visualizing Curriculum Commonalities and Prerequisite Chains Through Metro Maps" at the 2020 University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium won Outstanding Poster in Science and Mathematics, putting it in the top 0.5% of presentations!
May 16 2020 I graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
May 11 2020 I'm celebrating the release of my senior thesis: a visualization of the engineering majors at the University of Illinois, laid out in the form of an interconnecting metro map!
April 27 2020 I'm presenting a video/poster, "Visualizing Curriculum Commonalities and Prerequisite Chains Through Metro Maps" at the 2020 University of Illinois [Virtual] Undergraduate Research Symposium.
April 15 2020 In Fall, I'll be attending the University of Michigan for a PhD in Computer Science, focusing on Computing Education.
January 1 2020 For the next three weeks, I'll be in NYC, New York, participating in the Impact Labs Fellowship.