Kaylea Champion, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kaylea Champion's research investigates how people collaborate to build digital infrastructure, including operating systems, programming languages, and information repositories. What gets made and maintained and secured — and what gets neglected? What risks do we face? What practices lead to better outcomes? How can we work smarter and what can we stop doing? Using quantitative modeling and qualitative analyses, Champion's scholarship seeks to bridge the divide between research and practice, which for her means building relationships with practitioner communities, organizations, and industry to directly share research findings. She is a member of the Community Data Science Collective (refer to website links for their Wiki and blog), which includes members from UW Bothell, UW Seattle, Northwestern, Purdue, University of Idaho, and University of Texas Austin.
Education
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Ph.D. – Communication
- University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
- MA – Critical and Creative Thinking (Education)
- University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- MS – Computer Science
Courses
- CSS350 Management Principles for Computing Professionals
- CSS 360 Software Engineering
Research and Scholarship Interests
Dr. Champion’s research sits at the intersection of empirical software engineering, information integrity, cybersecurity, and human-computer interaction, using AI / ML / NLP techniques and quantitative modeling alongside qualitative inquiry. She typically examines work done in collaborative settings, with a focus on open source software and open knowledge communities.