Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorWade Fagen-ulmschneider is a Teaching Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with 11 years of experience shaping data-focused curricula across computer science, statistics, and information studies. He combines industry insight from roles at Morgan Stanley, Google, and Cisco with a passion for world-class education that students are proud to share, especially in Data Structures, Data Science, Data Discovery, and Data Visualization. At UIUC, he collaborates across departments and centers to advance innovative teaching methods and led the Coursera Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals Specialization, which earned a 4.9/5 rating from over 100 reviews. His open-source contributions center on C++ and systems thinking, including Coursera starter code implementing memory management and data-structure components like the Cube class. He holds an MS and BS with thesis from UT Dallas and a PhD from UIUC, reflecting a rigorous academic foundation that informs his practical, hands-on approach to education in Urbana, Illinois.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
c-programming-language10
data-structure9
cpp9
data-structures9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wadefagen/coursera
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Source Code and Starter Code for Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals Specialization on Coursera
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Wade's commits primarily focus on implementing and modifying C++ code within the context of a Coursera course on accelerated computer science fundamentals. Their work involves creating and modifying C++ classes and data structures. The user demonstrated proficiency with topics like constructors, destructors, memory management, and operator overloading, specifically for the Cube class.
cppsciencespecializationacceleratedfundamentals
cs340-illinois/lecture
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes in 7 months
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