Community Organizer
Stephen MacNeil is heavily involved in organizing student events on campus. He is currently the Faculty Director for OwlHacks and has previously organized events and panels including Design for San Diego, San Diego Design Week, Tunisia Design Week. Through these events, Dr. MacNeil builds community and provides a safe space for students to come together.
Director, Temple HCI Lab
Dr. MacNeil is the director of the Temple Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab, one of the largest undergraduate research labs at Temple University. The lab brings together students from computer science, psychology, education, and design to study how people learn, collaborate, and make decisions with technology.
Over 50 active students currently call the Temple HCI Lab their workplace, with more than 100 students having participated as members or alumni. Learn more about the HCI Lab
Director, OwlHacks Hackathon
Since 2021, Dr. MacNeil has been the Faculty Director of the OwlHacks Hackathon at Temple University. He has since hosted over 4 hackathons and multiple smaller hackathon events with over 1000 students from the Philadelphia Region participating.
OwlHacks Hackathon
Dr. Stephen MacNeil has been the faculty director of the OwlHacks Hackathon since 2021. While offered once before the pandemic, it did not survive the shift to online. The Temple HCI Lab revived the event and have grown it from a very small initial success to one of the largest hackathons in the Philadelphia region.
Check out more of our OwlHacks Photos or follow our event on the OwlHacks Instagram.
Research Leadership
Dr. MacNeil has been fortunate to participate in multiple Dagstuhl Seminars, ITiCSE Working Groups, and has led multiple workshops and birds of a feather sessions at SIGCSE. Through these experiences, Dr. MacNeil has been able to exchange ideas with other leaders and help shape the future of the field.
