Yesenia Velasco

Conference SIGCSE TS 2026 Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V 1 · February 17, 2026 In Peer Instruction (PI) an instructor displays a challenging multiple-choice question during lecture that students answer individually, discuss verbally with nearby peers, answer individually again, and finally, the instructor leads a discussion of the qu ... Full text Cite

Scaling Large CS Courses via Full-time Teaching Support Staff

Conference SIGCSE TS 2026 Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V 1 · February 17, 2026 As enrollments in computer science courses continue to grow, with many now exceeding several hundred students, the logistics of running such large classes become increasingly complex. Tasks that instructors can complete quickly in small courses become sign ... Full text Cite

Challenges to Computing Education in Uncertain Times: A Community Discussion

Conference SIGCSE TS 2026 Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V 2 · February 17, 2026 In the current socio-political climate, computing educators are facing increasing challenges, including threats to academic freedom, reduced funding for higher education, and direct attacks on initiatives supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion. This s ... Full text Cite

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

Cost effective mobile and static road side unit deployment for vehicular adhoc networks

Conference 2016 International Conference on Computing Networking and Communications Icnc 2016 · March 23, 2016 This paper investigates a new strategy to best deploy road side units so that their spatio-temporal coverage is maximized under a limited budget. For the first time in the literature, we consider three different RSU deployment strategies in a single framew ... Full text Cite