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AbouGhazaleh, Nevine
University of Pittsburgh
Nevine AbouGhazaleh received a BE and MS in Computer Engineering from Arab Academy for Science and Technology in 1996 and 1999, respectively. She received her MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Currently she is a Ph.D. student at University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include computer architecture, operating systems, low power and embedded systems. She is researching power management in real-time systems. She is an ACM and IEEE student member.
Session: Power Management in External Memory using PA-CDRAM
Alberts, Amy
Microsoft
Amy Alberts is a User Experience Researcher for the Office Design Group. She has been at Microsoft for over 5 years, working as a User Researcher for Microsoft.com, a Program Manager in Windows Help search, and most recently a researcher in Office. At Microsoft she has specialized in eye tracking and card sorting research techniques, while gaining expertise in internet search and document collaboration user scenarios. Amy came to Microsoft from Montana State University where she received a Masters in Applied Cognitive Psychology/Psychophysics. For her thesis, Amy conducted ground-breaking work in the field of measuring human memory thru eye movements.
Session: Improving the User Interface: Eye-Tracking in the Microsoft Office Usability Lab
Albrecht, Jeannie R
UC San Diego
Jeannie received a BS in Math and Computer Science from Gettysburg College in 2001. After graduation, she moved to Durham, NC and began her graduate work in the Internet Systems and Storage Group at Duke University. She completed an MS at Duke in 2003, and moved to UC San Diego to finish a PhD under the supervision of Amin Vahdat and Alex Snoeren in the Systems and Networking group. Jeannie’s latest research involves wide area resource discovery using SWORD, and large scale distributed application management with Plush. She plans to finish her PhD and start interviewing for faculty positions this spring.
Session: Distributed Application Management Using Plush
Almstrum, Vicki L.
The University of Texas at Austin
Vicki L. Almstrum teaches in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include computer science education research, software engineering, and formal methods. Vicki holds the office of treasurer for the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education and is vice-chair for the Central Texas chapter of IEEE Women in Engineering. Vicki holds a PhD in computer science education and an MS in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MS in mathematics and a BA in mathematics education from Arizona State University.
Session: Making Waves — Computing Educators Oral History Project
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Bair, Bettina
Ohio State University
Bettina Bair is a senior lecturer and diversity coordinator for the CSE department at the Ohio State University. She is the director of the TWiCE (The Women in Computer Engineering) program, and a faculty sponsor of the student chapter of ACM-W. She is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women (ACM-W) working committee and a member of the OSU President’s Council on Women’s Issues. She is recipient of the Mary Ann Williams Leadership award and Ohio State University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award.
Session: TWiCE Undergraduate Experience in Research and Community Service
Barker, Lecia J.
University of Colorado
Lecia Barker directs the Assessment and Research Center of the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She also holds the position of Senior Research Scientist with the National Center for Women & IT. With many colleagues and partners, Dr. Barker conducts research into and evaluation of under-representation in professional computing careers at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The Assessment and Research Center evaluates and researches science education reform, research experiences for undergraduates, educational technology implementation, digital libraries, and other programmatic efforts. The group also helps clients build capacity for “do-it-yourself” evaluation.
Session: Making Waves — Computing Educators Oral History Project
Boot, Lee
UMBC
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
Bottou, Leon
NEC Labs America
Session: Fast Classification with Online Support Vector Machines
Boutilier, Craig
University of Toronto
Session: Decision-Theoretic Intelligent Assistance
Boyles, Michael J.
Advanced Visualization Laboratory, Indiana University
Session: Pathview - An Information Visualization Tool
Buchanan, Erik
UCSD
Erik Buchanan is a Southern California native. He attends UCSD with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. He has been a tutor for lower division computer science courses throughout his undergraduate program, and has been involved with several internships. Erik joined the Ubiquitous Presenter project in Fall 2005, and went up to Redmond, Washington for an internship at Microsoft this summer. He will complete his computer science Bachelor’s Degree next year, and he plans to continue at UCSD for a Master’s Degree.
Session: Ubiquitous Presenter: Student Access and Control in a Digital Lecturing Environment
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Castillo, Claris
NC State University
Claris Castillo is currently a PhD student at NC State University working on resource allocation techniques on grid environments under Dr. George Rouskas and Dr. Khaled Harfoush. She got her BS degree in Electrical Engineer and Master degree in Computer Networking in the University of Panama, Panama and NC State University, NC, US respectively. Her area of research is on Overlay Networks, P2P systems, Social Networks, Scheduling Algorithms, Network Topology and the convergence of these areas in Grid infrastructure and virtual organizations in general.
Session: Online Scheduling Algorithms for Advance Reservations and QoS in Grids
Chiticariu, Laura
UC Santa Cruz
Laura Chiticariu is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests lay in the area of information management, more specifically, data provenance and information integration. Laura is currently co-president of “eWomen” - the Women in Engineering graduate student organization at UC Santa Cruz.
Laura grew up in Romania where she earned a BS in Computer Engineering from “Politehnica” University of Bucharest in 2003. While in college, she worked for several Romanian IT companies, developing a wide range of applications - from web-based content management systems to computer graphics tools and online games.
Session: Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes
Chuah, Chen-Nee
University of California at Davis
Chen-Nee Chuah is currently an Associate Professor in ECE. Department at UC_Davis. Chuah received her B.S. in EE from Rutgers University in 1995, and her M. S. and Ph.D. in EECS from UC_Berkeley in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Her research interests include computer networking, wireless/mobile communications, network measurements, anomaly detection, overlay and peer-to-peer systems, Quality of Service (QoS), and performance modeling. Chuah received the NSF CAREER Award in 2003 and UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in 2004. She has served on the technical program committee of several ACM and IEEE conferences and workshops.
