Research, Careers, and Computer Science:
A Maryland Symposium
November 16-17, 2001

The theme of this workshop is the opportunity for academic employment in the U.S. in computer science, and it is intended for women and minority Ph.D. candidates who are within two years of receiving their degree.

The 20 participants will have a chance to present their research, meet Maryland faculty and students, and participate in interactive sessions about academia (getting a job, keeping a job, teaching, research, publications, tenure, etc.).

Agenda

Information for attendees

A few pictures from the workshop

Some sites recommended by the speakers:

  • Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Research Career Mentoring Workshop materials
  • Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual link on Dianne O'Leary's homepage
  • Jim Hendler's talk on How to Get that First Grant
  • Ugur Cetintemel's On the Academic Interview Circuit: An End-to-End Discussion
  • Participants:

  • Melanie Baljko melanie@cs.utoronto.ca
    nominator/advisor: Suzanne Stevenson (one of our grads!) Toronto devices for the disabled
    Title: Computational Simulations of Mediated Face-to-Face Multimodal Communication

  • Valentina Bayer Zubek bayer@cs.orst.edu
    nominator/advisor: Amy Greenwald, Tom Dietterich Oregon State reasoning with uncertainty
    Title: Machine Learning for Diagnosis: Initial Results

  • Sheila Denn denns@ils.unc.edu no website
    nominator/advisor: Stephanie W. Haas U NC info and library sci
    Title: Making Search Results More Useful: The Role of Categorization

  • Maureen Doyle mdoyle@stanford.edu
    nominator/advisor: Gene H Golub, Walter Murray numer anal
    Title: Barrier Algorithms with Nonlinear Constraints.

  • Tina Eliassi-Rad eliassi@cs.wisc.edu
    nominator/advisor: Mary Vernon U Wisc Jude Shavlik, machine learning
    Title: Managing Large-Scale Scientific Data

  • Daniel A. Jiménez djimenez@acm.org
    nominator/advisor: Calvin Lin U Texas dynamic branch pred
    Title: Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons

  • Irene Langkilde-Geary ilangkil@isi.edu
    nominator/advisor: Geary Kevin Knight, Yolanda Gil USC natural language generation
    Title: Statistical Sentence Generation

  • Dawn Lawrie lawrie@cs.umass.edu
    nominator/advisor: Neil Immerman U Mass information retrieval
    Title: Finding Topic Terms for Hierarchical Summarization

  • King-Shan Lui E-mail: kinglui@uiuc.edu
    nominator/advisor: Klara Nahrstedt Illinois routing
    Title: Spanning Tree Alternate Routing Bridge Protocol

  • Maria Papadopouli maria@cs.columbia.edu
    nominator/advisor: Henryk Wozniakowski,H. Schulzrinne Columbia realtime, multimed
    Title: Performance of Data Dissemination Among Mobile Devices

  • Anna Poplawski annap@cs.dartmouth.edu
    nominator/advisor: David Nicol, Dartmouth scheduling for out-of-core applics
    Title: Scheduling Logical Processes and Disk Accesses for Reduced Stall Time

  • Rachel Pottinger rap@cs.washington.edu
    nominator/advisor: John Zahorjan, Alon Halevy and Phil Bernstein, University of Washington
    Title: The Merge Operator in Model Management Systems

  • Heather Richter hrichter@cc.gatech.edu
    nominator/advisor: Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology, Gregory Abowd, ubiquitous computing
    Title: Understanding Meeting Capture and Access

  • Michelle Mills Strout mstrout@cs.ucsd.edu
    nominator/advisor: Jeanne Ferrante UCSD na
    Title: Tiling for Iterative Sparse Matrix Computations

  • Kiri Wagstaff wkiri@cs.cornell.edu
    nominator/advisor: Charlie van Loan Cornell learning
    Title: Constrained Clustering with Background Knowledge

  • Michele Weigle mcweigle@cs.unc.edu
    nominator/advisor: Kevin Jeffay, North Carolina, networking
    Title: Investigating the Use of Synchronized Clocks in TCP Congestion Control

  • Stephanie Weirich sweirich@cs.cornell.edu
    nominator/advisor: Charlie van Loan Cornell programming lang
    Title: Run-time type analysis for program verification

  • Zoë J. Wood zoe@cs.caltech.edu
    nominator/advisor: Peter Schroeder, Cal Tech signal processing for meshes
    Title: Topological Noise Removal

  • Qing Yi qingyi@rice.edu
    nominator/advisor: Iva Jean Jorgensen Rice memory management by compiler
    Title: Transforming Loop Structures

  • Hongjun Zhu hongjunz@cs.ucsb.edu
    nominator/advisor: Jianwen Su UCSB spatial databases
    Title: Octagons, octagon trees, and moving objects trajectories
  • Organizing Committee

  • Dianne O'Leary (chair)
  • Bonnie Dorr
  • Leana Golubchik
  • Dana Nau
  • Amitabh Varshney