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Sophie Stephenson

PhD Candidate, UW-Madison CS Assistant Professor (incoming), UT Arlington CSE

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Guest Lecturer

• Fall 2025: Intro to Sociotechnical Systems and HCI (Brown University CS)
• Fall 2024—Fall 2025: Family and Community Influences on the Young Child (UW-Madison School of Human Ecology)
• Spring 2021: Introduction to Information Security (UW-Madison CS)

Teaching Assistant

• Spring & Fall 2021: Introduction to Information Security (UW-Madison CS)
• Fall 2020: Programming III (UW-Madison CS)
• Spring 2020: Foundations of Computer Science (UW-Madison CS)

Grader

• Spring 2019: Introduction to Number Theory (Vassar Math)

Mentoring Experience

PhD Students:

• Julia Nonnenkamp, UW-Madison CS
• Meghna Gupta, University of Washington Human-Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE)
• Jiaxun “Jessie” Cao, Duke CS

Undergraduates:

• David Youssef, UW-Madison ‘27
• Sanjana Reddy, UW-Madison ‘26
• Robin Koshelev, Duke ‘27
• Marvin Tai, Duke ‘27
• Danielle Park, Duke ‘27
• Kyle Huang, UW-Madison ‘26 → PhD in Math
• Lauren Ciha, UW-Madison ‘24 → Microsoft

I have taken Research Mentor Training at UW Madison and earned the Research Mentor badge.