Session: Interference-aware Concurrent Video Streaming over Wireless Mesh Networks Using Multi-Source Multi-Path Diversity
Cohoon, Joanne McGrath
University of Virginia
Dr. Joanne McGrath Cohoon holds positions as Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Women & IT and as Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. In both positions, she employs perspectives and methods from sociology to study gender, technology, and education. Funding from the National Science Foundation, the Computing Research Association, NCWIT, and the Sloan Foundation makes possible Cohoon’s nationwide studies of recruitment and retention in computing. Her results are reported in scholarly journals and a recent book, co-edited with William Aspray, from MIT Press – Women and Information Technology, Research on Under-representation.
Session: TWiCE Undergraduate Experience in Research and Community Service
Compton, Marlena
Equifax, Inc.
Marlena Compton is cultivating an interest in getting useful information from extremely large data sets. This is for the purpose of furthering her employer, Equifax, as an innovator in data decisioning technology. Her project involves her favorite topic, the study of distributed systems using new database types and methods. Marlena has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Southern Polytechnic State University. Her research at Equifax would not have been possible without the help and involvement of several colleagues including Mark Burgess, Trisha Earls, Jackie Miller, Bill Hughes and Marianne Johnson. Her personal interests include guitar and soccer.
Session: Cheating Shared Nothing: Using adaptive queries and an object oriented approach to improve the performance of shared-nothing clusters
Coon, Alicia
Indiana University of PA
Alicia Ann Coon is currently a senior at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In December, she will graduate with B.S. in Computer Science\Information Assurance with a minor in Criminology. She has been named to the Dean’s List multiple times and has been selected three times as a National Collegiate Natural Science Award winner by the United States Achievement Academy and a member of the Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society and was involved with the CREU (Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates) project, Developing Computer Security Awareness, which is sponsored by CRA-W.
Session: Computer Security Awareness
Cotton, Shelia R.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
Countryman, Jeri
Techbridge
Jeri Countryman is Project Consultant of Techbridge. For the past five years in Techbridge, Jeri has created hands-on science, engineering, and technology curriculum to be used in the after-school setting and has trained individuals on how to be effective role models. Jeri is currently working on a Ph.D. in Education at University of California, Santa Cruz with a specialization in Science Education. Jeri has a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Computer Science from Mills College and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Simmons College.
Session: Encouraging Girls in Technology: Effective K-12 Outreach by Corporations and Role Models
Cross II, James
Auburn University
Dr. James H. Cross II is a Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in software engineering and directs research in the areas of software development environments, reverse engineering, and software visualization. His most recent research effort is the jGRASP project, which has focused on the automatic generation of graphical representations of software. Dr. Cross received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Houston in 1971, his M.S. in Mathematics from Sam Houston State University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 1986.
Session: Extensible and Dynamic Data Structure Viewers in Java
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Dales, Michael
Intel Research
Session: A Bit Error Rate Tester for Variable Encoding of High-speed Local Networks
Davis, Rashida Z.
University of Delaware
Rashida Z. Davis is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. She earned her bachelor’s in Mathematics from the University of Rochester and received her M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Generation and Human-Computer Interaction.
Session: Framework for a Tutorial Response Generator in an Intelligent Tutoring System
Dean, Erin
Microsoft
Erin Dean is a Program Manager at Microsoft. For the past three years she’s been working on the Office User Experience team designing features such as the status bar and contextual menus. She graduated in 2003 from The Ohio State University with a degree in Computer Science. Outside of work she occasionally can be found outside playing ultimate Frisbee or on stage performing improv comedy. She often spends her time thinking up blog entries that she will never get around to writing.
Session: Iterative Design in Practice
Dehmeshki, Hoda
York University
Hoda Dehmeshki received her B.Sc. degree from the Melli University in Tehran, Iran and her M.Sc. degree from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, both in Computer Science. Currently she is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the York University, Toronto, Canada. Her doctoral research focuses on Perception-Based Grouping. The direct manipulation of objects and efficient selection of objects is an integral part of modern user interfaces. Nonetheless, most systems support only rectangle selection and shift-clicking for group selection. In her thesis she investigates a new selection technique, which is based on the way human perception naturally groups objects.
Session: Using Perceptual Grouping for Object Selection
DeLoatch, Sandra J.
Norfolk State University
Sandra J. DeLoatch is Dean of the School of Science and Technology and Professor of Computer Science at Norfolk State University. She has graduate degrees in mathematics and computer science and attended University of Michigan (M.A.), Indiana University (Ph.D.), and The College of William and Mary (M.S.). Her current research interests include creating supportive academic environments for minorities and women in the sciences. She is presently leading several funded projects that are providing important insight and results related to innovations that improve learning environments for minorities and women in the sciences.
Session: Retaining Women in First Year CS Courses
Denning, Tamara
UCSD
Tamara Denning is in her Junior year at the University of California, San Diego as a Computer Science major. Her main academic interests are cognitive science and computer science, with specific interests in human-oriented technology and web applications. She participated in an internship with the Office of Naval Research in the summer of her Freshman year. Tamara has participated as a member of the Ubiquitous Presenter team for the last two summers; this summer she is participating as part of the DMP program.
