The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
Computer Science Education / Educational Technology

• richard matzner at Physics Dept, Univ of Texas Austin TX 78712 (Austin TX)
  Keywords: numerical relativity, finite elements, analytical relativity, Information Assurance & Security,Computational Science Education, Scalable Computing, Data-Intensive Computing 10June
• Nilufer Onder at Department of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI)
  Keywords: Artificial intelligence, planning, decision making under uncertainty, temporal and parallel planning, project management 9June
• Lecia Barker at School of Information (Austin, TX)
  Keywords: tacit information learning online, computer science education, educational technologies, computing workforce, under representation in computing, user studies, evaluation, mixed-methods, survey research, discourse analysis, ethnographic research 9June
• Jeffrey Taekman at Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center (Durham, NC)
  Keywords: Clinical Research, Educational Technology, Human Factors, Informatics, Computer-Assisted Instruction, Education- Medical, Interactive 3-D environments, Mobile Computing, Internet, Patient Safety, Research Design, Peer Review, Serious Games,Simulation 9June
• Vincent Aleven at Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: intelligent tutoring systems, advanced learning technologies, authoring tools, educational games, metacognition, motivation 5June
• Aditya Johri at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)
  Keywords: Virtual Teams, CSCW, Creativity and Technology, Educational Technology (CSCL), Learning Sciences, Knowledge Networks, Engineering Design, Collaboration in Open Source Projects 5June
• Murray Turoff at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: Emergency Management Information Systems, Computer Mediated Communications, Management of Information Systems, Online Learning Systems, Technological Foresight and Assessment, Risk Analysis, Online Delphi Design, Design of Planning Systems 5June
• Mehran Sahami at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
  Keywords: computer science education, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval 5June
• David Harris at Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
  Keywords: VLSI, CMOS, digital design, cryptography, computer arithmetic 4June
• Starr Roxanne Hiltz at Collaborative Hypermedia Lab, Information Systems Dept NJIT (Newark NJ)
  Keywords: Virtual teams, social software, emergency response information systems, information systems evaluation methods, online learning 4June
• daniel mosse at PARTS: Power-Aware Real-Time Systems (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: real-time systems, power management, energy management, thermal management, web clusters, data centers, sensor networks, computer science education 3June
• Michael Bieber at New Jersey Institute of Technology (University Heights, Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: learning systems, decision analysis, DSS, emergency mgmt systems, ubicomp, HCI, social networking, pattern recognition, open source, text mining, search, recommender systems, virtual worlds, digital libraries, collaborative systems, CMC, delphi 2June
• appie van de Liefvoort at University of Missouri -- Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
  Keywords: performance engineering, analytical and probabilistic process modeling, queueing theory, algorithms and their data structures, computer science education, applied stochastic processes. 2June
• Neil Heffernan at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)
  Keywords: Intelligent tutoring systems, human computer interaction, Bayesian networks, user modeling, collaborative learning systems, educational games and simulation 1June
• Kevin Bowyer at University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
  Keywords: biometrics, computer vision, pattern recognition, iris recognition, face recognition, privacy, social impact, data mining 1June
• Cheryl Swanier at Fort Valley State University (Fort Valley, GA)
  Keywords: hci, computer science education, visual programming, cscw 1June
• Tom Cormen at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
  Keywords: Algorithm engineering, parallel computing, speeding up computations with high latency, computer science writing. 1June
• LINDA HAYDEN at CERSER (ELIZABETH CITY, NC)
  Keywords: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE REMOTE SENSING OF ICE SHEETS Polar Science Education and Outreach 31May
• Elizabeth Jessup at University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)
  Keywords: numerical linear algebra, numerical software, high-performance computing, memory-effiicient computing, computer science education, women in computing 31May
• Robert Michael Panoff at Shodor Education Foundation (Durham, NC)
  Keywords: Computational Science, computational science education, stochastic optimization, systems modeling, agent modeling, digital libraries, interactive computing, multi-core/many-core algorithms, multi-core/many-core learning modules 31May
• Stacy Marsella at Univ. of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies (Marina del Rey, CA)
  Keywords: computational models of human behavior, social simulation, virtual humans, emotion, cognition, theory of mind, decision-theory, machine learning, cognition, nonverbal behavior, animation 30May
• Cheryl Seals at Auburn University (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: HCI, UI design, educational gaming technologies, game design, educational visualization 29May
• Jason Nieh at Columbia University (New York, NY)
  Keywords: software systems, operating systems, virtualization, file and storage systems, cloud computing, mobile computing, thin-client computing, network computing, Web systems, high-performance computing, security, performance evaluation. 29May
• Mark Gross at Computational Design Lab (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
  Keywords: tangible embedded interaction, design, end-user programming languages, architectural robotics, DIY computing, sketching-in-hardware, pen-based interaction, sketch/diagram recognition, modular robotics, educational technologies, programming 28May
• Tiffany Barnes at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Games +Learn?ng Lab (Charlotte, NC)
