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soundbyte Newsletter <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Computer <strong>Science</strong> & Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Spr<strong>in</strong>g<br />
A department <strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology<br />
Undergraduate TAs:<br />
Serv<strong>in</strong>g the Department,<br />
Advanc<strong>in</strong>g Careers<br />
CS&E undergraduates<br />
support the department, and<br />
have fun <strong>in</strong> their work day.<br />
By Pamela Vold<br />
On a Monday afternoon <strong>in</strong> March, a<br />
quiet group <strong>of</strong> eight students gathers<br />
<strong>in</strong> the faculty lounge <strong>in</strong> the computer<br />
science build<strong>in</strong>g. They are prepar<strong>in</strong>g for<br />
the labs they will teach this week. This is<br />
a meet<strong>in</strong>g for the teach<strong>in</strong>g assistants <strong>of</strong><br />
course CSCI 1113 C/C++ taught by Chuck<br />
Swanson. Swanson conducts the meet<strong>in</strong>g,<br />
Inside<br />
3 Department News<br />
6 Awards and<br />
Achievements<br />
8 Commencement<br />
10 2009 Open House<br />
11 Bonnie Holub honored<br />
with CS&E award<br />
12 Alumni Spotlights:<br />
Brian Bailey<br />
Xuan Liu<br />
Chris O’Malley<br />
15 Donor Recognition<br />
16 Support<strong>in</strong>g CS&E<br />
CS&E undergraduate TA Tah<strong>in</strong> Syed (right) with a student <strong>in</strong> the CSci 1113 Lab<br />
hand<strong>in</strong>g out the week’s assignment,<br />
runn<strong>in</strong>g through the list <strong>of</strong> tasks and items,<br />
request<strong>in</strong>g feedback as he goes, quizz<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the group on the material. While Swanson<br />
will present the lecture, the students will be<br />
<strong>in</strong> charge <strong>of</strong> the one-to-one questions with<br />
the students <strong>of</strong> 1113 dur<strong>in</strong>g lab time.<br />
It’s not unusual to see students as TAs<br />
for a class like 1113, which has nearly<br />
300 students. These students, however,<br />
are not the typical graduate student TAs,<br />
they are undergraduates. Courses like<br />
1113 presents major logistical challenges<br />
for the department. This one course alone<br />
requires a computer lab <strong>in</strong> the build<strong>in</strong>g to<br />
be staffed by TAs nearly eight hours a day,<br />
from Monday to Friday to serve students<br />
<strong>of</strong> 1113. That’s where the undergraduate<br />
I Summer 2010<br />
TAs can help. A staff <strong>of</strong> 12 students take<br />
shifts <strong>of</strong> around two hours each throughout<br />
the week, to provide support for the 1113<br />
students, and ease the load on other TAs.<br />
Senior Hannah Jaber is one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
undergraduate TAs for CSCI 1113. It was<br />
the 1113 course that changed her major<br />
from Mechanical Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g to Computer<br />
<strong>Science</strong>. “Initially, I was scared to death<br />
<strong>of</strong> do<strong>in</strong>g it (1113). Then I found out more<br />
about it from friends and took the course<br />
myself.” She found that liked the “level<br />
<strong>of</strong> abstraction, that it’s clean, neat and<br />
predictable.”<br />
Unlike many computer science<br />
students, Hannah had no background <strong>in</strong><br />
programm<strong>in</strong>g. There were no such courses<br />
<strong>of</strong>fered at her high school. “It wasn’t<br />
(Story cont<strong>in</strong>ued on page 14)<br />
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Photo by Richard G. Anderson<br />
Highlights<br />
2<br />
Message from the<br />
Open House and<br />
Tech Forum<br />
Department<br />
Report<br />
Success <strong>in</strong> Research<br />
Fund<strong>in</strong>g<br />
It’s been an<br />
excit<strong>in</strong>g year, full<br />
<strong>of</strong> events and<br />
achievements <strong>in</strong><br />
the department.<br />
We started <strong>of</strong>f<br />
this past fall<br />
with our Seventh<br />
Open House and Tech Forum. The 2009 half-day<br />
program featured a keynote from Jamie Th<strong>in</strong>gelstad,<br />
an entrepreneur and former CTO and Vice President<br />
for the Wall Street Journal Digital Network. We<br />
were also pleased to present awards to two <strong>of</strong><br />
our dist<strong>in</strong>guished alumni, Bonnie Holub and Ajay<br />
Pandey. Once aga<strong>in</strong>, researchers <strong>in</strong> our department<br />
and <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>dustry put their projects on display with<br />
dozens <strong>of</strong> exhibits l<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the second and third floors<br />
<strong>of</strong> our build<strong>in</strong>g. It was an <strong>in</strong>credible day and for<br />
those <strong>of</strong> our alumni and friends who couldn’t make<br />
it, you can see photos <strong>in</strong> this issue. We are already<br />
beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g plann<strong>in</strong>g on our next Open House and we<br />
hope to see you there <strong>in</strong> October 2011.<br />
The department is proud to debut our first<br />
Computer <strong>Science</strong> and Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g Department<br />
Report. We have spent many hours catalog<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
details <strong>of</strong> our accomplishments over the previous<br />
two and a half years, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g awards and honors<br />
for faculty, alumni and students. We have <strong>in</strong>cluded<br />
detailed pr<strong>of</strong>iles <strong>of</strong> our faculty and research areas.<br />
The booklet is widely available, with a digital copy<br />
on our website at www.cs.umn.edu. You may also<br />
contact the department to have a copy sent to you.<br />
Among the items <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> our Department<br />
Report is a comprehensive list <strong>of</strong> our major grants.<br />
Here <strong>in</strong> Computer <strong>Science</strong> and Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g we<br />
Department Head<br />
have been mak<strong>in</strong>g good use <strong>of</strong> government surplus<br />
fund<strong>in</strong>g. Over the last two years we have watched<br />
our research fund<strong>in</strong>g grow from $7.6 million to<br />
nearly $22 million <strong>in</strong> 2009 from federal, state and<br />
<strong>in</strong>dustry sources. While this <strong>in</strong>credible surge <strong>in</strong><br />
fund<strong>in</strong>g speaks to the quality <strong>of</strong> research be<strong>in</strong>g<br />
conducted by our faculty, it is also an <strong>in</strong>dication<br />
<strong>of</strong> the unavoidable need to search for new and<br />
different forms <strong>of</strong> revenue for the department at an<br />
economically hard time.<br />
The University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota is expect<strong>in</strong>g a $36<br />
million cut to the budget, com<strong>in</strong>g on the heels <strong>of</strong><br />
an $80 million cut last year, and eras<strong>in</strong>g 10 years<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>cremental state fund<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>creases. The college<br />
and department have been look<strong>in</strong>g at further cuts<br />
to fund<strong>in</strong>g as a result <strong>of</strong> the Governor’s expected<br />
unallotment. Our <strong>in</strong>creased revenue from research<br />
fund<strong>in</strong>g will help weather some <strong>of</strong> these cuts. It<br />
also susta<strong>in</strong>s the momentum <strong>of</strong> excellence that we<br />
have ga<strong>in</strong>ed over the past ten years, lend<strong>in</strong>g more<br />
prestige to the department.<br />
