Sarah Chasins
Assistant Professor Of EECS at University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Chasins is an Assistant Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley with 14 years of research and teaching experience, dedicated to democratizing programming to empower social scientists. Her research spans programming languages, program synthesis, human-computer interaction, end-user programming, and programming by demonstration, with a focus on building accessible tools for non-experts. She has held roles at UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Microsoft Research, and Carnegie Mellon, bridging academic theory with practical end-user programming and HCI. She earned a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a BA with honors in Computer Science and Behavioral Economics from Swarthmore College, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary orientation. Notably, her CMU work on a typestate-oriented language won first place in the ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition at SPLASH. Based in Berkeley, she continues to lead research at the intersection of programming languages, interactive systems, and social-science impact.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Honors Computer Science, Behavioral Economics, BA, Honors Computer Science, Behavioral Economics at Swarthmore CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (15)
row10
selenium10
chrome-extension10
rows10
chrome10
web-automation10
web-scraping10
automation9
representations9
relations8
backend8
scripting7
python6
programming-language5
reactive3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
schasins/PPL-synthesis
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:207 commits, 152 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
schasins/helena-docker
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 11 months
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