Session: Ubiquitous Presenter: Student Access and Control in a Digital Lecturing Environment
Diwekar, Urmila M
Vishwamitra Research Institute, Center for Uncertain Systems - Tools for Optimization and Management
Dr.Urmila M. Diwekar is the president and founder of Vishwamitra Research Institute,a non-profit research organization. From 2002-2004,she was a Professor in the Departments of Bio, Chemical, and Industrial Engineering and the new Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). From 1991-2002 she was on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),with early promotions to both the Associate and Full Professor levels. She has worked extensively in the areas of simulation, design, optimization, control, stochastic modeling, and synthesis of chemical processes. Dr. Diwekar has made major contributions to research on batch distillation including authoring the first book on batch distillation. Visit www.vri-custom.org for a detailed biography.
Session: A Universal Approach for Error Characterization for Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo Sampling
Doraimani, Shyamala
University of South Florida
Shyamala Doraimani received the B. E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Shanmugha College of Engineering (Now referred by the name Sastra), India in 2000. She is currently pursuing M.S. in computer science at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Her research interests are in resource management in scientific grids. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Session: Filecules: A New Granularity for Data Management in Science Grids
Drenner, Sara
University of Minnesota
Sara Drenner is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Minnesota, with a focus in human-computer interaction. Her current research centers around developing ways to encourage valuable contributions to online communities. She is also the coordinator for the Graduate Women in Computer Science at the U of M, and works with the dean’s office to recruit and retain women in IT.
Session: Conversation Lens: A System to Bridge Conversation and Item-Oriented Web Sites
Dukhon, Marina
Microsoft
Marina Dukhon is a Program Manager at Microsoft. She graduated from the University at Buffalo (SUNY at Buffalo) in 2003 and has been working for the Microsoft Office team since then. Being part of the User Experience team in Office, she has worked on various user interface-related features for the next version of Office.
Session: Iterative Design in Practice
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Ecott, Stacey
Tufts University
Stacey Ecott is currently a senior at Tufts University in the Computer Science Department. Stacey plans to graduate in 2007 and eventually become an educator.
Session: Fault Seeding vs. Mutation Operators: An Empirical Comparison of Techniques for Web Applications
Edwards, W. Keith
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Keith Edwards is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the College, Dr. Edwards was a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, formerly Xerox PARC), where he managed the Ubiquitous Computing group. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, technologies to enable rich user experiences, evolvable and adaptable systems, multimodal interfaces, and human-centered approaches to networking. He is a technologist at heart, but enjoys working with designers, as well as ethnographers and other social scientists.
Session: Making the Invisible Visible: Creating Interactive Visualizations of Home Networking
Ehinlaiye, Ometere Tute
Indiana University of PA
Ometere (Tuté) Ehinlaiye, is currently a senior at Indiana University of Pennsylvania double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. She will graduate with both degrees in December 2006 and interested in technical support/network security. She plans on getting a couple of certifications such as Network+ and maybe the Comptia A+ certifications, that she believes will help her progress further in the field. She plans on working for a year after graduation while getting those certifications to get more experience before going back to graduate school to get an MBA and a Masters of Science in either Information Systems or Network Security.
Session(s): Computer Security Awareness
Ertekin, Seyda
The Pennsylvania State University
Seyda Ertekin has been a Ph.D student in Computer Science & Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. C. Lee Giles at Penn State University since August 2002. She received her M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Louisiana at Lafayette and B.S degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi (ODTU), Ankara, Turkey. Throughout her Ph.D. studies, Seyda has spent three summers as a research intern in the Machine Learning group of NEC Labs, in Princeton, NJ. Her research interests include but are not limited to machine learning, data mining and information retrieval.
Session: Fast Classification with Online Support Vector Machines
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Foroozan, Foroohar
Computer Science & Eng. ,York university
Foroohar Foroozan received BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, IRAN and MSc degree in Electrical Engineering-Communication Systems from Polytechnic University of Technology,IRAN. She is Currently PhD candidate at the department of Computer Science & Engineering at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her main field of research is routing algorithms in multi hop wireless networks.
Session: ID-Based Clustering in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Francis, Rosemary
Cambridge University
Rosemary Francis received her BA (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2005. She then joined Intel Research (UK) where she worked on custom hardware for Intel’s optical switching project. She is now working towards a PhD with Dr. Simon Moore in Cambridge on communication centric FPGA architectures. This is part of the expanding network-on-chip group.
Session: A Bit Error Rate Tester for Variable Encoding of High-speed Local Networks
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Gibson, Emily
University of Delaware
Emily Gibson earned her MS degree in computer science from the University of Delaware in 2005, and her BS degree in computer science from The College of New Jersey in 2003. She is currently a PhD student in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include program analysis, software testing, and debugging. In 2005, Ms. Gibson received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the US National Science Foundation. She participated as an undergraduate researcher in the CRA-W Distributed Mentor Program in 2002, and two CRA-W Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates research grants from 2001-2003.
Session: An Approach to Providing Remote Debugging Feedback without Revealing Sensitive Information
Giles, C. Lee
The Pennsylvania State University
Session: Fast Classification with Online Support Vector Machines
Glick, Madeleine
Intel Research
Session: A Bit Error Rate Tester for Variable Encoding of High-speed Local Networks
Gini, Maria
University of Minnesota
Maria Gini is a Professor in the CSE Department at the University of Minnesota. Before joining Minnesota she was a Research Associate at the Politecnico of Milan, Italy, and a Visiting Research Associate in the AI Lab at Stanford University. Her research focuses on methods to distribute intelligence among robots and software agents. Her major contributions include algorithms for multi-robot systems, robot navigation, planning with incomplete information, and negotiation among agents. She is the chair of ACM SIGART, a member of the AAAI Executive Council, and a member of the editorial board of Autonomous Robots and other journals.
