¡Bienvenidos!
Welcome! I am a professor of computer science/computing. My current position is Professor and Chair of the newly formed Department of Human-Centered Computing and Education in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
En la vida todo es ir
a lo que el tiempo deshace.
Sabe el hombre donde nace
y no donde va a morir.
-- Juan A. Corretjer
Research
My research is in Human-computer interaction and Computer Science Education. Some areas that I have studied include personal information management, information refinding, tools for building interactive systems, digital libraries, use of computers for education, and cultural influence in interface design.
Teaching
This Fall 2026 I am teaching the honors section of ITSC 2214 Data Structures and Algorithms.
Professional Service
I participate on a number of groups and organizations inside and outside of UNCC as part of my commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in academia and professional service.
- Member of the Board of Directors for the Computing Research Association, and was co-chair of the 2026 CRA Summit that just completed this summer.
- Member of the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine at the National Academies of Science, Engineering.
- Co-Founder of the Hispanics in Computing group and manager of their listserv and website.
Recent Publications
- Valerie Barr, Carla E. Brodley, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2024. Visualizing Progress in Broadening Participation in Computing: The Value of Context. Communications of the ACM 67, 7 (July 2024), 46–55. https://doi.org/10.1145/3635471.
- Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Debarati Basu. 2024. Equitable Computing Education, In Proceedings ASEE 2024. Potland, OR. June 23-26, 2024.
- Adrienne Decker, Stephen H. Edwards, Brian M. McSkimming, Bob Edmison, Audrey Rorrer, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2024. Transforming Grading Practices in the Computing Education Community. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 276–282. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630953.
- Syeda Fatema Mazumder and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2024. The Correctness of the Mental Model of Arrays After Instruction for CS1 Students. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 806–811. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630943.
- Debarati Basu, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2023. Equity in Computing Education is Not a Political Agenda. In 2023 RESPECT Conference, Atlanta, GA. June 20th, 2023. IEEE Press.
- Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Debarati Basu. 2023. Computing Faculty Perspectives on Equity, In 2023 RESPECT Conference, Atlanta, GA. June 20th, 2023. IEEE Press.
- Syeda Fatema Mazumder and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. 2023. Incoming CS1 Students' Misconceptions on Arrays. In 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), College Station, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 1-9, http://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10342927.