Hardeep Kaur Dhalla BIO Hardeep Kaur Dhalla is an associate professor in the Department of Computing and New Media Technologies. She worked as a senior software engineering analyst at Accenture India before joining the faculty of UW-Stevens Point. She leads middle school students involved in Continuing Education and Outreach STEAM Point Days in sessions, such as “Create Your First Web Page,” to encourage young learners to get excited about career exploration in the field of technology. In 2020, Dhalla presented at the International Conference on Network and Service Management and the Annual Advancing Young Women in STEM day. RESEARCH INTERESTS Programming languages Open-source projects JSON High performance computing PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association for Computing Machinery (2019-present) IEEE Professional (2020-present) LAST BOOK READ “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama FUN FACT When she was growing up, she wanted to be a teacher, like her parents. Associate Professor Office: SCI B237 Phone: 715-346-3210 Email: hdhalla@uwsp.edu Education M.S. - Computer Applications Guru Nanak Dev University, India B.S. - Certified Java SE Developer Guru Nanak Dev University, India Courses Advanced Techniques in Application Development Object-Oriented Programming Systems Analysis and Design Web Design and Development I