Session: Auction-based Dynamic Task Allocation to Robots
Gu, Yan
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yan Gu is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Dr. Richard M. Fujimoto on remote network emulation. She received her M.S. in Computer Science degree from Johns Hopkins University, M.E. in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technology University in Singapore, and B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. She has conducted research in the areas of network simulation and modeling, parallel and distributed computing, and performance evaluation and modeling of computer networks and systems. In 2005 she interned at IBM Almaden Research Center.
Session: A Remote Server-based Network Emulation System
Gudimetla, Vijaya
Indiana University
Vijaya Gudimetla is presently pursuing Masters in Computer Science department at Indiana University, Indiana. She has strong interest to gain knowledge of leading edge technology in Networking World. She is doing her Masters since august 2006.She has pursued her education till graduation in India. Her Schooling was done in India. She did her under graduation in Electrical & Electronics Engineering in India. While doing her under graduation she cultivated interest in Computer science. She wants to use her knowledge in Electrical and Electronics with Computers. As networking is combination of Computers, Electrical and Electronics. She cultivated interest in Networking. She strongly wishes to pursue her carrier in networking world.
Session: Tracing Internet Packet Sources Final Submission
Gupta, Pooja
Advanced Visualization Laboratory, Indiana University
Pooja Gupta received her BCA (Honors) from D.A. University, Indore in 2003, and M.S. (Computer Science) from Purdue University, Indianapolis, in 2005. During the years 2003-2005 she was research assistant with Center for Visual Information Sensing and Computing of Department of Computer and Information Science, and Visualization and Interactive Spaces-Pervasive Technology Labs, Indiana University where she worked on various problems related to data and information visualization. Since November 2005 she is working as analyst/programmer with Advanced Visualization Laboratory of Indiana University. Her current research interests include scientific visualization, data and information visualization and virtual reality.
Session: Pathview - An Information Visualization Tool
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Hendrix, Dean
Auburn University
Dr. Dean Hendrix is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. He earned a Master of Science in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Auburn University in 1996. Dr. Hendrix’s current research and teaching interests are focused on software visualization, software engineering, and computer science education.
Session: Extensible and Dynamic Data Structure Viewers in Java
Hou, Weimin
UMBC
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
Huang, Yuan-Ting E.
Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Yuan-Ting Erica Huang receives her Bachelors degree of Honours Computer Science from the University of British Columbia this May. Since September 2005, she has been developing this research project on mobile phone keypad design for Chinese text entry, which combines her knowledge in Computer Science and her personal interest in Chinese literature and linguistics. She is now a software developer at Mobile Data Solutions Inc. in Richmond, Canada.
Session: Mobile Phone Keypad Design for Fast Chinese Text Entry by Phonetic Spelling
Hui, Bowen
University of Toronto
Bowen Hui is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation work centers around applying decision theory to automatically customize software. Relevant areas of application include user modeling, preference elicitation, and inverse reinforcement learning. In previous works, Bowen has also published articles on software analysis at design time, machine translation, information extraction, lexical semantics, mixed initiative, intelligent tutoring systems, second language phonological acquisition, and edutainment.
Session: Decision-Theoretic Intelligent Assistance
Hutchinson, Norman C.
University of British Columbia
Session: Making Snapshots Perform Better
Nafus, Dawn
Intel Corp.
Dawn Nafus is an anthropologist with Intel. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was formerly a postdoctoral resesarcher at University of Essex. She has research interests in gender and technology, open source cultures, the anthropology of time and studies of postsocialist regions. Currently she is involved in a large scale project on forms of mobility throughout the world.
Session: Not Exactly Open: The Limits to Freedom in Free/OpenSource Software
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Iamnitchi, Adriana
University of South Florida
Session: Filecules: A New Granularity for Data Management in Science Grids
Ioerger, Thomas
Texas A&M University
Session: Identifying Non Crystallographic Symmetry in Electron Density Maps: Artificial Intelligence Techniques in X-ray Crystallography
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Jackson, Nikki L.
Norfolk State University
Nikki L. Jackson received her B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Norfolk State University. After interning at Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Alaska, she decided to pursue her Master’s degree. Nikki became part of the new Graduate Computer Science Program at NSU. At Norfolk State, she headed the Student Leadership Organization and served as a multidisciplinary tutor. She helped organize the school's first Video-Game Programming Institute for local students. Nikki recently accepted a career offer with BAE SYSTEMS, Inc. in New York. Her research interests include computer forensics, diversity, and retention issues at the university level and in industry.
Session: Retaining Women in First Year CS Courses
Jain, Jhilmil
Auburn University
Jhilmil Jain is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama. She received her Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Auburn University in 2002 and her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Pune, India in 2000. Jhilmil’s research interests include user interface design, user experience research, software visualization, and design and analysis of experiments. She has been researching and developing novel paradigms of human-computer interaction, in both industry and academia, for 3 years.
Session: Extensible and Dynamic Data Structure Viewers in Java
Jones, Rosie
Yahoo! Research
Rosie Jones is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Inc. Her research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, statistical natural language processing and time series analysis. She received her PhD from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 under the supervision of Tom Mitchell, where her doctoral thesis was titled Learning to Extract Entities from Labeled and Unlabeled Text. In 2005 she co-organized the SIGIR workshop on lexical cohesion and information retrieval, and in 2003 she co-organized the ICML workshop on The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning and Data Mining.
Session: Finding Grace Hopper on the Web
Joshi, Anjali
University of Minnesota
Anjali is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her general area of research is formal methods in Software Engineering. As part of her research, she has been closely involved in the NASA project titled “Methods and Tools for Flight Critical Systems” in collaboration with the Advanced Technology Center at Rockwell Collins Inc. Her thesis focuses on applying formal modeling and analysis techniques to Safety Analysis for safety-critical systems.