As always, we thank our alumni and friends for<br />
their support <strong>of</strong> computer science and the University.<br />
When you give to the department you are fund<strong>in</strong>g<br />
research facilities that are needed to keep M<strong>in</strong>nesota<br />
at the forefront <strong>of</strong> science and eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g. You<br />
provide opportunities for researchers, and make<br />
an <strong>in</strong>vestment <strong>in</strong> the foundations for <strong>in</strong>novative<br />
technologies that drive future economic growth.<br />
As you will see <strong>in</strong> this issue, we cont<strong>in</strong>ue to<br />
receive awards and accolades for our work, be it<br />
teach<strong>in</strong>g or research. We cont<strong>in</strong>ue to be proud <strong>of</strong> the<br />
work be<strong>in</strong>g done here and we know we can count on<br />
your support to ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong> the level <strong>of</strong> excellence we<br />
have now.<br />
— Vip<strong>in</strong> Kumar, CS&E Department Head<br />
and William Norris Pr<strong>of</strong>essor
department<br />
NEWS<br />
CSE or CS&E: The Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology<br />
changes its name<br />
As <strong>of</strong> July 1, 2010 the Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
Technology will be chang<strong>in</strong>g its name to<br />
the College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> and Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g<br />
(CSE). The acronym for Computer <strong>Science</strong><br />
and Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g will change to CS&E.<br />
The purpose <strong>of</strong> the change is to more<br />
clearly describe the unique comb<strong>in</strong>ation<br />
<strong>of</strong> science and eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g discipl<strong>in</strong>es to<br />
prospective students and faculty, bus<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
partners and research-grant<strong>in</strong>g agencies.<br />
The name change process has <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong>put<br />
from alumni, students, faculty, staff, bus<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
leaders and other groups throughout the past<br />
year.<br />
Local and national news<br />
Associate Department Head Joe Konstan<br />
was quoted <strong>in</strong> an article for The Chronicle <strong>of</strong><br />
Higher Education on faculty pay cuts.<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dan Keefe was recently<br />
<strong>in</strong>terviewed for a story <strong>in</strong> New Scientist Magaz<strong>in</strong>e<br />
on technology that aids artist’s creations. The<br />
story describes Keefe’s work with Draw<strong>in</strong>g on<br />
Air, his 3D virtual environment which uses a<br />
device called the Phantom and a computer to<br />
“draw.”<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Abhishek Chandra’s<br />
research was featured <strong>in</strong> a recent article<br />
<strong>in</strong> Forbes magaz<strong>in</strong>e. The article describes<br />
research <strong>in</strong> the sorts <strong>of</strong> deep theoretical<br />
questions about virtualization that<br />
commercial companies overlook.<br />
The work <strong>of</strong> Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Chad<br />
Myers and his team at the University <strong>of</strong><br />
Toronto were featured <strong>in</strong> <strong>Science</strong>. Their<br />
work apply<strong>in</strong>g their synthetic genetic<br />
array methodology <strong>in</strong> a large-scale<br />
genetic <strong>in</strong>teraction map for the budd<strong>in</strong>g yeast<br />
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, shows functional<br />
<strong>in</strong>teractions at the genetic level. From this<br />
map researchers can learn what genes do and<br />
potentially understand how genotype translates<br />
to phenotype.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Maria G<strong>in</strong>i and Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Vicki Interrante are featured <strong>in</strong> an exhibit at<br />
the M<strong>in</strong>nesota History Center.<br />
“Inventive Women: Portraits <strong>of</strong><br />
Scientists and Eng<strong>in</strong>eers from the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota” highlights<br />
women faculty who are engaged<br />
<strong>in</strong> a wide range <strong>of</strong> research at the<br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology. The exhibit<br />
runs until July 4, 2010.<br />
Department Head Vip<strong>in</strong> Kumar has received a<br />
$3.2 Million grant from the Planetary Sk<strong>in</strong> Institute<br />
to develop data m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g tools to<br />
track historical changes <strong>in</strong> the<br />
Earth’s forest ecosystems and<br />
determ<strong>in</strong>e their relationship<br />
to climate change. The<br />
University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota is one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the first academic partners<br />
to jo<strong>in</strong> the Planetary Sk<strong>in</strong><br />
Institute whose goal is to research, develop and<br />
prototype a near-to-real-time global monitor<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong><br />
environmental conditions and changes to develop<br />
the required decision support capabilities to manage<br />
global resources, risks and enable the necessary<br />
environmental markets. The Planetary Sk<strong>in</strong> platform<br />
has been selected by the TIME Magaz<strong>in</strong>e as one <strong>of</strong><br />
“The 50 Best Inventions <strong>of</strong> 2009”. S<strong>of</strong>tware and<br />
events produced by Kumar’s team will be a key part<br />
<strong>of</strong> the first prototype <strong>of</strong> the Planetary Sk<strong>in</strong> to be<br />
released <strong>in</strong> 2010.<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Rui Kuang is part <strong>of</strong><br />
consortium lead by the University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota<br />
Institute for Health Informatics that has been<br />
awarded more than $5 million to tra<strong>in</strong> health<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essionals <strong>in</strong> the vitally important<br />
field <strong>of</strong> health <strong>in</strong>formatics. Faculty<br />
members will contribute to the effort<br />
through curricular development, course<br />
delivery, student recruitment, and<br />
program development and evaluation.<br />
CS&E happen<strong>in</strong>gs<br />
The department recently hosted two luncheons<br />
<strong>in</strong> April for CS&E alumni. The Lunch and Learn<br />
program <strong>in</strong>vites alumni back to campus to learn<br />
about some <strong>of</strong> the <strong>in</strong>novative research go<strong>in</strong>g on<br />
<strong>in</strong> comput<strong>in</strong>g today. Jon Weissman presented an<br />
overview <strong>of</strong> the emerg<strong>in</strong>g area <strong>of</strong> cloud systems and<br />
his specific research <strong>in</strong> the area. Jaideep Srivastava<br />
(Department news cont<strong>in</strong>ued on page 4)<br />
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Department<br />
NEWS<br />
4<br />
4<br />
spoke about his research study show<strong>in</strong>g that<br />
onl<strong>in</strong>e, <strong>in</strong>teractive gam<strong>in</strong>g communities are<br />
now so massive that they mirror tradtional<br />
communities.<br />
The University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota’s S<strong>of</strong>tware<br />
Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g Center hosted the 5th annual<br />
CodeFreeze conference at the McNamara Alumni<br />
Center last January. Code Freeze 2010 focused on<br />
the overlap and overlay <strong>of</strong> design and development.<br />
