Curriculum Vitae
Dina Q Goldin
August 2006
Computer Science
Brown University
Box 1910
Providence, RI 02912
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/dqg
EDUCATION
Brown University
Computer Science
M.S., 5/87; Ph.D., 5/97
Yale College
Mathematics & Computer Science B.S., 5/85
RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL INTERESTS
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Efficient querying of non-traditional data
continuous and sensor network queries, constraint and spatial databases, similarity queries for timeseries data.
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Models of interactive computation
Persistent Turing Machines, indirect interaction, models of coordination, information systems and
active databases.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1/01-present:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, then Visiting Research Faculty
Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI.
6/01-8/06:
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
9/96-5/01:
Instructor, then Assistant Professor
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, U.Mass/Boston, Boston, MA.
9/85-5/87, 9/92-8/96:
Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI.
6/87-7/88:
Research Fellow
IBM Scientific Center, Haifa, Israel.
INDUSTRIAL POSITIONS
5/95-8/96:
Consultant, Q Technology, Newton, MA.
Consulting to the Biomedical industry on software and algorithms for timeseries data analysis.
12/92-1/93:
Consultant, Cleyal, Jerusalem, Israel.
Designed and implemented an interpreter for the company's new proprietary
script language.
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8/88-9/92:
Senior Software Engineer, Parametric Technology Corp., Waltham, MA.
Key member of the core development team for Pro/Engineer, current leader in
CAD systems.
1/85-12/85:
Consultant, IBM, Cambridge, MA.
Consulted for Benoit Mandelbrot, then visiting at Harvard University.
GRANTS
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PI, NSF SGER grant 0545489
Persistent Turing Machines: Beyond the Turing Thesis
starting Sep. 2005, $50,000
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PI, NSF CAREER grant #IRI-0296195 (old #9733678)
Towards Practical Constraint Query Algebras (http://www.cse.uconn.edu/cdb)
May 1, 1998 – Jan. 31, 2004; $350,000
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PI, Large Faculty Grant, U.Conn Research Foundation
“Modeling Complex Systems With Persistent Turing Machines”
June 1, 2002 – May 31, 2003; $18,459.00
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PI, GE Fund grant, U.Conn Engineering Dean’s office, Spring 2002; $8,628
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Books and Proceedings
1. Dina Goldin, Scott Smolka, Peter Wegner (eds.)
“Interactive Computation: the New Paradigm”
to be published by Springer Verlag, 2006
2. Dina Goldin, Mirko Viroli
Proc. 1st Int’l Workshop on Foundations of Interactive Computation, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2005
ENTCS 5(141), December 2005
3. Dina Q. Goldin, Alexander A. Shvartsman, Scott A. Smolka, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Stanley B. Zdonik
PCK50 - Principles of Computing & Knowledge
Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Workshop, San Diego, California, USA, June 2003
ACM 2003
4. Dina Goldin
Paraconsistent Logic Workshop, Copenhagen, July 2002
editor, CoRR Version of the Proceedings
Journal Publications
1. Dina Goldin, Todd Millstein, Ayferi Kutlu
“Bounded Similarity Querying for Time-series Data”
Information and Computation Journal, 194:2, Nov. 2004, pp. 203-241.
2. Dina Goldin, Scott Smolka, Paul Attie, Elaine Sonderegger
“Turing Machines, Transition Systems, and Interaction”
Information and Computation Journal, 194:2, Nov. 2004, pp. 101-128.
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3. S. Nittel, A. Stefanidis, I. Cruz, M. Egenhofer, D. Goldin, A. Howard, A. Labrinidis, S. Madden, A.
Voisard, M. Worboys
“Report from the First Workshop on GeoSensor Networks”
ACM SIGMOD Record, Mar. 2004, pp. 141-144.
4. Jan Chomicki, Dina Goldin, Gabriel Kuper, and David Toman.
“Variable Independence in Constraint Databases”
IEEE Trans. Knowledge & Data Engineering, Dec. 2003, pp. 1422-1436.
5. Peter Wegner, Dina Goldin.
“Computation Beyond Turing Machines”
Comm.ACM, April 2003, pp. 100-102.
