Ron Metoyer

Ronald A. Metoyer serves as vice president and associate provost for teaching and learning. In this role, he oversees Notre Dame Learning, which houses the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Digital Learning, bringing together their expertise along with that of the OIT’s Teaching & Learning Technologies group to serve as the hub of learning excellence and innovation at Notre Dame. His portfolio also includes the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Office of the Registrar.

Ron leads the University’s approach to innovative pedagogical and learning strategies, including online/digital learning, inter-institutional collaboration, and experimental models for the future of education. Chair of the Instructional Initiatives Review Committee, he works closely with the vice president and associate provost for undergraduate education on policies to support effective teaching and learning. In addition, he is a member of the President’s Leadership Council, the Provost’s Cabinet, and the Core Curriculum Committee.

From 2015–2023, Ron served as associate dean for diversity and faculty development in Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. Prior to his arrival at Notre Dame, he was a faculty member at Oregon State University for 14 years.

Ron earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (1994), and his doctoral degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2002). He is a professor of computer science and engineering at Notre Dame with a primary research interest in human-computer interaction and information visualization, particularly multivariate data visualization, decision-making, and narrative.

His research aims to answer fundamental questions at the intersection of people and technology, ideally in the context of societally relevant problems. He has addressed issues in domains as diverse as holistic admissions decision processes, narrative visualization of sports data, and food choice decision-making. He is especially interested in the interplay between text and visual elements in interactive interfaces that are designed to support decision-making.

Ron has also been involved in broadening participation in computing activities throughout his career, including through multiple years of service on the program committee of the CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference and as a project leader for the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT). Most recently, he was a member of the steering committee for the Broadening Participation effort of the Computing Research Association’s Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research . He has published more than 85 papers and is the recipient of a 2002 NSF CAREER Award.