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                                                                                        Tanya Berger-Wolf
                                                                                        Department of Computer Science
                                                                                        University of Illinois at Chicago
                                                                                        851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607-7053
                                                                                        ph: (312)413-8719
  compbio.cs.uic.edu                                                                    tanyabw@cs.uic.edu



Research Interests: Development and application of qualitative algorithmic methods to problems in population
biology of plants, animals, and humans, from genetics to social interactions.

  Education and Professional Preparation:

 2004-2005        Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)
                  NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
                  Computational epidemiology and population biology
                  Advisors: Simon A. Levin (Princeton) and S. (Muthu) Muthukrishnan (Rutgers)
 2002-2004        University of New Mexico
                  NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
                  Computational methods for controlled breeding programs and phylogeny reconstruction
                  Advisors: Bernard M. E. Moret, David A. Bader
 1996-2002        University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
                  Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2002
                  Thesis: Multichannel Communication and Graph Vertex Labeling
                  Advisor: Edward M. Reingold
 1991-1995        Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
                  B.Sc., Computer Science and Mathematics (double major), July 1995


  Employment:

 Present          Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago
                  Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago
 2004-2005        Postdoctoral Fellow
                  Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)
 2002-2004        Postdoctoral Fellow
                  Department of Computer Science and Laboratory for High-Performance Algorithm Engineering and
                  Computational Molecular Biology,University of New Mexico
 2001             Visiting Lecturer
                  Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 Aug 2000         Research Assistant
                  Sandia National Laboratory
 1996-1998        Teaching assistant
                  Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 1995-1996        Research programmer
                  Geographic Modeling Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 1994-1995        GIS programmer
                  Malam Group, Jerusalem, Israel.
 1993-1994        GIS programmer and administrator
                  Hebrew University Geographic Information Systems Center, Jerusalem, Israel
                  Research Programmer
                  Ecology, Systematics and Evolution Dep., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
 1992-1993        Instructor, extracurricular studies in mathematics,
                  Youth Science Center of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel


  Awards and Honors:

 2008-2013        NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award
 2007             UIC CoE Advisor Award
    2002-2005     NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships
    1998-2000     NSF Graduate Fellowship
    2001,2002     UIUC Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award
    2000          Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship (Eng. Col. award for excel. in research and education)
    2000          C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award


     Publications:

.        Journals:

     [1] T. Y. Berger-Wolf, S. I. Sheikh, B. DasGupta, M. V. Ashley, I. C. Caballero, W. Chaovalitwongse, S. L. Pu-
         trevu, "Reconstructing Sibling Relationships in Wild Populations", Bioinformatics, 23(13), i49­i56. (Impact factor
         6.019)

     [2] T. Y. Berger-Wolf, C. Moore, and J. Saia, "A computational approach to animal breeding" Journal of Theoretical
         Biology, 244(3), Feb 2007, 433­439. DOI: 10.1016j.jtbi.2006.08.028 (Impact factor:2.264)

     [3] W. Chaovalitwongse, T. Y. Berger-Wolf, B. DasGupta, and M. V. Ashley. "Set covering approach for recon-
         struction of sibling relationships", Optimization Methods and Software (Special Issue on Systems Analysis,
         Optimization and Data Mining in Biomedicine), 22(1), Feb 2007, 11­24. DOI: 10.108010556780600881829.

     [4] T. Y. Berger-Wolf, W. E. Hart, and J. Saia. "Discrete sensor placement problems in distribution networks."
         Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 42 (13): 1385-1396 Dec 2005

     [5] T. Y. Berger-Wolf and E. M. Reingold. "Index assignment for multichannel communication under failure." IEEE
         Transactions on Information Theory, 48(10), Oct 2002, 2656­2668

         Refereed Conferences:

     [6] Habiba, T. Y. Berger-Wolf, Y. Yu, J. Saia, "Finding Spread Blockers in Dynamic Networks", Proceedings of the
         2nd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNA-KDD), August 2008, Las Vegas,
         NV, (short)

