Academic Women
in EECS Web Page

ECE

Math -- CS related

• Lenore Cowen (assoc prof -- math sciences) (joint appointment in CS, but tenure-line through Math Sci Dept)
  -- Algorithms, combinatorics. (Fall 2000: Sabatical at MIT)

MIT (EECS women: 5 full (incl. affiliates) + 1 institute prof)

EECS

• * Mildred Dresselhaus (full prof -- Institute Prof)
  -- primary focus in applied physics, but orig. appointment with EECS

• * Shafi Goldwasser (full prof)
  -- Cryptography, Complexity Theory, Computational Number Theory, Fault Tolerant Distributed Computation.

• * Leslie Kaebling (full prof, ??) Joined July 1, 1999. (previously assoc prof in CS at Brown University)
  -- Intelligent agents, including Embedded Computation, Situated Automata Theory and Learning, Planning and Acting in Stochastic Domains, and Mobile Robotics.
  

• * Barbara Liskov (full prof,??)
  -- Programming Methodology

• * Martha L. Gray (full prof associated w/ EECS, but also Director of the Harvard/MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technologies)
  -- Physiology of cartilage and the effects of physical and biological factors on cartilage growth, development, and metabolism. She is developing a non-destructive MRI-based technique to measure cartilage composition and properties. Gray is also developing microfabricated devices for biomedical research.

• * Nancy A. Lynch (full prof)
  -- distributed computing, real-time computing, algorithms, lower bounds, formal modeling and verification.

• Lisa G. McIlrath (visiting assistant prof)
  

• Lynn Andrea Stein (assoc. prof)
  -- Cognitive robotics, common-sense reasoning, software agents, human-computer interaction and collaboration, and object-oriented programming.

Senior but non-tenure track

• Marija Ilic
  
• Stephanie Seneff
• Karin Sollins

Aero/Astro

• * Nancy Levenson (full prof, PhD UCLA 1980)
  (previously in CS at UC Irvine and U of Washington) -- Software Safety.

Architecture -- including Media Arts and Science/Media Lab:

• Julie Dorsey (assoc. prof -- Architecture)
  -- Computer graphics and include global illumination, weathering and surface appearance, material and texture models, and lighting and acoustical design in particular.

• Pattie Maes (assoc prof)
• Rosalind Picard (assoc prof)
• Justine Castell (assist prof)

Math -- EECS related

• Bonnie Berger (assoc prof, PhD EECS MIT)
  -- Dr. Berger recently got tenure -- the first woman ever in the Math Dept at MIT. She did her dissertation on algorithms. Current interests are in Computational Biology.

Princeton

CS

• * Andrea LaPaugh (full prof, PhD MIT around 1980)
  -- Digital Libraries, Computer-Aided Design of Digital Systems, and Algorithms Foundations.

• Mona Singh (will join as assist prof fall 1999)

Purdue Univ. (women: 1 full prof in CS )

CS

• Concettina Guerra (assoc prof, Dr. Sc. Math., U of Naples, (Italy), 1972)
  -- Computer vision, image processing and computational biology. She is currently working on the design and implementation of efficient algorithms for object representation and recognition. She is also interested in the application of techniques developed for vision tasks to problems arising in computational biology.

• * Susanne E. Hambrusch (full prof, PhD CS Penn State 1982)
  -- Analysis of Algorithms, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Computer-aided Design of Integrated Circuits, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Parallel Computing.

Rensselaer Polytech Inst, NY (RPI) (no full prof women in EECS?)

ECSE

• Chaunyi Ji (assist prof, PhD CalTech 1992)
  -- Neural networks, communications & information processing, pattern recognition including Multimedia Systems, Image/Signal Processing and Networking.

Math Sciences -- CS related

• Kristin Bennett (assoc prof, PhD CS U of Wisc -- Madison 1993)
  -- Mathematical programming, machine learning, support vector machines, neural networks, artificial intelligence, parallel optimization, tabu search

• 3 other senior women in Math Sciences, but they are not EECS related

Rice Univ.

CS

• Lydia Kavraki (assist prof, Ph.D. 1995 Stanford)
  -- Algorithms and system architectures for solving geometric problems arising in the physical world. In particular, problems in the areas of motion planning in robotics, assembly sequencing, manufacturing, and applications in computational chemistry (pharmaceutical drug design) and medicine (robot-assisted surgery).

• Devika Subramanian (assoc prof, PhD 1989 Stanford)
  -- AI (artificial intelligence) aimed at the design and analysis of adaptive, discrete, limited-resource agents that perform tasks in dynamics environments.

Non-tenure track CS

• Linda M. Torczon (faculty fellow, PhD 1985 Rice) -- Code generation, inter-procedural data-flow analysis and optimization, and programming environments.

