A three time graduate of the department (BS, MS & PhD), Tiffany currently serves as Professor of Computer Science at NC State University. She joined the faculty at NC State in 2012 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Digital Transformation of Education. During her career, she has been one of the most productive faculty members in department history obtaining over $25.6M in research awards as a PI or co-PI. Tiffany is widely recognized as a leader for her foundational research on adaptive technologies for learning and investigating the impact of educational programs at scale. Tiffany has been a major contributor behind the department’s ranking as the #1 institution worldwide for Computer Science Education research.A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the NC State Golden Chain Society, she has served as chair or program chair for many conferences, including ACM SIGCSE, Educational Data Mining RESPECT, STARS Celebration, and Foundations of Digital Games. She has served on the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Board (2010-2016), the Board of Directors for the International Educational Data Mining Society (2011-present), Chair of IEEE Computer STC Broadening Participation (2015-Present), and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (2016-present). Tiffany is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. Her research has been recognized with Best Student Paper Awards at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (2019) and the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (2011), and with Exemplary Paper Awards at the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2017), the RESPECT 2015 International conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (2015), and the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2014).Her internationally recognized research program focuses on transforming education with AI-driven learning technologies and research on equity and broadening participation. Her current research ranges from investigations of intelligent tutoring systems and teacher professional development to foundational work on educational data mining, computational models of interactive problem-solving, and design of computational thinking curricula. Her personalized learning technologies and broadening participation programs have impacted thousands of K-20 students throughout the United States.Tiffany has built research and action communities to broaden participation in computing, such as co-founding the STARS Computing Corps (STARS) to establish a unique national alliance with the mission of developing college faculty and students into leaders and change agents to broaden participation in computing. She established STARS as a consortium of 53 universities that have engaged 2600 college students and 100 faculty in computing education outreach (to over 140,000 K12 students), research, and service from 2006-2020. She co-directs the annual STARS Celebration conference, providing hands-on workshops and professional development to over 2800 attendees over 15 years. In 2015, as co-chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Special Technical Community on Broadening Participation, she co-founded the interdisciplinary RESPECT conference on Research on Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology. Now in its sixth year, the community has engaged over 890 scholars. As another approach to broaden access to computing education, she leads teacher professional development to prepare 750 teachers to teach high school Computer Science Principles courses, and 350 middle school teachers to integrate computational thinking into their courses from 2012-2020. She was instrumental in collaborating with the Raleigh Police Department and Ronneil Robinson’s Give Back Organization in 2017 to launch ‘Bridges to Computing’, a summer experience designed to provide underserved at-risk middle and high school students exposure to computing, as an alternative to gang activity.Tiffany has been recognized for her outstanding work in many forms over her career. In 2016, she was invited to the White House to a summit on Computer Science for All, an event that marked the progress on expanding computer science education. That same year, she was recognized with by the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) with their NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, and she was selected by students in the department as the winner of the Most Receptive Undergraduate Professor Outside of the Classroom. In 2020, she was presented the ACM Distinguished Member Award for Educational Contributions to Computing.