Scholar
Mary Lou Maher
Google Scholar ID: 2COOamwAAAAJ
UNC Charlotte
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,164
H-index
31
i10-index
93
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- 2025 Guest Editorial in AI Magazine: 'Introduction to special issue on AI literacy and AI education' (with Dave Touretzky and Michael Wollowski)
- 2025 paper 'AI Literacy as a Core Component of AI Education' (with Tadimalla S.Y.) published in AI Magazine
- Principal investigator of NSF-funded project 'Pique: Personalized Curiosity' (#1618810), using computational creativity to enhance intrinsic motivation and knowledge retention
- Leads the 'Human-Centered Co-Creative AI' project series exploring human interaction with deep learning models
- Collaborative NSF IUSE project (#2111376) studying course climate impacts on students with intersectional identities; developed the CALI inventory
Research Experience
- Professor (Education Focussed), School of Computer Science, University of Sydney
- Professor Emeritus, College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte
- Former Director of Research Community Initiatives and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) at CRA
- Former Director of the Center for Education Innovation (CEI) at UNC Charlotte (established 2013), leading over 20 externally funded projects in flipped classrooms, lightweight teams, digital education technologies, and service learning
- Former Co-Director of the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Lab at UNC Charlotte, focusing on creativity, ubiquitous computing, novel interaction technologies, recommender systems, big data interaction, and usable security
- Chair of the Department of Software and Information Systems at UNC Charlotte (2012–2020), achieving 100% faculty participation in external grant proposals