     [7] S. Sheikh, T. Y. Berger-Wolf, M. V. Ashley, I. C. Caballero, W. Chaovalitwongse, and B. DasGupta, "Error
         Tolerant Sibship Reconstruction in Wild Populations", Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference
         on Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB), August 2008, Stanford, CA. (Acceptance Rate: ~22%)

     [8] S. I. Sheikh, T. Y. Berger-Wolf, A. A. Khokhar, and B. DasGupta, "Consensus Methods for Reconstruction of
         Sibling Relationships from Genetic Data", Proceedings of the AAAI Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in
         Preference Handling (MPREF), July 2008, Chicago, IL

     [9] Habiba, T. Y. Berger-Wolf, "Graph Theoretic Measures for Identifying Effective Blockers of Spreading Pro-
         cesses in Dynamic Networks", Proceedings of the MLG-ICML Workshop on Machine Learning on Graphs, July
         2008, Helskinki, Finland. (Acceptance Rate: ~29%), (short)

    [10] C. Tantipathananandth, T. Y. Berger-Wolf, and D. Kempe, "A Framework For Community Identification in Dy-
         namic Social Networks", Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Dis-
         covery and Data Mining, August 2007, San Jose, CA, USA. (Acceptance Rate: ~17%)

    [11] T. Y. Berger-Wolf, S. I. Sheikh, B. DasGupta, M. V. Ashley, I. C. Caballero, W. Chaovalitwongse, S. L. Putrevu,
         "Reconstructing Sibling Relationships in Wild Populations", 15th Annual International Conference on Intelli-
         gent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), July 2007, Vienna, Austria [same as Bioinformatics publication in
         journals]. (Acceptance Rate: ~15%)

    [12] M. Lahiri and T. Y. Berger-Wolf, "Structure Prediction in Temporal Networks using Frequent Subgraphs", IEEE
         Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM), April, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii

    [13] S. Sheikh, T. Y. Berger-Wolf, W. Chaovalitwongse, B. DasGupta, and M. Ashley, "Reconstructing Sibling Rela-
         tionships from Microsatellite Data", European Conf. on Computational Biology (ECCB), Jan 2007, Eilat, Israel,
         (short)

    [14] M. Laifenfeld, A. Trachtenberg, and T. Y. Berger-Wolf, "Identifying Codes and the Set Cover Problem", 44th
         Annual Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control, and Computing, Sept 2006, Allerton, IL
 [15] T. Y. Berger-Wolf and J. Saia, "A framework for analysis of dynamic social networks", Proceedings of the
      12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), August 2006,
      Philadelphia, PA, USA, 523­528

 [16] T. Y. Berger-Wolf, B. DasGupta, W. Chaovalitwongse, and M. V. Ashley. "Combinatorial reconstruction of
      sibling relationships" Proceedings, 6th International Symposium on Computational Biology and Genome Infor-
      matics (CBGI), Salt Lake City, Utah, July 21 - 26, 2005, 1252-1255

 [17] T. Y. Berger-Wolf. "Online Consensus and Agreement of Phylogenetic Trees." In Inge Jonassen, Junhyong Kim
      (Eds.): Algorithms in Bioinformatics, 4th International Workshop (WABI), Bergen, Norway, September 17-21,
      2004, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3240, Springer, 350­361

 [18] T. Y. Berger-Wolf and E. M. Reingold."Optimal multichannel communication under failure." Proceedings, 10th
      Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 1999, 858­859

      Book Reviews:

 [19] Invited book review of "Bioconsensus" (DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer
      Science, Vol. 61) edited by M. F. Janowitz, F.-J. Lapointe, F. R. McMorris, B. Mirkin, and F. S. Roberts, Journal
      of Systematic Biology, 53(3), June 2004, 515­517

      Others (not published elsewhere):

 [20] Habiba and T. Y. Berger-Wolf. "Maximizing the Extent of Spread in a Dynamic Network." DIMACS Technical
      Report, 2007-20, 2007

