Teaching Awards

Trustees' Teaching Awards: At the September faculty/staff meeting, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Dennis Groth, presented trustee teaching awards to four faculty: Steven Myers, Marty Siegel, Melanie Wu, and Larry Yaeger. The awards are based on the merit review process and included an engraved plaque.

Graduate Women Informatics Appreciation Award was presented by the School to Shaowen Bardzell.

Congratulations to our award winners!

And thanks to all our faculty who teach the 222 courses offered at the School, including:

Funded Research

Funded research reached a new record for the School this year! Click here to view a listing of faculty awards (January 1, 2010 - August 26, 2010).

Best Papers

Congratulations to the following faculty who received best paper or best paper nominations for their work!

Bardzell, S., "Feminist HCI: Taking stock and outlining an agenda for design."
Proceedings of CHI '10: World Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM: New York. Best Paper Award; top 1%.

Caine, K., Zimmerman, C., Hazlewood, W., Schall-Zimmerman, Z., Sulgrove, A., Camp, L. J., Connelly, K., Lorenzen-Huber, L. and Shankar, K., "DigiSwitch: Design and Evaluation of a Device for Older Adults to Preserve Privacy While Monitoring Health at Home," to appear in the proceedings of the First ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010), November, 2010. Nominated for best paper and invited to a special issue of the Springer's Journal of Medical Systems (top 4% of submissions).

Leake, D. and Powell, J., "A General Introspective Reasoning Approach to Web Search for Case Adaptation," Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: Eighteenth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR-10, LNAI 6176, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2009, pp. 186-200. Best paper.

Lumsdaine, A., "Characterizing the Influence of System Noise to Large-Scale Applications by Simulation," technical paper submission to ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference SC'10. November, 2010. Nominated for best paper.

Pace, T., Bardzell, S., Fox, G. (2010). "Human-centered e-science: A group-theoretic perspective on cyberinstrastructure design." In Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (IEEE CTS 2010). Nominated for best paper.

Todd, P.M., Rogers, Y., and Payne, S.J. (2010). "Nudging the cart in the supermarket: How much is enough information for food shoppers?" In NIMD '10: First International Workshop on Nudge and Influence Through Mobile Devices. Best paper.

Alex Vespignani has written papers for Nature, "Complex Networks: The Fragility of Interdependency" and Nature Physics, "Patterns of Complexity," which are the highest impact journals in science and physics, respectively.

Keynote Addresses

Shaowen Bardzell, "Feminist HCI: An Interdisciplinary Approach to More Inclusive Design," Celebrating Women in Computing Banquet, March 30, 2010, SoIC.

Kay Connelly was keynote speaker at the Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing (InWIC), February 5-6, 2010, McCormick's Creek, Indiana.

Beth Plale, "LEAD II Hybrid Workflows for Timely Weather Products," 19th Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), September, 2010, Changchun, China.

Eric Stolterman, "Improving Design Without Destroying It," The Design Research Society (DRS) International Conference, July 7-9, 2010, Montreal, Canada.

Eric Stolterman, "Claims and Evidence in Design Research," First Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design, August 16-17, 2010, Aarhus, Denmark.

Eric Stolterman, "Designerly Tools," The Sixth European Student Interaction Design Research (SIDeR) Conference, March 24-26, 2010, Institute of Design, Sweden.

Haixu Tang, "Bioinformatics and Data Processing," The National Academies Project Initiation Meeting, March 1, 2010, Washington, D.C.

Alex Vespignani, "Workshop on Information in Networks," NYU Stern School of Business, New York.

Alex Vespignani, "Socially Coupled Systems and Informatics-Science," Computing and Decision-Making in a Complex Interdependent World 2010 Conference, Alexandria, Virginia.

Alex Vespignani, European Center for Disease Control, Modeling Meeting, Stockholm.

Alex Vespignani, Connect the Dots Symposium, Harvard University, Boston.

Leadership and Service

Jean Camp is IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow in the office of Representative Bob Etheridge.

Kay Connelly was named associate editor of the ACM SIGHIT newsletter, September, 2010.

Kay Connelly is co-director of the new IU Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR Health Information). September, 2010. $4M from Lilly Foundation.