In particular, the conference sessions discussed<br />
ways to <strong>in</strong>corporate design th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g and practices<br />
<strong>in</strong>to the delivery vehicles provided by agile methods.<br />
The conference comb<strong>in</strong>ed talks, workshops, and a<br />
panel session where the speakers fielded audience<br />
questions.<br />
CS&E alumni <strong>in</strong> the Bay Area reunited at the<br />
Computer History Museum last August for our Third<br />
Annual Alumni Event with speaker Gary Glover. The<br />
department also hosted the first Seattle Alumni<br />
Event <strong>in</strong> October.<br />
The Department hosted more <strong>in</strong>dustry events.<br />
Tw<strong>in</strong> Cities SharePo<strong>in</strong>t Saturday is an educational,<br />
<strong>in</strong>formative & lively day filled with sessions from<br />
respected SharePo<strong>in</strong>t pr<strong>of</strong>essionals & MVPs,<br />
cover<strong>in</strong>g a wide variety <strong>of</strong> topics focused on<br />
Micros<strong>of</strong>t SharePo<strong>in</strong>t technologies. Tw<strong>in</strong> Cities<br />
CodeCamp 8 had more than 250 attendees, one <strong>of</strong><br />
the highest turnouts ever. TCCC9 is be<strong>in</strong>g scheduled<br />
for October 2010.<br />
Attendees work<strong>in</strong>g on the programm<strong>in</strong>g contest.<br />
Attendee Katie Panciera with her w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g poster. Panelists at one <strong>of</strong> the sessions<br />
Faculty speak<strong>in</strong>g engagements<br />
John Riedl gave a keynote at the Midwest<br />
Instruction and Comput<strong>in</strong>g Symposium <strong>in</strong> Eau<br />
Claire, WI. Shashi Shekhar gave keynotes at<br />
the Environmental Systems Research Institute<br />
GIS Week, <strong>in</strong> Redlands, CA, and the Schloss<br />
Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum for Informatik, <strong>in</strong><br />
Warden, Germany. Vip<strong>in</strong> Kumar gave keynotes<br />
at the SIAM International Conference on Data<br />
M<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, <strong>in</strong> Columbus, Ohio, and the IEEE<br />
International Conference on Data M<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g (ICDM).<br />
Jaideep Srivastava will gave a plenary talk at The<br />
3rd International Conference on Human-centric<br />
Comput<strong>in</strong>g (HumanCom 2010) this August <strong>in</strong><br />
Cebu, Philipp<strong>in</strong>es.<br />
New Staff<br />
Laura Connor recently jo<strong>in</strong>ed the CS&E department<br />
account<strong>in</strong>g group. Laura handles purchas<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />
the department. She came from the Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Medic<strong>in</strong>e. When she isn’t at the <strong>of</strong>fice Laura<br />
takes classes at the university, works on various<br />
art projects, watches bad movies, plays weird card<br />
games, and reads anyth<strong>in</strong>g she can get her hands<br />
on.<br />
CS&E Hosts M<strong>in</strong>neWIC<br />
Associate Department Head Maria G<strong>in</strong>i<br />
organized M<strong>in</strong>neWIC 2010, a regional<br />
meet<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> women <strong>in</strong> comput<strong>in</strong>g, that<br />
was held on February 12-13, 2010 <strong>in</strong><br />
the EE/CS Build<strong>in</strong>g. M<strong>in</strong>neWIC, the first<br />
upper Midwest celebration <strong>of</strong> Women <strong>in</strong><br />
Comput<strong>in</strong>g, brought together high-school<br />
and college students, high-school teachers,<br />
faculty, and pr<strong>of</strong>essionals <strong>in</strong>terested <strong>in</strong><br />
comput<strong>in</strong>g to share experiences and<br />
strategies for success, to <strong>in</strong>spire students,<br />
and to discuss the role <strong>of</strong> women <strong>in</strong> the<br />
comput<strong>in</strong>g field. The conference <strong>in</strong>cluded<br />
programm<strong>in</strong>g and poster contests,<br />
keynote, talks and panelist discussions.
Publications<br />
You may have missed our Fall edition <strong>of</strong> Soundbyte.<br />
We have been busy work<strong>in</strong>g on our new Computer<br />
<strong>Science</strong> and Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g Department Report.<br />
Copies <strong>of</strong> the report are now available on our<br />
website www.cs.umn.edu.<br />
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Welcome to our new<br />
UMSEC Program Director<br />
Mike Whalen<br />
Dr. Michael Whalen jo<strong>in</strong>ed<br />
CS&E <strong>in</strong> January serv<strong>in</strong>g as the<br />
Program Director <strong>of</strong> the University<br />
<strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota S<strong>of</strong>tware Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Center. Mike is a graduate <strong>of</strong> the<br />
department; he received his Ph.D.<br />
<strong>in</strong> 2005. His Ph.D. dissertation<br />
<strong>in</strong>volved us<strong>in</strong>g higher-order<br />
abstract syntax as a basis for a<br />
provably-correct code generation tool from the RSML-e specification language<br />
<strong>in</strong>to a subset <strong>of</strong> C.<br />
Prior to jo<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g CS&E Mike was a Senior S<strong>of</strong>tware Eng<strong>in</strong>eer at Rockwell<br />
Coll<strong>in</strong>s. While there he collaborated with the University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota and NASA<br />
on a project build<strong>in</strong>g technology to allow eng<strong>in</strong>eers to easily verify s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />
written us<strong>in</strong>g a tool called Simul<strong>in</strong>k. He was also the lead developer <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Rockwell-Coll<strong>in</strong>s Gryphon tool suite, which can be used for compilation, test-case<br />
generation, and formal analysis <strong>of</strong> Simul<strong>in</strong>k/Stateflow models. This tool suite<br />
has been used both for academic research and <strong>in</strong>dustrial verification projects.<br />
Mike frequently speaks and writes about the use <strong>of</strong> formal methods with multiple<br />
<strong>in</strong>vited presentations and publications.<br />
His <strong>in</strong>terests <strong>in</strong>clude novel uses <strong>of</strong> model check<strong>in</strong>g, test generation, theorem<br />
prov<strong>in</strong>g, and random search simulation tools to reduce the cost and manual<br />
effort required for systems and s<strong>of</strong>tware validation for critical systems.<br />
In memoriam:<br />
In 2009 the Department <strong>of</strong> Computer <strong>Science</strong> and Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g lost one <strong>of</strong><br />
its founders and a pioneer <strong>in</strong> the field <strong>of</strong> large-scale numerical<br />
optimization. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Emeritus J. Ben Rosen passed away at his<br />
residence <strong>in</strong> San Diego. He was 86.<br />
Rosen was recruited to head the newly-formed Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Computer <strong>Science</strong>, arriv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> 1971, the second year <strong>of</strong> the<br />
department’s existence. At the time, his achievements were already<br />
substantial, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g work on the Manhattan Project and found<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and chair<strong>in</strong>g the computer science department at the University <strong>of</strong><br />
Wiscons<strong>in</strong>. He served as department head at M<strong>in</strong>nesota through<br />
1981, and cont<strong>in</strong>ued to be an active scholar through his retirement<br />
<strong>in</strong> 1992 and well beyond. As recently as 2007, Rosen was still<br />
