Kyle Thayer

Assistant Teaching Professor

kmthayer@uw.edu ◆ 206-685-5652

Mary Gates Hall 330D

Specialization

Coding and Development

Research Area

Human-Computer Interaction

Biography

Kyle Thayer is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the University of Washington Information School focusing on topics related to code, data, and information technology. He is a graduate of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has investigated the barriers faced by coding bootcamp students, the way culture influences debugging, and the knowledge programmers need to work with programming libraries. Before pursuing his Ph.D., Kyle earned a bachelor's degree at Colorado State University and a master’s degree at Emory University. He also traveled around the world, created 3D reconstructions of ancient Greek ruins, and worked as a software engineer at RealGo and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Education

Ph D, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, 2020
MS, Computer Science, Emory University, 2011
BS, Math and Computer Science, Colorado State University, 2006

Publications and Contributions

Conference Abstract

Social Media, Ethics, and Automation: Introducing a Free Interactive Online Textbook (2024)
Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, pp. 1928-1928 Authors: Kyle Thayer, Susan Notess
Book, Textbook-New

Social Media, Ethics, and Automation (2023)
Authors: Kyle Thayer, Susan Notess
Blog post on pedagogical design of book

Social Media, Ethics, and Automation (we wrote a textbook!) (2023)
Medium Author: Kyle Thayer
Journal Article, Academic Journal

A Theory of Robust API Knowledge (2021)
ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 21(1), pp. 1-32, ISBN/ISSN: 1946-6226 Authors: Kyle Thayer, Sarah E. Chasins, Amy J. Ko
Conference Short Paper

Color Names Across Languages: Salient Colors and Term Translation in Multilingual Color Naming Models (2019)
Proceedings of EuroVis 2019, pp. 5 Authors: Younghoon Kim, Kyle Thayer, Gabriella Silva Gorsky, Jeffrey Heer
Conference Proceeding

Alternative Paths to Computing Careers and Their Role in Broadening Participation (2018)
Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 670-671 Authors: Kathleen J. Lehman, Maureen Doyle, Louise Ann Lyon, Kyle Thayer
Conference Paper

The Impact of Culture on Learner Behavior in Visual Debuggers (2018)
2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, pp. 115-124 Authors: Kyle Thayer, Philip Guo, Katharina Reinecke
Conference Paper

Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students (2017)
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, pp. 245-253 Authors: Kyle Thayer, Amy J. Ko
Journal Article, Academic Journal

Symmetric Chain Decompositions of Quotients by Wreath Products (2015)
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 22(2), pp. 2-35 Authors: Dwight Duffus, Kyle Thayer
Journal Article, Academic Journal

Some Quotients of the Boolean Lattice are Symmetric Chain Orders (2012)
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 19(2), pp. 46 Authors: Dwight Duffus, Jeremy McKibben-Sanders, Kyle Thayer

Presentations

Social Media, Ethics, and Automation: Introducing a Free Interactive Online Textbook (2024)
SIGCSE TS 2024 Demos - Portland, Oregon
Alternative Paths to Computing Careers and Their Role in Broadening Participation (2018)
49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Baltimore, Maryland
Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students (2017)
Berkeley Institute of Design Seminar - Berkeley, California
IFC Soft: Visual Comparison of Flow Cytometry Data Using Self-Organizing Maps (2012)
2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium - Miami, Florida