Meet Your Instructor¶
Introduction¶
Dr. Michael E. Cotterell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Georgia, the Director of UGA Computer Science Undergraduate Assistant (CSUA) Experiential Learning program, Director of the UGAHacks Hackers Experiential Learning Program, and the Course Coodinator for introductory CS courses at UGA.
He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UGA in May 2011 and December 2017, respectively. He received the CS department’s Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award in 2016 and the Teaching Excellence in Computer Science Award in Spring 2018 and Spring 2020. He was also selected as a 2018–2019 UGA Faculty Online Learning Fellow, 2018–2019 UGA Faculty Writing Fellow, and a 2019-2020 UGA Teaching Academy Fellow.
His research interests include functional data analysis, analytics, and computing education. His long-term research goal is to integrate open science, active open educational resources, and peer-based active learning in a way that facilitates effective, low-anxiety computer science education at scale.