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      <th>2025.05.06 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-users-class"></i></th>
      <td>I am excited to join <a href="https://www.hmc.edu/">Harvey Mudd College</a> for the Fall 2025 semester of my sabbatical.  </td>
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      <th>2025.04.29 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-trophy"></i></th>
      <td>I am deeply honored to receive the <strong>Frank Beach Award</strong> in recognition of "outstanding leadership in service to the College over the course of their career at USF," including those that demonstrate "<strong>quiet leadership</strong>" that might otherwise go unrecognized.</td>
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      <th>2024.04.22 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-award"></i></th>
      <td>The organizing team for the "<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833718&HistoricalAwards=false">Community-Engaged Scholars in Computer Science</a>" program received the <strong>2024 CA&amp;S Collective Achievement Award</strong> for our work on the five year scholarship program supporting academically talented low-income CS majors.</td>
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      <th>2024.01.15 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-hands-helping"></i></th>
      <td>I am part of the organizing team for the "<strong>Moment to Movement</strong> (M2M): Evolving &amp; Sustaining <strong>Anti-Racist Pedagogy</strong>" Fellows Program again this year.</td>
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      <th>2023.08.03 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-user-chart"></i></th>
      <td>Our CG&amp;A paper on <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2022.3149683">visualization rubrics in the classroom</a> was invited to be presented at <a href="https://ieeevis.org/year/2023/welcome">IEEE VIS 2023</a>.</td>
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      <th>2023.05.10 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-award"></i></th>
      <td>We received the <strong>2023 CA&amp;S Collective Achievement Award</strong> for our work organizing the "<a href="https://usfca.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=622272d5-af86-4604-9f8f-afbe015841f4">Moment to Movement: Evolving & Sustaining Anti-Racist Pedagogy at USF</a>" (M2M) workshop series.</td>
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      <th>2023.03.20 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-arrow-alt-square-up"></i></th>
      <td>I am pleased to announce that I have been promoted to <strong>full professor</strong> starting Fall 2023.</td>
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      <th>2020.03.05 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-file-alt"></i></th>
      <td>I wrote an <a href="https://repository.usfca.edu/jips/vol2/iss1/7/">essay on the <strong>imposter syndrome</strong></a> as a multiracial woman in STEM as part of a <a href="https://repository.usfca.edu/jips/vol2/iss1/">CRASE special issue</a> inspired by the book "There There" by Tommy Orange.</td>
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      <th>2019.04.12 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-trophy"></i></th>
      <td>I am absolutely honored to receive the <strong><a href="https://myusf.usfca.edu/provost/faculty-staff-awards/distinguished-teaching-award">Distinguished Teaching Award</a></strong> for 2019.</td>
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      <th>2019.04.03 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-award"></i></th>
      <td>I received a <strong>Post-Sabbatical Award</strong> for my activity over sabbatical.</td>
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      <th>2019.03.01 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-certificate"></i></th>
      <td>We received an <strong>NSF S-STEM</strong> award for our "<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833718&HistoricalAwards=false">Community-Engaged Scholars in Computer Science</a>" proposal. See <a href="https://scholars.cs.usfca.edu/">scholars.cs.usfca.edu</a> for details on the scholarship program.</td>
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      <th>2018.09.26 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-portrait"></i></th>
      <td>I was one of the "Modern Women in Tech" featured in the "Our Time" gallery at the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2018. Check out the <a href="https://vimeo.com/289762602/30c246c503">behind the scenes</a> video.</td>
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      <th>2018.05.11 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-award"></i></th>
      <td>Our team, including Aparna Venkatesan, Cornelia Van Cott, Janet Yang, and me, won the <strong>2018 CA&amp;S Collective Achievement Award</strong> for supporting women in STEM fields.</td>
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      <th>2018.02.28 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-file-alt"></i></th>
      <td>Our paper <q><a href="http://vgl.cs.usfca.edu/animated-sploms/">Using Animation to Alleviate Overdraw in Multiclass Scatterplot Matrices</a></q> was accepted to <a href="https://chi2018.acm.org/">CHI 2018</a> and will be presented on Thursday April 26th in the <q>Perception in Visualization 2</q> session in room 519AB at 11:00am in Montr&eacute;al!</td>
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      <th>2017.03.10 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-arrow-alt-from-bottom"></i></th>
      <td>My application for tenure was officially approved! I will be an Associate Professor starting in Fall 2017. Consequently, I'll also be on sabbatical for the 2017&ndash;2018 academic year.</td>
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      <th>2017.02.23 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-cloud-download"></i></th>
      <td>Our open-access paper <q><a href="https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-016-1442-6">Unboxing Cluster Heatmaps</a></q> is now published in BMC Bioinformatics, Volume 18 (Supplement 2):63 — Proceedings of the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at VIS 2016.</td>
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      <th>2016.12.13 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-users"></i></th>
      <td>I am the <strong>General Chair</strong> for <a href="http://vizsec.org/vizsec2017/">VizSec 2017</a> in Phoenix, alongside a <em>fantastic</em> team on both the organizing and program committees.</td>
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      <th>2016.05.06 <i class="fas fa-fw fa-award"></i></th>
      <td>I received the <strong><a href="https://myusf.usfca.edu/its/cit/awards-for-innovation/recipients">Innovation in Teaching and Technology Award</a></strong> from the <a href="https://myusf.usfca.edu/its/cit">Center for Instruction and Technology (CIT)</a>.</td>
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<h3>Biography</h3>

<p>
  Sophie's research interests include computer science education and data visualization. They graduated with a Ph.D. in <a href="http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/">Computer Science</a> from the <a href="http://www.ucdavis.edu/">University of California, Davis</a> under the guidance of <a href="http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/">Matt Bishop</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~peisert/">Sean Peisert</a>, and many others at the <a href="http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/">SecLab</a>.
  They received her B.S. in <a href="http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-information-science-and-technology/computer-science/">Computer Science</a> from the <a href="http://www.unomaha.edu/">University of Nebraska at Omaha</a>, studying networking and computer security with <a href="http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-information-science-and-technology/about/faculty-staff/ken-dick.php">Ken Dick</a> and <a href="https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-information-science-and-technology/news/2006/03/outthinking-the-bad-guys-part-of-the-job-at-nucia.php">Blaine Burnham</a> at the <a href="http://pki.nebraska.edu/">Peter Kiewit Institute</a>.
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<p>Their partner and frequent collaborator is <a href="http://node99.org/">Sean Whalen</a>.</p>

<p class="small text-muted">Pronouns: <a href="https://pronoun.is/she">she/her</a> (preferred), or <a href="https://pronoun.is/they/.../themselves">they/them</a>. Title: Sophie (preferred), Professor Engle, or Dr. Engle.</p>