Career Mentoring Workshop at Grace Hopper conference

A.J. Bernheim Brush is a Senior  Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, USA.  Her research area is human-computer interaction with a focus on Ubiquitous Computing and Computer Supported Cooperative Work.  A.J. graduated Summa cum Laude from Williams College and earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Washington.

Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)

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.

Career Mentoring Workshop (CMW-R)

Anna R. Karlin is the Microsoft Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research is primarily in theoretical computer science. She also works at the interface between theory and other areas.

Professor, Tufts University

Carla E. Brodley is a professor and chair of  the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst in 1994. From 1994-2004, she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She joined Tufts in 2004.

Steering committee, Fundraising, Newsletter editor

Carla Schlatter Ellis is a professor emerita of Computer Science at Duke University. She received the B.S. degree from the University of Toledo, Toledo Oh, in 1972 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1977 and 1979.

CAPP-L Co-Director

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Advanced Computing for Science Department

Deb Agarwal is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and head of the Advanced Computing for Science Department.

Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

Dilma da Silva is a researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, in NY. She manages the Advanced Operating Systems group. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1997.

CREUC (Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates Canada)

Gail Murphy is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Her main area of research is software engineering.

CAPP-R

Holly Rushmeier is a professor of Computer Science at Yale University. She received the BS(1977), MS(1986), and PhD(1988) in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Since receiving the PhD she has held positions at Georgia Tech, NIST and IBM TJ Watson Research. Her area of interest is computer graphics.

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.

Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)

Julia Hirschberg is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. From 1985-2003 she worked at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs, as member of Technical Staff working on intonation assignment in text-to-speech synthesis and then as Head of the Human Computer Interaction Research Department

CRA-W Co-Chair
Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Endowed Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin

Grad Cohort Workshop

Professor Lori A. Clarke is a member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She does research in software engineering, focusing on the verification of distributed systems and requirements engineering. Recently she has been exploring using these and other analysis techniques to help reduce errors in medical processes. She is an ACM and IEEE Fellow.

Grad Cohort Program, Steering Committee Member

Lori Pollock is a Professor in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware where she has been a faculty member since 1991. Her research focuses on software analysis for software maintenance tools, software testing, and program analysis for optimizing compilers, parallel and distributed systems.

Career Mentoring Workshop, Research Track, CMW-R

Manuela Veloso is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She researches in artificial intelligence and robotics.

Discipline-Specific Mentoring Workshops

Margaret Martonosi is currently Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. She is an affiliated faculty member in the Electrical Engineering department as well. Her research interests are in computer architecture and mobile computing, with an emphasis on power-aware computing.

Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)

Maria Gini is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in Artificial Intelligence and robotics.

Best Practices in Undergraduate Research (BURP)

Mary Lou Soffa is the Chair and Owens R. Professor of Sciences in the Departmetn of Computer Science at the University of Virginia.  She received her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Pittsburgh.

Distributed Lecture Series (DLS) and Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)

Nancy M. Amato is a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University where she co-directs the Parasol Lab and is chair of the university-level Alliance for Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Systems Biology.

Pipelines

Patty Lopez spent 19 years as an Imaging Scientist for Hewlett Packard, creating and transferring technology in imaging and color algorithms into scanner, camera, and all-in-one products. Patty joined Intel in August 2008 and now works on microprocessor logic validation for manufacturability.

Newsletter Editor

Sandhya Dwarkadas is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, with a secondary appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received her Bachelor's from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

Career Mentoring Workshop (CMW-E), Webpage Manager

Sheila Castañeda is Chair and Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa, where she has taught since 1980. Her main areas of interest and teaching responsibility are in database systems and programming languages.

Career Mentoring Workshop (CMW-E), Advanced Career Mentoring Workshop (CAPP-E)

Susan Rodger is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Computer
Science at Duke University where she has been a faculty member since 1994.
She received her Ph.D. (1989) in Computer Science from Purdue University
and her B.S. (1983) in Computer Science and Mathematics from North Carolina State University.

Travel Support for Labs Researchers
Career Mentoring Workshop (CMW-L)

Tessa Lau is a Research Staff Member and Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center, leading a group working on Smarter Web technologies. Dr. Lau's research integrates techniques from artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction to build systems that enhance human productivity and creativity; areas of interest include end user programming, collaboration, and social software. She has served on organizing and program committees for major AI and HCI conferences and journals. She also serves on the board of CRA-W, the CRA committee on the status of women in computing research. Dr. Lau holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

CRA-W Co-Chair
Colorado School of Mines

Tracy Camp is a Professor of computer science at the Colorado School of Mines and current Interim Department Head of Math and CS. She is the founder and Director of the Toilers (http://toilers.mines.edu), an active ad hoc networks research group.