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-efficacy and their criteria for their self-assessments of their programming ability change over time, as well as how to build social and technical interventions that operate at-scale to support students in making accurate self-assessments.

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