  Keywords: educational data mining, game design, game development, educational games, serious games, health games, exercise games, artificial intelligence, education, broadening participation in computing, creativity, learning environments, K-12 computing education 28May
• Peter Brusilovsky at University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Adaptive Web, Adaptive Hypermedia, Adaptive Interfaces, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Student and User Modelling, Social Navigation 27May
• David Klappholz at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ)
  Keywords: recruiting young women into and retaining them in computing majors, gender issues, empirical software engineering research, concept inventories 27May
• Clare Bates Congdon at University of Southern Maine (Portland, ME)
  Keywords: evolutionary computation and machine learning applied to bioinformatics and computational biology, including DNA sequence analysis and phylogenetics, and applied to intelligent agents, including robotics and interactive dynamic games 27May
• Ron Alterovitz at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
  Keywords: motion planning, robotics, medical robotics, optimization, planning under uncertainty, virtual environments, surgical simulation, physically-based simulation, finite element method, tissue modeling, image registration, treatment planning 26May
• Michael Mascagni at Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
  Keywords: random number generation, Monte Carlo methods, applications in biology/neuroscience/physics, parallel/distributed/Grid-based computing, mathematical software, algorithms, stochastic modeling, scientific computing 26May
• Smaranda Muresan at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
  Keywords: natural language processing, multilingual grammar induction, natural language understanding, ontology learning, consumer health informatics, scientific literacy assessment,informational and conversational language in wikipedia and blogs 25May
• Kirk Jordan at IBM T.J. Watson Reserach Center (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: Computational Science, Advanced Architectures, High Performance Computing, Visualization, Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential and Integral Equations, Performance Analysis 24May
• Beverly Woolf at Department of Computer Science (Amherst, Massachusetts 01002)
  Keywords: Intelligent tutoring systems, collaborative learning systems, human computer interfaces, modeling users, gaming, cognitive modeling and simulation, student motivation, learning styles, learning disabilities, affective computing. 24May
• Ani Nenkova at University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
  Keywords: natural language processing, summarization, generation, text quality, discourse, prosody and emotion 24May
• Allison Druin at Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
  Keywords: HCI, Interaction Design and Children, participatory design, educational computing, mobile devices, social computing, digital libraries 23May
• Yu Zhang (and Colleagues) at Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)
  Keywords: Liberal arts teaching, Undergraduate research 22May
• Amy Bruckman at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: social computing, online communities, educational technology, learning sciences, wikis, broadening participation in computing, creativity, ethics 21May
• Nancy Griffeth at Lehman College of the City University of New York (New York, NY)
  Keywords: network testing, MANETs, Distributed Systems, ... 21May
• Srini Ramaswamy at University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Little Rock, AR)
  Keywords: modeling, analysis and simulation, software engineering, data mining, social network analysis, embedded computing, service computing, petri nets, software automation, software design and maintenance 20May
• James Martin at University of Colorado (Boulder, CO)
  Keywords: computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, social media, personalized learning, machine translation, information retrieval, crisis informatics 20May
• Larry Rowe at FX Palo Alto Laboratory (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Multimedia systems and applications, lecture webcasting, distributed collaboration, distributed systems, database management systems, and application development tools 20May
• David Kirk at NVIDIA Research (Santa Clara, CA)
  Keywords: Parallel Computing, GPU Computing, GPGPU, Graphics/Visualization, Realistic Rendering, Parallel/Heterogeneous Computing Architecture 20May
• Barbara Di Eugenio at University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Interfaces, Discourse and Dialogue Processing; Educational Technology, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Collaborative Systems; Multimedia Presentations, Conversational Agents for healthcare, Summarization 20May
• Dirk Grunwald at University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)
  Keywords: Software Radio, Cognitive Radio, Reconfigurable Computing, Compiler Measurement, Multi-core Computing, Networking, Privacy Peer-to-Peer 20May
• Marie desJardins at University of Maryland Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD)
  Keywords: machine learning, multi-agent systems, planning, interactive AI, integrated AI, uncertainty 20May
• Stephen Bloch (and colleagues) at Adelphi University (Garden City, NY)
  Keywords: first-year courses, non-major courses, functional programming, logic, complexity theory, analysis of algorithms, information security, Accessible Computing, database testing 20May
• Norman Ramsey at Tufts University (Medford, MA)
  Keywords: programming languages, functional programming, compilers, file synchronization, distributed revision control, distributed computing, git, darcs, mercurial, hg, bzr, bazaar, unison 20May
• Dennis Groth at Indiana University School of Informatics (Bloomington, IN)
  Keywords: Cumputing Education, HCI, Security, Data and Search, Learning, Curriculm Design 20May
• Michael Twidale at University of Illinois (Champaign, IL)
  Keywords: CSCW, HCI, Ubicomp, CSCL 19May
• Zoran Popovic at University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: graphics, computer animation, character dynamics, optimal control, control in high dimensions, human computation, social games, scientific games, learning games 19May