Dean Mcdaniel Email & Phone Number

I assisted with RPI's Intro to CS course, which is a required course for the majority of the institute's diverse student body. In my final semester assisting with the course, I served as Head TA and worked closely with the professor to create course materials, assign grading tasks, and manage our graduate TAs, undergraduate mentors, and 500+ enrolled students. I also configured the course's online submission server used throughout the whole semester for a smooth pipeline from submitting the assignment to seeing the grade.

At RPI, I had the privilege to work on a diverse range of research projects, including the use of facial expressions and nonverbal behaviors on virtual human agents and social robots to increase friendliness and facilitate interaction, facial tracking to detect user engagement, and interactive storytelling to creative a narrative that adapts to a user's interest profile.

Johnson City, Tennessee Area

Emerging Technology CenterjQuery in mobile web applications

Johnson City, Tennessee Area

Student Support ServicesPeer tutor math and Japanese

Johnson City, Tennessee Area

Research on the simulation of emotion in artificial intelligence (summer 2011) and usability study on hotel-based websites (fall 2011-spring 2012)

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Thesis titled "Use of Nonverbal Behaviors to Create a Friendly, Sociable Robot", 2015. Head TA for Intro to CS1, and research assistant.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Association for Computing Machinery, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, McNair Achievement ProgramGraduated with Honors.