Contact

Tiffany Barnes, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Computer Science
North Carolina State University
919-515-5764
tmbarnes@ncsu.edu
Twitter/X: @DrTiffanyBarnes

Tiffany Barnes is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at NC State University. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from N.C. State. Dr. Barnes has served as chair or program chair for many conferences, including ACM SIGCSE, Educational Data Mining RESPECT, STARS Celebration, and Foundations of Digital Games. Tiffany Barnes has served on the boards for ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (2010-2016), the International Educational Data Mining Society (2011-present), and IEEE Computer STC Broadening Participation, and as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (2016-2022). Dr. Barnes received an NSF CAREER Award for her novel work in using data and educational data mining to add intelligence to STEM learning environments. Dr. Barnes is founding Co-Director of the STARS Computing Corps, an NSF-funded consortium (2137317) that has involved 78 colleges, universities, and organizations, 100+ faculty/staff, and 2300+ college students in research, service, and outreach (to over 140K K12 students), to broaden participation in computing. Dr. Barnes is currently working on NSF-funded projects to provide data-driven intelligent tutoring support in STEM (2013502) and creative programming (1917885), teach AI to middle schoolers (2405862), prepare high school teachers to teach computing (1542922, 1346922) and robotics (2318343), help K12 teachers partner with AI to support computational thinking into their courses (2405854), support the CS ed research community (2213792), and provide research experiences to undergraduates (1950607).

PhD, 2003,Computer Science
North Carolina State University
The q-matrix method of fault-tolerant teaching in knowledge assessment and data mining
Advisors: Donald Bitzer and Mladen Vouk

MS, 2000, Computer Science & Mathematics
North Carolina State University

BS-honors, 1995, Computer Science & Mathematics
North Carolina State University