Sun Kim is on the steering committee for the ACM SIG Bioinformatics as well as the steering committee for the IEEE BIBM.

Sun Kim is program chair for the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine, 2011 (the official flagship conference of ACM SIG Bioinformatics).

Andrew Lumsdaine was appointed subject area editor of journal Parallel Computing.

Andrew Lumsdaine was guest editor for Computing in Science and Engineering Volume 11, Number 6, November-December 2009.

Pedja Radivojac is co-organizer of Automated Function Prediction SIG 2011 featuring CAFA Challenge: Critical Assessment of Function Annotations at ISMB 2011 (the best bioinformatics conference).

Bobby Schnabel assumed the principal investigator role for the first Computing Innovation Fellows Project, the national postdoctoral fellowship program funded at $15M by NSF.
 
Bobby Schnabel, in his role of chair of the ACM Education Policy Committee, presented the ACM/CSTA report of the state by state condition of K-12 computer science education at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on October 6.

Erik Stolterman was named editor of ACM Interactions Magazine.

Dirk Van Gucht was program chair for the 2010 ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Databases, Indianapolis, June 7-9, 2010.

Alex Vespignani has been invited to join the editorial board of Mathematical Biosciences, a leading journal on mathematical models in biosciences.

Alex Vespignani has also been invited to join the editorial board of PLOS One, a journal launched by the Public Library of Science and is the third largest journal in the world, publishing over 400 articles per month in open access format.

Larry Yeager was organizer and PC chair of Third International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2010).

Media Coverage

Johan Bollen was invited to Science Foo Camp; cited and quoted in a Nature special on science metrics; and featured in New Scientist (twice!).

Kay Connelly launched Security Matters with CACR, a joint initiative with WFIU to run public service radio announcements about common computer security issues.

Minaxi Gupta was interviewed by SC Magazine in the wake of the FTC's probe into LimeWire's inadvertent file sharing.

Minaxi Gupta's work on disproportionately malicious Internet domains was covered by Government Computer News (GCN) and MIT Technology Review.

Eden Medina's research was cited in Le Monde Diplomatique, which then appeared in Spanish, French, Persian, Hungarian, and Norwegian publications.

Alex Vespignani was cited in a Nature special on science metrics.

New Faculty

The School welcomes three new faculty this year.

David Crandall comes to SoIC from Cornell, where he completed his Ph.D. and a post-doc. His research focuses on computer vision, the area of computer science concerned with automatically inferring semantic meaning from images – teaching computers to "see." He's also interested in social networks, data mining, and machine learning in general. He is teaching a computer vision course (CSCI B 657) in the fall.

First impressions of Bloomington?
"I really like Bloomington so far. It has many of the things I liked about Ithaca, NY (where I'm moving from) – natural beauty, lots of culture, good food, diverse people, etc. – but with *much* better weather."

You can find David in Informatics East 302 and email him at djcran@indiana.edu.

Adity Upoma Mutsuddi joined the faculty as a lecturer. She is scheduled to complete her dissertation in Fall 2010 from our own computer science program with a minor in information visualization. Adity was active in many groups during her program and served as co-president of Women in Computing (2007), was event committee co-chair for Bring IT On (2007) and was a presenter for Just BE (Fall 2006-Spring 2008). She is a regular reviewer of CHI and also reviewed for Mobisys (2007).

What do you think about Bloomington?
"I love the food in Bloomington! Very few places have so much variety in just two streets! I also love the energy of students in downtown."

Spare time activities: movies, travel, trying new food, arts and crafts.

You can find Adity in Informatics East 200 and email her at amutsudd@indiana.edu.

Judy Qiu comes to the School from IU's Pervasive Technology Institute, where she was Associate Director of the Community Grids Lab. She completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at Syracuse University. Judy is teaching CSCI B649 Topics on Systems: Cloud Computing this semester and continuing her research on Parallel/Multicore Computing, Cloud/Grid computing with a focus on Data Intensive Life Science applications. In her (limited) spare time, she is a parent of a 4-year-old daughter, plays piano, and gardens with husband Geoffrey Fox.

You can find Judy in Lindley 330b and email her at xqiu@indiana.edu.

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