Melissa Cameron

Melissa Cameron is an assistant collegiate professor of computer science at the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus. This fall she will teach Software Engineering and a Capstone course. From 2015-2020, she was an adjunct professor at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. From 2006-2014, she was employee #3 at MiserWare, a power management software company that spun out of Virginia Tech and reached 500,000 people in 160+ countries. Cameron also spent time as a group leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While her early degrees were in chemistry (B.S. University of Florida, M.S. and Ph.D. Louisiana State University) she most recently completed her MS degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. Her computer science MS thesis entitled "Parallel Islands: A Diversity Aware Tool For Parallel Computing Education" included an interactive game designed to teach novices from diverse backgrounds parallel programming concepts.