Dr. Elisa Baniassad, PhD

Professor of Teaching
elisa.baniassad@ubc.ca | ebani@cs.ubc.ca | she/her
Computer Science Department
329 - 2366 Main Mall
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Traditional Musqueam Territory

APPOINTMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Acting Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)
Director of the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL )
Institutional co-lead for the Centre for the Integration of Research into Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) - UBC branch
I primarily teach Software Construction (CPSC 210) and Software Engineering (CPSC 310).

AWARDS

CS-Can/Info-Can Excellence in Teaching award: 2023
Departmental teaching awards: 2015, 2017, 2021
Open Educational Resources Champion: 2021
Killam teaching prize: 2019

CONTRIBUTIONS:

Software Construction Course Videos.

RECENT PAPERS:

Google Scholar Profile

Team Harmony before, during, and after COVID-19
N Heyl, E Baniassad, O Ola
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on SPLASH-E, 52-61

Evaluating the Quality of Student-Written Software Tests with Curated Mutation Analysis
Hall, Braxton, Baniassad, Elisa,
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on SPLASH-E 24-34

Team Harmony before, during, and after COVID-19
Heyl, Noa, Baniassad, Elisa, Ola, Oluwakemi,
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on SPLASH-E 52-61

Stop the (autograder) insanity: Regression penalties to deter autograder overreliance
Baniassad, Elisa, Zamprogno, Lucas, Hall, Braxton, Holmes, Reid,
Proceedings of the 52nd ACM technical symposium on computer science education 1062-1068

The efficacy of online office hours: an experience report
Hall, Braxton, Heyl, Noa, Baniassad, Elisa, Allen, Meghan, Holmes, Reid,
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on SPLASH-E 59-64

Reframing the Liskov substitution principle through the lens of testing
Baniassad, Elisa, Summers, Alexander J,
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on SPLASH-E 49-58

Nudging student learning strategies using formative feedback in automatically graded assessments
Zamprogno, Lucas, Holmes, Reid, Baniassad, Elisa,
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Splash-E 1-11

Teaching software construction at scale with mastery learning: a case study
Baniassad, Elisa, Campbell, Alice, Allidina, Tiara, Ord, Asrai,
2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET) 182-191 IEEE

Learning to listen for design
Baniassad, Elisa, Beschastnikh, Ivan, Holmes, Reid, Kiczales, Gregor, Allen, Meghan,
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software 179-186

Making the liskov substitution principle happy and sad
Baniassad, Elisa,
Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training 17-20