Kaylea Champion

Kaylea Champion

Assistant Professor

Location: UW1-271C
Email: kaylea@uw.edu

Background

Dr. Kaylea Champion received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington with a dissertation demonstrating a novel approach to measuring software risk. She also holds a master’s in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. Prior to UW Bothell, she worked as an IT director, service manager, project manager, and systems administrator.

Research

Dr. 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, Dr. 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. Dr. Champion is a member of the Community Data Science Collective — check out the blog. This lab includes members from UW Bothell, UW Seattle, Northwestern, Purdue, and UT Austin.

Courses

  • CSS 350 Management Principles for Computing Professionals
  • CSS 360 Software Engineering

Education

University of Washington

  • Ph.D. – Communication

University of Massachusetts Boston

  • MA – Critical and Creative Thinking (Education)

University of Chicago

  • MS, Computer Science