 [21] Habiba, C. Tantipathananandh, and T. Y. Berger-Wolf. "Betweenness Centrality Measure in Dynamic Net-
      works." DIMACS Technical Report, 2007-19, 2007

 [22] T. Y. Berger-Wolf and J. Saia. "Critical Groups in Dynamic Social Networks" DIMACS Technical Report, 2005-
      26 July 2005

 [23] T. Y. Berger-Wolf, T. Williams, B. M. E. Moret, and T. Warnow, "An Experimental Evaluation of Phylogenetic
      Consensus Methods," Technical Report TR-CS-2003-19, University of New Mexico, 2005

 [24] T. Y. Berger-Wolf, T. Williams, B. M. E. Moret, U. Roshan, and T. Warnow, "The Relationship Between Maximum
      Parsimony Scores and Phylogenetic Tree Topologies," Technical Report TR-CS-2004-04 Univeristy of New
      Mexico

 [25] L. D. Hopkins, D. M. Johnston, T. Y. Berger-Wolf, C. Ellis, and L. Henne. "Assessing the Effects of Ecosystem
      Disturbance on Biodiversity in the Arid and Semi-arid Environments of the American Southwest." Design Report
      for a Geographical Modeling System, in partial fulfillment of contract #DACA88-95-C0019, 1997, UIUC.

  External Research Funding:


 2008-2013     NSF IIS-0747369, CAREER: Computational Tools for Population Biology, PI: T.Y. Berger-Wolf,
               [$504,930]
 2007-2010     NSF IIS-0705822, III-CXT: Collaborative Research: Computational Methods for Understanding Social
               Interactions in Animal Populations, PIs: T.Y. Berger-Wolf, D.I. Rubenstein, J. Saia, [$899,017]
 2006-2009     NSF IIS-0612044, Collaborative Research: SEI: Computational Methods for Kinship Reconstruction,
               PI: T.Y. Berger-Wolf, co-PIs: M. V. Ashley, B. DasGupta, W. Chaovalitwongse, [$795,822]
 2006-2007     Microsoft award 14936, Computational Tools for Population Biology, [$91,000]


  Invited Lectures:

"Reconstruction of Sibling Relationships in Wild Populations"
 Aug 2008     DIMACS Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology
"Computational Analysis of Dynamic Interaction Networks"
 Jul 2008     SIAM Annual Meeting 2008
 Apr 2008     Microsoft Research
 Mar 2008     Catalyzing Collaborations between Industry and Academia, Rush Hospital, Chicago, IL
"Computational Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks" (keynote speaker)
 Feb 2008                                                                                             ´
              Dynamically Evolving Large-scale Information Systems (DELIS) Workshop, Universitat Politecnica
              de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
"Computational Insights into Population Biology"
 Feb 2008     Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University
"Computational Insights into the Social Life of Zebras"
 Nov 2007     Department of Computer Science, Loyola University
 Nov 2007     Department of Computer Science, U New Mexico
 Nov 2007     Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks"
 Feb 2007     Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M U
 Oct 2006     Department of Computer Science, U Southern California
 Sep 2006     Database and Information Systems Seminar, UIUC
 Oct 2005     Talk Series on Networks and Complex Systems, Indiana U
 Sep 2005     Department of Computer Science, U Toronto
"Who's Company? Identifying Persistent Social Groups"
 Jul 2005   Research Experience for Undergraduates at DIMACS
 Apr 2005   Celebration of Women in Computing, UIUC
"Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees: How Good Is Good Enough?"
 Oct 2004     Symposium on Computational Science of Biomolecules: Applications in Medicine and Therapeutics,
              UI Chicago
              Dept of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
"How to See a Tree for a Forest? Combining Phylogenetic Trees: Reasons, Methods, and Consequences"
 Mar 2004     Department of Computer Science, George Washington U
              Department of Computer Science, UI Chicago
              School of Computer Science, U Central Florida
"Computational Phylogenetic Methods for Heterogeneous Data"
 Nov 2003     Department of Computer Science, U Connecticut
"Combinatorial Problems in Computational Biology"
 Oct 2003      Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
"Controlled Breeding Problem"
 Dec 2002      Department of Computer Science, UIUC
"Multichannel Communication and Graph Vertex Labeling"
 Apr 2002      Department of Computer Science, U Southern California
"Bandwidth of Cartesian Products of Cliques"
 Nov 2001     Department of Mathematics, UIUC
"Multichannel Communication and Vertex Numbering of Graph Products"
 Apr 2001      AT&T Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, NJ
 Mar 2001      T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
               Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
"Graph Vertex Ordering and Integer Isoperimetric Problems"
 Nov 2000     Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel


