Dr. Elena Ramirez

Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Human-centered AI
Accessible computing
Computing education

Biography

Dr. Elena Ramirez teaches in the Engineering & Computing and has been at Campora since 2006. Students describe their courses as demanding, generous and full of real problems.

Before joining Campora, Elena Ramirez worked in industry and research in Boston and beyond, and still collaborates with partners across the city. Undergraduates join this research every semester as paid assistants.

Outside the classroom, Elena advises student clubs, mentors first-generation students and speaks regularly at community events.

Selected publications

Ramirez, E. and Patel, K. (2025). Designing AI tutors that explain themselves. Proceedings of CHI 2025.
Ramirez, E. (2023). Accessibility as a first-class requirement. Communications of the ACM 66(4).
Ramirez, E., Lee, S. and Brooks, T. (2022). Studio pedagogy in undergraduate software engineering. SIGCSE 2022.