Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)
andrea@cs.williams.edu
Williams College
Andrea Danyluk is a professor of Computer Science at Williams College. She received her A.B. from Vassar College in 1984 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1992, and was a researcher at NYNEX (now Verizon) before joining the faculty at Williams in 1994. Danyluk's research interests are focused on applications of machine learning. She has published book contributions, journal and conference articles in this area, and has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She has served on numerous conference program committees, including the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and has taken on several organizational roles in her research community as Tutorials co-Chair for AAAI (twice), Associate Chair for AAAI, Program co-Chair of ICML 2001, and General Chair of ICML 2009. She joined the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) in 2008 and is co-directing CREU.
Danyluk is also active in Computer Science education. She is a co-author of a textbook, Java: An Eventful Approach, with Kim Bruce and Tom Murtagh. She is an active member of SIGCSE and has served on the program committee for the annual SIGCSE symposium. She also served as a member of the Intelligent Systems Focus Group, contributing to the ACM / IEEE Task Force on Computing Curricula 2001.