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Alicia Nicki Washington

Cue Family Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Computer Science
D235 LSRC, Research Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Embedding Accessibility in a Computer Science Education Network: Lessons from a Collective Impact Approach

Conference Respect 2025 Proceedings of the 2025 Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering Computing and Technology · July 14, 2025 Accessibility in computer science (CS) education demands collective action, yet little research examines how collective impact partnerships can effectively embed accessibility practices. Drawing on a four-year partnership of the Alliance for Interdisciplin ... Full text Cite

Slow but Steady: Progress Toward Accessibility-Focused Initiatives in Computer Science Education

Conference Respect 2025 Proceedings of the 2025 Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering Computing and Technology · July 14, 2025 Accessibility remains insufficiently integrated in computer science (CS) education, despite its recognized importance. This paper examines how the 3C Fellows Program, a two-year professional development program, facilitated and supported the incorporation ... Full text Cite

Identity-Inclusive Computing: Paving the Path Forward

Conference Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 · February 18, 2025 Full text Cite

Work in Progress: The Role of Student Backgrounds in Understanding Racial Disparities in Computing

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 23, 2024 Cite

Work in Progress: Developing and Measuring the Adoption of Identity-Inclusive Computing Tenets

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 23, 2024 Cite

Disrupting Computing Department Cultures, One Cohort at a Time

Conference 7th Annual Conference on Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conecd 2024 · January 1, 2024 Cite

Work In Progress: A Novel Approach to Understanding Perceptions of Race among Computing Undergraduates

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 25, 2023 Cite

Race and Collaboration in Computer Science: A Network Science Approach

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 25, 2023 Cite

Board 193: A Collective Action Approach to Broadening Participation in Computing

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 25, 2023 Cite

On Measuring Cultural Competence: Instrument Design and Testing

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 25, 2023 Cite

Supporting the Integration of Social Justice Topics within K-12 Computing Education

Conference SIGCSE 2023 Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · March 6, 2023 Computing has been historically taught as neutral and devoid of any connection with societies. But more recently, technical tools are taking center stage at societal problem solving, influencing policies and practices around issues such as surveillance, pr ... Full text Cite

Designed to Disrupt: A Novel Course for Improving the Cultural Competence of Undergraduate Computing Students

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · August 23, 2022 Cite

Work in Progress: A Novel Professional Development Program for Addressing Systemic Barriers to Computing Participation

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · August 23, 2022 Cite

Flowing, not Forcing: Finding and Maintaining Authenticity as Black Women in Academia

Conference SIGCSE 2021 Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · March 3, 2021 Navigating the intersection of both race and gender can be difficult for Black women in academia, especially when they lack representation, and proper support, which forces many to "learn on the fly."This panel convenes Black women in diverse faculty posit ... Full text Cite

Where Should We Go from Here?: Eliminating Inequities in CS Education, Featuring Guests from the CS-Ed Podcast

Conference SIGCSE 2021 Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · March 3, 2021 The CS-Ed Podcast's theme for season 2 is "Where should we go from here?"Three of the episodes focused on equity. This panel consists of all the podcast guests that spoke on this topic and the podcast host will serve as the moderator. In their episode, eac ... Full text Cite

Dismantling the Master's House: Effective Allyship, Advocacy, and Activism for Women in Computing

Conference SIGCSE 2021 Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · March 3, 2021 It is often assumed that women in CS fully understand and appreciate diversity, equity, and inclusion and advocate for the needs of all women. However, there exist highly publicized examples in computing and beyond where the intersection of race and gender ... Full text Cite

Featured Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Journal Article Computing in Science and Engineering · September 1, 2020 This special issue presents five invited research articles featuring distinguished contributions to the Fourth IEEE Special Technical Community on Broadening Participation (STCBP) Conference for Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering ... Full text Cite

When Twice as Good Isn't Enough: The Case for Cultural Competence in Computing

Conference SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · March 14, 2020 © 2020 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. The commonly documented diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues in the computing workforce are the direct result of corporate cultures that benefit specific groups and ... Full text Open Access Cite

RESPECT 2020

Journal Article 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering Computing and Technology Respect 2020 Proceedings · March 10, 2020 Full text Cite

RESPECT 2019: Yes, We Still Need to Talk about Diversity in Computing

Journal Article Computing in Science and Engineering · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women and Girls on Surviving and Thriving in the Tech Field

Book · September 15, 2018 In Unapologetically dope, Dr. Nicki Washington shares her lessons learned from childhood to adulthood on how to remain your most authentic self while still succeeding in a field where less than 1% of all graduates are Black women. ... Cite

The Importance of Identity in Preparing a Diverse Computing Workforce

Journal Article Journal of Business, Industry, and Economics · 2018 Open Access Cite