Electrical and Computer Engieering

• * Naomi J. Halas (full prof, PhD Bryn Mawr 1986)
  -- Nanoengineering, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopies, Properties and Applications of Composite Nanoparticles and Fullerenes.
• Devika Subramanian (see Computer Science)

Stanford Univ. (1 full prof)

Computer Science:

• Mary Barker (assistant prof, PhD UC Berkeley 1994)
  -- Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Crash Recovery, Mobile and Wireless Computing

• Daphne Koller (assist. prof, PhD Stanford 1993)
  -- Robotics, AI -- reasoning under uncertainty

• * Monica Lam (full prof, PhD CMU 1987)
  -- compiler optimizations, computer architectures, parallel computing.

• Jennifer Widom (assoc. prof., PhD Cornell CS 1987 )
  -- database systems for semistructured data and XML; data warehousing and heterogeneous database integration; active database systems; database constraint management; database rule languages and systems; database issues in telecommunications networks

Electrical Engineering:

• Mary Gray Baker (see Computer Science)

• Andrea Goldsmith (assist prof, PhD UC Berkeley 1994)
  -- Wireless Technology: Adaptive moulation and coding; Capasity of Wireless Channels and Networks; Adaptive CDMA for Multimedia; Turbocodes and Iterative Decoding; Multiantenna systems; and more

• * Teresa H. Meng (full prof, PhD UC Berkeley 1988)
  -- Digital signal processing and data communications, with recent focus on wireless communications and low-power circuit and system design.

• Claire J. Tomlin (courtesy assist. prof EE, assit prof Aeronautics)
  -- Hybrid Systems and Control, Geometric Nonlinear Control Air Traffic Control Automation, Flight Management System Design

• Jennifer Widom (See Computer Science)

Adjunct, CS

• Cynthia Dwork (consulting faculty, Researcher at IBM Almaden)
  

  Non-tenure track, CS

• Barbara Hayes-Roth (senior research associate)

• Deborah McGuiness (senior research associate)

• Maggie Johnson (lecturer)
  --Internet Security and Security Mediation, Software Litigation

• Julie Zelenski (lecturer)
  

U of California, Berkeley (women: 2 full, 1 cs and 1 ee)

CS division

• * Susan Graham (full prof, PhD Stanford ??)
  -- Compilers

• Katherine Yelick (assoc. prof, PhD MIT EECS 1990)
  -- parallel computing, programming languages and compilers, and symbolic computation.

EE division

• * Connie J. Chang-Hasnain (full prof, PhD UC Berkeley 1987)
  -- Novel semiconductor optoelectronic device and material technologies for optical communications; Ultra-high capacity optical networks and systems enabled by novel components.

  Tsu-Jae King (assoc prof, PhD EE Stanford 1994)
  -- VLSI, semiconductor electronics

• * Avideh Zakhor (full prof, PhD EECS MIT 1987)
  -- Image and video compression and communication; multimedia databases, content based query; ( 3D scene representation and reconstruction; virtualized reality. IRAM implementation of video processing algorithms; Data handling issues related to future maskless lithography technologies.

U of California, Los Angles (UCLA)

Computer Science

• Deborah Estrin (full prof, PhD CS MIT 1985)
  -- sensor networks, networked embedded computing, low-power wireless communications, or environmental-monitoring applications of these technologies. (She was at USC 1986-2000)

UC-San Diego (UCSD) -- (3 full prof)

Compuer Science and Engineering

• * Fran Berman (full prof/Director UCSD Supercomputer Center, PhD Math U. of Washington 1979)
  -- Parallel distributed computing (grid computing) and computational science

• * Jeanne Ferrante (full prof, PhD Math MIT 1974)
  -- compiler technology, with particular interest in exploiting parallelism and optimizing data movement to achieve high performance. (on sabatical 2000-2001)

• * Fan Chung Graham (full prof, joint appointment btw CSE and math, PhD Math UPenn ?? )
  -- spectral graph theory and extremal graph theory that provide powerful methods in dealing with problems arising in a wide range of areas. (Prof in math at UPenn 1994-1998)

U of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign (3 women full prof?)

Computer Science

• Sarita Adve (assoc prof, PhD CS UWisc-Madison 1993)
  -- Computer architecture, parallel computing, and performance evaluation. (joined 1999, previously assoc prof in ECE at Rice Univ.)
  

• * Geneva Belford (emeritus full prof, Ph.D. (Math) U of Illinois 1960)
  -- Databases and information systems, distributed systems.

• * Jane Liu (emeritus full prof, PhD MIT 1968)
  -- Operating systems and run-time environment for real-time applications, and methods and tools for validating them.

