Susan Reiser
Biography
Susan Reiser recently retired as the Senior Advisor to the Provost and Senior Lecturer from UNC Asheville, North Carolina’s Public Liberal Arts University where she taught classes in computer science, new media, and occasionally mechatronics engineering. She developed or co-developed over 25 courses in the three disciplines and was was one of the co-founders of STEAM Studio, UNC Asheville’s 10,000 square foot making place. Before teaching at UNC Asheville, she worked in industry as a software developer and systems engineer. In addition to her corporate work, she wrote visualization applications for Duke Medical School’s Electrophysiology Lab. Currently she collaborates with Texas A&M’s Courtney Starrett on data materialization projects. Susan served as the General Submissions Chair of SIGGRAPH 2023 and SIGGRAPH 2024 and just began her second term on the ACM Education Board. Fay Cobb Payton and Susan co-chaired the ACM DEI in Computing Education Task Force until it was disbanded in December 2023. She chaired the Graphics and Interactive Techniques Knowledge Area of the ACM/IEEE CS/AAAI’s Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023).