Education

• Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing (August 2023)
  University of Florida                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
• B.S. in Computer Science
  Kean University                          

Research Interests

Computer Science Education

Human-Centered Computing

Educational Neuroscience 

Projects

• An Exploration of Elementary Students’ Debugging Behaviors, Challenges, and Explanations in Scratch
• Using EEG To Understand Mental Effort In Block-Based Programming Environments
• Workshop for African-American Thinking Computationally and Historically (WATCH) 

Grants and Scholarships

• National Society of Blacks in Computing Attendance  Scholarship [September 2018]
• Microsoft Diversity and Inclusion Fellow [August 2018]
• IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing Graduate Consortium [October 2018]
•  Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Attendance Scholarship [February 2018]
• CISE Department Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing travel  [June 2017]
•  Harris Scholarship [April 2017]
•  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship  [April 2016 – Present]
• CRA-W Graduate Cohort Attendance Scholarship [April  2016]
•  Alpha Epsilon Lambda Graduate School Honor Society [November 2015]
• GEM Fellowship [2014 –Present]
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Human-Centered Computing S-STEM Fellowship   [ 2014 – 2016]
• Eta Kappa Nu University of Florida [April  2015]
• CRA-W Graduate Cohort Attendance Scholarship [April  2015]
• Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Attendance Scholarship  [February 2015]
•  Distinguished Fellows Writing Workshop (DFWW) [February 2015]
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing travel grant [October 2014]
•  Second Place – Research Paper Award from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (Kean Chapter)  [April  2013]
• First Place Undergraduate Research Project Award from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society [April 2012]
• Ronald E. McNair Achievement scholar  [2012-present]

Workshops

Huff, E. W., Castro, F., Jayathirtha, G., Jimenez, Y., Kong, M., Melo, N. A., … & Tsan, J. (2021, March). Going Through a Process of Whitening: Student Experiences Within Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 1348-1348).

Huff, E. W., Castro, F., Jayathirtha, G., Jimenez, Y., Kong, M., Melo, N. A., … & Tsan, J. (2021, August). Examining and Redesigning Computing Education Research to Center Equity. International Conference on Educational Research.

Huff, E. W., Castro, F., Jayathirtha, G., Jimenez, Y., Kong, M., Melo, N. A., … & Tsan, J. (2021, September). Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing

Grants

Co-PI, SIGCSE Special Projects Grant: Telling Our Narratives: Expanding Equity Within Computing Education.                                                                                       Amount: $4,098.                                                                                                                                       Year: 2021-2022

Teaching Experience

Supervising Teaching 

• Introduction to Computer Science (CS) Education Research 
  Period:  Fall 2018
  University of Florida 

Publications 

Peer-Reviewed Conferences Proceedings 

Eugene, W., Jimenez, Y., Muravevskaia, E., Lopez-Ramirez, C., & Gilbert, J. (2020, July). Moving Beyond Stuck: A Design-Based Approach to Enhancing Minority Tech Startup Launches. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 19-26). Springer, Cham.

Jimenez, Y. (2018). Using Electroencephalography (EEG) to Understand and Compare Students’ Mental Efforts as they Learn to Program Using Block-Based and Hybrid Programming Environments. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Lisbon, Portugal.

Wang, J., Antonenko, P., Celepkolu, M., Jimenez, Y., Fieldman, E., Fieldman, A. Exploring Algebra Nation’s usability: Augmenting traditional usability testing methods with eye movement analysis. Paper to be presented at 2018 American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Jimenez, Y. (2017). “Towards Understanding Student’s Mental Effort in Block-Based Programming Environments Using Electroencephalogram (EEG).” Accepted at 2017 International Computing Education Research (ICER), Tacoma, WA.

