Dr. Matthias Hauswirth

Biography

Matthias Hauswirth is an Associate Professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, where he leads the Lugano Computing Education (LuCE) research lab. His research primarily focuses on programming education, developing resources such as a web application for teaching programming and a structured inventory of programming language misconceptions. He has created the PyTamaro Python graphics library, which explores notional machines for problem decomposition. Hauswirth has a passion for teaching, offering courses to both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as high school informatics teachers. His teaching portfolio includes 'Programming Fundamentals', 'Programming Styles', and various courses aimed at enhancing the training of high school informatics educators in Switzerland. In addition to teaching, he has served as a co-chair for the ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER) in 2021 and 2022 and has contributed to the development of national teacher training programs for computer science education in high schools. He is actively involved in initiatives that aim to improve computer science education through workshops, seminars, and public outreach.

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