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Award from the University of Maryland. He earned his department’s Teaching Award for Excellence twice in his 12 years at Maryland. Moglen is an internationally recognized expert on urban hydrology-geographic information systems (GIS) applications. At Maryland he held the position of associate research scientist at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education. He is particularly known for his interests in methods used to quantify impervious surfaces and to track effects of historical land use change on hydrologic indicators. He has developed a GIS-based software program that is used operationally by state, county, and local agencies as well as private engineering consulting firms throughout Maryland and Delaware. The program is the required analysis tool for all engineering projects used for flood studies submitted for review in Maryland. He has published over 30 papers in highly-rated archival journals and five book chapters. He has also edited one book on watershed management. He is an associate editor for the ASCE’s Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and held a similar position with AGU’s Water Resources Research in 2001-02. He is currently organizing a special issue of ASCE’s Journal of Hydrologic Engineering on hydrologic impacts of imperviousness. He is the vice-chair of the ASCE Watershed Management Technical Committee and will become the chair in the fall. He has served as the 2005 conference chair of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Watershed Management and as the editor of the book/proceedings resulting from this conference. He was a panel member on a National Academy of Sciences committee to review the National Weather Service’s AHPS program. Moglen spent a one-year sabbatical in the Office of Surface Water at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va., during the 2003-04 academic year. He also spent approximately one year as a visiting research scientist at the National Weather Service, NOAA, in Silver Spring, Md., during 1995-96 before joining the University of Maryland. Moglen earned his master’s degree in CE from Colorado State University in 1989, and his bachelor’s degree in CE from the University of Maryland in 1987. COMPUTER SCIENCE Barbara G. Ryder, professor of computer science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, joins the computer science faculty at Virginia Tech as the new department head. She is the first woman to serve as a department head in the history of the nationally ranked College of Engineering, and she holds its J. Byron Maupin Professorship. Ryder received her Ph.D. degree in CS Ryder at Rutgers in 1982, and immediately was offered her first full-time faculty position on its CS faculty. She previously worked in the 1970s at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. Ryder’s research interests focus on static and dynamic program analyses to improve the software quality of industrial-strength object-oriented systems, for use in practical software tools. She has had stints as a visiting researcher at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, N.Y., the L’Université 14
Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, and the Ecole Normale Supériere, Paris, France. She was a visiting associate professor of CS at Princeton University during 1993-94. Ryder became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the premier CS professional society, in 1998. She was selected as a Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women’s Distinguished Professor in 2004 and received the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) Distinguished Service Award in 2001. She also was voted Professor of the Year for Excellence in Teaching by the Rutgers CS Graduate Student Society in 2003, received a Leader in Diversity Award at Rutgers in 2006, and a Graduate Teaching Award from Rutgers Graduate School in 2007. Ryder has been an active leader in ACM, serving as an ACM Council member from 2000 to 2008, a member of the ACM SIGPLAN Executive Committee from 1989 to 1999, and as SIGPLAN chair from 1995 to 1997. In 2008 she was elected ACM Secretary-Treasurer. She was the chair of the Federated Computing Research Conference in 2003. Ryder received an ACM Presidential Award in 2008 for her devoted efforts to the organization. ACM also cited Ryder as “a source of inspiration to women in the computing field, dedicating her services in their support, among them, serving on the Athena Lecturer Award Committee.” Ryder has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Computer Research Association (1998 to 2001). Currently, she is an editorial board member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Transactions on Software Engineering, and Software, Practice and Experience. Ryder also has served on many program and conference committees, especially those sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN and ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering. She has been a panelist in the CRA Workshops on Academic Careers for Women, and the New Software Engineering Faculty Symposia held at the International Conference on Software Engineering. Ryder earned her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1969. In 1971 Stanford University awarded her a master’s degree in CS. ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING For the past five years, until he joined the Virginia Tech faculty in March of 2008, Joseph Baker served as a senior staff scientist at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). For the two prior years, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at APL. Baker earned his Ph.D. in atmospheric and space sciences in 2001 at the University of Michigan. His adviser at the time, C. Baker Robert Clauer, has also since joined the Virginia Tech faculty, and both are members of the Center for Space Science and Engineering Research or Space@VT. Baker earned his bachelor’s degree in physics in 1992 from the University of New England, Australia. He taught physics and mathematics at an international school, Mombasa Academy, in Mombasa, Kenya in 1994 and 1995. His major research focus is space physics with a particular emphasis on understanding how the solar wind and interplan- 15
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