  Conference and Workshop Presentations, Posters, and Abstracts:

 Jul 2008     "Error Tolerant Sibship Reconstruction" (poster presentation)
              16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB), Toronto, Canada
 Jul 2008     "Maximizing the Extent of Spread in a Dynamic Network" (poster)
              "Dynamics of communities in fission-fusion species" (poster)
              16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB), Toronto, Canada
 May 2008     "Error Tolerant Sibship Reconstruction in Wild Populations" (poster),
              International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, GA
Mar 2008      "Approximating Several Covering/Packing Problems"
              International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization 2008, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Oct 2007      "Computational Insights into the Social Life of Zebras"
              The 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI, Chapel Hill, NC
Oct 2007      "Computational Insights into the Social Life of Zebras" (poster, 2nd place award)
              Midwest Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (MSCBB), Chicago, IL
Jul 2007      "Reconstructing Sibling Relationships in Wild Populations"
              15th International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB), Vienna, Austria
Jan 2007      "Reconstructing Sibling Relationships from Microsatellite Data"
              "A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks" (poster)
              European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Eilat, Israel
Aug 2006      "A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks"
              ACM SIGKDD International Conference (KDD), Philadelphia, PA
Aug 2006      "A Computational Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Structures" (poster)
              14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB), Fortaleza,
              Brazil
Jul 2006      "Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks"
              Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
Jun 2006      "Combinatorial Dynamics of Population Biology" (Invited speaker)
              SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
May 2006      "A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks" (Invited speaker)
              Classification Society of North America 2006 Meeting on Network Data Analysis and Data Mining,
              DIMACS Center, Piscataway, NJ
Oct 2005      "A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks" (Invited speaker)
              American Mathematical Society Southeast Section Meeting, Special Session on Discrete Models in
              Biology, Johnson City, TN
May 2005      "Combinatorial Reconstruction of Sibling Groups" (poster)
              9th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB),
              Boston, MA
Sep 2004      "Online Consensus"
              4th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), Bergen, Norway
Jun 2004      "Computational Methods for Comparing Controlled Animal Breeding Strategies"
              Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics, Trento, Italy
Jun 2003      "Comparison of Phylogenetic Consensus Methods"
              Evolution 2003 Conference, Chico, CA
Aug 2002      "Spirals, grids, and herringbones"
              11th SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, San Diego, CA
Dec 2000      "Bandwidth of Products of Cliques"
              Midwest Theory Day, Chicago, IL
Jun 2000      "The Width and Length of Graph Products"
              10th SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Minneapolis, MN
Aug 1999      "Optimal Multichannel Communication Under Failure", poster
              Dan Kleitman's 65th Birthday Celebration Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Jan 1999      "Optimal Multichannel Communication Under Failure"
              10th ACM­SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Baltimore, MD


 Teaching Experience:

Spr 2007      Computational Analysis of Networks (UIC, graduate)
Fall          Computer Algorithms I (UIC, graduate and senior undergrad)
'05&'06&'07
Spr 2008
Spr 2006      Algorithms in Computational Biology (UIC, graduate)
Fall 2003     Inexact Algorithms (UNM, advanced graduate)
    Fall 2001      Numerical Linear Algebra (UIUC, graduate and senior undergraduate)
    Sum 2001       Introduction to Theory of Computation (UIUC, introductory undergraduate)
    Sum 1999       Computer Science Unplugged (UIUC, discover course for non-technical majors)
    Fall 1997      Numerical Analysis (UIUC, graduate and senior undergraduate, teaching assistant)
    Sum 1997       Combinatorial Algorithms (UIUC, graduate and senior undergraduate, teaching assistant)
    Spr 1997       Discrete Mathematical Structures (UIUC, introductory undergraduate, teaching assistant)
    Fall 1996      Introduction to Computer Science (UIUC, introductory for engineering majors, teaching assistant)


     Students Supervised:
.         Current PhD and MS students:

      ·   Mayank Lahiri, Ph.D. expected graduation 2010
      ·   Habiba Habiba, Ph.D. expected graduation 2010
      ·   Saad Sheikh (co-advising with Ashfaq Khokhar), Ph.D. expected graduation 2010
      ·   Arun Maiya, Ph.D. expected graduation 2011
      ·   Chayant Tantipathananandh, Ph.D. expected graduation 2012
      ·   Anushka Anand (co-advising with Leland Wilkinson), Ph.D. expected graduation 2011

      · Priya Govindan, M.S. expected graduation December 2008

          Graduated students:
      · Chayant Tantipathananadh, M.S. May 2007. Thesis: Community Identification in Dynamic Social Networks
          Using Generalized Coloring
      · Andrea Franchescini, M.S. May 2007. Thesis: A software architecture for the analysis of genomic protein family
          and domain controlled annotations

      · Vinodh Periyasamy, M.S. May 2008. Project: Dynamic Graph Generator: Generic graph simulator for dynamic
          network [Goldman Sachs]
      · Satya Lahari Putrevu, M.S. December 2007. Project: Sibling Reconstruction Method Validation [Microsoft]
      · Srikant Vemuri, M.S. December 2007. Project: Dynamic Network Visualization Tool

          Member of Dissertation Committee:
      · Eyad Almasri, Ph.D. expected graduation 2009, UIC BioE. Thesis: Knowledge-based probabilistic model to
          infer biological networks (Yang dai advisor)
      · Hilary Osborne, Ph.D. expected graduation 2012, UIC Biology. Thesis: Holes: When, where, and why aard-
          varks dig (Joel Brown advisor)
      · Songqing Zhao, Ph.D. expcted graduation 2008, UIC ECE. Thesis: Multiple Description Coding over Multiple
          Channels (Rashid Ansari advisor)
      · Amitabh Trehan, Ph.D. expected graduation 2008, University of New Mexico. Thesis: Self-Healing Dynamic
          Networks (Jared Saia advisor)
      · Pan Pan, Ph.D. expected graduation 2009, UIC ECE. Thesis: Optimal Resource Allocation and High-Order
          Particle Filtering for Video Tracking, (Dan Schonfeld advisor)
      · Xitian Li, Ph.D, expected graduation 2008, UIC. (John Lillis advisor)
      · Marina Langlois, Ph.D. expected graduation 2008, UIC. Thesis: Horn Formulas: Problems and Applications,
          (Robert Sloan advisor)
      · Guanrao Chen, Ph.D. expected graduation 2008, UIC BioE. Thesis: Exploring Topologies of Genetic Regula-
          tory Networks for Better Reconstruction, (Yang Dai advisor)
      · Chad A. Williams, Ph.D. expected graduation 2009, UIC. Thesis: Learning Individual Activity and Travel Pat-
          terns for Tour Prediction and Optimization, (Peter Nelson advisor)