• >a href="http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/contacts/faculty/nahrstedt.html"> Klara Nahrstedt (assist prof, PhD U of Pennsylvania 1995)
  -- Multimedia systems, quality of service in communication systems, operating systems, real-time systems, multimedia security.

  Adjuct faculty

• * Marianne Winslett (adjunct full professor, PhD Stanford 1987)
  -- Databases and information systems, parallel input and output for scientific applications.

ECE

• Muriel Medard? (assist prof, Ph.D. MIT 1995)
  -- High speed and optical networking, Network reliability, Wireless Communications

• Elyse Rosenbaum (assoc prof, Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1992)
  -- Device and IC reliability, Solid-state device physics and modeling, CAD

• Elizabeth Rudnick (assist prof, Ph.D. Univ of Illinois--UC 1994)
  -- VLSI design, Digital testing, Design verification, Defect diagnosis

Non-tenure track, ECE:

• Tangul Basar (lecturer, Ph.D. Bogazici Univ 1978)
  
• Marie-Christine Brunet (lecturer, Ph.D. Univ of Paris 1989)
  

U of Maryland - College Park

CS

• Bonnie Dorr (assoc prof, PhD MIT 1990)
  (NSF New Young Investigator, NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF), Sloan Fellowship)
  (joint appointment in UMIACS and Linguistics)
  -- Interlingual Machine Translation.

• < a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~leana/"> Leana Golubchik (assist prof, PhD CS UCLA 1995)
  (NSF Career Award)
  -- Multimedia information systems, high performance I/O, computer systems modeling and performance evaluation.

• * Dianne P. O'Leary (full prof, CS and UMIACS. Ph.D., Stanford, 1976)
  -- Numerical analysis, scientific computing, parallel numeric algorithms.

Courtesy appts, CS:

• Louiqa Raschid (assoc prof, CS; assoc prof, Business and Management and UMIACS, Ph.D. Univ of Florida, 1987)
  -- Database management systems.

• Amy Weinberg (affiliate assoc prof, CS. assoc prof, Linguistics and UMIACS, PhD MIT 1988)
  -- Computational linguistics, syntax, cognitive science, psycholinguistics.

Instructors, CS

• Gwen Kaye

• Jandelyn Plane (B.A. - CS, Philosophy and Math, Wartburg College; MS CS U of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
  

• Michelle M. Hugue (Ph.D. U Maryland, Applied Math Program)
  

U of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMASS)

Computer Science

• * Lori A. Clark (full prof, PhD CS U Colorado 1976)
  -- Analysis of concurrent software; Object management; Software architecture.

• Kathryn A. McKinley (assoc prof, PhD ??)
  -- Compilers algorithms for memory hierarchies and heterogeneous architectures.

• * Edwina L. Rissland (full prof, PhD Math MIT 1977)
  (co-PI Center for Intelligent Info. Retrival)
  -- Case-based reasoning, knowledge-based systems, knowledge acquisition, user interfaces.

Electrical and Computer Engieering

• Aura Ganz (assoc prof, PhD Isreal Inst. of Tech 1987)
  -- Multimedia networks

U of Michigan (women: 2 full prof)

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• * Lynn Conway (emeritus? full prof, M.S. EE Columbia 1963)
  -- Tele-autonomous systems, collaboration technology and media integration, artificial intelligence, computer systems & hardware, VLSI program.

• * Martha E. Pollack (full prof, PhD UPenn ???)
  --- Artificial Intelligence.

Non-tenure track

• Sandra L. Bartlett (adjunct assist prof, PhD U Michigan)
  -- Engineering education, building virtual personae

• Ann R. Ford (lecturer, M.S. U-Michigan)

U of Minnesota -- Twin Cities

Computer Science and Engineering

• * Maria Gini (full prof,PhD Physics, Milan)
  (Sabatical at Stanford 1999-2000; Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science; Member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 1998-.)
  -- Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Intelligent Agents.

• Victoria Interrante (

• Hasun Park (assoc prof, PhD Cornell)
  -- scientific computing

U of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill

U of Pennsylvania (UPenn)

Computer Science

• * Ruzena Bajcsy (full prof, currently at the NSF)
  -- Robotics and computer vision

• Tandy Warnow (??,??)
  -- theory, computational biology

U of Southern California (USC)

CS

• * Deborah Estrin (full prof, PhD MIT 1985)
  -- Computer Networks, Internetwork Routing, & Multimedia Communication (Since 2000 at UCLA)

• Maja Mataric (assist prof, PhD MIT 1994)
  -- Robotics including Multi-Robot Control and Learning, Imitation, Behavior-Based Control

Non-tenure track, CS

• Claire Bono (lecturer)

• Yolanda Gil (research assist prof, PhD CMU year??)
  -- Planning, Knowledge-Based Systems

