Andrew Ko is an Assistant Professor at the Information School at the University of Washington. His research interests include social and cognitive factors in software engineering, end user software engineering, user interface software and technology, and programming language design. He has published articles in all of these areas, receiving best paper awards at top conferences such as the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), as well as extensive press on the Whyline, a novel debugging tool that supports 'why' questions about program output.
Andrew received his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 and degrees in Computer Science and Psychology from Oregon State University in 2002.