CRA-W Distinguished Lecture Series
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Panel Discussion: Graduate School: Before, During, and After
10:00-11:00am Monday 16 April, 2012, UC 310, UMBC
Panelists
Dr. Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
Dr. Jeffrey Forbes, National Science Foundation
Mr. James MacGlashan (UMBC CSEE Ph.D. Candidate)
Ms. Alyson Young (UMBC HCC Ph.D. student)
As part of CRA-W's Distinguished Lecture event on Monday, April 16, we will be holding a panel about grad school and beyond. The panelists are our two Distinguished Lecture visitors and two UMBC Ph.D. students. Topics will include why going to grad school, deciding between an M.S. and a Ph.D., how to succeed during grad school, and career possibilities after grad school. The panel is targeted at undergraduates who are considering applying to grad school, as well as graduate students in their early years.
Light refreshments will be served
SHORT BIOs
PROFESSOR ELLEN ZEGURA received the BS degree in Computer Science, the BS degree in Electrical Engineering, the MS degree in Computer Science and the DSc degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis. Since 1993, she has been on the faculty in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. She currently serves as Professor and Chair of Computer Science. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 1995, a Washington University distinguished Alumni Award in 2008, and was selected as an IEEE Fellow in 2010. She was elected to the CRA Board of Directors in 2011.
Professor Zegura has conducted research and taught in computer networking for over 20 years. Her research interests include the Internet, with a focus on its topological structure and services, as well as mobile wireless networking. In network topology, she is the co-creator of the GT-ITM suite of Internet topology modeling tools, which remains in use 15 years after its original release. In mobile wireless networking, she and her colleagues invented the concept of message ferries to facilitate communications in environments where network connectivity is unreliable and/or sparse. Almost four years ago, she helped create the Computing for Good initiative in the College of Computing, a project-based teaching and research activity that focuses on the use of computing to solve pressing societal problems.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY FORBES is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is currently on leave with the National Science Foundation as a Program Director for the Education and Workforce Program in the Division of Computer and Network Systems, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. His research interests include computer science education, intelligent agents,and social information processing.
Host: Professor Marie desJardins