A Survey of Drone Use for Socially Relevant Problems: Lessons from Africa

Journal Article African Journal of Computing and ICT · 2018 Link to item Cite

The computer science attitude and identity survey (CSAIS): A novel tool for measuring the impact of ethnic identity in underrepresented computer science students

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 26, 2016 As computer science continues to permeate every aspect of society, the number of students of color adequately prepared for, choosing to pursue, and successfully completing computer science (CS) undergraduate programs is still dismal. CS education research ... Cite

Improving undergraduate student performance in computer science at historically black colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through industry partnerships

Conference SIGCSE 2015 Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · February 24, 2015 While computer science (CS) continues to permeate every aspect of society, the number of high-school students that are adequately prepared to enroll in university computer science programs is declining. To address the nation's needs it is clear that the re ... Full text Cite

Modelling the spread of mobile malware

Journal Article International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology · January 1, 2010 The popularity of mobile phones and the internet makes it more enticing for hackers to write viruses and create malicious code. There are currently over 150 mobile viruses today and the prevalence of mobile viruses in the US is currently at its tipping poi ... Full text Cite

Modeling of military networks using group mobility models

Conference Itng 2009 6th International Conference on Information Technology New Generations · December 1, 2009 Current work in the area of DTN focuses on various forms of epidemic routing, similar to mathematical epidemiology. In as much as this research has pioneered the field, it has left a large amount of open areas of research. Particularly, the use of group mo ... Full text Cite

Modeling the spread of mobile malware

Conference Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Modeling Simulation and Visualization Methods Msv 2008 · December 1, 2008 The popularity of mobile phones and the Internet makes it more enticing for hackers to write viruses and create malicious code. There are currently over 150 mobile viruses today. As a result, the mobile viruses in the US are currently at its tipping point. ... Cite

Epidemic modeling of military networks using group and entity mobility models

Conference Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology New Generations Itng 2008 · May 27, 2008 Current work in the area of disruption-tolerant networks (DTN) focuses on various forms of epidemic routing, similar to mathematical epidemiology. In as much as this research has pioneered the field, it has left a large amount of open areas of research. Pa ... Full text Cite

Modeling disruption tolerant networks with random geographical barriers

Conference Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology New Generations Itng 2008 · May 27, 2008 In recent years, the need for increased connectivity has extended from urbanized areas to locations previously unreachable via standard telecommunication networks. As a result, packet transmission occurs in a store-and-forward fashion, where nodes relay pa ... Full text Cite

A comparative analysis of anti-malware software, patch management, and host-based firewalls in preventing malware infections on client computers

Conference Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology New Generations Itng 2008 · May 27, 2008 This purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of three methods used by organizations to prevent malware on client computers. These methods include anti-malware software, patch management, and host-based firewalls. Each method will be brie ... Full text Cite

Performance analysis of homing pigeon based delay tolerant networks

Conference Proceedings IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM · December 1, 2007 This paper presents and analyzes a new type of delay tolerant network where each node owns a dedicated messenger (called a pigeon). The only form of inter-node communication is for a pigeon to periodically carry a batch of messages originated at the home n ... Full text Cite

Analysis of a traffic-groomed optical network with alternate routing

Conference Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology New Generations Itng 2007 · August 28, 2007 Recent advances in telecommunication networks have allowed WDM to emerge as a viable solution to the everincreasing demands of the Internet. Because these networks carry large amounts of traffic, alternate routing methods are designed in order to allow tra ... Full text Cite

Alternate routing in tandem traffic-groomed optical networks

Journal Article Journal of Networks · January 1, 2007 Recent advances in telecommunication networks have allowed WDM to emerge as a viable solution to the ever-increasing demands of the Internet. Because these networks carry large amounts of traffic, alternate routing methods are designed in order to allow tr ... Full text Cite

Performance analysis of traffic-groomed optical networks employing alternate routing techniques

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics · January 1, 2007 Recent advances in telecommunication networks have allowed WDM to emerge as a viable solution to the ever-increasing demands of the Internet. In a wavelength-routed optical network, traffic is transported over lightpaths, which exclusively occupy an entire ... Full text Cite

Approximation techniques for the analysis of large traffic-groomed tandem optical networks

Conference Proceedings Simulation Symposium · November 10, 2005 We consider a traffic-groomed optical network consisting of N nodes arranged in tandem. This optical network is modeled by a tandem queueing network of multi-rate loss queues with simultaneous resource possession. Two approximation methods are proposed for ... Cite

Call blocking probabilities in a traffic-groomed tandem optical network

Conference Computer Networks · June 21, 2004 In this paper, we consider an optical network consisting of N nodes arranged in tandem. We assume traffic grooming, which permits multiple sub-rate traffic streams to be carried on the same wavelength. This optical network is modeled by a tandem queueing n ... Full text Cite

Student Understandings of Race and Racial Bias in Computing Environments

Conference 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings Full text Cite