Amy Csizmar Dalal

Amy Csizmar Dalal is a Professor of Computer Science at Carleton College, where she has been a faculty member since 2003. She previously served as Chair of the Computer Science Department (2013-2016) and as Director of the STEM Board (2019-2022) and Summer Science Fellows Program (2017-2023). Her research focuses on improving the usability and user-friendliness of computer networks through human-computer interaction (HCI) and quality of experience (QoE) analysis.

• Education: PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Her work explores technical support relationships, self-healing home networks, and ethical academic civic engagement in software engineering education. Key projects include analyzing home network troubleshooting terminology, designing community-partnered capstone projects, and developing systems for real-time video QoE assessment. She emphasizes user-centered network design and equitable technology education, contributing to pedagogical frameworks like the NCWIT Member Activity and Change Tracker.

Recent publications highlight community-engaged learning in computer science (2022), strategies for ethical software engineering education (2025), and foundational work on streaming media quality metrics (2003-2011). She holds patents for Streaming Media Quality Assessment Systems and Secure Content Download Methods.