Diversity in STEM: Tiffani Williams

The Diversity and Inclusion Task Force presents Diversity in STEM, with Tiffani Williams, Teaching Professor and Director of Onramp Programs in Computer Science, and a Dean's Fellow in Inclusion, Belonging, and Engagement Prior in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been on the faculty at Northeastern University-Charlotte and Texas A&M. Her awards and honors include a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award, and a PopTech Science Fellow award. She has received numerous teaching awards including the Distinguished Award in Teaching by the Association of Former Students at Texas A&M. Her research areas of interest are computer science education, computational biology, and inclusive language.

We are thrilled to bring you our discussion on her career growth, advice, and how volunteering with IEEE Computer Society has given her a global perspective on computing.