Alice Mello
617-627-6071
177 College Avenue, Room 72 Professor Row 108
Research/Areas of Interest
Developing project-based curriculum in data analytics and data science for Public High Schools.
Women in STEM.
Storytelling with Data.
Experiential Learning.
Education
- PhD Technology, Tufts University, Medford, United States
- Master Arts in Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
- Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
Biography
Dr. Mello comes to Tufts from Northeastern University, where she was an Associate Teaching Professor in the Masters of Data Analytics mentoring over 35 adjunct faculty members and instructing more than 700 students over six years; she taught the Capstone course in analytics, collaborating with approximately 20 companies annually to incorporate real data into student projects; and designed and launched the Bachelor of Science in Analytics and the Undergraduate Certificate in Analytics. She also developed and led the Storytelling with Data Program (SDP) for minority students at Boston Public Schools. Before that, Dr. Mello was a senior researcher at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, a web developer at Harvard Medical School, and a curriculum specialist/researcher at the University of Southern California/New Media Literacies. Her work includes collaborations with educational, energy, aviation, and finance industry partners.
During her master's at Harvard University, she taught Robotics for middle and high school students in public schools in Brazil, Costa Rica, and Thailand through the Future of Learning Lab at the MIT Media Lab, mentoring ~150 students through hands-on workshops. She also taught Robotics to Head Start children ages 3-6 in Iowa public schools in partnership with the Seymour Papert Institute. Last, during her doctoral research at Tufts University she organized and led workshops using her Virtual Forum Theater tool in JAVA with middle and high school students at public schools in Somerville, Cambridge, and Salvador-Bahia-Brazil to foster conflict resolution skills.
Dr. Mello has written about the ways that cultural gender roles interfere with the learning of science and engineering and she led Analytics students to a United Nations award and poster acceptances at the 2019. & 2021 IEEE Big Data Conferences and student projects such as the Global Consensus Toolkit (https://cps.northeastern.edu/news/dawn-of-the-global-consensus-toolkit/) and International Data Trends (https://inspireandinfluence.cps.northeastern.edu/project/international-trade-data-trends/).
During her master's at Harvard University, she taught Robotics for middle and high school students in public schools in Brazil, Costa Rica, and Thailand through the Future of Learning Lab at the MIT Media Lab, mentoring ~150 students through hands-on workshops. She also taught Robotics to Head Start children ages 3-6 in Iowa public schools in partnership with the Seymour Papert Institute. Last, during her doctoral research at Tufts University she organized and led workshops using her Virtual Forum Theater tool in JAVA with middle and high school students at public schools in Somerville, Cambridge, and Salvador-Bahia-Brazil to foster conflict resolution skills.
Dr. Mello has written about the ways that cultural gender roles interfere with the learning of science and engineering and she led Analytics students to a United Nations award and poster acceptances at the 2019. & 2021 IEEE Big Data Conferences and student projects such as the Global Consensus Toolkit (https://cps.northeastern.edu/news/dawn-of-the-global-consensus-toolkit/) and International Data Trends (https://inspireandinfluence.cps.northeastern.edu/project/international-trade-data-trends/).