Session: Model-based Safety Analysis
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Kadioglu, Esra
U of Minnesota
Esra KADIOGLU received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer engineering from the Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her research interests include multiple mobile robot systems, visibility problems, path planning, and robot vision. She is a student member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE).
Session: Close Multi Angle View of a Mobile Target
Karolewski, Melissa
Indiana University of PA
Melissa Karolewski is a senior Computer Science Information Assurance major at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with minors in Applied Statistics and Criminology. She is a 3rd year resident assistant (RA) for IUP’s Housing and Residence Life. She is a Provost Scholar and dean’s list student. For 3 years, she has researched Security Awareness, Human Computer Interaction and Biometrics through funding from CREU. She is a member of Delta Epsilon Iota and Mortar Board. She will graduate in May 2007 and hopes to continue on to graduate school to study computer science information assurance.
Session(s): Computer Security Awareness
Kaur, Manpreet
Dept. of Information Systems, UMBC
Manpreet Kaur is a doctoral student in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her research interests include human computer interaction specifically search histories in information systems user interfaces, investigating Gender-Based Differences in Perception and Use of I.T. as Factors in I.T. Career Choice, and impact of cultural background on information seeking behavior.
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
Kelly, Michael
UCSD
Michael grew up in San Diego, where he was home schooled and later attended a small independent-study high school. He currently attends UCSD as a Computer Science major.
In the summer of 2005, together with David Lindquist, he developed CampusMap, a pair of applications to annotate maps and use the annotation information to view the shortest foot path between locations, through a Google Maps-style user interface.
He has been part of the Ubiquitous Presenter development team since September 2005, where he took part in a ground-up rewrite of the application.
His current interests include software engineering and programming languages.
Session: Ubiquitous Presenter: Student Access and Control in a Digital Lecturing Environment
Kekelis, Linda
Techbridge
Dr. Linda Kekelis is a co-founder and Executive Director of Techbridge and has led the program since its inception in 2000. Her areas of expertise include gender equity, teacher training, and issues relating to children with special needs. Linda has developed numerous programs that have translated research into practical applications for parents and teachers and has published numerous works in special education and gender equity. She has a master's degree in Linguistics from the University of Southern California and a doctorate in Special Education from the University of California, Berkeley.
Session: Encouraging Girls in Technology: Effective K-12 Outreach by Corporations and Role Models
Kirkpatrick, Pete
Intel
Session: A Bit Error Rate Tester for Variable Encoding of High-speed Local Networks
Komlodi, Anita
UMBC
Dr. Anita Komlodi is an Assistant Professor and director of research in Department of Information Systems at UMBC. Her research focuses on learning about users' information-seeking behavior and, based on this knowledge, designing user interfaces for information systems.
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
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Li, Danjue
University of California at Davis
Danjue Li is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at U. C. Davis. Li received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, and her M. S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from U. C. Davis in 2003. Her research interests are in the area multimedia networking, with emphasis on robust video streaming over wired and wireless networks.
Session: Interference-aware Concurrent Video Streaming over Wireless Mesh Networks Using Multi-Source Multi-Path Diversity
Lindquist, David
UCSD
David Lindquist grew up in San Diego, CA. He was home schooled up to age sixteen at which point he enrolled in Grossmont Community College. Before college David enjoyed running and swim team. David transferred into UCSD as a Computer Science Major in 2004. David’s last summer project was designing and building CampusMap (http://campusmap.ucsd.edu/) with his friend Michael Kelly. He joined UCSD’s Ubiquitous Presenter project (http://up.ucsd.edu) in Fall 2005. In his non-academic time, David plays Irish Music. He often travels around the US playing accordion for Irish Dance competitions. He is interested in the fields of Software Engineering and Networking.
Session: Ubiquitous Presenter: Student Access and Control in a Digital Lecturing Environment
Ling, Alan
The University of Vermont
Session: A Key Predistribution Framework for Wide-Area Wireless Sensor Networks
Long, J. Scott
Department of Sociology, Indiana University
Session: Pathview - An Information Visualization Tool
Lutters, Wayne G.
UMBC
Dr. Wayne G. Lutters is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Systems at UMBC. His research interests include CSCW, online communities/CMC systems, knowledge management and coordination mechanisms.
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
Lyons, Martha
Hewlett Packard
Martha Lyons is a Distinguished Technologist in Hewlett Packard’s Services R&D organization and currently resides at HP Labs, Palo Alto. She focuses on research collaborations with the Labs which provide the foundation for new innovative services or can be leveraged to reduce the cost of service delivery.
Previously, Martha focused on developing architectures and capabilities for HP’s e-support and proactive services initiatives.
Martha has been with HP for over 20 years and has held a variety of technical, management, and strategy positions in HP services and Global Operations. Martha attended Duke University and the University of Texas, at Austin and grew up in New York City.
Session: Innovation and R&D in IT Services
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Mackworth, Alan K.
University of British Columbia
Session: Route Planner and Scheduler for Wheelchair Users
Madison, Shannon
Google, Inc.
Shannon Madison is the Training & Documentation Manager for the Hardware Operations division at Google. She moved to Chicago from the UK at the age of 15 to pursue dual degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering and Philosophy from Northwestern University in 1989. She began her career as a Network Development Engineer at Apple Computer and moved into Product Management. Her desire to better inform people about her products led her to launch various Training organizations, including CAD/CAM, Semiconductors, Relational Database Management, NAS/SAN Storage, and Networking and Internet. She currently devotes 20% of her time at Google towards K-12 Diversity Initiatives.
