Melissa Chen

Ph.D. Student | Northwestern University

Melissa Chen | Ph.D. Student Northwestern University

I am a second year Ph.D. student in computer science at Northwestern University, advised by Professor Eleanor O’Rourke in the Delta Lab. My current work is on understanding how students’ self-assessment criteria and self-efficacy develop, as well as on how to design social, pedagogical, and technological interventions to support students’ self-efficacy by addressing overly negative self-assessment criteria.

Prior to starting at Northwestern, I graduated with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2022.