Emily Navarro

Emily Navarro is a Continuing Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), affiliated with the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and the Department of Informatics. She holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Information and Computer Sciences and Biological Sciences, respectively, all from UCI. Her research focuses on educational simulation tools like SimSE, designed to enhance software engineering education through interactive simulations. She has published extensively on software process modeling, educational simulations, and learning theories in computer science education.

Navarro teaches courses such as Software Design, Software Engineering, and Critical Writing on Information Technology, emphasizing practical application of theoretical concepts. Her work on SimSE has been evaluated across multiple institutions and has influenced pedagogical approaches in software engineering. She also contributed to tools like Calico for early software design and Problems and Programmers card game for process education.

Her academic contributions span over two decades, with a focus on bridging theory and practice in education through innovative simulation-based methods.