Manuel Pérez-Quiñones

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones is a professor of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include diversity issues in computing, CS education, and human-computer interaction. He is a member on the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine at the National Academies, member of the Board of Director for Computing Research Association and a former Program Officer at the National Science Foundation. He has been recognized with an ACM Distinguished Member status (2019); the CRA A. Nico Habermann award (2018); and the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award (2017). He is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

He has held several administrative roles including Associate Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics (UNC Charlotte), Associate Dean of the Graduate School (Virginia Tech), and Associate Chair of Computer Science (Virginia Tech).

He has served as Program Co-Chair (2009) and Program Chair (2014) for the ACM Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference; Program Co-chair (2018) and Symposium Co-Chair (2019) for the SIGCSE Technical Symposium.