Wang, J., Antonenko, P., Celepkolu, M., Jimenez, Y. (2017). Instructor presence in mathematics instructional videos: Effects on learning, visual attention, and perceptions. Accepted at 2017 American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Andujar, M., Morreale, P, Jimenez, Y., Jimenez, L., & Gilbert, J.E., (2016). Evaluation of User’s Affective Engagement While Interacting with Educational Technologies: A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2016) and the Affiliated Conferences, AHFE 2016, pp. 97-106, Orlando, FL, July 27-31, 2016.

Jimenez, Y., & Gardner-McCune, C. (2015). Using App Inventor & History as a Gateway to Engage African American Students in Computer Science. Proceedings of IEEE RESPECT 2015 conference. Charlotte, NC. 978-1-5090-0151-4/15

Jimenez, Y. & Morreale, P. “Social Media and Impact on Interpersonal Communication,” Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Springer Computer Science, HCI (28), 2015, pp.91-96.

Jimenez, Y. & Morreale, P. “Design and Evaluation of a Predictive Model for Smart Phone Selection,” Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), July 2013 (12), Vol. 8015, Springer Lecture Notes in CS, pp. 376-384.

Andujar, M., Aguilera, L., Jimenez, L., Zabe, F., Jimenez, Y. “Attracting High School Student to Computing: A Case Study with Drag-Drop Interfaces”, Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, AACE: Chesapeake, VA, 2012, pp. 525-530.

Peer Reviewed Journals

Wang, J., Antonenko, P., Celepkolu, M., Jimenez, Y., Fieldman, E., Fieldman, A. (2018). Exploring relationships between eye tracking and traditional usability testing data. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.

King, L. J., Gardner-McCune, C., Vargas, P., & Jimenez, Y., (2013). “Re-Discovering and Re-Creating African American Historical Accounts through Mobile Apps: The role of mobile technology in history education,” The Journal of Social Studies Research (2014).

Book Chapter

Gardner-McCune, C. and Jimenez, Y. Historical App Developers: Integrating CS into K-12 through Cross-Disciplinary Projects in Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology, 1st ed. Hershey: IGI Global, 2017.

Peer Reviewed Conference Posters

Jimenez, Y.,  & Gardner-McCune, C. (2018). Usability Challenges that Novice Programmers Experience when Using Scratch for the First Time. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Lisbon, Portugal.

Jimenez, Y., Gardner-McCune, C., & Lichtenstein, S. Understanding Novice Programmers Perceptions of their First Programming Experience. Accepted at 2017 International Computing Education Research (ICER), Tacoma, WA.

Jimenez, Y. (2017). Towards Understanding Student’s Mental Effort in Block-Based Programming Environments Using Electroencephalogram (EEG). Accepted at 2017 International Computing Education Research (ICER), Tacoma, WA.

Jimenez, Y., Hays, T., & Gardner-McCune, C. (2017, March). Computational Thinking App Design Mat: Supporting the Development of Students’ Computational Thinking Skills. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 711-711). ACM.

Jimenez, Y., & Gardner-McCune, C. (2015, August). Using App inventor & history as a gateway to engage African American students in computer science. In Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 2015 (pp. 1-2). IEEE.

Jimenez, Y., and Gardner-McCune, C., 2014. “Using App Inventor to Engage African American Students,” Grace Hopper Computing Conference, October 8-10, 2014, Phoenix, AZ.

Jimenez Y., and Morreale P., 2014. “Design and Evaluation of a Predictive Model for Smart Phone Selection”, Grace Hopper Computing Conference, October 2-5, 2013, Minneapolis, MN, accepted for ACM Student Research Competition & poster presentation.

Andujar, M., Aguilera, L., Jimenez, Y., Zabe, F., & Morreale P. “Improving Hispanic High School Student Perceptions of Computing”, Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’13), Denver, CO, March 2013.

Aguilera, L., Andujar, M., Jimenez, L., Zabe, F., Shah, Zabe, F. Jimenez, Y., & Morreale P., Innovative Programming Environments: A Comparative Study of Alice & Android App Inventor with High School Students, Grace Hopper Computing Conference, October 3-6, 2012, Baltimore, MD.