Faculty Profiles

Mia Minnes is a Teaching Professor and the Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Education in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC San Diego. In addition to research related to Automata Theory and Computability education, she works on projects that support professionalization pathways for students, including industry internships, TA development, and ethics and communication. Her work has been supported by grants from UC San Diego, NSF, and industry partners. She is the recipient of the UC San Diego Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and the Jacobs School of Engineering Teacher of the Year - CSE award.

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Prior to joining the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2014, Dr. Minnes was an SE Warschawski Visiting Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department here at UC San Diego. Before that, she was a CLE Moore Instructor at MIT. She earned her PhD in Mathematics at Cornell University in 2008, co-advised by Anil Nerode and Bakhadyr Khoussainov. She earned Master's degrees in Computer Science (2006) and Mathematics (2006) from Cornell and Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Engineering (2003) and Philosophy (2003) from Queen's University.