6. Goldin, D.Q., Kanellakis, P.C.
“Constraint Query Algebras”
Constraints Journal, E. Freuder editor, 1st issue, 1996, pp. 45-83.
7. D. Bernstein, D. Goldin, M.C. Golumbic, H. Krawczyk, I. Mansour, I. Nahshon, R.Y. Pinter
“Spill Code Minimization Techniques for Optimizing Compilers”
SIGPLAN Notices, 24(7):258--263, July 1989
Book Chapters
1. Dina Goldin, Peter Wegner
“Principles of Interactive Computation”
In Interactive Computation: the New Paradigm
eds. Dina Goldin, Scott Smolka, Peter Wegner; Springer 2006
2. David Keil, Dina Goldin
“Indirect Interaction in Environments for Multiagent Systems”
In Environments for Multiagent Systems II
eds. Danny Weyns, Van Parunak, Fabien Michel; LNAI 3830, Springer 2006
3. Dina Goldin, Mingjun Song, Ayferi Kutlu, Huayan Gao, Hardik Dave
“Georouting and Delta-gathering: Efficient Data Propagation Techniques for GeoSensor Networks”
In Geosensor Networks: Sensor-Based Distributed Geocomputing
eds. A. Stefanidis & S. Nittel, CRC Press, 2004, pp. 73-95
4. Eugene Eberbach, Dina Goldin, Peter Wegner.
“Turing's Ideas and Models of Computation”
In Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker
ed. Christof Teuscher, Springer 2004, pp. 159-194.
5. Dina Goldin, David Keil, Peter Wegner
“An Interactive Viewpoint on the Role of UML”
In Unified Modeling Language: Systems Analysis, Design, and Development Issues
Eds. Keng Siau, Terry Halpin, Idea Group Publishing 2001, pp. 249-263
6. Goldin, D.Q.
“Constraint Algebras”
In Constraint Databases, eds. L. Libkin, J. Paredaens, G. Kuper
Springer Verlag, 2000, pp. 335-342.
7. Wegner, P., Goldin, D.Q.
“Interaction as a Framework for Modeling”
In Conceptual Modeling: Current Issues and Future Directions, eds. Chen, et al.
LNCS 1565, Springer-Verlag, April 1999, pp. 243-257
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Refereed Conference & Workshop Proceedings
1. Dina Goldin, Ricardo Mardales, George Nagy
“In Search of Meaning for Time Series Subsequence Clustering:
Matching Algorithms Based on a New Distance Measure”
to be presented at the Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Nov. 2006
(acceptance rate 15%)
2. Dina Goldin, Huayan Gao
“Dynamic Isoline Extraction for Visualization of Streaming Data”
presented at Int’l Computer Sci. Symp. in Russia (CSR 2006), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2006
LNCS 3074, Springer 2006
3. Dina Goldin
“Faster In-Network Evaluation of Spatial Aggregation in Sensor Networks”
Proc. Int’l IEEE Conf. On Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), Atlanta, GA, April 2006
4. Dina Goldin, Peter Wegner
“The Church-Turing Thesis: Breaking the Myth”
presented at CiE 2005, Amsterdam, June 2005
LNCS 3526, Springer 2005, pp.152-168
5. David Keil, Dina Goldin
“Adaptation and evolution in dynamic persistent environments”
presented at FInCo 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2005
ENTCS 5(141), December 2005, pp. 163-179
6. Dina Goldin, David Keil
“Interactive Models for Software Design”
published in the proceedings of FInCo 2005, Edinburgh, April 2005
7. Dina Goldin
“Taking Constraints out of Constraint Databases”
Int’l Symposium on Applications of Constraint Databases, June 2004
LNCS 3074, Springer 2004, pp. 168-179
8. Yuhang Wang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Li Shen, Dina Goldin
“Generating Fuzzy Semantic Metadata describing Spatial Relations from Images using the R-Histogram.”
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, AZ, June 7-11, 2004, pp. 202-211.
