I am honoured to receive the Teaching Excellence Award 2024 🏆 from the BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus Teaching Learning Center. I thank my department leadership and colleagues for the continued encouragement of my teaching innovation and the institute for recognizing these efforts.

Two of our research papers are accepted for the ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research conference (ICER'24), to be held in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2024. ICER is a CORE A conference and a prestigious Computing Education research community venue.

BITS Goa and NCISM signed an MOU with NCISM on integrating AI in medical education in NCISM institures

Partha and I appeared on Dr Samuel Mann’s Blowing Bubbles podcast, where we discussed our work on teaching accessibility.

We tested the hypothesis that educating students about academic integrity would reduce malpractice using data from an AI course with 105 students. However, we did not find a significant reduction in code similarity between the two programming assignments.

We replicated surveys from the US and Switzerland to assess who among CS faculty in India teaches accessibility and the barriers they face. We also included a qualitative analysis of faculty perceptions.

We surveyed 269 software professionals in India to explore who practices digital accessibility, when and how it is integrated into development, the challenges they face, and the resources they need for better integration of accessibility.

We implemented a training program to teach digital accessibility using the Communities of Practice (CoP) framework. The study involved 66 participants from a large multinational software company, divided into two groups: one using CoP and the other engaging in self-paced learning.

A continually existing skills gap in the technology industry’s workforce prevents many organizations from creating truly accessible products and services according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards, increasing their risk of alienating and excluding a significant portion of users. Software professionals’ low accessibility skills are largely attributed to the lack of coverage of accessibility topics in the Computer Science (CS) curriculum. While prior literature explores some active-learning pedagogies like project-based learning and delves into incorporating accessibility topics in the CS curricula, game-based learning to teach accessibility has not been explored enough. This study aims to develop and assess the effectiveness of a serious game to teach accessibility to computing students and software professionals.