Juancho Buchanan
Professor of the Practice
Research interests
- Computer graphics
- 3D printing
- Practice of software engineering
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, University of British Columbia — Canada
- MS in Computer Science, University of Toronto — Canada
- BS in Computer Science, University of Windsor — Canada
Biography
Juancho Buchanan is a professor of the practice in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Vancouver.
Buchanan teaches computer graphs and the foundations of software engineering. Prior to joining Northeastern, he worked as the vice president of engineering at Staffbase, the manager of engineers for Amazon web services, the director of core technology for Hothead Games, a software development manager for Amazon, and more. He is also currently the senior director of software engineering at Bananatag.
In his free time, Buchanan builds a pipeline to generate and 3D print stained glass windows.
Recent publications
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“CS 1.5”: An Experience Report on Integrating CS1 and Discrete Structures for the AI Era
Citation: Ildar Akhmetov, Juancho Buchanan. (2026). "CS 1.5": An Experience Report on Integrating CS1 and Discrete Structures for the AI Era CoRR, abs/2604.16365. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.16365 -
Recycling Items Sorting System
Citation: Lino Coria, Juancho Buchanan. (2024). Recycling Items Sorting System WCCCE, 21:1-21:2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3660650.3660660
