Aadarsh Padiyath

Research Areas

Biography

Aadarsh is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information, working with Professors Barbara Ericson and Mark Guzdial. His research focuses on how computing students develop critically conscious computing: both the ability to analyze technology's social impacts and the confidence to act on those insights. Drawing on computing education, critical pedagogy, and science and technology studies, he develops frameworks that help students see technology as shaped by human decisions rather than inevitable forces. His work has been published in CHI (Best Paper Honorable Mention), ICER, SIGCSE, and ACM Transactions on Computing Education.

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he/him

Dissertation title

Measuring and Fostering Responsible Computing Education

Areas of interest

Artificial Intelligence; Critical Studies of Design and Computing; Educational Technology and Learning Analytics; Human Computer Interaction (HCI); Science, Technology, and Society