9. Dina Goldin, Srinath Srinivasa, Vijaya Srikanti
“Active Databases as Information Systems”
Proc. Int’l Database Engr. and Applications Symp. (IDEAS), July 2004, pp. 123-130.
10. Dina Goldin, David Keil
“Towards a domain-independent formalization of indirect interaction”
Proc. 13th IEEE Int’l Workshops on Enabling Technologies (WETICE 2004), June 2004
IEEE Computer Soc. 2004, pp. 393-396
11. Mingjun Song, Dina Goldin, Tian Peng
“NURBS Surface Interpolation for Terrain Modeling”
Proc. ASPRS/MAPPS 2003 Conference on Terrain Data
North Charleston, SC, Oct. 2003 (12 pp, on CD)
12. David Keil, Dina Goldin.
“Modeling indirect interaction in open computational systems”
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Proc. 12th IEEE Int’l Workshops on Enabling Technologies (WETICE 2003), June 2003
IEEE Computer Soc. 2003, pp. 371-376
13. Dina Goldin, Ayferi Kutlu, Mingjun Song.
“Extending the Constraint Database Framework”
Proc. PCK50 ACM Workshop, June 2003
ACM Press 2003, pp. 42-54
14. Dina Goldin, Ayferi Kutlu, Mingjun Song, Fuzheng Yang.
“The Constraint Database Framework: lessons learned from CQA/CDB”
Proc. Int’l Conf. Of Data Engineering (ICDE), Bangalore, India, Mar. 2003
IEEE Computer Soc. 2003, pp. 735-737
15. Dina Goldin, Peter Wegner
“Paraconsistency of Interactive Computation”
Proc. Workshop on Paraconsistent Computational Logic (PCL), Denmark, July 2002, pp. 109-118
16. Dina Goldin, Scott Smolka, Peter Wegner
“Turing Machines, Transition Systems, and Interaction”
Proc.EXPRESS’01 (Expressiveness of Concurrent Computation), Aug. 2001, Aalborg, Denmark
ENTCS 52, 2001
17. Dina Goldin, David Keil
“Interaction, Evolution, and Intelligence”
Proc. CEC'01 (Congress on Evolutionary Computation), May 2001, Seoul, Korea
IEEE Press, 2001, pp. 805-814 (vol 2)
18. Dina Goldin, Srinath Srinivasa, Bernhard Thalheim
“Information Systems = Databases + Interaction: Towards Principles of Information System Design”
Proc.ER’00 (Conceptual Modeling), Salt Lake City, Oct.2000.
LNCS 1920, Springer-Verlag 2000, pp. 140-153
19. Dina Goldin
“Persistent Turing Machines as a Model of Interactive Computation”
in: K-D. Schewe and B. Thalheim (Eds.),
FoIKS'2000 (First Int'l Symp. on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems).
LNCS 1762, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp.116-135.
20. Wegner, P., Goldin, D.Q.
“Coinductive Models of Finite Computing Agents”
ENTCS 19, 2000
21. Wegner, P., Goldin, D.Q.
“Interaction as a Framework for Modeling”
In Chen, et al (Eds.) Conceptual Modeling: Current Issues and Future Directions,
LNCS 1565, April 1999.
22. Chomicki, J., Goldin, D.Q., Kuper, G.
“Variable Independence and Aggregation Closure”
Proc. of 15th ACM PODS (Symp. on Principles of Database Systems), Montreal Canada, June 1996
ACM Press 1996, pp. 40-48
23. Goldin, D.Q., Kanellakis, P.C.
“On Similarity Queries for Time-Series Data: Constraint Specification and Implementation”
proc. of CP’95 (First International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming),
LNCS 976, pp.137-153, Cassis France, September 1995.
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24. Kanellakis, P.C., Goldin, D.Q.
“Constraint Programming and Database Query Languages”
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software,
LNCS 789, pp.96-120, Sendai Japan, April 1994.
