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Deborah Frazieris a computer science, mathematics, and advanced biology teacher at Monta Vista High School (MVHS) in Cupertino. She was awarded as a Santa Clara County, Fremont Union High School District, and MVHS Teacher of the Year in 2016. She has also been honored with a NCWIT Computing Educator Award, Society for Science and the Public Intel STS Research Teacher Badge, AAUW's Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship, and is a lifelong Sarah D Barder Fellow through Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. Deborah is a founder of the nonprofit StrollerHikes and ecommerce site Thyrm, each using computers for dynamic decision making in content retrieval and marketing/logistics decisions.
Michael Genesereth is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He is best known for his work on computational logic and its applications in enterprise computing, computational law, and general game playing. He has taught logic for 30 years at Stanford and offers an annual massive open online course, or MOOC, on logic. Professor Genesereth directs the Logic Group at Stanford and is the founder and research director of CodeX (The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics). He is also an avid sailor and a private pilot.
Chris Lee Kuszmaul is the lead teacher of Computer Science and Engineering at Palo Alto High School. A former Senior Research Scientist at NASA, he is the head coach of the World Champion Paly Zero Robotics team. He holds a 6th-degree black belt in Aikido.
Dave Lowell is the Head of the Mathematics Department at Castilleja School, an independent school for girls in grades six through twelve located in Palo Alto, California. He has taught pre-calculus, calculus, probability, geometry, and math modeling in the Upper School. He received Castilleja's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002. He attended Stanford University, earning a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems. His doctoral dissertation received the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He has worked as a structural design engineer and as a decision and risk analyst. Mr. Lowell has taught in the engineering school at Stanford and in the MBA programs at Duke University and Santa Clara University.
Cassidy Luciano currently teaches 4th grade at Burnham Math and Science Academy, a Title I school in the Chicago Public School District. She graduated Cum Laude from American University in 2017 where she earned a degree in Elementary Education. While at American University, she taught in the inner-city schools in Washington D.C. as well as tutored preschoolers after school in the AmeriCorps program Jumpstart. Cassidy works with disadvantaged youths in the hopes of making them successful in the future.
Robert Luciano is the computer science teacher at Pocono Mountain East high school, a lower socio-economic school in northeast PA. He has been a public school teacher for 29 years. Twenty years ago Robert took over the computer science courses at Pocono Mountain East. Prior to Robert taking over the computer science classes no student had ever passed the AP Computer Science exam at his school. The last 4 years more than 20 students annually have passed the AP Computer Science exam at his school. Robert was recently honored for his outstanding teaching. He was one of 10 teachers worldwide to receive the 2017 Award for Excellence in Teaching Computer Science. The award was sponsored by Infosys, ACM, and CSTA.
Michael Towne started out his career in Marine Corps, but switched to teaching, and was responsible for a ten fold increase in enrollment by building a new program in Engineering at his current school. He was entrusted by the College Board to testify on its behalf in front of US Congress.
Nisanti Wilmot Nisanti Wilmot is an Upper School Math and Computer Science Teacher at Oakwood School in Morgan Hill, California. In the past five years, Nisanti has taught a wide variety of classes including AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science Principles, Algebra II Honors, Geometry Honors, Web Design & Development, Python Game Programming, and Robotics. In 2019, she coached a FIRST LEGO League Robotics Team that made it to the Regional Championships in their first year competing. Nisanti worked in the software industry for 15 years before deciding to follow her passion for teaching. While she was a software developer at IBM, she co-authored books related to database software and presented at technical conferences. Nisanti Wilmot holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.