Publications
Papers at SIGCSE, CHI, and BICE on computing education and culturally responsive design, alongside current work on radar sensing. Select a title to see identifiers and links.
Peer-reviewed conference papers
- 2025
Naja A. Mack, Clyde W. Tandjong, Michael B. Adeleke, Elijah Ballou, Amyra Harry, Jaunel Panton
Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Yokohama, Japan. 6 pages
- 2024
Naja A. Mack, Michael B. Adeleke, Elijah Ballou, Destiny Davis, Vincent Ingram, Katlyn Cox
Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024). Portland, OR, USA. 7 pages
- 2024
Naja A. Mack, Michael B. Adeleke, Vincent Ingram, Elijah Ballou, Jayden K. Briggs-Belt, Antwain Jordan
2024 Black Issues in Computing Education (BICE 2024). 80–86
Presentations and research competitions
- 2025
Collision Course: Elevating Concussion Awareness Through Immersive Virtual Reality
International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE)
Presenter
- 2024
CodeBears: Breaking Stereotypes and Feeding the STEM Pipeline
ACM Undergraduate Research Competition, ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
Poster and presentation. 3rd Place
- 2023
Collision Course
Morgan TechFest Poster Competition
Co-author. 2nd Place
- 2023
VR Stress Assessment Using EmotiBit
STARS Celebration
Presenter
Awards, honors, and fellowships
- 2025 – present
SREB Doctoral Fellow
The University of Alabama
- 2025 – present
Graduate Council Fellow
The University of Alabama
- 2024
3rd Place, ACM Undergraduate Research Competition
Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
For CodeBears: Breaking Stereotypes and Feeding the STEM Pipeline
- 2023
2nd Place, Poster Competition
Morgan TechFest
For Collision Course
- 2023 and 2024
Best Technical Solution
Be Smart Hackathon
- 2024
Summa Cum Laude
Morgan State University