Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj
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Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj

Google Scholar ID: 2T3k1lwAAAAJ
Associate Teaching Professor, UC San Diego
Computing Education Research
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Evolution of Programmers' Trust in Generative AI Programming Assistants
2025
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Background
  • Associate Teaching Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)
  • Research area: computing education
  • Co-leads the Computing Education Research Lab at UC San Diego
  • Passionate about teaching students from diverse backgrounds, ranging from K-12 to working professionals
  • Strong advocate for open educational resources (OER) in computing education to support students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds
  • Makes course materials—including lecture videos, textbooks, notes, programming assignments, and worksheets—freely and publicly available
  • Co-authored two free online interactive textbooks for introductory Python and Java programming, widely used in UC San Diego’s lower-division courses
  • Focuses on effective, equitable, and inclusive computing pedagogy, especially addressing barriers faced by non-native English speakers in learning programming