Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dissertation: "Efficient Data Inversion for Large Multi-Dimensional Problems Using an Approximate Extended Kalman Filter with Data Driven Zonation"

Advisor: Dr. David E. Dougherty

University of Vermont, 1997.

Continuing Education

· New England Complex Systems Institute Summer School (5-day): Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2005.

· New England Complex Systems Institute Summer School (5-day): Modeling, Networks and Evolution of Complex Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2005.

· New Directions in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology Workshop, Chautauqua Short Course #65 (3-day), RPI, July 2002.

· NPACI Parallel Computing Workshop (1-day), San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA. January, 2002

· Inter-Institute Workshop on In Vivo Optical Imaging at NIH (2-day), October, 1999.

· Parallel Virtual Machine Workshop (1-day) at the 6^th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Norfolk, VA, March, 1993.

· Follow-up Parallel Processing Workshop (4-day), Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. 1992.

· Parallel Processing for Undergraduate Educators (2-week), Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. 1991.

· Workshop for the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (2-day), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. 1986.

Awards and Honors

· Best Student Paper Award (my graduate student is 1^st author, I am 2^nd author), IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2007.

· The American Association of Physicists in Medicine Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award for the best paper (other than radiation dosimetry) published in Medical Physics in 2004.

· Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union, Fall 1996.

· American Association of University Women Career Development Award, 1993.

· Finalist for the U.V.M. Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award, 1992.

· U.V.M. graduate student travel mini-grants, 1982 and 1994.

· National Science Foundation 3-year graduate fellowship, 1980-1983.

· Initiated as Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computer Science Honor Society, 1983.

· Member, Michigan State University Honor’s College, 1974-1979

· Initiated as Member Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1978.

Professional Positions

(in reverse chronological order)

· 2002-present Assistant Professor (Primary Appointment), Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

· 2006-present founding co-Director, Complex Systems Center at the University of Vermont. College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

· 2006-present Adjunct Member, Computational Genetics Laboratory, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH.

· 2005-present Assistant Professor (Secondary Appointment), Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

· 2001-2003 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

· 2001-present Member, Vermont Cancer Center.

· 1997-2002 Research Assistant Professor (Primary Appointment 1998-2002), Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

· 1998-2003 Research Assistant Professor (Secondary Appointment), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

· 1983-2001 Lecturer (Primary Appointment 1983-1998), Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

· 1993-1997 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

· 1990 Consultant, Digital Equipment Corporation, S. Burlington, VT.

· 1987-1988 Bioinformatics Software Engineer, International Biotechnologies, Inc., New Haven, CT (tele-commuted from VT).

· 1986 System Graphics Software Engineer, Vermont Microsystems, Inc., Winooski, VT.

· 1986 Consultant, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.