I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Harvey Mudd College. I am currently serving as Associate Chair of the Computer Science Department.
Regularly-scheduled student office hours for Fall 2026 will be available soon!
I'm always available by appointment. I'm also happy to chat whenever I'm in my office; if my door is open or the sign on my door says "please knock," that means I'm around and you should feel free to stop by.
I am Co-PI of the LILAQ lab with Prof. Lelia Hawkins. Together, we study low-cost air quality sensors. Our lab is interested in building and understanding the performance of sensors, in studying ways to most effectively communicate air quality informaiton to different communities, and in designing interventions that help communities limit their exposure to harmful air pollutants. We regularly work with students interested in computer science, chemistry, and engineering.
Since 2023, I've worked with Musizi University and teams of Harvey Mudd seniors to develop course materials for Musizi's upcoming Software Engineering major. This collaboration is part of Harvey Mudd's Global Clinic program.
My students' work has been featured in a number of places:
I've led a shift in Harvey Mudd's introductory computer science course toward interactive share-outs for all students. With colleagues at Mudd and peer institutions, I've shared our approach with a number of audiences:
Funded by Harvey Mudd's Innovation Accelerator, AXL focuses on supporting faculty, staff, and students in reimagining what world-class undergraduate education looks like in the age of Generative AI.
AXL was a primary organizer of the (Re)Imagining Liberal Arts & STEM Education in the Age of GenAI conference held at Harvey Mudd in 2026. The conference featured keynote speakers, lightning talks, and workshops, with a goal of facilitating conversations about how pedagogy could or should shift in response to the evolving landscape of Generative AI-based tools. Participants shared ways that they are teaching about generative AI, teaching about the (societal and environmental) impacts of generative AI, and ways that they are changing their teaching in response to generative AI.
From 2003 to 2007, I worked as a programmer for the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). I worked on the following data sets that are available through the LDC:
While at the LDC, I worked on the ACE Annotation Tool for annotating entities, relations and events in English, Chinese and Arabic texts.
"Experience Report: International Curriculum Development as a Capstone Experience," Proceedings of the 2026 Capstone Design Conference, Julie Medero, Mark Atuhaire, Colleen Coxe, Manzi Kagina, Maria Assumpta Komugabe, Takako Mino, Abby Tiller, Emily Weiss, 2026
"Student Experiences and Academic Outcomes When Multiple Introductory Tracks Converge," Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (SigCSE-2023), Katherine Breeden, Lucas Bang, Chris Stone and Julie Medero, 2023.
"Harvey Mudd College at SemEval-2019 Task 4: The D.X. Beaumont Hyperpartisan News Detector," Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2019), Evan Amason*, Jake Palanker*, Mary Clare Shen* and Julie Medero, 2019.
"Harvey Mudd College at SemEval-2019 Task 4: The Carl Kolchak Hyperpartisan News Detector," Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2019), Celena Chen*, Celine Park*, Jason Dwyer* and Julie Medero, 2019.
"Harvey Mudd College at SemEval-2019 Task 4: The Clint Buchanan Hyperpartisan News Detector," Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2019), Mehdi Drissi*, Pedro Sandoval Segura*, Vivaswat Ojha* and Julie Medero, 2019.
"Insecure and Out of Sync? Attachment Predicts Variability in Texting Behavior Synchrony between Romantic Partners," Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Asal Yunusova, Nicole M. Froidevaux, Xiaolin Peng, Julie Medero, Debra Mashek, Jessica L. Borelli, 2018.
"Community Engaged Research Projects for Undergraduates," ACM Inroads, Julie Medero, 2018.
"Automated Feature Extraction for Kinetic Typography Analysis,", CUR REU Symposium, Celine Park* and Julie Medero, 2017.
"Generating Memorable Mnemonic Encodings of Numbers," arXiv:1705.02700 [cs.CL], Vincent Fiorentini, Megan Shao, and Julie Medero, 2017. pdf
"HMC at SemEval-2016 Task 11: Identifying Complex Words Using Depth-limited Decision Trees," Proc. SemEval, Maury Quijada* and Julie Medero, 2016. pdf
"Automatic Characterization of Text Difficulty," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Julie Medero, 2014. pdf
"Atypical Prosodic Structure as an Indicator of Reading Level and Text Difficulty," Proc. NAACL HLT, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf, 2013. pdf
"Identifying Targets for Syntactic Simplification," Proc. SLaTE Workshop, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf, 2011. pdf
"Analysis of Vocabulary Difficulty Using Wiktionary", Proc. SLaTE Workshop, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf, 2009. pdf
"Classifying factored genres with part-of-speech histograms", Proc. NAACL HLT, pp 173-176, Sergey Feldman, Marius Marin, Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf, 2009. pdf
"Annotation Tool Development for Large-Scale Corpus Creation Projects at the Linguistic Data Consortium", LREC 2008: Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Kazuaki Maeda, Haejoong Lee, Shawn Medero, Julie Medero, Robert Parker, Stephanie Strassel, 2008.pdf
"An Efficient Approach for Gold-Standard Annotation: Decision Points for Complex Tasks", LREC 2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Julie Medero, Kazuaki Maeda, Stephanie Strassel, Christopher Walker, 2006.pdf
"A New Phase in Annotation Tool Development at the Linguistic Data Consortium: The Evolution of the Annotation Graph Toolkit", LREC 2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Kazuaki Maeda, Haejoong Lee, Julie Medero, Stephanie Strassel, 2006. pdf
"A Modular Software Architecture for Heterogeneous Robot Tasks", AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2002: 18-23, Julie Corder, Oliver Hsu, Andrew Stout, Bruce A. Maxwell, 2002 (as Julie Corder). pdf
"The Many Futures of CS Education," SIGCSE Professional Development Session for New and Aspiring Educators, Zach Dodds, Julie Medero, Lauren Bricker, 2026.
"Discussion-Based Assessment of Student Learning in CS1," Innovations and Opportunitiesin Liberal Arts Computing Education, Adam Blank, Zach Dodds, Julie Medero, Ben Wiedermann, 2026.
"The Many Futures of CS Education," Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northwest Conference, John Stratton, Julie Medero, Adam Blank, Lauren Bricker, Zach Dodds, 2025.
