Maria Elena Chavez-Echeagaray

Assistant Teaching Professor, ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

Total mentored projects: 5

Helen is collaborating as Lecturer at Academic and Student Affairs office at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Prior to this appoitment, Helen, collaborated as a PostDoctoral Researcher at innovative Learning and User eXperience (iLUX) lab at Arizona State University (2018-2019).

Helen received her PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2018. She received an M.S. in Computer Science from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Guadalajara in 2001 and a B.S. in Computer Systems from the same institution in 1998.

Helen’s research area of interest is focused on affective computing, mainly on the development of self-adaptive environments that consider the diverse aspects, cognitive and affective, of people’s learning traits and needs; this is complemented with her interest on areas such as Intelligent Tutoring System, Educational Technology, Engineering Education, and Software Engineering.