• Katia Obraczka (research assist prof, ??)
  -- Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, & Operating Systems

Univ. of Texas at Austin (women: 1 full cs prof, ?? ece)

Computer Science

• Nina Amenta (assist prof, PhD UC Berkeley 1993)
  -- Computational geometry

• Anna Gal (assist prof, PhD U of Chicago 1995)
  -- Computational complexity, lower bounds for complexity of Boolean Functions, fault tolerant computing, randomness and computation, algorithms, and combinatorics

• * Vijaya Ramachandran (full prof, PhD Princeton U 1983)
  -- Design and analysis of algorithms, parallel computation, and computational complexity

Non-tenure track, CS

• Vicki Almstrum (lecturer, PhD Education U of Texas at Austin 1994)
  -- how people learn, mathematical logic, and formal methods.

• Nell B. Dale (sen lecturer, PhD U of Texas at Austin 1972)
  -- Various teaching technologies/techniques and curriculum design issues

• Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan (sen lecturer, M.A. CS U of Texas at Austin 1980)
  -- Computer networks, mobile networking, electronic commerce, and computer science education in architecture and networks

• Suzy C. Gallagher (lecturer, Coordinator of Acad Progs, M.S. CS U Southwestern Louisiana 1985)
  -- Computer science education and library and information processing

• R. Diane Law (lecturer, M.S. CS Univ of Texas at Austin 1994)

• Margaret Myers (lecturer, Research Scientist Associate, (Ph.D. CS U of Maryland 1988)

• Laurie Honour Werth (lecturer, PhD U of Nevada at Las Vegas 1985)
  -- Software engineering and cognitive science

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• K. Suzan Barber (assoc prof, PhD CMU)
  -- formal systems and software engineering analysis & design methodologies, modeling techniques, and tools, distributed, knowledge-based planning and control systems, and knowledge representations.

• Margarida F. Jacome (assist prof, ??)
  -- System-level Design, Hardware/Software Codesign; Design Reuse, Intellectual Property Cores; Design Process Planning and Management.

• Lizy Kurian John (assist prof, PhD Penn State 1993)
  -- high performance processor and memory architectures, superscalar and superpipelined processors, cache memories, program behavior studies, compiler optimization for high performance processors, rapid prototyping, Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

• * Rebecca Richards-Kortum (prof, ??)
  -- applications of laser spectroscopy to the diagnosis of disease in human tissue. To join future BioEng dept.

  Aleta, Ricciardi (assist prof, PhD Cornell)
  -- on leave at Bell Labs 1999-??

U of Washington

CS

• Susan Eggers(??,??)
  -- Computer architecture and back-end compilation, with an emphasis on experimental performance analysis. Current work is on issues in compiler optimizations (dynamic compilation) and processor design (multi-threaded architectures).

• Anna Rochelle Karlin( ??,??)
  -- competitive analysis of online algorithms, probabilistic algorithms and analysis, and, algorithms for problems arising in operating systems, architecture, distributed systems, compilers and just about anything else practical I can get my hands on. Also very interested in computer graphics.

• * Linda Shapiro (full prof, EE and/or CS?) -- Computer vision

Math

• * Anne Greenbaum (full prof, ??, ??) -- included here since was previously a Research Professor, at NYU's Computer Science Dept. and does parallel computing)
  -- numerical linear algebra and iterative methods for solving large linear systems, numerical solution of integral equations, and large-scale parallel computing.

U of Wisconsin at Madison (2 full CS)

CS

• * Susan B. Horwitz (full prof, )
  -- language-based programming environments; program slicing, differencing, and merging; static analysis of programs; interprocedural dataflow analysis

• Deborah A. Joseph (assoc prof CS and Math, Ph.D. Purdue U 1981)
  -- Structural and applied complexity theory, computational biology, computational geometry, mathematical logic

• * Mary K. Vernon (full prof of CS and Ind. Engin.,??)
  -- Techniques and applications of computer systems performance analysis, scalable information infrastructure, on-demand data delivery, multimedia servers, parallel architectures, distributed systems.

Non-tenure track, CS

• Rachel Bower (??,??)

• Susan Calcari (researcher, ??)
  -- director of the Internet Scout Project

• Aimee Glassel (researcher, M.A. U Wisconsin 1996)
  -- Internet Cataloger (Special Librarian), Internet Scout Proj.

• Nancy Hall (??,??)
  -- Project: SHORE: a Scalable Heterogeneous Object REpository

• Sheila Harrington (??,??)

• Kathryn Harris (??,??)

• Karen S. Miller (lecturer, ??)

• Laura Payne (??,??)

• Sally Goodwin Peterson (assistant faculty assoc, ??)
  -- desktop computing, real-time operating systems, programming languages

• Jeannine Ramsey (??,??)

