Oscar Veliz
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests
- Computer science education
- Game theory
- Numerical analysis
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
- BS in Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
Biography
Oscar Veliz is an assistant teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He earned his bachelor’s and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Texas at El Paso. He is also on the teaching faculty hiring committee and the network teaching faculty hiring subcommittee on diversity and inclusion.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Veliz was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, a lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso, and a research assistant at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Veliz received the Google CAHSI Dissertation Award. He currently runs a YouTube channel with over 8 thousand subscribers where he creates and posts lessons on various computer science topics. Outside of the work, he volunteers to teach computer science with the Microsoft Philanthropies Technology Education and Literacy in Schools TEALS program.
Recent publications
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Birds of a Feather Hispanics in Computing
Citation: Manuel Angel Pérez-Quiñones, Alvaro Monge, Oscar Veliz, Patricia Ordóñez , Brianna Posadas. (2025). Birds of a Feather Hispanics in Computing SIGCSE (2), 1726. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641555.3705100 -
Building Future Information Systems Leaders: The Crucial Role of Problem Scoping in Service-Learning Experiences
Citation: Sara Moussawi, Joseph Mertz, Jeria L. Quesenberry, Xiaoying Tu, Julia Poepping, Larry Heimann, Raja Sooriamurthi, Divakaran Liginlal, Christopher Kowalsky, Martin L. Barrett, Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman, Oscar Veliz, Laura Pottmeyer, Michael Melville. (2024). Building Future Information Systems Leaders: The Crucial Role of Problem Scoping in Service-Learning Experiences Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 55, 35. https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol55/iss1/35 -
BOF: Hispanics in Computing
Citation: Brianna Posadas, Oscar Veliz, Patricia Ordóñez , Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. (2024). BOF: Hispanics in Computing SIGCSE (2), 1919. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635381 -
Mobile Application Development in Flutter
Citation: Larry Heimann, Oscar Veliz. (2022). Mobile Application Development in Flutter SIGCSE (2), 1199. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478432.3499158 -
Concealing Cyber-Decoys using Two-Sided Feature Deception Games
Citation: Mohammad Sujan Miah, Marcus Gutierrez, Oscar Veliz, Omkar Thakoor, Christopher Kiekintveld. (2020). Concealing Cyber-Decoys using Two-Sided Feature Deception Games HICSS, 1-10. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/63974