actively conduct<strong>in</strong>g research, publish<strong>in</strong>g articles, and mentor<strong>in</strong>g<br />
younger scholars.<br />
Rosen was known for his work <strong>in</strong> optimization methods which are fundamental<br />
<strong>in</strong> many problems <strong>in</strong> eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g, biology, economics, and other sciences.<br />
He developed many fundamental techniques <strong>in</strong> areas such as model<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
3-dimensional structure <strong>of</strong> prote<strong>in</strong> molecules, elim<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g noise from data<br />
signals, and the general solutions <strong>of</strong> nonl<strong>in</strong>ear dynamical systems aris<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />
bioeng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g problems.<br />
We appreciate his contributions to our department and the field; he is greatly<br />
missed.<br />
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Awards<br />
Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). He<br />
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Konstan chosen to<br />
receive Teach<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Award<br />
Associate<br />
Department Head<br />
Joe Konstan was<br />
recently chosen<br />
as a recipient<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Award<br />
for Outstand<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Contributions to Postbaccalaureate,<br />
Graduate, and Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Education.<br />
Konstan was chosen for his excellence<br />
<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>struction; <strong>in</strong>volvement <strong>in</strong> students’<br />
research, scholarship, and pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
development; development <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>structional<br />
programs; and advis<strong>in</strong>g and mentor<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>of</strong> students. He was recognized at a<br />
ceremony <strong>in</strong> April. Konstan will also<br />
be <strong>in</strong>ducted <strong>in</strong>to the Academy <strong>of</strong><br />
Dist<strong>in</strong>guished Teachers.<br />
The CS&E<br />
department<br />
is proud to<br />
announce that the<br />
National <strong>Science</strong><br />
Foundation has<br />
awarded Assistant<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essors<br />
Ar<strong>in</strong>dam Banerjee and Mohamed<br />
Mokbel CAREER Awards. Banerjee’s<br />
work is “Comb<strong>in</strong>atorial Onl<strong>in</strong>e Learn<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and its Applications.” Mokbel’s work is<br />
“Extensible Personalization <strong>of</strong> Spatial and<br />
Spatio-temporal Database Management<br />
Systems.”<br />
The Institute on the Environment<br />
recently named Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Ar<strong>in</strong>dam Banerjee resident fellow. He will<br />
beg<strong>in</strong> his three-year appo<strong>in</strong>tment with the<br />
Institute <strong>in</strong> June 2010.<br />
Joe Konstan was nom<strong>in</strong>ated to run<br />
for ACM President. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Konstan is<br />
a Fellow <strong>of</strong> the ACM and he is currently<br />
serv<strong>in</strong>g on the ACM Council. Previously,<br />
Konstan served as President <strong>of</strong> the<br />
4500-member Special Interest Group on<br />
Faculty Achievements<br />
has also served as Chair <strong>of</strong> the ACM SIG<br />
Govern<strong>in</strong>g Board and on the ACM Executive<br />
Committee.<br />
The University <strong>of</strong><br />
M<strong>in</strong>nesota awarded<br />
I. Volkan Isler the<br />
McKnight Land-Grant<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essorship, a twoyear<br />
appo<strong>in</strong>tment that<br />
<strong>in</strong>cludes a research<br />
grant for each year.<br />
The award was<br />
bestowed <strong>in</strong> March and beg<strong>in</strong>s on July 1,<br />
2010. Isler’s research <strong>in</strong>terests are <strong>in</strong> the<br />
emerg<strong>in</strong>g and highly promis<strong>in</strong>g area <strong>of</strong><br />
robotic sensor networks.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor John Riedl was recently<br />
named Fellow <strong>of</strong> the ACM for his<br />
contributions to recommender systems<br />
and to social and collaborative comput<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
The ACM Fellows Program recognizes<br />
Best Paper Awards<br />
CSE Pr<strong>of</strong>essor John<br />
Riedl and his student,<br />
Michael D. Ekstrand,<br />
received a best paper<br />
award for their work “rv<br />
you’re dumb: Identify<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Discarded Work <strong>in</strong> Wiki Article History”<br />
at WikiSym 2009. Forty-five papers were<br />
submitted, <strong>of</strong> which 16 were accepted<br />
(36%), and one named Best Paper.<br />
Jon Weissman and his colleagues<br />
received a best paper award at the 10th<br />
IEEE/ACM International Conference on<br />
Grid Comput<strong>in</strong>g (Grid 2009), for their<br />
paper “Critical Perspectives on Large-Scale<br />
Distributed Applications and Production<br />
Grids.” The acceptance rate for the<br />
conference was 24%.<br />
Abhishek Chandra<br />
and his student Dave<br />
Boutcher received<br />
a best paper award<br />
for their paper “Does<br />
ACM members who have contributed<br />
substantially to the mission <strong>of</strong> the ACM.<br />
Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Loren Terveen has<br />
been selected as an ACM Dist<strong>in</strong>guished<br />
Scientist. The Dist<strong>in</strong>guished Grade<br />
recognizes those ACM members who have<br />
achieved significant accomplishments or<br />
have made a significant impact on the<br />
comput<strong>in</strong>g field. Terveen is one <strong>of</strong> 58<br />
Dist<strong>in</strong>guished<br />
Scientists<br />
selected for 2009.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Yousef Saad<br />
was selected<br />
for the 2010<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> Fellows<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Society<br />
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics<br />
(SIAM). Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Saad was recognized<br />
for his contributions <strong>in</strong> numerical l<strong>in</strong>ear<br />
algebra and its applications.<br />
Virtualization Make Disk Schedul<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Passé?” at HotStorage’09: SOSP Workshop<br />
on Hot Topics <strong>in</strong> Storage and File Systems.<br />
The paper was one <strong>of</strong> three best papers at<br />
the workshop, for which the acceptance<br />
rate was 21%.<br />
Graduate students<br />
Kather<strong>in</strong>e Panciera and Reid<br />
Priedhorsky, along with<br />
Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Loren<br />
Terveen and IBM researcher<br />
Thomas Erickson received<br />
an Honorable Mention Best<br />
Paper Award for their paper “Lurk<strong>in</strong>g?<br />
Cyclopaths? A Quantitive Lifecycle Analysis<br />
<strong>of</strong> User Behavior <strong>in</strong> a Geowiki.”<br />
Stergios Roumeliotis<br />
and his students Anastasios<br />
Mourikis and Nikolas Trawny<br />
were w<strong>in</strong>ners <strong>of</strong> the K<strong>in</strong>g-Sun<br />
Fu Best Paper Award <strong>of</strong> the<br />
IEEE Transactions on Robotics<br />
for their article “Vision-Aided Inertial<br />
Navigation for Spacecraft Entry, Descent,<br />
and Land<strong>in</strong>g.”
Outstand<strong>in</strong>g CS&E students<br />
recognized with Scholarships, Fellowships, and awards<br />
Graduate student Dimitrije Jevremovic<br />
has been selected to receive an IBM Ph.D.<br />