• Genevihve Rosay? (associate researcher, ??)
  -- Development of a visualization tool for profiles of program executions, in collaboration with Jim Larus and Tom Ball (Lucent Technologies).

• Debra Saphiro (researcher)
  -- "I catalog Internet resources for the Scout Report Signpost and get to write weekly reviews for the Scout Report. Mostly I do art, museum, and picture sites.."

• Kay Strangman?

• Geraldine Wanserski? (??,??)

• Megan Waters? (??,??)

• Amy Wells? (??,??)

Virginia Tech

Yale University

Computer Science

• * Dana Angluin (full prof, PhD UC Berkeley 1976)
  Computational learning theory, analysis of algorithms.
• * Joan Feigenbaum (full prof, PhD Stanford 1986)
  Theory of Computation and E-Commerce Foundations.
• Dana Henry (assist prof, PHD MIT 1996)
  Computer architecture, hardware and software mechanisms that improve the efficiency of a wide range of computer systems, from embedded microprocessors to supercomputers, mechanisms for fast interprocessor communication.
• Diana Resasco (assoc Research Scientist, Ph.D. Yale 1990)
  Scientific Computation, in particular, the numerical solution of partial differential equations, parallel computation, numerical simulation of diffusion-reaction models in living cells.

WOMEN AT OTHER US UNIVERSITIES -- PLEASE SEND ME INFO!

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1. Arizona State University -- Tempe
2. Case Western Reserve Univ. [Cleveland, OH]
3. Colorado State Univ. -- Fort Collins
4. Dartmouth
5. Illinois Institute of Technology
6. Iowa State Univ.
7. Michigan Technological University
8. Mills College
9. New Mexico State University -- CS
10. Northeastern University
11. Oregon State Univ.
12. Penn State
13. Portland State University, Oregon
14. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
15. State Univ. of New York (SUNY) -- Albany
16. State Univ. of New York (SUNY) -- Buffalo
17. Texas A&M Univ.
18. Tufts Univ
19. University of Chicago at Illinois
20. University of Delaware
21. University of Oregon
22. University of North Carolina at Asheville
23. UNiversity of Pittsburg, PA
24. University of Rhode Island
25. University of South Florida
26. University of Virginia -- Charlottesville
27. U of Wisconsin -- La Crosse
28. Vassar College
29. Worcester Polytechnic Institue (WPI)

Arizona State University -- Tempe

• Susan D. Urban (assoc prof, U Louisiana/Lafayette, 1987)
  -- Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Database Systems; Active Rule Processing in Centralized and Distributed Environments; Distributed Object Computing; Engineering Databases.

Case Western Reserve Univ. (Cleveland, OH) ( 1 full EECS prof)

EECS

• * Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu (full prof., PhD, 1980, Univ. of Alberta, Canada) EECS Department, CS Program
  --object oriented databases, query optimization, query languages for web and multimedia databases, database access structures, temporal databases.

Colorado State Univ. -- Fort Collins ( 1 full prof CS )

CS

• Adele Howe (assoc prof, PhD CS UMASS 1993)
  -- AI, Planning, Agent architectures, Meta-Search of Web, Scheduling, Planner debugging, Evaluation of intelligent systems

• * Anneliese von Mayrhauser (full prof, PhD CS Duke 1979)
  -- Software Engineering: maintenance, tools metrics, testing, reliability, productivity assessment, program comprehension; Performance Analysis: analytic models, multi-criteria system evaluation, stochastic Petri Nets.

Dartmouth

CS

• Daniela Rus (assist prof, PhD CS Cornell)
  -- Robotics, information capture and access

Illinois Institute of Technology

• Martha Evans (??,??)

Michigan Technological University

Computer Science

• Jean Mayo (assist prof, Ph.D. College of William and Mary, 1997)
  -- Distributed systems and operating systems.
• Nilufer Onder (assist prof, Ph.D. U of Pittsburgh, 1999)
  -- Artificial intelligence.
• * Linda Ott (full prof and chair, Ph.D. Purdue Univ, 1978)
  -- Software engineering, software measurement.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Noel Schulz (assoc prof, Ph.D. U Minnesota, 1995)
  -- Computer applications in power, intelligent system applications, distribution systems analysis, interactions between computers and personnel in utility operations.
• * Martha Sloan (full prof, Ph.D. Stanford, 1973)

Iowa State Univ

• Soma Chaudhuri (assoc prof, PhD CSE U Washington 1990)
  -- Theory of distributed computing

Mills College

CS

• Susan Bassein (??,??
  -- Statistics, dynamical systems, electronics, calculus

• Carol Lennox
  --Human factors, interface design, cognitive science, interdisciplinary interactive multimedia systems, problem solving

• Barbara LiSanti
  --AI applications in education, cognitive science, intelligent tutoring systems, computer science education, linear algebra

• Ellen Spertus (assist prof, PhD EECS MIT 1998)
  --Information retrieval, the Internet, social issues, computer architecture, compilers

• Susan Wang
  --Design and analysis of algorithms, very large scale integrated systems, parallel computation

Visiting Faculty for 1998-1999, CS

• Dr. Marion W. Brunzie --Dynamical systems, history of mathematics, calculus

New Mexico State University -- CS

• Janyce Wiebe (assoc prof, PhD SUNY Buffalo)
  -- Artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP).

