Skip to main content
construction release_alert
Scholars@Duke will be down for maintenance for approximately one hour starting Tuesday, 11/11 @1pm ET
cancel

Yesenia Velasco

Lecturer of Computer Science
Computer Science
308 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Research areas of interest include Computer Science education, and CS1/CS2 learning, pedagogy, and curricula.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Lecturer of Computer Science · 2023 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


Student Perceptions of the Help Resource Landscape

Conference SIGCSE TS 2025 Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · February 18, 2025 Background and Context. Existing works in computing students’ help-seeking and resource selection identified an expanding set of important dimensions that students consider when choosing a help resource. However, most works either assume a predefined list ... Full text Cite

EPrivateeye: To the edge and beyond!

Conference 2017 2nd ACM IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing Sec 2017 · October 12, 2017 Edge computing offers resource-constrained devices lowlatency access to high-performance computing infrastructure. In this paper, we present ePrivateEye, an implementation of PrivateEye that offloads computationally expensive computervision processing to a ... Full text Cite

A new comprehensive RSU installation strategy for cost-efficient VANET deployment

Journal Article IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology · May 1, 2017 Recently, studies on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are booming due to their huge potential. The road side unit (RSU) is a key component of the VANET infrastructure connecting mobile vehicles to the rest of the infrastructure. To maximize the availabil ... Full text Cite
View All Publications

Recent Grants


Collaborative Research: Characterizing and empowering student success when traversing the academic help landscape

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

Collaborative Research: Overcoming Barriers to Adoption of Peer Instruction in Undergraduate CS

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2026

View All Grants

Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University · 2018 M.S.

External Links


Website