Dr. Monica Anderson is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at The University of Alabama. She is a Co-Director of DREU and a member of CRA-WP. She is a member of the ACM/IEEE CS202X computer science curricular guidelines task force. As a software engineer for Target, Northwest Airlines, and IBM, she specialized in developing and maintaining internal standards on distributed technologies and development tools. Monica has been the faculty advisor to the UA student chapter of ACM since 2008.
Dr Anderson’s research interests include autonomous robot teaming, Human Robot Interaction, Computer Science education, and broadening participation. She has served as PI or Co-PI on NSF funded efforts to study multirobot teaming using intermittent networks and the use of robotics to improve self-efficacy in CS1. She served as an executive member of the ARTSI and iAAMCS BPC alliances, national consortiums of researchers that focus on increasing African Americans’ number and success in Computer Science. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Computer Science from Chicago State University.