Northeastern University

CS

• * Betty Salzberg (full prof., PhD. ??)
  --Database Systems, Access Structures, Concurrency

Oregon State Univ.

CS

• Cherri Pancake (??,??)

Penn State

EE

• Octavia Camps (assoc prof, 2/3 EE, 1/3 CS)
  -- Computer vision

• * Mary Jane Irwin (full prof., PhD 1977 U of Ilinois) -- Computer Architecture, Application-Specific Processor Design, VLSI System Design and Electron Design Automation, Computer Arithmetic, Low Power IC Design

Portland State University, Oregon (one full CS prof)

CS

• * Cynthia A. Brown (full prof and CS dept chair, PhD U Mich 1977)
  -- Algorithms

• Karen Karavanic (to join as assis prof, Jan 2000, PhD U Wisc Fall99?)
  -- Operating Systems

• Sarah Mocas (assist prof, PhD Northeastern ??)
  -- Theory

Non-tenure track, CS

• Karla Fant

ECE

• Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske (assoc prof, ??)
  

South Dakota School of Mines

CS/CENG

• Antonette (Toni) M. Logar (assoc prof, PhD Texas Tech, J.D. U of Louisville) (current head of CS/CENG MS grad program)
  -- AI incl. applying artificial intelligence techniques to pattern recognition problems in satellite imagery

State Univ. of New York (SUNY) -- Albany

CS

• Lenore M. Restifo Mullin (assoc prof, PhD Syracuse ??)
  -- Design and implementation of both soft and hardware systems for High Performance Scientific Computing and Communications using my dissertation research, A Mathematics of Arrays and its associated reduction semantics, The Psi Calculus. She also has interests in address co-processors that might interface with their compiler.

State Univ. of New York (SUNY) -- Buffalo

CSE

• Deborah Walters (assoc prof, ??)
  -- Knowledge Media, Data Mining and Neural Networks, Computational Vision.

Texas A&M Univ.

CS

• Jennifer Welch (assoc prof, PhD CS MIT, 1988) (previously at U of North Carolina -- Chappel Hill, 1989-92)
  -- Theory of distributed computing

Tufts Univ

EECS

• Lenore Cowen (assoc. prof, PhD MIT 1993)
  -- Computer Science: applying extremal combinatorics to problems in Network Routing, Graph Algorithms, and High-Dimensional Data Analysis. She has also developed a recent interest in Computational Molecular Biology (updated Dec. 2001).

• Soha Hassoun (assist. prof, PhD U.Washington 1997)
  -- Computer-aided design for integrated circuits, particularly microarchitectural optimizations, and timing analysis; VLSI and processor architectures; high-performance circuit design.

• Karen Panetta (assoc. prof, PhD Northeastern 1993)
  -- Computer Engineering: Digital simulation, multimedia computer architecture. (Updated Dec. 2001)

• * Diane Souvaine (full Prof, CS, PhD Princeton 1986)
  -- Computational geometry, design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity. (Updated Dec. 2001)

Non-tenure track

• Margo Guertin (faculty lecturer, Ph.D. Boston University)

University of Chicago at Illinois

• Barbara Di Eugenio

University of Delaware

• Kathy McCoy (assoc prof, PhD 1985, UPenn CS) (joint appointment in Computer and Info. Sci and Linguistics)
  -- Natural Language Processing as well as Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Generation and Understanding, Knowledge Representation, Discourse Phenomena, Rehabilitation Engineering and Augmentative Communication.

• * Sandra Carberry (full professor and Dept Chair effective 9/1/99) (Joint appointment in Linguistics)
  -- Artifical Intelligence; Computational Linguistics incl. Intelligent Interfaces, Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning in Discourse; Educational Systems; Medical Informatics; Planning and Plan Recognition; User Modeling.

University of North Carolina at Asheville

• Rebecca Bruce

Univ. of Oregon

CS

• Jan Cuny (??,??) (Previously at UMASS Amherst)

U of Pittsburg

CS

• * Martha Pollack (full prof (Sep 1999), PhD CS UPenn 1986 (previously at SRI and consulting faculty at Stanford)
  -- Artificial intelligence, especially plan generation and recognition, computational models of rationality, and resource-bounded reasoning.