Session: Encouraging Girls in Technology: Effective K-12 Outreach by Corporations and Role Models
Mawalankar, Gauri S.
Indiana University Bloomington
Gauri S. Mawalankar is a graduate student of Computer Science department in School of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington studying for a Masters degree in Computer Science. Her expected graduation date is May 2007. She is currently working for Prof. Beth Plale on Calder - a data streaming project and is also involved in research related to virtual machines in her Distributed Data Everywhere(DDE) lab.
Prior to being admitted for the Masters program, Gauri completed her bachelor’s from Mumbai University, India with a distinction in Computer Engineering.
Session: Distribution of stream queries to utilize location in a cluster of Virtual Machines
Meyer, Miriah
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Miriah Meyer recieved her B.S. degree in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1999. She worked as software engineer at Raytheon Corp. in Bedford, MA from 2000-2002. In her fifth year at the University of Utah, Miriah works in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and is expecting to earn her Ph.D. in Computer Science in the summer of 2007. Her past summer spent at the Chicago Tribune as a science writer has sparked an interest for a career path as an advocate for science and engineering.
Session: Dynamic Particle Systems for Efficient and Accurate Finite Element Visualization
Morrell, Claudia
The Center for Women&IT
Claudia Morrell is the executive director of the Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Currently she is directing several major initiatives that will increase the participation of girls and women in IT, from middle school through the college and university to the workforce and technology entrepreneurship
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
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Nanjanath, Maitreyi
University of Minnesota
Maitreyi Nanjanath is a PhD student in the CSE Department at the University of Minnesota. She is a graduate research assistant with the Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Vision Laboratory, and her advisor is Prof. Maria Gini. She received her M.S. in CE at Texas A&M University in May 2004, and her B.E. in CE from Delhi University, India in 2001. Her research interests include multi-robot coordination and control methods, and robot localization and navigation. She is presently researching auction based methods for task allocation in robot teams.
Session: Auction-based Dynamic Task Allocation to Robots
Nelson, James Robert
Indiana University
Session: Pathview - An Information Visualization Tool
Nelson, Shelley L.
Department of Sociology, Indiana University
Session: Pathview - An Information Visualization Tool
Nguyen, Uyen Trang
Computer Science & Engineering, York university
Session: ID-Based Clustering in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
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Owens, Barbara Boucher
Southwestern University
Barbara Boucher Owens teaches in the Computer Science department at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She has been in the computing field since 1967 and has been teaching since 1970. She is vice-chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, a past-president of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, and co-founder of its South Central Conference. Her most recent research grants have been in the areas of ethics in computing and gender issues in computing. She holds a PhD from New York University, MA from the University of Texas at Austin and BA from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Session: Making Waves — Computing Educators Oral History Project
Ozok, A.Ant
UMBC
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
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Pai, Reetal
Texas A&M University
Reetal Pai is a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University. Her research interests are in the design and application of AI and Pattern Recognition algorithms, particularly in the field of Computational Biology.
Session: Identifying Non Crystallographic Symmetry in Electron Density Maps: Artificial Intelligence Techniques in X-ray Crystallography.
Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos
University of Minnesota
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1987; the MSEE (1988) and PhD (1992) in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Currently, he is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include robotics, sensors for transportation applications, control, and computer vision. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 journal papers in the above areas. He has received the NSF Research Initiation and Early Career Development awards and grants from DARPA, NSF, USDOT, MN/DOT, Honeywell, and 3M.
Session: Close Multi Angle View of a Mobile Target
Parveen, Tauhida
Florida Institute of Technology
Tauhida Parveen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology. She received her M.SE. degree in 2005 in the area of anti-reverse engineering techniques for digital rights management. Her research interests include software maintenance, program documentation, and Web testing. She has taught undergraduate courses in the areas of computer applications, software development in Java, and FORTRAN programming. She has published in some of the leading academic conferences, including the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) and the ACM Southeast Conference. She is a member of the Software Evolution Lab at Florida Tech.
Session: Detecting Emulated Environments
Pollock, Lori
University of Delaware
Session(s):
An Approach to Providing Remote Debugging Feedback without Revealing Sensitive Information
Fault Seeding vs. Mutation Operators: An Empirical Comparison of Techniques for Web Applications
Powell, Rita
University of Pennsylvania
Rita M. Powell earned the EdD in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Her thesis, Sundials in the Shade: a Study of Women’s Persistence in the First Year of an Undergraduate Computer Science Program in a Selective University, took a qualitative, ethnographic approach to investigating women’s experiences, satisfaction and persistence in the computer science major. Powell develops and implements educational initiatives to enhance student learning and conducts research in education in the Dept. of Computer and Information Science at Penn. Powell also mentors the Women in Computer Science (undergraduate) and the CISters (graduate) organizations.
Session: Sundials in the Shade: the Study of First-Year Women’s Persistence in the Computer Science Major in a Selective University
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Raffensperger, Sarah
Indiana University of PA
Session(s): Computer Security Awareness
Rajan, Ajitha
University of Minnesota
My name is Ajitha Rajan. I am a PhD student at the University of Minnesota in the Computer Science department. My advisor is Mats Heimdahl, and my research area is software testing. I recently published papers in ISSTA’06 and in the doctoral symposium in ASE ‘06 about defining an adequacy metric for black-box test suites. I hope to graduate with a PhD degree in January 2007. I also did my Masters in Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and earned my undergraduate degree from Madras University in India.
