Dr. Charlotte Pierce is a cross-disciplinary academic with strong interests in education, artificial intelligence, teaching tools, games, and computational creativity. She holds a PhD from Swinburne University of Technology, for which she studied serious games for music education and prototyped evolutionary algorithms to generate infinite sight reading practice exercises. More recent work focuses on computer science education, where she is particularly interested in feedback, pedagogy, educational games, AI tools, and task-based portfolio assessment.

Charlotte has been teaching at universities for over a decade, and has experience at Monash, Swinburne, Deakin, and The University of Melbourne. She has a particular interest in introductory subjects, and has extensive experience teaching introductory programming and supervising final year project teams. She is using this experience in collaboration with colleagues from Deakin and UNSW as a co-founder and author of The Programmer's Field Guide, an innovative open source education resource for learning programming.

In 2024 Charlotte was awarded membership to the Australasian Association of Engineering Educator’s Early Career Academy (AECEE), for “potential to champion the pursuit of educational excellence”.