• Johanna Moore (assoc prof -- currently on 2-yr leave)

• * Mary Lou Soffa (full prof)

University of South Florida

CS

• Robin Murphy (??,??)
  

University of Virginia -- Charlottesville

CS

• * Anita Jones (full prof -- University Prof, PhD CMU 1973)
  (Served as DoD Director of Defense Research and Engineering 1993-1997) --programmed systems; survivable information systems; security; intrusion detection; science and technology policy.

• Kathy Ryall (assist prof; PhD CS Harvard 1997)
  -- human computer interaction; interface methods; graphics; animation.

EE

• * Joanne Bechta Dugan (full prof, PhD EE Duker 1984)
  -- Analysis of computer systems designed to tolerate hardware and software faults, with specific interest in hardware and software reliability engineering, fault-tolerant computing, and mathematical modeling using dynamic fault trees, Markov models, Petri nets, and simulation.

• Maite Brandt-Pearce (assist prof, PhD ECE Rice 1993)
  -- Deciphering stochastic signals with multiple, simultaneously received components from different sources, including co-channel interference, linear and nonlinear distortion, and noise. Specific research projects address spread-spectrum multiple-access schemes, multi-user demodulation and detection, fiber nonlinearity effects on multi-user communications, wireless infrared indoor multi-user communications, and radar signal processing of multiple targets. Secondary interests include the study of point processes, neural networks, and the use of communications for classroom enhancement.

U of Wisconsin -- La Crosse

CS

• Karen Sutherland (assoc prof, PhD CS UMinnesota)
  -- Artificial intelligence, computer vision and robotics, with current specialization in computer vision with emphasis on computational models of biological vision systems and handling the errors which occur in visual localization.

Vassar College

• * Nancy Ide (full prof and dept chair, ??)
  -- Natural language processing

Worchester Polytechnical Institute

WOMEN AT NON-US RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES -- PLEASE SEND ME INFO!

1. University of Brittish Columbia -- Vancouver, BC, Canada (UBC)
2. U of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada

FINLAND

1. Aabo Akademi University

NORWAY

1. Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), Trondheim
2. Univ. of Bergen
3. Univ. of Oslo
4. Univ of Tromsø

SWEDEN

1. Chalmers University of Technology
2. (Gothenborough University) Göteborgs Universitet
3. KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), Stockholm
4. Linköping University
5. Luleå Tekniska Universitet
6. Lund University
7. Umeå University
8. Uppsala University

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University of Brittish Columbia -- Vancouver, BC, Canada (UBC)

CS

• Anne Condon (assoc prof, Ph.D. U of Washington, 1987)
  -- complexity theory and analysis of algorithms. (Previously at U of Wisconsin, Madison)

U of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada

CS

• Sylvia Osborn (assoc. prof., PhD. 1979 (?) U of Waterloo, Canada)
  -- Database Systems, Database Security.

Aabo Akademi University

CS

• * Kaisa Sere (prof.)
  -- Formal system specification, distributed systems, hardware design, and neural networks. (Updated Dec. 2001)

Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

• Monica Divitini (assoc prof, PhD CS Univ. of Aalborg(Denmak) 1999)
  -- Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), adaptive workflow systems, communityware, Computer Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL), application of software agents in groupware.

• Anne C. Elster (assoc prof, PhD EE Cornell(USA) 1994)
  (also adjunct faculty of ECE at UT Austin, USA)
  -- Parallel computing environments, telecommunication algorithms

• Pauline Haddow (assoc prof, PhD (Dr.ing) CSE NTNU (Norway) 1998))
  -- Computer architecture and design including evolvable hardware directed towards adaptivity, fault tolerance and achieving large complex designs. She is investigating materials for new technology platforms for evolvable hardware. At the same time she is using today's reconfigurable technology combined with evolvable hardware to model complex biological systems.

• M. Letizia Jaccheri (assoc prof, PhD CS, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1994)
  -- Software engineering, in particular, software process modeling and Software engineering education.

  Pinar \O{"}zurk (adjunct assoc prof, PhD CS, NTNU (Norway) 2000)
  -- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive sciences including case-based resoning. (Scientist with SINTEF .) (Updated April 2002)

• * Ingeborg Solvberg (full prof, MSc Physics NTNU (Norway) 1966)
  -- Digital libraries and information retrieval.