Fellowship. The award <strong>in</strong>cludes a $20,000<br />
stipend for the academic year as well<br />
as a $10,000 education allowance. The<br />
fellowship also <strong>in</strong>cludes an <strong>in</strong>ternship with<br />
IBM. Dimitrije’s advisor is Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dan<br />
Boley. IBM Academy <strong>of</strong> Technology Visit<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Member Carlos Sosa will act as Dimitrije’s<br />
mentor for the award.<br />
Vijay K. Adhikar won the Best Paper<br />
Award at the highly selective USENIX/ACM<br />
conference on Networked Systems Design<br />
and Implementation (NSDI’10) for a paper<br />
“Reverse Traceroute.” He co-authored<br />
the paper with two colleagues from the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Wash<strong>in</strong>gton.<br />
Graduate student Anand S<strong>in</strong>gh received<br />
a Best Paper Award at the International<br />
Conference on Security <strong>of</strong> Information<br />
Networks (SINCONF) for his paper<br />
“Improv<strong>in</strong>g Risk Assessment Methodology:<br />
A Statistical Design <strong>of</strong> Experiments<br />
Approach.” His advisor is David Lilja.<br />
Ph.D. student TaeHyun<br />
Hwang won the first prize<br />
for the 2009 the Korean<br />
Computer Scientists and<br />
Eng<strong>in</strong>eers Association <strong>in</strong><br />
America (KOCSEA)/Moon<br />
Jung Chung scholarship/<br />
poster competition. The KOCSEA is a<br />
non-pr<strong>of</strong>it organization <strong>of</strong> Korean and<br />
Korean-American computer scientists and<br />
eng<strong>in</strong>eers <strong>in</strong> North America.<br />
Every year KOCSEA <strong>of</strong>fers a<br />
scholarship to recognize an<br />
outstand<strong>in</strong>g Korean or Korean-<br />
American student study<strong>in</strong>g<br />
computer science or related<br />
areas <strong>in</strong>t he U.S.<br />
Graduate student Vassilios<br />
Christopoulos received the<br />
“American Legion Bra<strong>in</strong><br />
<strong>Science</strong>s Award.” The award<br />
was created by the American<br />
Legion family’s Bra<strong>in</strong> <strong>Science</strong><br />
Foundation and <strong>in</strong>cludes an honorarium <strong>of</strong><br />
$1000.<br />
Ph.D. student<br />
Joel A. Hesch<br />
was selected<br />
to participate<br />
<strong>in</strong> the 2009<br />
NASA Planetary<br />
<strong>Science</strong>s<br />
Summer School.<br />
Hesch spent an<br />
<strong>in</strong>tensive week<br />
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) <strong>in</strong><br />
Pasadena, CA develop<strong>in</strong>g an early-mission<br />
concept study for a New Frontiers class<br />
robotic space mission.<br />
Graduate student Eugene Vasserman<br />
was selected as one <strong>of</strong> five Google<br />
Lime scholars. Google Lime Scholars<br />
are recognized for thier tremendous<br />
achievements <strong>in</strong> the field <strong>of</strong> computer<br />
science. Vasserman received a $10,000<br />
academic scholarship and was <strong>in</strong>vited to<br />
the Google headquarters <strong>in</strong> California.<br />
Graduate student Jie Chen was one <strong>of</strong> 3<br />
w<strong>in</strong>ners chosen for the 2009 SIAM Student<br />
Paper Prize for his paper “On the Tensor<br />
SVD and the Optimal Low Rank Orthogonal<br />
Approximation <strong>of</strong> Tensors.”<br />
Graduate student Rohit Gupta was<br />
selected to present his work on “Colorectal<br />
cancer despite colonoscopy” <strong>in</strong> the cl<strong>in</strong>ical<br />
science plenary<br />
session <strong>in</strong><br />
DDW 2009, an<br />
<strong>in</strong>ternational<br />
conference on<br />
gastroenterology<br />
recently held<br />
<strong>in</strong> Chicago<br />
and attended<br />
by more than<br />
15,000 GI pr<strong>of</strong>essionals. Out <strong>of</strong> 4,475<br />
submissions, Gupta’s work was among only<br />
4 selected for presentation at the cl<strong>in</strong>ical<br />
science plenary session.<br />
2010-2011<br />
CSE Scholarship Awards<br />
CH Rob<strong>in</strong>son:<br />
Andrew Schultz<br />
Lando Scholarship:<br />
Della Polla Alexander<br />
Daniel Balm<br />
Nathan Fox<br />
Evan Gilbert<br />
Nicholas Malbraaten<br />
Daniel Moy<br />
Christopher Thompson<br />
KatieAnna Wolf<br />
Thomson Reuters Scholarship:<br />
Dhruv Goel<br />
Jonathan Hsiao<br />
Thomson West Scholarship:<br />
Jim Avery<br />
Travel Awards<br />
Andrew Schultz - England<br />
KatieAnna Wolf - Italy<br />
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commencement<br />
Spr<strong>in</strong>g 2010<br />
Above: some <strong>of</strong> the CSE graduate students who attended Spr<strong>in</strong>g 2010 graduate school commencement.<br />
Above: Georganne Tolaas with Ph.D. students from front left: J<strong>in</strong>oh Kim, Jie Chen, Chi Y<strong>in</strong> Chow, Hun Jeong<br />
Kang, Steven Wu, Tae Hyun Hwang, Rohit Gupta, Nick Trawney, Gurav Pandey, Nate Bird.<br />
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On a ra<strong>in</strong>y May 7, 2010,<br />
CS&E celebrated the<br />
commencement ceremonies<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology<br />
and the Graduate School at<br />
the University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota’s<br />
Northrop Memorial<br />
Auditorium.<br />
The Department also<br />
held a reception <strong>in</strong> the EE/<br />
CS build<strong>in</strong>g for graduates<br />
and thier families <strong>in</strong> the<br />
afternoon.<br />
Above: Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Chad Myers with graduate<br />
student Rasik Phalak at the commencement reception.<br />
Below: Students and family members relax after<br />
commencement.<br />
Location Sensors and
CS&E Department Head Vip<strong>in</strong> Kumar with his student Rohit Gupta and his<br />
wife.<br />
Associate Department Heads Maria G<strong>in</strong>i and Joe Konstan at the CSE<br />
commencement reception with undergraduate student Sarah Relander.<br />
9<br />
9
CS&E’s Seventh<br />
Biennial Open House<br />
and Tech Forum<br />
CS&E welcomed alumni, students,<br />
and <strong>in</strong>dustry to the 7th biennial Open<br />
House and Tech Forum last October. The<br />
successful event had nearly 300 guests and<br />
more than 65 exhibits from student, faculty<br />
and <strong>in</strong>dustry research projects.<br />
The Department started the half-day<br />
event with a welcome from Dean Crouch.<br />
The 2009 Department <strong>of</strong> Computer <strong>Science</strong><br />
Dist<strong>in</strong>guished Alumni Award was presented<br />
to Bonnie Holub <strong>of</strong> Adventium Labs for her<br />
excellent contributions to the field and for<br />
her volunteer efforts. Alumnus Ajay Pandey<br />
was recognized with the Outstand<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Leadership Award for Internationals.<br />
Two floors <strong>of</strong> the EE/CSci build<strong>in</strong>g were<br />
dedicated to poster exhibits from CS&E<br />
faculty, students and <strong>in</strong>dustry partners<br />
such as Micros<strong>of</strong>t, IBM, CISCO, and 3M.<br />
Jamie Th<strong>in</strong>gelstad, entrepreneur and<br />
former CTO and Vice President for the<br />
Wall Street Journal Digital Network<br />
provided the keynote address “Inspired<br />
S<strong>of</strong>tware.” Th<strong>in</strong>gelstad discussed how the<br />
cont<strong>in</strong>ued growth <strong>in</strong> process<strong>in</strong>g power,<br />
storage and bandwidth has given s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />
developers an expansive set <strong>of</strong> capabilities<br />
(Story cont<strong>in</strong>ued on page 14)<br />
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Photos from top: Vip<strong>in</strong> Kumar with Ajay Pandey,<br />
Keynote speaker Jamie Th<strong>in</strong>gelstad and a packed auditorium,<br />
DAA awardee Bonnie Holub (left), exhibitors<br />
and attendees learn<strong>in</strong>g about research.
