Gerald Soosai Raj
Area(s) of Expertise
- Computing Education Research
- Computer Systems
Contact Info
gerald@eng.ucsd.edu
Gerald Soosai Raj
Biography
Gerald Soosai Raj is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Prior to joining UCSD, he completed an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Computer Sciences and Education and a Masters in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He did his undergraduate studies in Information Technology at College of Engineering Guindy (CEG), Anna University in Chennai, India.
Gerald studies effective, equitable, and inclusive ways to teach computing to a diverse set of learners. Specifically, he focuses on understanding and removing the barriers that non-native English speakers face while learning programming. He also works on an NSF funded research project on determining the effectiveness of live coding, a teaching method based on cognitive apprenticeship, to teach programming processes (e.g., incremental development) to students with no prior programming experience (typically students from underrepresented groups).
Gerald studies effective, equitable, and inclusive ways to teach computing to a diverse set of learners. Specifically, he focuses on understanding and removing the barriers that non-native English speakers face while learning programming. He also works on an NSF funded research project on determining the effectiveness of live coding, a teaching method based on cognitive apprenticeship, to teach programming processes (e.g., incremental development) to students with no prior programming experience (typically students from underrepresented groups).