• Kjersti Moldeklev (adj prof)
  -- Internet. (Updated Dec. 2001)

Control Engineering

• Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen (assoc prof)
  -- Nonlinear control, marine vehicles, motion control, nonlinear observers, navigation systems, underactuated systems, differential geometry, and nonholonomic systems. (Updated Dec. 2001)
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Uni. of Bergen

CS

• Torill Hamre (adj prof) (Updated Dec. 2001)
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• Pinar Heggernes (assoc prof)
  -- Graph algorithms and sparse matrix computations. (Updated Dec. 2001)
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Uni. of Oslo

CS

• Kristin Braa (assoc prof, PhD 1995, Univ. of Oslo)
  -- Document informations systems, women and CS, Communication: Technolog y and Culture. (Updated Dec. 2001)

• Tone Bratteteig (assist prof, MS 1983, Univ. of Oslo)
  -- Relations between design and use of information technology, redesign in system development, global collaboration in system development (more specifically outsourcing of software production. (U pdated Dec. 2001)

• Denise Joy Ecklund (assoc prof)
  --

• * Vera Hermine Goebel (full prof, PhD 1994, Univ. of Zürich) < br> -- Database systems, operating systems, multimedia applications, distributed systems, and software engineering. (Updated Dec. 2001)

• Judith Gregory (assoc prof)
  --

• Ellen Hisdal (prof em)
  --

• Almira Karabeg (assoc prof)
  -- Information design, bioinformatics, algorithm design, and social aspects of science and technology. (Updated Dec. 2001)

• Ragnhild Kobro Runde (assistant prof, MS 2000, Univ. of Oslo)
  --

• Anne Schistad Solberg (assoc prof, PhD 1995, Univ. of Oslo)
  -- Image analysis, remote sensing, SAR image analysis, statistical classification, data fusion, and feature extraction. (Updated Dec. 20 01)
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Uni. of Tromsø

CS

• * Vera Hermine Goebel (adj full prof, PhD 1994, Univ. of Züric h)
  -- Database systems, operating systems, multimedia applications, distributed systems, and software engineering. (Updated Dec. 2001)

• Randi Karlsen (assoc prof)
  -- Database systems for new applications, advanced transaction managemen t, interoperable systems, transaction service in middleware, and data wa rehouses. (Updated Dec. 2001)

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Chalmers University of Technology

CE

• Jocelyn Chow (assistant prof)
  -- Digital communications theory, wireless mobile and personal communica tions, MIMO systems, interference analysis and mitigation, OFDM. (Updated De c. 2001)

CS

• Annika Aasa (PhD 1992, Chalmers and Göteborgs Universitet)< br> -- User defined syntax, parsing, precedences, and functional programming . (Updated Dec. 2001)
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Göteborgs Universitet

CS

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Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm

CS

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Linköpings Universitet

CS

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Luleå Tekniska Universitet

CS

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Lunds Universitet

CS

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Umeå Universitet

CS

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Uppsala Universitet

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US News & World Reports 1998 ranking of Engineering:Computer programs

• 1.MIT
• 2. Stanford
• 3. UC Berkeley
• 4.Carnegie Melon Univ. (CMU)
• 5. U of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign
• 6. Cornell Univ.
• 7. U of Michigan
• 8. U of Texas at Austin
• 9. U of Wisconsin
• 10. U of Washington
• 11. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech)
• 12. Georgia Tech
• 13. Princeton
• 14. Purdue Univ.
• 15. USC
• 16. UCLA
• 17. UC-San Diego
• 17. U Maryland - College Park
• 17. U of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
• 20. Brown
• 20. U of Massachusetts at Amherst
• 22. RPI (Rensselaer Polytech Inst, NY)
• 22. U of Minnesota -- Twin Cities
• 24. Johns Hopkins Univ.
• 24. Virginia Tech

US News & World Report's 1998 ranking of COMPUTER SCIENCE -- Ph.D. Programs

• 1. CMU
• 1. MIT
• 1. Stanford
• 1. UC Berkeley
• 5. Cornell
• 6. U Illinois -- UC
• 7. Princeton Univ.
• 7. U of Washington
• 9. UT Austin
• 10. U of Wisconsin -- Madison
• 11. CalTech
• 12. Brown Univ
• 12. UCLA
• 12. U of Maryland -- CP
• 12. Yale Univ.
• 16. Harvard Univ.
• 16. Rice Univ.
• 18. Columbia Univ.
• 18. Georgia Inst. of Tech.
• 18. U of Michigan
• 18. U of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill
• 22. Purdue
• 22. U of Massachusetts -- Amherst
• 22. U of Penn.
• 25. Duke Univ.
• 25. UCSD
• 27. USC
• 28. Johns Hopkins

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Interesting Links

• Women in CS Project at NTNU (Jenter og Data)
• Links for Women in CS by Victoria Interrante
• women@scs -- Women's group at CMU
• List of role models for women in CS (by CS Women's group at CMU)
• Latest US News and World Report Rankings

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