Other Works (excluding technical reports)
1. Dina Goldin, Scott Smolka, Peter Wegner
preface to book, “Interactive Computation: the New Paradigm”
to be published by Springer, 2006
2. Peter Wegner, Dina Goldin
“Principles of Problem Solving”
to be published in Comm. ACM (Viewpoint column), July 2006
3. Dina Goldin
“Geographic Shackles and the Academic Careers of Women”
CRA Newsletter, March 2006
4. Peter Wegner, Dina Goldin
“Thinking Outside the Box”
Comm. ACM (Forum column), March 2006, p. 11
5. Peter Wegner, Farhad Arbab, Dina Goldin, Peter McBurney, Michael Luck, Dave Roberson
The Role of Agent Interaction in Models of Computing: Panelist Reviews
Proc. 1st Int’l Workshop on Foundations of Interactive Computation
ENTCS 5(141), December 2005, pp. 181-198
6. Dina Goldin, Mirko Viroli
Proc. 1st Int’l Workshop on Foundations of Interactive Computation: Preface
ENTCS 5(141), December 2005, pp. 1-4
7. Mirko Viroli, Dina Goldin
Report for the 1st Int’l Workshop on Foundations of Interactive Computation (FinCo 2005)
Agentlink Newsletter, Issue 18, August 2005, pp. 35-36
8. Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Dina Goldin
Report for the 2nd Int’l Workshop on Theory and Practice of Open Computational Systems (TAPOCS 2004)
Proc. 12th IEEE Int’l Workshops on Enabling Technologies (WETICE 2003), June 2003
IEEE Computer Soc. 2003, pp.379-383
9. Dina Goldin
“The secret of Mona Lisa's smile revealed”
Brown University Faculty Bulletin, Dec. 2002
INVITED PRESENTATIONS (TALKS AND PANELS)
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Invited talk, 2006
Clustering time series subsequences
Workshop on Queuing Theory and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Storrs, CT, May 8 2006
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Department Colloquia (invited), 2006
Finding Meaning in Time Series Subsequence Clustering
University of Massachusetts – Lowell, October 2006
Faster In-Network Evaluation of Spatial Aggregation in Sensor Networks
University of Massachusetts – Boston, March 2006
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Session chair
CSR’06 (Int’l Computer Sci. Symp. in Russia), June 2006
CDB’04 (Int’l Symp. on Applications of Constraint Databases), June 2004
ICDE'04 (Int’l Conference on Data Engineering), April 2004
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Department Colloquia (invited), 2004-2005
Interaction: Conjectures, Results, Myths
CWI, Amsterdam, Holland
École Polytechnique, Paris, France
Yale University, New Haven, CT
John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Wesleyan College, Middletown, CT
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Tufts University, Bedford, MA
Brown University, Providence, RI
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Invited talks, 2003-2001
Indirect Interaction and Decentralized Coordination
DEIS (Dept. of Electronics, Informatics, and Systems), U. Bologna, Italy, Dec. 2003
Sensor Network Querying
IEEE Bangalore Chapter, India, March, 2003
Expressiveness of Persistent Turing Machines
Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore, India, March 2003
Turing Machines, Transition Systems, and Interaction
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, Dec. 2001
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Panel Member, 2003-2001
Geo Sensor Networks, Portland, Maine, Oct. 2003
ACM SIGMOD New Database Faculty Symposium, San Diego, June 2003
John Hopkins Colloq. for Talented high school students, Wesleyan Univ., Nov. 2002, Nov. 2001
CC-2001 Information Management Panel (ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force);
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Panel Co-chair, Pervasive Computing panel, NSF IDM workshop, Dallas, April 2001
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Invited talks, 1999-1996
Modeling Interaction with Persistent Turing Machines
U. Wurzburg, Germany, Jun. 1999.
Mathematical Models of Interactive Computing
UMBC, November 1998.
Constraint Databases: a lecture in honor of Paris C. Kanellakis
2nd Int’l Conf. on Principles & Practice of Constraint Programming, Cambridge MA, Aug. 1996
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Tutorial Organizer and Speaker, ECOOP'99,
June 1999, Lisbon, Portugal;
Invited talk, Formalization of Interactive Computing
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, Dec. 2001;
SUNY Stony Brook, New York, May 2000;
Technion University, Israel, Nov. 1999;
Tel-Aviv University, Israel, Jan. 1999;
IBM Haifa Research Center, Israel, Jan. 1999;
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Dec. 1998.
