Cruz Izu

Biography

Cruz hold a B Sc Hons (Computer Science) and a PhD (Computer Architecture) from the University of the Basque Country, and a Graduate Certificate on Online learning for UoA. Cruz has extensive research experience on the design and evaluation of interconnection networks, from parallel systems to networks on chips, as key component of a parallel system. Cruz has becomed research active in the area of Computer Science education in the last 4 years, exploring both outreach topics and teaching programming skills to first year university students. Cruz has a large experience teaching at UoA, from small groups of 15 students to large classes of 300. She believes students learn most by doing, so her lectures mix oral presentation of course content with examples, exercises and quizzes. Her role as a teacher is mainly to observe students efforts, provide feedback and guidance when required. Since 2011, Cruz has lead the outreach program CS4HS which helps middle and high school teachers introduce Computer Science and computational thinking into their school curriculum. She has recently participated in the write up for the new SACE course Digital Techonologies, which will be implemented in 2018 (Stage1) and 2019 (Stage2).

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc