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Armando Fox is a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, Campus Equity Advisor, and Computer Science Diversity Officer at UC Berkeley. With his colleague David Patterson, he co-designed and co-taught Berkeley’s first Massive Open Online Course on “Engineering Software as a Service”, offered through edX, and co-authored the award-winning accompanying textbook of the same name; this work was recognized in 2015 by the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. His current research in CS education focuses on creating novel technologies to help students learn advanced programming concepts at scale. He has given invited keynotes on these topics in Spanish and English in the US, Asia, Spain, and Latin America. He has been invited to speak about software engineering education at SIGCSE, ICSE, CSEET, and other leading venues on computer science education, and has given invited keynotes at the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, the ACM India Annual Event, the Japan Top Worldwide Universities Project, and (in Spanish) at SISTEDES 2012, SISTEDES 2015, and the Spanish-language tracks of EMOOCS 2017 and MOOCMaker 2017. He has also given advisory presentations on these topics to the California State Legislature, the Chinese Ministry of Education, and the University of Hong Kong. In an earlier faculty position at Stanford, he received teaching and mentoring awards from the Associated Students of Stanford University, the Society of Women Engineers, and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. His degrees are in electrical engineering (BS MIT, MS University of Illinois), computer science (PhD UC Berkeley), and piano performance and musicology (Mannes College of Music Certificate Program, 1986). He is a classically-trained musician and performer, an avid musical theater fan and freelance Music Director, and multilingual/bicultural (Cuban-American) New Yorker who lives in San Francisco.

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Armando Fox is a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, and Associate Dean for Online Learning in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society. His current research focuses on online and technology-enhanced education, especially in computer science; previous research includes high productivity parallel computing, cloud computing, and Internet services. His current teaching activities focus on undergraduate Software Engineering, for which he and Prof. David Patterson created the successful textbook and accompanying online course Engineering Software as a Service (saasbook.info). and which serves as the basis of Berkeley’s first free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Before returning to Berkeley, he was on the faculty at Stanford, where he was recognized for both his research (NSF CAREER award, Robert Noyce Family Faculty Fellowship, IBM Young Faculty Fellowship) and his teaching (the Associated Students of Stanford University Teaching Award, the Society of Women Engineers Professor of the Year Award, and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Teaching and Mentoring Award). His collaborations with renowned computer architect and instructor Prof. David Patterson have included Recovery-Oriented Computing, Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems, the Berkeley Parallel Computing Laboratory, the ASPIRE project for high-performance and energy-efficient parallel computing, and most recently, co-authorship of the new textbook Engineering Software as a Service that reflects the state of the art in modern software engineering. He has been recognized as the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator of 2015, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a Gilbreth Lecturer for the National Academy of Engineering, a keynote speaker for the 2013 Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, and a Scientific American “Top 50” researcher. In previous lives he helped design the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor and founded a startup (subsequently acquired) to commercialize his UC Berkeley dissertation research on mobile computing. He received his other degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and the University of Illinois. He is also a classically-trained musician and performer, an avid musical theater fan and freelance Music Director, and multilingual/bicultural (Cuban-American) New Yorker living in San Francisco.

Armando Fox is a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, Campus Equity Advisor, and Computer Science Diversity Officer at UC Berkeley. His work on technology-enhanced computer science education led to his receiving the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 2015. He gave a keynote at Tapia 2013, co-organized a panel on peer teaching at Tapia 2017, and has given numerous keynotes in Spanish on computer science education throughout Spain and Latin America. He is a classically-trained musician and musical theater performer, and bilingual/bicultural (Cuban-American) New Yorker living in San Francisco.

Armando Fox is Professor of Computer Science, Faculty Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, and Equity and Diversity Advisor UC Berkeley. He and colleague David Patterson co-created Berkeley’s first Massive Open Online Course, “Engineering Software as a Service”, offered through edX, and the award-winning accompanying textbook of the same name, for which he received the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 2015. His CS education research focuses on creating novel technologies to help students learn advanced programming concepts at scale.