Grants and Scholarships
- Preparing Computing Students for Technical Interviews through Open Educational Resources, Course Transformation Grants, University of Florida [ January 2023 ]
- Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship, CISE Department, University of Florida [ March 2020 ]
- University of Florida International Center Certificate of Excellence, University of Florida [ November 2019 ]
- CISE Department Nominee, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Florida [ April 2019 ]
- 2nd place, ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCSE 2019, Minneapolis, USA [ March 2019 ]
- ACM SIGCSE Special Award, CS Identity Development Interview Project [ June 2018 ]
- Academic Achievement Award for Excellence in Academics, University of Florida, USA [ August 2015 ]
- Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal for highest GPA in CS department, Jaypee University (JUET), India [ May 2015 ]
Teaching Experience
As Instructor
- COP3530, Data Structures and Algorithms Campus and Online, University of Florida
- COP3502, Programming Fundamentals 1 Campus and Online, University of Florida
- CEN4721, Human-Computer Interaction, University of Florida
As Teaching Assistant (TA)
- COP3530, Data Structures and Algorithm, University of Florida
- CEN3031, Software Engineering, University of Florida
- Web Technology Lab, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Journal and Conference Papers
2022
- Amanpreet Kapoor and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2022. Categorizing Research on Identity in Undergraduate Computing Education. In Koli Calling ’22: Proceedings of the 22nd Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research 2022, (Koli Calling ’22), November 17–20, 2022, Koli, Finland, Finland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3564721.3565948
- Pedro G. Feijóo-García, Amanpreet Kapoor, Christina Gardner-McCune, and Eric Ragan. 2022. Effects of a Block-Based Scaffolded Tool on Students’ Introduction to Hierarchical Data Structures. IEEE Trans. on Educ. 65, 2 (May 2022), 191–199. https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2021.3109604
2020
- Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2020. Exploring the Participation of CS Undergraduate Students in Industry Internships. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366844
- Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2020. Barriers to Securing Industry Internships in Computing. In Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3373165.3373181
2019
- Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2019. Understanding CS Undergraduate Students’ Professional Identity through the lens of their Professional Development. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2019). https://doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3319764
- Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2019. Understanding CS Undergraduate Students’ Professional Development through the Lens of Internship Experiences. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 19). https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287408
2018
- Stephen Frezza, Mats Daniels, Arnold Pears, Åsa Cajander, Viggo Kann, Amanpreet Kapoor, Roger McDermott, Anne-Kathrin Peters, Mihaela Sabin, and Charles Wallace. 2018. Modelling Competencies for Computing Education Beyond 2020: A research based approach to defining competencies in the computing disciplines. In Proceedings of ACM ITiCSE Conference, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3293881.3295782
- Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2018. Considerations for Switching: Exploring Factors behind CS Students’ Desire to Leave a CS Major. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 18). https://doi.org/10.1145/3197091.3197113
- Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2018. Understanding Professional Identities and Goals of Computer Science Undergraduate Students. In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 18). https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159474
Peer Reviewed Short Conference Papers
2022
- Amanpreet Kapoor, Andrew Penton, and Hamish Pierpont. 2022. Eliciting Course Feedback through a Bug Bounty Program. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2 (ITiCSE ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 595–596. https://doi.org/10.1145/3502717.3532159
2021
- Amanpreet Kapoor and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2021. Introducing a Technical Interview Preparation Activity in a Data Structures and Algorithms Course. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2 (ITiCSE ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 633–634. https://doi.org/10.1145/3456565.3460033
2019
- Amanpreet Kapoor. 2019. A Grounded Theory of Computing Professional Identity Formation. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2019). https://doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3325598
2018
- Stephen Frezza, Arnold Pears, Mats Daniels, Viggo Kann, Amanpreet Kapoor, Roger McDermott, Anne-Kathrin Peters, Charles Wallace, Mihaela Sabin, and Åsa Cajander. 2018. Modeling Global Competencies for Computing Education. 23rd ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 18). https://doi.org/10.1145/3197091.3205844
Peer Reviewed Conference Posters
2019
- Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2019. Understanding Aspiring UX Professionals’ Professional Development. UXPA 2019 Conference.
- Amanpreet Kapoor. 2019. Deconstructing Successful and Unsuccessful Computer Science Undergraduate Interns. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 19). https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3293711 [2nd place, ACM Student Research Competition]
2018
- Mohan Zalake, Julia Woodward, Amanpreet Kapoor, and Benjamin Lok. 2018. Assessing the Impact of Virtual Human’s Appearance on Users’ Trust Levels. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 18). https://doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267863
- Yerika Jimenez, Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2018. Usability Challenges that Novice Programmers Experience when Using Scratch for the First Time. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 18). https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2018.8506560
- Amanpreet Kapoor, and Christina Gardner-McCune. 2018. Understanding How Computer Science Undergraduate Students are Developing their Professional Identities. In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 18). https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3162322
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