Ian Arawjo
Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Arawjo is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction with 11 years of experience designing programming systems, educational games, and intercultural software studies. His work blends hands-on engineering—shipping games, mobile apps, Jupyter extensions, and sketch-recognition tools—with mixed-methods UX and ethnographic fieldwork in low-resource settings. He earned a PhD and MS from Cornell after a double major in Computer Science and Computation Art from Concordia, and has held research roles at Harvard and Apple. Notably, he develops novel programming interfaces (e.g., pen-based quantum programming and Jupyter canvas extensions) and led UNICEF-linked field research studying software deployment in Nairobi and refugee contexts. His profile reflects a rare mix of technical depth, pedagogy, and sociocultural sensitivity in computing research.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Double Major - Fine Art and Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Double Major - Fine Art and Computer Science at Concordia UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Science at Cornell University
English, Swahili, French
Github Skills (74)
language-model10
prompt-engineering10
deep-learning10
openai-api10
chatgpt10
prompt10
llmops10
generative-ai10
ai10
evaluation10
octopus10
large-language-models10
openai10
api9
image-data9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ianarawjo/ChainForge
May 2023 - Apr 2025
An open-source visual programming environment for battle-testing prompts to LLMs.
Contributions:25 releases, 40 reviews, 163 PRs in 1 year 10 months
aievaluationlarge-language-modelsllmopsllms
ianarawjo/lcalcgame
Aug 2016 - May 2018
A prototype of a game to teach programming
Contributions:44 PRs, 287 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
prototypegameteach
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