Andrew Kurauchi

Collaborated with three other professors to develop the curriculum for the new B.Sc. in Computer Science at Insper. Created and redesigned courses for the Engineering program.

Teaching: Honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022, recognizing outstanding teaching as voted by graduating students. Designed courseware and taught 9 courses over the years, including introductory programming, human-computer interaction, computer vision, and algorithm analysis.

Software development: Created and maintains an online assessment and learning system for programming courses offering automated feedback for over 500 exercises. Developed a Visual Studio Code extension for real-time feedback and progress tracking in student coding environments. These systems are used by all Engineering and CS students.

Research: Currently collaborating with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on spatial computing interaction using gaze depth. Conducted research in Computer Science Education to evaluate the impact of innovations in the classroom and in courseware.

Software development: Maintained the internal system for managing courses, students, and payroll. Contributed to VRaptor, a Java web framework.

Teaching: Taught courses in Android development and Java.

Thesis: Proposed hands-free gaze-based text entry techniques similar to swiping on a smartphone to type words. Users type by glancing at characters, with the system predicting words based on the gaze path. In a controlled experiment, participants achieved over 20 words per minute.

Additional research: Explored keyboard and mouse-replacement techniques using eye and head movements for individuals with severe motor disabilities.

Software development: Created eye tracking software for low-cost mobile eye trackers and mouse-replacement software using standard webcams and computer vision techniques.