Alumni<br />
Bonnie Holub Accepts Department Alumni Award<br />
Bonnie Holub (Ph.D. 1992) was awarded the DAA at the Computer<br />
<strong>Science</strong> & Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g 2009 Open House and Tech Forum. Holub<br />
is a founder and CEO <strong>of</strong> Adventium Labs, a non-pr<strong>of</strong>it research and<br />
development lab, focus<strong>in</strong>g on the development <strong>of</strong> advanced s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />
applications for complex systems, with a particular emphasis on<br />
automated reason<strong>in</strong>g, human-system <strong>in</strong>teraction, and support<strong>in</strong>g<br />
architectures. In just over six years <strong>of</strong> operation, this group has been<br />
awarded almost $14 million <strong>in</strong> research fund<strong>in</strong>g from a variety <strong>of</strong><br />
government labs and <strong>in</strong>dustrial research organizations. Holub was a<br />
pr<strong>in</strong>cipal at Knowledge Partners <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota, and was the founder<br />
and director <strong>of</strong> the Artificial Intelligence/High Performance and Parallel<br />
Comput<strong>in</strong>g Lab <strong>in</strong> the Graduate Programs <strong>in</strong> S<strong>of</strong>tware (GPS) at the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> St. Thomas <strong>in</strong> St. Paul, M<strong>in</strong>nesota.<br />
Alumni achievements<br />
Ed Chi (Ph.D. 1999) has been<br />
promoted to Pr<strong>in</strong>cipal Scientist at the<br />
Palo Alto Research Center for his widely<br />
recognized research impact <strong>in</strong> the HCI<br />
and social comput<strong>in</strong>g communities, his<br />
technical leadership for research and<br />
commercialization <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>formation scent,<br />
the formation and development <strong>of</strong> a new<br />
PARC research area <strong>in</strong> Augmented Social<br />
Comput<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
Jeff Dean (PhD. 1990) was recently<br />
named Fellow <strong>of</strong> the ACM for his<br />
contributions to the science and<br />
eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> large-scale distributed<br />
computer systems. He is the 2007<br />
In Memoriam<br />
recipient <strong>of</strong> the CSE Dist<strong>in</strong>guished Alumni<br />
Award.<br />
Jon Herlocker (Ph.D. 2000) was recently<br />
named CTO <strong>of</strong> Decho Corp.<br />
Tim Mikula (Ph.D. 1994) has jo<strong>in</strong>ed<br />
School Perceptions as its Vice President for<br />
New Product Development.<br />
Michael Rappa (Ph.D. 1987) jo<strong>in</strong>ed<br />
the Department <strong>of</strong> Computer <strong>Science</strong> at<br />
North Carol<strong>in</strong>a State University. He is the<br />
founder and director <strong>of</strong> the Institute for<br />
Advanced Analytics at NC State, and led<br />
the development <strong>of</strong> NC State’s <strong>Master</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Science</strong> <strong>in</strong> Analytics.<br />
Paul Wagner (Ph.D. 2001) was promoted<br />
Bonnie Holub and her Adventium Labs coleagues with the award.<br />
to full pr<strong>of</strong>essor and appo<strong>in</strong>ted chair <strong>of</strong><br />
the Department <strong>of</strong> Computer <strong>Science</strong> at<br />
the University <strong>of</strong> Wiscons<strong>in</strong> – Eau Claire<br />
<strong>in</strong> 2009. He also received a $400K NSF<br />
CCLI Phase 2 grant to develop a portable<br />
networked laptop <strong>in</strong>structional environment<br />
<strong>in</strong> July <strong>of</strong> 2008.<br />
Jiep<strong>in</strong>g Ye (Ph.D. 2005)<br />
received the NSF CAREER<br />
Award, and the 2009<br />
Researcher <strong>of</strong> the Year<br />
Award from the School <strong>of</strong><br />
Comput<strong>in</strong>g and Informatics,<br />
Arizona State University.<br />
Eitan Gurari (Ph.D. 1978) Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Ohio State University, passed away suddenly last June. Dr.<br />
Gurari started his career as a theoretician. He made fundamental contributions to automata and complexity<br />
theory. His textbook, An Introduction to the Theory <strong>of</strong> Computation, was highly praised and he published frequently<br />
<strong>in</strong> JACM, SIAM Comput<strong>in</strong>g, ACM STOC, and IEEE FOCS. After jo<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g OSU, Gurari switched his research focus,<br />
start<strong>in</strong>g to build s<strong>of</strong>tware systems. His most recent s<strong>of</strong>tware eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g research <strong>in</strong>terests covered hypertext<br />
process<strong>in</strong>g and Braille production.<br />
Heidi Kv<strong>in</strong>ge (MS, 1983), S<strong>of</strong>tware Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g Manager at Intel, passed away May 12. Heidi was a major force<br />
beh<strong>in</strong>d the Grace Hopper Conference for 5 years and its <strong>in</strong>ternational mission <strong>of</strong> promot<strong>in</strong>g the role <strong>of</strong> women<br />
<strong>in</strong> technology. She was the Program Chair <strong>in</strong> 2008, and the General Chair <strong>in</strong> 2009. She was honored by the<br />
Anita Borg Institute at the 2010 Women <strong>of</strong> Vision Awards Banquet and will be honored at the next Grace Hopper<br />
Conference for her tireless work and spirit.<br />
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Alumni Spotlight:<br />
Brian<br />
Bailey’s career<br />
<strong>in</strong> computer<br />
science may<br />
very well have<br />
been set as<br />
a child, when<br />
his parents<br />
purchased<br />
the Tandy<br />
1000. “I was<br />
fasc<strong>in</strong>ated with<br />
the fact that<br />
I could change what it could do, so I<br />
began programm<strong>in</strong>g my own games, like<br />
battleship and hangman.” He may not have<br />
realized it at the time, but he was ga<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
valuable programm<strong>in</strong>g skills like cod<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and manag<strong>in</strong>g data sets. Bailey was simply<br />
explor<strong>in</strong>g someth<strong>in</strong>g enjoyable, and he was<br />
<strong>in</strong>terested <strong>in</strong> do<strong>in</strong>g more.<br />
Bailey was always <strong>in</strong>terested <strong>in</strong> math<br />
and science, though they weren’t his<br />
only <strong>in</strong>terests. He enjoyed the mental<br />
stimulation <strong>of</strong> math, but he didn’t set his<br />
path <strong>in</strong> computer science until he attended<br />
Alumni Spotlight:<br />
12<br />
Brian Bailey<br />
college at Purdue. A good student and a<br />
research assistant, he didn’t <strong>in</strong>itially see<br />
a future for himself <strong>in</strong> academia. He was<br />
<strong>in</strong>timidated by the graduate students,<br />
“I thought that the grad students were<br />
brilliant and that the work would be too<br />
difficult for me. It never occurred to me to<br />
go to grad school myself.” When IBM <strong>in</strong><br />
Rochester <strong>of</strong>fered him a position there after<br />
his junior year <strong>in</strong>ternship, he accepted.<br />
It was while Bailey was at IBM that he<br />
“eased <strong>in</strong>to grad school” by complet<strong>in</strong>g<br />
courses through the University <strong>of</strong><br />
M<strong>in</strong>nesota’s onl<strong>in</strong>e program. Boosted by<br />
his performance <strong>in</strong> the onl<strong>in</strong>e courses,<br />
Bailey eventually became a full-time, oncampus<br />
student. He immediately chose the<br />
field <strong>of</strong> Human Computer Interaction for<br />
his research. He says it was based on his<br />
desire to work <strong>in</strong> areas that affected the<br />
way people use computers.<br />
“What I loved about M<strong>in</strong>nesota was that I<br />
was allowed to work and explore at my own<br />
pace.” That pace led him to a Ph.D. and a<br />
position at the University <strong>of</strong> Ill<strong>in</strong>ois Urbana-<br />
Champaign. “The department here really<br />
Chris O’Malley<br />
As a kid, Chris O’Malley thought he<br />
was go<strong>in</strong>g to go to school to be a lawyer,<br />
major<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> political science. It was his<br />
school counselor told him he was too<br />
smart for that. The counselor told him that<br />
he should go <strong>in</strong>to chemical eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>in</strong>stead. Follow<strong>in</strong>g that advice, O’Malley<br />
attended the best school affordable for<br />
his family, the University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota. It<br />
was while O’Malley was an undergraduate<br />
that he was exposed to computer science<br />
and conv<strong>in</strong>ced it should be his major.<br />
As a student he had the opportunity to<br />
