hi, i'm parth! 👋🏽
Currently:
- Fellow @ Stanford Digital Education
- Research Affiliate @ Public Knowledge Project
- Computing Education Research @ CoCoLab
Previously: AI Literacy Research @ DISTAL Lab, Tech & Ethics Policy Fellow @ the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Instructor for CS 41 @ Stanford, Summer Fellow @ California Department of Education
🧑🏽🏫 about me
As an instructor for CS courses, through computing curriculum design, and in building teaching tools, my work has involved many aspects of computer science and education. These days, those interests have converged around questions about power: I study ways that technology can be used to reify, reproduce, and unsettle power structures in education. Rather than use technology to improve teaching or learning, my work tries to question the normative assumptions that underlie those goals.
🎨 projects
Here are a few projects I've worked on:
- i helped start the CRAFT project and worked with teachers to build resources to teach about AI
- my summer fellowship at CSET involved technical research, advising policymakers, and writing about the values promoted in university computing curricula
- i'm occasionally in Scotland, helping develop computing curriculum — in the latest trip, we worked on AI ethics and debiasing algorithms
- when i taught cs 41 with the lovely michael cooper we built an autograder for the course that can run student code and try to explain what went wrong in plain English
- gibberish displays idioms in languages that reference another language as "gibberish" (e.g. "That's Greek to me")
- i worked at CodePath as an instructor, teaching CS interview skills to mostly FLI & BIPOC college students
- here's the slide deck for a talk I gave at MathFest 2017—it was about the application of tensor networks to phylogenetics
🌎 get in touch
you can email me at psarin@cs.stanford.edu!