Qiang Hao, PhD
He/Him/His, Associate Professor
About
I conduct research in computing education, an interdisciplinary field that involves the knowledge of Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineer, Learning Science and Educational Psychology. If you are a student at Western Washington University looking for senior projects, independent study, or graduate study, please feel free to send me an email.
I am working on a friendly illustrated book on database design titled Grokking Relational Database Design, which is currently in the Manning Early Access Program. To learn more about this book or read online, please visit http://mng.bz/PRER

Research Interests:
Computing Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Learning Technologies
Educational & Professional Experience
PhD from University of Georgia
Recent Publications:
- Ryan Parson, Qiang Hao, and Lu Ding. 2023. Exploring Differences in Planning between Students with and without Prior Experience in Programming. In Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. ASEE.
- Kai Arakawa, Qiang Hao, Wesley Deneke, Indie Cowan, Steven Wolfman, and Abigayle Peterson. 2022. Early Identification of Student Struggles at the Topic Level Using Context-Agnostic Features. In Proceedings of the 53nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 147–153.
- David H. Smith, Qiang Hao, Christopher D. Hundhausen, Filip Jagodzinski, Josh Myers-Dean, and Kira Jaeger. 2021. Towards Modeling Student Engagement with Interactive Computing Textbooks: An Empirical Study. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 914–920.