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CURRENT AND RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (REGIONAL AND NATIONAL)
Conference and Workshop Organization
 FINCO’07, FINCO’05 (Foundations of Interactive Computing, satellite workshops of ETAPS)
Founding co-organizer
Steering committee member
 GSN’06 (2nd Conference on Geosensor Networks)
Member of Program Committee
 WISE 2006 (Int’l Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering)
Member of Program Committee
 SAWN 2006 (2nd ACIS Int’l Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks)
Member of Program Committee
 CSR 2006 (Int’l Computer Science Symp. in Russia)
Member of Program Committee
 AP2PC 2005, AP2PC 2004 (Int’l Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing)
Member of Program Committee
 SAWN 2005 (1st ACIS Int’l Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks)
Member of Program Committee
 TAPOCS 2004 (Int’l Workshop on Theory and Practice of Open Systems)
Member of Program Committee
 ICDE'04 (Int’l Conference on Data Engineering)
Publicity Chair
Member of Program Committee
Session Chair
 CDB’04 (Int’l Symposium on Applications of Constraint Databases)
Member of Program Committee
Session Chair
 ACM PCK50 (Principles of Computing and Knowledge) Workshop, June 2003
Founding co-organizer
Web site director
 NEPLS (New England Programming Language Symposium)
Member of the speaker selection committee, October 2002, June 2003;
Local organizing chair, March 2003
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VLDB 1999 (Int’l Conf. on Very Large Databases)
Member of Program Committee
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ACM Strategic Directions Workshop, Cambridge, MA, May 1996
Registration Co-ordinator
Editing and Reviewing Activities
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Information Director, Member of Editorial Board, ACM Computing Reviews;
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NSF panel member:
NSF DG (Digital Government) program proposal reviews, Jul. 2005;
NSF EI (Educational Innovation) program proposal reviews, Jan. 2003;
NSF ITR (Information Technology Research) program proposal reviews, Jan. 2002;
NSF CAREER proposal reviews, Nov. 2001, Oct. 2000, Feb. 1999;
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2006 Reviewing:
TKDD, Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data
Interface, a Journal of the Royal Society
International J. of Sensor Networks (IJSNet)
J. Computers & Geosciences
ACM Symp. on Principles of Databases (PODS)
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2005 Reviewing:
J. Computer Science and Technology (JCST)
Comm. of the ACM (CACM)
Very Large Databases (VLDB) Journal
J. Computers & Geosciences
Fundamenta Informaticae
McGraw-Hill
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2004 Reviewing:
ACM SAC (Symposium On Applied Computing), Data Streams Track
DKE (Data & Knowledge Engineering Jounal)
CACM (Communications of the ACM)
IEEE SMC (Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics)
MLJ (Machine Learning Journal)
Springer (Monographs in Computing & Information Science)
PODC (Principles of Distributed Computing Conference)
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2003 Reviewing:
I&C (Journal of Information & Computation)
CSE (Computer Science Education Journal)
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2002 Reviewing:
AI Communications (The European J. on Artificial Intelligence),
I&C (Journal of Information & Computation)
IPL (Information Proc. Letters) Journal
DAMI (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal)
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2001 Reviewing:
CEC (Congress on Evolutionary Computation)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
VLDB (Very Large Databases) Journal
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2000:
TCS (Theoretical Computer Science Journal)
IPL (Information Processing Letters)
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Earlier:
ACM Computing Surveys 1998,
SIGGRAPH 1993
CP 1993, 1997
ACM PODS (Principles of Database Systems), 1995, 1997
ICDT (Int’l Conf. on Database Theory), 1997
IEEE ICDE (Int’l Conf. on Database Engineering), 1999
Other Activities
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National CS program evaluator, CAC/ABET (Computing Accreditation Commission), since
Feb. 2001; member of visiting team for national accreditation of Computer Science programs,
Oct. 2001, Oct. 2002, Sep. 2003, Sep. 2005;
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Chair, Special Session on Pervasive Computing, NSF IDM (Information and Data Management
Directorate) PI workshop, May 2000.
