Lauren Sands
Lecturer, CSD
In This Section
- Academics
- Admissions
- Careers
-
News
- 2025 MSCF Trading Competition
- A New Academic Year at MSCF
- Alumni Reflect on the MSCF Program’s 30th Anniversary
- Breaking Barriers, Building Leaders: Women in Quant Finance
- Data Science in Finance
- Financial Engineering Salary
- High Stakes and Fair Values: CMU Students Face Off in the 2026 Market Making Game
- How to Become a Quant
- MSCF 30th Anniversary Celebration
- MSCF Advisory Board Member, Roni Israelov receives the 2024 Peter L. Bernstein Award
- MSCF Hosts 2025 Panel for Women in Data Science Pittsburgh
- MSCF Hosts 2nd Annual Datathon: Advancing Experiential Learning and Industry Connections
- MSCF Welcomes Rhonda Khan as Communication and Leadership Instructor and Coach
- MSCF Welcomes Shelli Faber as Associate Director of Career Services
- Quantbot Classroom Naming
- Squarepoint Foundation Deepens Partnership MSCF Through $100K Gift to Support Future Leaders
- Our Community
- Student Experience
Biography
Lauren Sands is a Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. Her research was on static program analysis for higher-order typed languages, and now she focuses on teaching. Her teaching interests include introductory CS, data structures, and algorithms. She is also committed to mentoring teaching assistants. While completing her studies at the CMU School of Computer Science, she was awarded the Mark J. Stehlik Introductory and Service Teaching Award.
Lauren has also contributed to curriculum development for CMU CS Academy’s College Programming and Computer Science course, a free curriculum for high school students based on CMU’s introductory CS class. She is passionate about expanding access to computer science by supporting under-resourced schools and training high school teachers without a CS background.