Diana Diazh

Diana Diazh has more than seven years of teaching experience, beginning at her alma mater, Wayne State University, where she taught computer organization, database systems, discrete mathematics, bioinformatics and analysis of algorithms. In 2020, she joined the University of Illinois Chicago as an instructor for computer organization, introduction to data science and database systems. In 2024, she served as an associate professor of practice in the University of Arizona's Computer Science Department.

Degrees

• MS and PhD: Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2020
• MS: Software Engineering, The Andes University, 2011

Teaching Interests

Software engineering, applied computer science

Research Interests

Domain-specific languages, medical informatics, applied ML and AI and computer science education

Textbooks/Most Significant Publications

• Revelo, R., Diaz D., Rozhkova, A., Hummel, J., "Inclusion in Computing via the Early Research Scholars Program at UIC, "51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, SEFI 2023.
• Diaz, D., Cintas, C., Ogallo, W., & Walcott-Bryant, A., "Towards Automatic Generation of Context-Based Abstractive Discharge Summaries for Supporting Transition of Care." Harvard CRCS Workshop - AI for Social Good, 2020.
• Diaz, D., Bollig-Fischer A., Kotov A., "Tensor Decomposition for Sub-typing of Complex Diseases based on Clinical and Genomic Data," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM, 2019.

Honor and Accolades

• Collaborative Research: "Scaling the Early Research Scholars Program," NSF grant in conjunction with UCSD, UCSB and Stanford. Co-PI with Prof. R. Revelo.
• College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2021-2022, University of Illinois Chicago