Kristin Stephens-martinez
Lyle Family Associate Professor Of The Practice
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKristin Stephens‑Martinez is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Duke’s Computer Science Department with 14 years of experience bridging software engineering and computer science education research. She earned a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and focuses on scaling courses by mining interpretable data from course tools to design evidence‑based learning interventions. Her background includes hands‑on engineering internships at Google, Coursera, Stanford/edX, and Microsoft, which inform pragmatic, tool‑centered approaches to education problems. She hosts The CS‑Ed Podcast and maintains a public-facing blog and website, signaling a commitment to translating research into practice and community dialogue. Colleagues know her for combining rigorous data analysis with classroom-proven pedagogy to expand high-quality access to CS learning.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at University of Maryland
English
Github Skills (14)
jupyter-notebook10
lms9
python9
sinatra8
openedx8
science7
react7
ranking7
computer-science6
mathematics4
learning-management-system4
openstreetmap3
edx2
nam1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ksteph/moocrp-problem-distr-module
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
astrachano/101spring18
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 53 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
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