Fred Gibbs - Associate Professor

Fred Gibbs

Associate Professor

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

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Fred Gibbs is an academic–technologist who blends 18 years of teaching and administrative leadership with hands-on software development to make student success data practical and pedagogically meaningful. As Associate Dean for Student Success and developer of the open-source CEDAR analytics platform, he redesigns institutional workflows so faculty and advisors can act on real-time insights about retention, course performance, and program pathways. His scholarship and teaching sit at the intersection of digital history, AI and the humanities—running the Amaranth Digital Humanities Studio to translate critical humanities inquiry into usable systems. A long-time open-source contributor, he has improved back-end scraping and metadata handling for the widely used Zotero project and modernized the Programming Historian’s Jekyll site, demonstrating fluency across backend and front-end work. Trained as a physicist and a historian of science (PhD, UW–Madison), he also researches the cultural rhetoric of food and health, bringing unexpected perspectives on evidence and nature to his systems design. Based in Albuquerque, he is committed to aligning technical infrastructure with equitable, evidence-based improvement across higher education.

18 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics at Carleton College

Github Skills (12)

html10

css10

javascript10

bootstra10

bootstrap10

webscraping10

jekyll10

xml9

ui-design8

version-control7

git7

open-source5

Programming languages (4)

CSSJavaScriptHTMLJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

programminghistorian/jekyll

Jun 2014 - Jul 2017

Jekyll-based static site for The Programming Historian

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:240 commits, 21 PRs, 104 pushes in 3 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Fred primarily focused on updating the front-end design and user interface components of the Jekyll-based static site. They converted to relative paths, removed unnecessary files, and added new templates. Further changes included the integration of Bootstrap and general styling updates, resulting in a more streamlined and modern design. The contributions show an emphasis on improving the visual presentation and user experience of the site.

pythonstatic-sitedata-miningscrapingopenscience

zotero/zotero

Apr 2008 - Jan 2011

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:18 commits in 2 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Fred primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Zotero application by implementing scraping capabilities for various websites. Their contributions involved modifying existing translators and creating new ones to extract data from online sources. The user also addressed bug fixes, specifically concerning the handling and deletion of items within the Zotero Commons feature. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the metadata handling for items and integrating OCR'd PDFs.

collectorganizetool-usesharezotero

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