About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Eastern New Mexico University, holding Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from New Mexico State University. I lead the Software Engineering and Performance Optimization (SEPO) Lab, where we focus on exploring Agile-based pedagogical approaches and creating educational tools and methods that improve student collaboration in teamwork, support programming instruction, and promote effective software engineering practices.

Expertise

Computer Science Education, Agile Methods in Education,
Software Quality Assurance, Memory System, 
Performance Evaluation and Optimization

📫 Contact | Mailing address

ENMU Station 18
Mathematical Sciences Dept.
1500 S Ave K, Portales, NM 88130
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email: essa dot imhmed at enmu dot edu
Tel 575-562-2090 | Fax 575-562-2555

🗓️ News Timeline

June 2025

Publication: Essa Imhmed, Ivan Sanjaya, George Candal, Brian Pasko, Ludwig Scherer. BugTor: A Feedback-Driven Static Analysis Tailored for Novice Java Programmers.

Status: Accepted for Presentation at the 21st International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering, and for proceedings with Springer Nature. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Publication: Edgar Eduardo Ceh Varela, Essa Imhmed, Caleb Parten, Ludwig Scherer. Enhancing Code Assessment and Feedback Generation with GenAI Agents.

Status: A chapter accepted for inclusion in the Springer Book titled Innovative Educational Assessment with Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and Practical Case Studies. Springer Nature.

May 2025

Grant Proposel: Expanding Research Awareness in Artificial Intelligence for Mathematical Sciences Undergraduate Students at ENMU.

Status: Funded by the National Science Foundation EPSCoR Progra (2025-2026); Role: Co-Principal Investigator.

Grant Proposel: Investigating NLP-Based Clustering Techniques for Formative Feedback on Code Errors.

Status: Funded by the ENMU FRID Grant Program (2025-2026); Role: Principal Investigator.

Publication: Essa Imhmed, Edgar Eduardo Ceh Varela, Ludwig Scherer, Ivan Sanjaya and George Candal. CodeInspector: Automated LLM-Supported CS1 Level Code Assessment.

Status: Accepted for Presentation at the 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference. Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Publication: Essa Imhmed, Edgar Eduardo Ceh Varela and Mustafa Elfituri. Using Scrum to Improve Student Teamwork in a Project-Based Hybrid Learning Setting.

Status: Accepted for Presentation at the 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference. Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

May 2024

Grant Proposel: Enhancing Student Learning and Grading Efficiency through Automated Code Assessment.

Status: Funded by the ENMU FRID Grant Program (2024-2025); Role: Principal Investigator.

March 2024

Publication: Essa Imhmed, Edgar Ceh-Varela, Hashim Abu-Gell and Scott Kilgore. Fostering Code Quality Practices Among Undergraduate Novice Programmers.

Status: Accepted for Presentation at the 2024 ACM Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) - South Central Conference. Nacogdoches, TX, USA.

October 2023

Publication: Essa Imhmed, Edgar Ceh-Varela and Scott Kilgore. Identifying Code Quality Issues for Undergraduate Students Using Static Analysis and NLP.

Status: Accepted for Presentation at the 2023 International Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (CSCI). Las Vegas, NV, USA.

May 2023

Grant Proposel: Conveying the Importance of Coding Quality Through Effective Teaching and Automated Assessment of Coding Standards.

Status: Funded by the ENMU FRID Grant Program (2023-2024); Role: Principal Investigator.

Publication: Essa Imhmed, Edgar Ceh-Varela, Jonathan Cook and Caleb Parten. Evaluation of the Performance Impact of SPM Allocation on a Novel Scratchpad Memory.

Status: Accepted for Presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC). Torino, Italy.

August 2022

Publication: Essa Imhmed, Jonathan Cook and Abdel-Hameed Badawy. Evaluation of a Novel Scratchpad Memory Through Compiler Supported Simulation.

Status: Accepted for Presentation at the 2022 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC). Waltham, MA, USA.