Experience

Publications

• Naaz Sibia and Michael Liut. 2022. The Positive Effects of using Reflective Prompts in a Database Course. In 1st International Workshop on Data Systems Education (DataEd '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 32–37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531072.3535323

• Muyu Wang, Naaz Sibia, Ilir Dema, Michael Liut, and Carlos Aníbal Suárez. 2021. Building a Better SQL Automarker for Database Courses. In 21st Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 37, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3488042.3489970

• Pan Chen, Naaz Sibia, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Michael Liut, and Joseph Jay Williams. 2022. Investigating the Impact of Voice Response Options in Surveys. In <i>Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2</i> (SIGCSE 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1124. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478432.3499087

Work

• 2019-2020: Worked on a qualitative study with students in an introduction to programming class to observe problem solving strategies.

• 2021:

  • A quantitative study to observe the effect of interventions to encourage recall in a third year introduction to databases class.

  • A quantitative study to observe the effect of sending homework reminders to students in an introduction to programming.

  • A quantitative study to observe the effect of a psychological intervention in an introduction to programming course.

• 2022:

  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis about student behaviour on online course discussion boards in Computer Science courses.

  • Using voice-input in reflections on concepts in a flipped classroom (an extension of the 2021 introduction to databases study).

• Introduction to Programming (CSC108, fall) [2018-19, 2019-20, Head TA 2020-21, Head TA 2021-22]

• Introduction to Computer Science (CSC148, winter) [2019, 2021]

• Data Structures and Algorithms (CSC263, winter) [2020]

• Software Tools and Systems Programming (CSC209, winter) [2020]

• Algorithm Design, Analysis, and Complexity (CSC373, fall) [2020]

• Introduction to Databases (CSC343, winter) [2021]

• Programming Languages (CSC324, Fall) [2020]

• Daisy (Productivity Bot)

• Joy (Mental Health Bot)

• Process Visualizer

• Dress Recommender

• 2020-21: DevOps Intern at Oracle. Here I worked on -

  • managing continuous deployment and integration builds with Teamcity

  • building tools that helped monitor POD health, build issues, and assisted in team planning using Angular, Ruby, Redis and Sensu

  • working with terraform and OCI to upgrade pre-production pods

  • monitoring POD health with tools including sensu, kibana, and grafana

• 2021-present: Director of Operations at UTM Computer Science Student Community