<strong>in</strong>tern for Honeywell. O’Malley says that,<br />
“work<strong>in</strong>g there dur<strong>in</strong>g the height <strong>of</strong> the cold<br />
war was excit<strong>in</strong>g, we had the opportunity<br />
took a chance with me.” At Ill<strong>in</strong>ois, Bailey<br />
has cont<strong>in</strong>ued his research <strong>in</strong> Human<br />
Computer Interaction and received tenure<br />
this last year.<br />
After receiv<strong>in</strong>g tenure, Bailey took his<br />
sabbatical at Micros<strong>of</strong>t. While there he<br />
looked at creativity <strong>in</strong>side the organization,<br />
how they turned <strong>in</strong>novation <strong>in</strong>to practice.<br />
Micros<strong>of</strong>t had recently done a large project<br />
and had data but no analysis. Bailey’s work<br />
with that data was recently nom<strong>in</strong>ated for a<br />
best paper award at a CHI conference.<br />
Bailey has been back at Ill<strong>in</strong>ois s<strong>in</strong>ce<br />
September and cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g his work<br />
exam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the <strong>in</strong>tersection <strong>of</strong> comput<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and creativity. He is <strong>in</strong>vestigat<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
design, implementation, and evaluation<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>terface representations, <strong>in</strong>teraction<br />
techniques, and the tools that foster<br />
creativity. His work is <strong>in</strong> design doma<strong>in</strong>s,<br />
where his projects <strong>in</strong>clude develop<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>in</strong>terfaces that enable designers to<br />
work with multiple ideas <strong>in</strong> parallel, and<br />
knowledge management systems to<br />
promote design reuse.<br />
to see and work on these secret projects<br />
for the government,” as well as research<br />
collaborations with the University <strong>of</strong><br />
M<strong>in</strong>nesota.<br />
Though the work was <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g,<br />
O’Malley claims that he was always an odd<br />
duck <strong>in</strong> eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g, and it’s easy to see<br />
how his natural loquaciousness translates<br />
to work <strong>in</strong> sales. It was when he was at<br />
Honeywell that he became <strong>in</strong>terested <strong>in</strong><br />
sell<strong>in</strong>g their technology. O’Malley was<br />
<strong>in</strong>terested <strong>in</strong> bus<strong>in</strong>ess while still <strong>in</strong> school<br />
and chose it for his m<strong>in</strong>or. After graduat<strong>in</strong>g<br />
from the University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota, he began<br />
work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the sales division for Applied<br />
Data Research. O’Malley stayed with the
Alumni Spotlight:<br />
Xuan Liu<br />
(Ph.D. 2000) didn’t<br />
know much about<br />
M<strong>in</strong>nesota when<br />
she moved here to<br />
pursue her Ph.D.<br />
She had received her<br />
masters degree from<br />
Xiamen University,<br />
<strong>in</strong> Ch<strong>in</strong>a, and had been teach<strong>in</strong>g for a<br />
couple <strong>of</strong> years. While Liu enjoyed teach<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and advis<strong>in</strong>g her students, the courses<br />
she taught were basic computer science<br />
courses, and she longed for a challenge.<br />
Of M<strong>in</strong>nesota, Liu says, “I knew it was a<br />
big university with a good reputation. I’m<br />
from a warm part <strong>of</strong> Ch<strong>in</strong>a and it was only<br />
after I told people that I was go<strong>in</strong>g there<br />
that they said it was cold.” She quickly<br />
adjusted, say<strong>in</strong>g, “it really didn’t bother<br />
me, there were buses and transportation<br />
that adjusted to the weather, and there are<br />
so many th<strong>in</strong>gs you can do <strong>in</strong> all seasons. I<br />
only have really good memories <strong>of</strong> my time<br />
there.”<br />
S<strong>in</strong>ce receiv<strong>in</strong>g her Ph.D. <strong>in</strong> 2000, Liu<br />
has been a research staff member at the<br />
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where<br />
her research <strong>in</strong>terests <strong>in</strong>clude Cloud<br />
comput<strong>in</strong>g, knowledge representation and<br />
management, spatial databases and data<br />
m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, geographic <strong>in</strong>formation systems,<br />
company when it was acquired by CA. For<br />
more than 20 years he has stayed with<br />
CA, mov<strong>in</strong>g on and mov<strong>in</strong>g up. Today he is<br />
the Executive Vice President <strong>of</strong> the Cloud<br />
Products & Solutions Bus<strong>in</strong>ess L<strong>in</strong>e.<br />
When asked about the secret <strong>of</strong> longevity<br />
with one company, O’Malley says, “CA<br />
has been good to me, they have always<br />
presented me with more and better<br />
opportunities with<strong>in</strong> the company. They<br />
have really created a culture that <strong>in</strong>vites<br />
and rewards advancement.” He also adds,<br />
“I won’t say it’s always been easy, there<br />
certa<strong>in</strong>ly have been challenges.”<br />
O’Malley credits his roots <strong>in</strong> Mound, MN<br />
for his ability to make it through a tough<br />
Xuan Liu<br />
and mobile comput<strong>in</strong>g. Most recently<br />
she has been work<strong>in</strong>g on the Smarter<br />
Government Platform. The platform<br />
leverages the cloud comput<strong>in</strong>g technology<br />
to help city governments perform better.<br />
Accord<strong>in</strong>g to Liu, many government<br />
<strong>of</strong>fices work on legacy applications that<br />
don’t talk to each other, which causes<br />
<strong>in</strong>formation silos - the <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>in</strong> the<br />
build<strong>in</strong>g department may not be l<strong>in</strong>ked<br />
to the assessments department, mak<strong>in</strong>g<br />
it difficult to communicate and work<br />
efficiently.<br />
She uses the example <strong>of</strong> apply<strong>in</strong>g for a<br />
park<strong>in</strong>g permit. “When you go to the City<br />
to apply for your permit, they must check<br />
several th<strong>in</strong>gs that may not be part <strong>of</strong> the<br />
permits department, They have to make<br />
sure you are a resident, they have to check<br />
that you have a valid drivers license, that<br />
you don’t have any outstand<strong>in</strong>g tax debts.<br />
These may be <strong>in</strong> different <strong>of</strong>fices, so it’s<br />
slow to check them one by one. Us<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
IBM platform, we can <strong>in</strong>tegrate the data so<br />
that cities can work more efficiently and be<br />
more productive.”<br />
The Smarter Government platform<br />
leverages cloud technology <strong>of</strong> the<br />
government application on an IBM<br />
platform. That way the government does<br />
not have to worry about hardware, data or<br />
<strong>in</strong>frastructure.<br />
spots. “I’m from M<strong>in</strong>nesota and I have a<br />
strong set <strong>of</strong> values and ethics. If you work<br />
hard, good th<strong>in</strong>gs will happen.” He also<br />
has advice for students, “Be assertive, it’s<br />
a tough economy so take the <strong>in</strong>itiative and<br />
overachieve.”<br />
He is now work<strong>in</strong>g hard to give back. He<br />
recently started the O’Malley Foundation,<br />
provid<strong>in</strong>g scholarships for graduates <strong>of</strong><br />
his alma mater, Mound High School. “My<br />
father died when I was 1, and I’m one <strong>of</strong><br />
4 kids. My father was active <strong>in</strong> the school<br />
board and <strong>in</strong> politics and when he died,<br />
my mother did the same. She struggled<br />
to pay for college. So when I started to be<br />
successful, I wanted to help.” He provides<br />
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Liu is also work<strong>in</strong>g on the Smarter Cities<br />
Platform analytic solution framework which<br />
leverages on the government platform and<br />
will enable cities to share data and provide<br />
<strong>in</strong>sights and solutions to allow them to do<br />
someth<strong>in</strong>g that they are currently unable<br />
to do. Liu gives examples like manag<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the water system, energy output, traffic<br />
congestion or even help<strong>in</strong>g with public<br />
safety. Her group will <strong>in</strong>tegrate and analyze<br />
data, so it can respond to the needs <strong>of</strong><br />
the area. “We are ask<strong>in</strong>g, what are the<br />
methodologies for each to make them<br />
so they can become smarter and more<br />
