Yekaterina Kharitonova

Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science Department
University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Teaching

Please see the UCSB CS catalog for course descriptions.

CS 8: Introduction to Computer Science (CSW8 is its fully online version)
CS 9: Intermediate Python Programming
CS 100: Teaching Computer Science (formerly CS 190J)
INT15: Data Science Principles and Techniques (also listed as CMPSC 190D / PSTAT 195, now PSTAT 100)
CS 16: Problem Solving with C++ II
INT5: Data Science Foundations (formerly CS 90DA, now CS 5A)

Fall 2018: INT 5 (teaching release for one course)
Winter 2019: CS 16 (2 sections)
Spring 2019: CS 16 and INT 15 (known as DS 3, later listed as PSTAT 100)
Fall 2019: INT 5 (known as DS 1) and CS 8
Winter 2020: CS 8 (2 sections) (Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the last two weeks of the quarter were moved to an emergency remote format.)

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the following courses were taught in the remote format (no in-person lectures)

Spring 2020: CS 190D (formerly INT 15), (teaching release to develop the course).
Fall 2020: CS 90DA (formerly INT 5) and CS 8
Winter 2021: CS 8 (2 sections) + CS 190J (overload course)
Spring 2021: CS 8 (2 sections) + CS 190J (overload course)

UCSB returns to the in-person course format (I remained teaching remotely until Fall 2023).

Fall 2021: CSW 8 (a fully-online version of CS 8) + guest instructor for 2 sessions for CS 100 (formerly CS 190J)
Winter 2022: CSW 8 + guest instructor for 2 sessions for CS 100 (Due to the COVID-19 Omicron surge, the first four weeks of the ten-week quarter were moved to an emergency remote format.)
Spring 2022: CSW 8 + guest instructor for 1 session of CS 100
Summer 2022: CSW 8 (6-week term)

Fall 2022: no courses; on leave
Winter 2023: CSW 8
Spring 2023: CSW 8 (The largest course that has been taught in the history of the UCSB CS department: 400 students.)

Fall 2023: CS 8 (in-person (the first time for me since Winter 2020)) + CSW 8 (online)
Winter 2024: CS 9 (in-person) (My first time teaching this course and also the first time this course is taught by a different instructor.)
Spring 2024: CSW 8 (online) + CS 9 (in-person) + guest instructor for 1 session for CS 100

Fall 2024: no courses; on sabbatical, working on redesigning CS8 and incorporating security concepts into the curriculum
Winter 2025: CS 8 (incorporating genAI) + guest instructor for 1 session of CS 100
Spring 2025: CS 9

TA for the Research Methods for the Information Age (ISTA 370) course taught by Shikhar Kumar (Spring-Fall 2015)
TA + section leader coordinator for the Statistical Foundations for the Information Age (ISTA 116) course taught by Mihai Surdeanu (Spring 2014)
TA for the Computer Graphics (CSC 433/533) taught by Alon Efrat (Spring 2013)

Co-PI – HDR DSC: Collaborative Research: Central Coast Data Science Partnership: Training a New Generation of Data Scientists; NSF Award #1924205 ($970,104.00)
PI for UCSB – CUE Ethics: Collaborative Research: An Inclusive and In-Depth Computing Curriculum to Help Non- majors Learn Small Patterns to Solve Big Problem. NSF Award #1935167 ($74,824.00)
UCSB Award co-led with Dr. Diba Mirza – Summer Online Course Development Grant – CMPSC 8W, Introduction to Programming. ($18,000)

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