Session: Coverage Metrics for Requirements-Based Testing
Regelson, Moira
Yahoo! Research
Moira Regelson is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! where her current work involves using clusters to make predictions for infrequent search terms. Before joining Yahoo!, she worked extensively with sequence alignment and identification algorithms in the field of bioinformatics. Her current research interests include probabilistic modeling, clustering, and the detection of semantic relationships in text. Dr. Regelson holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.
Session: Finding Grace Hopper on the Web
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Sacchettini, James
Texas A&M University
Session: Identifying Non Crystallographic Symmetry in Electron Density Maps: Artificial Intelligence Techniques in X-ray Crystallography
Sambarey, Shiwani P
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
I am a Master’s Student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I did my Bachelors in Computer Engineering at the University of Pune, India.During my course of my graduate studies, I got the opportunity to work on many significant research projects . They are as follows:
Fall 2005 - “Optimal Random Number Generator for Large Scale Applications”
Spring 2006 - “Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks”
Summer 2006 - “SDSS Data Distribution”
These projects have added a new dimension to my experience as a graduate student and exploring new areas of research.
Session: A Universal Approach for Error Characterization for Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo Sampling
Shah, Bhavana
University of British Columbia
Bhavana Shah is a graduate student at the Department of Computer Science of University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She received her B.E. in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in India, in 1999. Before joining UBC, she worked as a research developer at the Centre for Development of Telematics in Delhi, India, for five years. Her areas of research interests are operating systems, multithreaded distributed systems and file systems.
Session: Making Snapshots Perform Better
Shehan, Erika
Georgia Institute of Technology
Erika Shehan is a doctoral student in the Human-Centered Computing program at Georgia Tech. She graduated from Purdue University in 2004 with a BS in Computer Science. Erika’s research draws from the domains of human-computer interaction, information security, and public policy, focusing on usability issues associated with security, privacy, and networking. She is currently researching social and technical approaches to empower people with little technical expertise to successfully set up and maintain networked technologies in their homes, as well as to help them understand and cope with security and privacy risks associated with daily computing activities.
Session: Making the Invisible Visible: Creating Interactive Visualizations of Home Networking
Shaw, Marianne L.
Univ. of Washington
Marianne Shaw received a B.S.E. degree in computer science engineering and electrical engineering from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1998; she also received a M.S. degree in computer science from Penn in 1998. Upon leaving Penn, she worked for several years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, developing and maintaining software used in the Ground Data System. Marianne’s primary area of interest is computer systems, with a focus on the interaction between operating systems, networking, and security. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Univ. of Washington.
Session: Electronic encapsulating notebook: separating control and data planes for a secure, usable system
Shumba, Rose
Indiana University of PA
Session(s): Computer Security Awareness
Simonova, Katerina
The University of Vermont
Katerina Simonova is a graduate student in the Computer Science Department, at the University of Vermont. She works on security of wireless sensor networks. She received Degree of System Engineer with Honors in 2003 (equivalent to MS degree) from the Urals State Technical University, one of the leading technical universities in Russia.
Session: A Key Predistribution Framework for Wide-Area Wireless Sensor Networks
Snoeren, Alex C
UC San Diego
Session: Distributed Application Management Using Plush
Sprenkle, Sara
University of Delaware
Session: Fault Seeding vs. Mutation Operators: An Empirical Comparison of Techniques for Web Applications
Stuerzlinger, Wolfgang
York University
Session: Using Perceptual Grouping for Object Selection
Suter (Ransford), Emily
Sun Microsystems, Inc
Emily joined Sun Microsystems in 1997 researching new technologies at Aspen Smallworks, a small group directed by Sun founder Bill Joy. “Open Source” was a clear strategy for the group, and Emily helped realize evolving development models based on Open Source principles. She participated in introducing Open Source licenses and technologies at Sun, and helped develop communities around Jini technology, Java.net, JXTA, Looking Glass, and most recently, Sun's Open Source Hardware vision, OpenSPARC. Now part of the newly formed Open Source Group, Emily is working with the Java development team to implement its announced Open Source project.
Session: It Takes a Village (and Vision): The Role of Communities and Interoperability in Next Generation Networks. (FORMERLY WPP195)
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Tan, Wang-Chiew
University of California, Santa Cruz
Wang-Chiew Tan is an assistant professor at the Computer Science department at UC Santa Cruz since Fall 2002. She received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore and completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002.
Session: Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes
Tewari, Geetika
Harvard University
Geetika is a Ph.D. student at Harvard University. As a member of the Computer Graphics group Geetika works on surface parameterization and meshing problems. Her thesis research is on reconstructing higher genus surfaces from point clouds using discrete one-forms. Geetika has also done some work on biologically-inspired algorithms for wireless sensor networks. As a summer intern Geetika has conducted research in industry at IBM Almaden research center and IBM T.J. Watson research center. Geetika has served as a teaching fellow for several undergraduate courses at Harvard University including Computer Graphics, Internet Technologies, Formal Systems, Introduction to Computer Science and Quantitative Reasoning.
Session: Meshing Genus-1 Point Clouds using Discrete One-Forms
Thorsen, Alicia
Michigan Technological University
Alicia Thorsen is a Computer Science Ph.D. student from Trinidad and Tobago, who attends Michigan Technological University. Her research involves developing parallel algorithms for the shared-address space paradigm. She is a member of the Unified Parallel C (UPC) group at Michigan Tech. UPC is a multithreaded extension of C for partitioned shared memory parallel programming. She works on developing applications in UPC which are comparable to their message passing counterparts. She is especially interested in graph theory problems, since graphs are inherently harder to work with on message passing platforms. Alicia and her husband, Oystein Thorsen, both live in Houghton, MI.