efficient?”<br />
In spite <strong>of</strong> her busy schedule, Liu still<br />
manages to serve as the IBM Research<br />
Campus Relationship Manager (CRM) for<br />
the University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota. As a CRM,<br />
Liu helps foster collaborations between<br />
the University and IBM. This <strong>in</strong>cludes a<br />
University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota day, held at IBM,<br />
with faculty members present<strong>in</strong>g their work<br />
to researchers and also speak<strong>in</strong>g to various<br />
groups at IBM to understand their work. “It<br />
provides great exposure for the U, and it’s<br />
great for me too, rem<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g me <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong> the<br />
good memories I have <strong>of</strong> my time at the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota.”<br />
a scholarship for one student per year, with<br />
the scholarship renewable for four years,<br />
and his mom is still active <strong>in</strong> select<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
scholarship recipient each year.<br />
O’Malley is also help<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> other ways.<br />
He was recently named a member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
board <strong>of</strong> Bluenog. He is pass<strong>in</strong>g on his<br />
knowledge and experience <strong>in</strong> bus<strong>in</strong>ess and<br />
strategy to help Bluenog. “Many times,<br />
with a startup, you have the ideas and the<br />
money, but you don’t have the bus<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
sense. With my experience, I’m able to<br />
help and parlay my successes with CA <strong>in</strong>to<br />
strategies for Bluenog.”<br />
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Undergrad teachers cont<strong>in</strong>ued<br />
great for math and science,” she says.<br />
Now <strong>in</strong> her second semester as a TA,<br />
Hannah says, “I love it, and love the<br />
connection. ” She also sees benefits<br />
<strong>in</strong> hav<strong>in</strong>g undergraduate students help<br />
teach the course. “Sometimes there is a<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essional disconnect between pr<strong>of</strong>essors<br />
and the students. Some students are too<br />
<strong>in</strong>timidated to talk to their pr<strong>of</strong>essors, so<br />
hav<strong>in</strong>g people a bit closer <strong>in</strong> age to the<br />
students can break down some barriers.”<br />
Break<strong>in</strong>g down barriers can lead<br />
to opportunities, and that’s what has<br />
happened for Stefan Nelson-L<strong>in</strong>dal. Stefan<br />
is a second year student, and a computer<br />
science major who TAs for the CSCI 1902<br />
course. Stefan had a great experience<br />
play<strong>in</strong>g video games with his TA, Andrew<br />
Tran. When he was asked to TA by CS&E<br />
<strong>in</strong>structor Chris Dovolis, he was glad to do<br />
it. He is now <strong>in</strong> his first semester as a TA<br />
and says it’s go<strong>in</strong>g really well. For his work<br />
<strong>in</strong> the 1902 lab, Stefan helps students<br />
who have questions, and also holds <strong>of</strong>fice<br />
hours <strong>in</strong> the lab, allow<strong>in</strong>g time for students<br />
to f<strong>in</strong>ish their work. Unlike TAs for the<br />
CSCI 1113 course, Stefan also grades<br />
homework. His favorite part, however, is<br />
be<strong>in</strong>g able to write labs with another TA.<br />
“It has really given me perspective for<br />
people who haven’t seen and done this<br />
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to craft amaz<strong>in</strong>g s<strong>of</strong>tware,<br />
and why we should care about<br />
the qualitative functions <strong>of</strong><br />
s<strong>of</strong>tware. His presentation<br />
explored the issue <strong>of</strong> why it’s<br />
not just good design to make<br />
beautiful s<strong>of</strong>tware, but rather<br />
is an obligation <strong>of</strong> craft.<br />
CS&E hosted a special<br />
Cyber Security speakers Gopal Khanna (left) and Ron Ross (right).<br />
adjunct event on “Cyber<br />
Information Officer for the State <strong>of</strong><br />
Security Partnership Opportunity” <strong>in</strong><br />
M<strong>in</strong>nesota, Gopal Khanna. A keynote<br />
support <strong>of</strong> the nationwide Cyber Security<br />
address was provided by Dr. Ronald<br />
Awareness month. The afternoon<br />
Ross, <strong>of</strong> NIST who discussed the federal<br />
event featured remarks on the grow<strong>in</strong>g<br />
adm<strong>in</strong>istrations priorities on Cyber<br />
importance <strong>of</strong> cyber security by Chief<br />
Security, an <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gly critical issue<br />
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Chuck Sullivan leads a TA meet<strong>in</strong>g for CSCI 1113<br />
k<strong>in</strong>d <strong>of</strong> work before,” he says. “Initially, I<br />
underestimated how difficult it was to write<br />
assignments. It has given me more respect<br />
for what pr<strong>of</strong>essors do, I understand how<br />
complex it is to create assignments with the<br />
right amount <strong>of</strong> difficutly for each class.”<br />
Stefan is putt<strong>in</strong>g his work <strong>in</strong> computer<br />
science to good use, he has already been<br />
a summer <strong>in</strong>tern at Thomson Reuters <strong>in</strong><br />
Eagan where he had a lot <strong>of</strong> fun do<strong>in</strong>g<br />
research and development work. When<br />
he graduates, Stefan plans to go on to<br />
graduate school <strong>in</strong> computer science.<br />
Accord<strong>in</strong>g to University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota<br />
Graduate Program Coord<strong>in</strong>ator Georganne<br />
Tolaas, Stefan’s experience as a TA<br />
as an undergrad will certa<strong>in</strong>ly help his<br />
application. “It’s not someth<strong>in</strong>g that we<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten see on graduate applications and it is<br />
certa<strong>in</strong>ly someth<strong>in</strong>g that we look for.” She<br />
adds, “It is another positive<br />
factor <strong>in</strong> their review, and<br />
especially helps their chances<br />
<strong>of</strong> gett<strong>in</strong>g fund<strong>in</strong>g.”<br />
Tolaas also said that “The<br />
Undergraduate TAs clearly<br />
provide a valuable service<br />
to the department, fill<strong>in</strong>g a<br />
need for <strong>in</strong>struction, but it’s<br />
also a benefit for the TAs. The<br />
opportunity to demonstrate<br />
their knowledge to others, re<strong>in</strong>forc<strong>in</strong>g their<br />
own knowledge and hav<strong>in</strong>g the ability to<br />
present material to others looks good on<br />
their resume, whether they are look<strong>in</strong>g for<br />
graduate positions or <strong>in</strong>dustry positions.”<br />
The experience has already helped<br />
other TAs. Andrew Tran is now at Carnegie<br />
Melon. Tah<strong>in</strong> Sayed, another 1113 TA, will<br />
be enter<strong>in</strong>g the Ph.D. program at MIT this<br />
fall.<br />
Both Hannah and Stefan will be add<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the experience to their resumes as they<br />
look for <strong>in</strong>ternship positions. Though the<br />
work pays and gives them pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
benefits, Hannah and Stefan both say that<br />
the work has been a great experience, one<br />
that they would be happy to do aga<strong>in</strong>. As<br />
<strong>in</strong>structor Chuck Sullivan says, “They get<br />
paid, but they do it out <strong>of</strong> love.”<br />
for the safety and well be<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> the<br />
nation.<br />
Dr. Ross discussed M<strong>in</strong>nesota’s<br />
tradition <strong>of</strong> activity <strong>in</strong> this area,<br />
<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g research and teach<strong>in</strong>g<br />
at the University <strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>nesota and<br />
other colleges. He also touched on<br />
policies and operations <strong>in</strong> the State<br />
Government, and products, services<br />
and advice <strong>in</strong> the Industry.<br />
We had a wonderful event with great<br />
enthusiasm from the speakers, presenters<br />
and attendees. The CS&E department<br />
is look<strong>in</strong>g forward to host<strong>in</strong>g our next<br />
Technology Forum and Open House <strong>in</strong><br />
October, 2011.
Many thanks to our supporters<br />
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Department <strong>of</strong> Computer <strong>Science</strong> & Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g<br />
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Vip<strong>in</strong> Kumar<br />
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