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 Education, 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. 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.
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 awardLinks to an external site. and poster acceptances at the 2019. & 2021 IEEE Big Data Conferences, as well as student projects such as the Global Consensus Toolkit and International Data Trends. She was awarded a grant to develop and implement a Storytelling with Data Program for Minority students from Boston Public High Schools. She has also taught at Lesley University, MassBay, Bunker Hill Community Colleges, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
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 awardLinks to an external site. and poster acceptances at the 2019. & 2021 IEEE Big Data Conferences, as well as student projects such as the Global Consensus Toolkit and International Data Trends. She was awarded a grant to develop and implement a Storytelling with Data Program for Minority students from Boston Public High Schools. She has also taught at Lesley University, MassBay, Bunker Hill Community Colleges, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.