Session: A Simple Parallel Approximation Algorithm for the Weighted Matching Problem
Trevino, Maria Fernandez
Microsoft
Maria Fernandez Trevino is a Program Manager for the Microsoft Office User Experience team. For the past year she has been working on developing several migration materials that will help users transition to the new Microsoft Office 2007 User Interface. She graduated in 2005 with a Computer Science degree from Monterrey’s Institute of Technology (ITESM). Prior to graduating and starting working full time at Microsoft, she interned at The Walt Disney World Co. during the spring of 2003, and at Microsoft during the summer of 2004.
Session: Improving the User Interface: Eye-Tracking in the Microsoft Office Usability Lab
Tufekci, Zeynep
UMBC
Session: “My Mom is a Cell-Phone Illiterate” – The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Parents on Pre-Adolescent Attitudes towards ICT
Tuttle, Christopher
Google
Session: Distributed Application Management Using Plush
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Vahdat, Amin
UC San Diego
Session: Distributed Application Management Using Plush
Van den Hoogen, Ingrid
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Ingrid Van den Hoogen drives Sun's brand, global communications, integrated marketing, and community marketing efforts. She has led Sun through a unique brand transformation in the past year that positions Sun as a leader in the Participation Age for the next decade.
Community development has been a recurring theme with Ingrid’s efforts. She helped introduce Jini technology as a community development project, funded the new Java.net community site for Open Source projects, and was on the core team for JXTA, a peer-to-peer open source project. All these projects continue to thrive.
Session: It Takes a Village (and Vision): The Role of Communities and Interoperability in Next Generation Networks. (FORMERLY WPP195)
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Wang, Sean
The University of Vermont
Session: A Key Predistribution Framework for Wide-Area Wireless Sensor Networks
Watters, Shana K.
University of Minnesota
Shana Watters is currently a graduate student at the University of Minnesota pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a M.A. in Linguistics. She received her M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include reference resolution, anaphora, cognitive aspects of language, and semantics.
Session: Building a Reference Resolution System Using Human Language Processing for Inspiration
Wei, Jennifer
Techbridge
Jennifer Wei is responsible for overseeing the sustainability of Techbridge, while managing operations, communications, strategy and fundraising. Prior to Techbridge, Jennifer worked in business development at Turner Broadcasting Systems, where she developed strategic growth initiatives for Turner’s television channels across the Asia-Pacific region. In previous roles, Jennifer worked at Goldman Sachs in the Principal Investment Area and at Merrill Lynch in the Investment Banking division. Jennifer earned her MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and her undergraduate degrees in applied science and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Session: Encouraging Girls in Technology: Effective K-12 Outreach by Corporations and Role Models
Whitaker, Ross
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Ross Whitaker received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1986, and his Ph.D in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. From 1994-1996 he worked at the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich Germany as a research scientist. From 1996-2000 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Since then he has been at the University of Utah where he is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing and a faculty member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
Session: Dynamic Particle Systems for Efficient and Accurate Finite Element Visualization
Williams, Aurelia T.
Norfolk State University
Aurelia T. Williams is a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Norfolk State University (NSU). She has a M.S degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. She is currently completing her dissertation in the field of computer science education at Pace University. Her goals are to design innovative methods based on documented research to increase the retention of women and minorities in computer science. The methods discussed in the poster are currently being implemented in the first year courses at Norfolk State University where she personally teaches all of the courses described in the poster.
Session: Retaining Women in First Year CS Courses
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Yang, Suling
University of British Columbia
Suling Yang received her undergraduate degree Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, Canada. In 2004, she began her master’s degree of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada. Suling joined the Lab of Computational Intelligence at UBC in 2005 after finishing the research-related course requirement. With the help from her supervisor, Alan K. Mackworth, Suling designed and implemented the system of a route planner and scheduler for wheelchair users. She is expected to complete her master’s degree in November, 2006.
Session: Route Planner and Scheduler for Wheelchair Users
Yoo, S. J. Ben
University of California, Davis
S. J. Ben Yoo currently serves as Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC_Davis and Director of UC Davis branch CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society). His research at UC Davis includes unified heterogeneous networking and high performance routing systems. Prior to joining UC Davis in 1999, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Bellcore. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering with distinction, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with minor in physics from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1984, 1986, and 1991, respectively.
Session: Interference-aware Concurrent Video Streaming over Wireless Mesh Networks Using Multi-Source Multi-Path Diversity
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Zeigler, Amanda
Arizona State University
Integrating Biological Data: dealing with Incompleteness
Zhang, Qian
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Qian Zhang is currently an Associate Professor in CS Department at Hong Kong University of Sciene and Technology. Zhang received her B.S., M.S.,and Ph.D. degrees from Wuhan University, China, in 1994, 1996, and 1999, respectively, all in CS. She was with Microsoft Research Asia from July 1999 to Sept. 2006, where she became the research manager of the Wireless and Networking Group. Her research interests include wireless communications, IP networking, multimedia, P2P overlay, and wireless security. Zhang has published more than 120 refereed papers in international leading journals and key conferences and is the inventor of about 30 pending patents.
Session: Interference-aware Concurrent Video Streaming over Wireless Mesh Networks Using Multi-Source Multi-Path Diversity
Zhang, Wei Vivian
Yahoo! Research
Wei (Vivian) Zhang is a Research Engineer at Matching Sciences, Yahoo! Search Marketing. Vivian obtained her masters in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests focus on information retrieval and machine learning. Currently she works on relevant term suggestion using ranking and matching techniques for web advertising.
Session: Finding Grace Hopper on the Web
