Bio

Dan Garcia is a Teaching Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. Selected as an ACM Distinguished Educator and Speaker, and ACM SIGCSE Vice-Chair, he is a national leader in the “CSforALL” movement, bringing engaging computer science to students normally underrepresented in the field.

The “Beauty and Joy of Computing” (BJC) non-majors course he co-developed has been shared with over 800 high school teachers all around the world. His course regularly has more than 50% female enrollment, and its high of 65% shattered the campus record for an intro computing course, and is among the highest in the nation.