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Member and Webmaster, NEDS (New England Database Society,
http://www.cse.uconn.edu/neds), since Fall 2001;
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Affiliated Researcher, Experimental Visualization Laboratory, Dartmouth College, since Spring
2002.
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Member, IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) focus group, June 2006.
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Poster Session, ICATHS 2003, UConn, Sep. 2003
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Demo, The CQA/CDB system, NSF IDM (Information and Data Management Directorate) PI
workshop, May 2002
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Presentation, It Pays to be Persistent, New England Programming Language Symposium,
Williamstown MA, May 2001;
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Invited participant, IFIP WG 2.2, Rennes France, May 2001;
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Supervisor, 1st place student team, 4th Annual Undergraduate Data Analysis Contest (nationwide), Fall 1998.
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Participant, Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM), a selective / competitive program for high ability students, 1979.
CURRENT AND RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, UConn
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CSE Open House committee. Member, Sep. 2001 to Sep. 2002; co-chair, Sep. 2002 to Sep. 2003;
chair, Sep. 2003 to Aug. 2005;
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Director, Applied Theory Lab at UConn, Sep. 2001 - present;
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Speaker, Engineering 2000 (a program for high school students), U.Conn, June 2002, June 2003;
Administrator, Russian language proficiency exam for CSE doctorate candidates, UConn, Sep.
2001 to May 2003;
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Director, Web Site Group, Sep. 2001 to May 2003;
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Nominated, Chancellor’s Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Spring 2003.
CURRENT AND RECENT TEACHING/ADVISING ACTIVITY
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Advising one Ph.D. students (David Keil) and one M.S. plan A student (Michael Hurley).
Graduated one plan A Masters student (Ricardo Mardales) in May 2006, one plan A Masters
student (Ayferi Kutlu) in May 2004, and one plan B Masters student (Vijaya Srikanti) in May
2005. Served as assoc. advisor for one M.S. plan B student (Zhaohui Wei) in May 2004.
Member of Doctorate Thesis Committees for Yuhang Wang (graduated Spring 2005) and
Tilmann Steinberg, both at Dartmouth College, NH;
Supervising an individual design project (CSE265) in Spring 2006, where the undergraduate
student is developing a database back end for a web site of a UConn undergraduate organization;
Supervised an individual design project (CSE265) in Summer 2005, where the undergraduate
student designed, built, and deployed a web-based database-backed manufacturing quality control
system (currently in use at a manufacturing facility in Connecticut);
Supervised an senior design project (CSE293) in Fall 2004, by a team of 5 undergraduates (in
addition to my teaching load);
Led two research seminars in Spring 2003 (in addition to my teaching load).
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COURSES TAUGHT
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Advanced Database Topics (graduate)
Compilers (graduate)
Database Models (graduate)
Artificial Intelligence (graduate)
Models of Interaction (seminar)
Sensor Network Querying (seminar)
Topics in Databases and Artificial Intelligence (seminar)
Geographic Information Systems (seminar)
Constraint Database Systems (seminar)
Theory of Computation (adv. undergraduate)
Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms (adv. undergraduate)
Introduction to Software Engineering (undergraduate)
Discrete Mathematics (undergraduate)
HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
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Recipient, NSF CAREER award
Senior member, IEEE (elected)
Member, ACM, IEEE-CS
Member, CAC/ABET; also national program evaluator for CAC/ABET (elected)
Recipient, Rensselaer Medal of Excellence in Science and Mathematics
Recipient, Barge & Rank prize in mathematics, Yale University
Selected for inclusion in the 2005-2006 America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals
SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
Founding editor, Acoustic Neuroma Patient Archive - an international web-based information resource for patients with Acoustic Neuroma, a benign brain tumor (http://www.ANarchive.org). I also
volunteer as an expert consultant to AN Patients worldwide.
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English, Russian, Hebrew; good knowledge of French; some knowledge of German.
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