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Fares Fraij

Associate Professor of Instruction

Location
Austin, Texas
Office
GDC 6.404

About

I am an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin (UTCS). I received my PhD degree from the University of Texas at El Paso. My advisors were Steve Roach and J Strother Moore (UTCS). Before joining UTCS, I worked as an Assistant/Associate Professor of Computer Science at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in Jordan and a Visiting Associate Professor at Taif University in Saudi Arabia. In addition to teaching, I have served in leading administrative positions including the Dean of the College of Information Technology and the Director of the Information Technology Center.

Teaching

Spring 2026

Summer 2026

  • CS 373 Software Engineering
Past UT Austin courses
  • CS 311 — Discrete Math for Computer Science
  • CS 373 — Software Engineering
  • CS 329E — Elements of Software Engineering
  • CS 330E — Elements of Software Engineering I
  • CS 331E — Elements of Software Engineering II

Research

Mechanical Theorem Proving, Computer-Aided Instruction, and Visual-Assisted Pedagogy.

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