Elisa Baniassad
- University of British Columbia.
Dr. Elisa Baniassad is an award-winning Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British
Columbia. She has demonstrated continued and sustained excellence in the classroom through
teaching, developing curriculum, and innovating several of UBC’s core undergraduate Software
Engineering courses. These innovations have included transitioning our second-year Software
Engineering course to edX pre-pandemic to allow for greater in-class active learning, and further
enhancing the course with Mastery Learning. Uniquely for teaching-focused faculty, Dr. Baniassad also
supervises graduate students. With these students, she developed and deployed an enhanced project
for our third-year Software Engineering course built around mutation testing. She applies a rigorous
scientific process to her teaching, carefully instrumenting and evaluating her pedagogical innovations
so they can be isolated and disseminated to the community through her many top-tier conference
papers. Finally, Dr. Baniassad is a leader in our department, the university, and internationally,
continually working to advance and improve Computer Science Education.