Tracy Camp

Tracy Camp is a Professor of computer science at the Colorado School of Mines. She is the founder and Director of the Toilers (http://toilers.mines.edu), an active ad hoc networks research group. Her current research interests include the credibility of ad hoc network simulation studies and deploying wireless sensor networks on geosystems. Dr. Camp has published more than 60 refereed articles; as of June 2008, her articles have been cited over 2500 times (per Google Scholar).

Dr. Camp has received 17 grants from the National Science Foundation. This funding has produced 12 software packages that have been requested from (and shared with) more than 1300 researchers in 64 countries (as of June 2008). Dr. Camp is an ACM Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Senior Member, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. In December 2007, Dr. Camp received the Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award at the Colorado School of Mines, an award that has only been given five times between 1998-2007. Dr. Camp is currently the elected Treasurer of ACM SIGMOBILE. She is also on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, and Computer Communications.

Dr. Camp shares her life with Max (born in 2000), Emma (born in 2003), her husband (Glen), and two pets (a cat Scully and a dog Jessie). All six of them are vegetarians who tremendously enjoy living in the foothills of the Rockies.