Stephanie E. August received the BA in Slavic Languages, and the MS and PhD in Computer Science at UCLA (1972, 1986 and
1991, respectively). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

Her research interests include natural language understanding, analogical reasoning, interdisciplinary new media applications, and STEM education. She has authored papers on natural language processing, reasoning by analogy, and STEM education, and received two NSF DUE grants. Dr. August is a member of AAAI, ASEE, ACM, CCSC, IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.