Dennis Kafura Professor (540)231-6195 (CS Office) (540)231-5568 (Direct) (540)231-4240 (Fax) kafura@cs.vt.edu

Education

• Ph.D., 1974, Computer Science, Purdue University
• M.S., 1972, Computer Science, Purdue University
• B.S., 1970, Mathematics, University of San Francisco

Current Work

Computer Science education research and teaching focus on the Computational Thinking course. You can find the complete
course materials in Canvas, and the two key technology components, BlockPy and CORGIS, both developed by Cory Bart.

Current/Recent Grants

• IUSE: A Scaffolded Data-Centric Approach to Improved Learning of Introductory Computing Concepts, National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation, USD 594,314, Principal Investigators: Kafura Dennis G, Shaffer Clifford A, Tilevich Eli, Cennamo Katherine S, Ernst Jeremy V, 06/01/2016-08/31/2019
• TUES: EAGER: Scaffolding Big Data for Authentic Learning of Computing, National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation, USD 97,658, Principal Investigators: Kafura Dennis G, Shaffer Clifford A, Tilevich Eli, 09/01/2014-08/31/2016

Papers

A complete list of papers is at my Google Scholar site.

Awards

• 2016 XCaliber Award for technology enriched active learning.
• Co-author of 2017 Best Research Paper at the 48th ACM Technical Symposium in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'17)
  "Computing with CORGIS: Diverse, Real-world Datasets for Introductory Computing", Austin Cory Bart, Ryan Whitcomb,
  Dennis Kafura, Clifford A. Shaffer, Eli Tilevich

Books

Object-Oriented Software Design and Construction with Java (Prentice-Hall, 2000)	Object-Oriented Software Design and Construction with C++ (Prentice-Hall, 1998)

Previous Research Projects

Other Teaching

CS 5204: Operating Systems (Fall, 2009)

Computational Thinking (Spring, 2010)

Usable Security (Fall, 2009)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)