      · Peng Fan, Ph.D. December 2007, UIC. Thesis: Design and Analysis of Clustering Frameworks in Vehicular
          Ad-hoc Networks, (Peter Nelson advisor)
    · Waseem Ahmad, Ph.D. October 2007, UIC. Thesis: TRIUMF: A context-aware trusted Middleware for Secure
      and Reliable Collaborative Computing, (Ashfaq Khokhar advisor)
    · Zhengdeng Lei, Ph.D. September 2007, UIC. Thesis: Genome-wide Computational Prediction of Protein Lo-
      calization, (Yang Dai advisor)
    · Nicholas D. Pattengale, M. S. April 2005, University of New Mexico. Thesis: Tools for Phylogenetic Post
      Processing, (Bernard M. E. Moret advisor)
    · Sunghee Lee, M.S. June 2005, University of New Mexico. Thesis: Approximate Bottom Line DEE (Dead End
      Elimination): Hybrid Bottom Line DEE and Split DEE, (Bernard M. E. Moret advisor)

  Service and Volunteer Activities:

Program Committee Member: .
     ICDM-08 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2008
     SNA-KDD-08 2nd International Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis 2008
     KDD-08 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2008
     ISBRA-08 4th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications 2008
     BIBM-07 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2007
     AAAI-07 Workshop on Preference Handling for Artificial Intelligence 2007
Meetings and Sessions Organized and Chaired: .
     Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) Session on Dynamics of Biological Networks, January 2009
     International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Networks, December 2008
     INFORMS National Meeting Special Session on Population Genetics (invited), October 2008
     DIMACS Workshop on Computational Analysis of Dynamic Interaction Networks, September 2007
     SFI-DIMACS Workshop on The Evolution of Gene Regulatory Logic, January 2006
     Session on Computational Phylogenetics, Workshop on Bioinformatics (WABI) 2004
     Session on Graph Isoperimetric Problems, SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, 2002
Reviewer for: Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN), Journal on Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO), ACM-SIAM
     Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), International Journal of Modern Physics, US-Israel Binational
     Science Foundation, Workshop on Experimental Algorithms (WEA), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
     Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS),
     INFORMS Journal of Computing, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, NSF panels, DIMACS series, Journal of Opti-
     mization Methods and Software (OMS), Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS), IEEE International Conference
     on Networking, Sensing, and Control (ICNSC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal
     of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, Journal of Theoretical Biology, International Conference
     on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Algorithmica, Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Anal-
     ysis of Systems (TACAS), European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS)
University Committee Service: .
     Faculty Search Committee in Learning Sciences and Computer Science, UIC, 2007-present
     Faculty Advisor to Women in CS, UIC, 2007-present
     Faculty Senate, UIC, 2007-present
     Departmental Advisory Committee, UIC, 2006-present
     Colloquium Committee, UIC, 2006-2007
     Undergraduate Committee, UIC, 2005-2007
     Graduate Study Committee, UIUC, 1999-2000
     Fellowships, Awards, and Admissions Committee, UIUC, 1998-1999

Outreach and Community Service: .
     Member of the Advisory Board, Avyna Inc., 2007-present
     Advisory Member, Loyola University Computer Science Outreach Program, 2007-present
     Panel Member, Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation (WISEST) Postdoctoral Workshop,
     UIC, 2007
     Participating Scientist, City of Chicago "Science in the City" program, 2007
     Guest Instructor, Summer SuperMath Elementary School District 97 Program, Oak Park, IL
     Faculty Mentor, Grace Hopper Celebration student team, UIC, 2006, 2007
     Co-founder and president, Women in Computer Science (WCS) Organization, UIUC, 2000-2001
     Mentor in the Women in Engineering (WIE) Mentoring Program, UIUC, 1999-2000
     Instructor, Camp 2000 Science and Engineering Girls Summer Camp, 1998-2001
     Instructor for the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) "Exploring Your Options" Summer
     Program, UIUC, 1997-1999.
     Instructor for the Math and Science Day, Judah Christian School, Champaign, 1999.
     Participant and instructor for the "Expanding Your Horizons" Career Day for female highschool students, Illinois
State University, Normal, IL, 1999, 2000.
Participant and instructor for the Engineering Open House "Grade School Village", UIUC, 1998-2001
Participant and instructor, GrrrlFest, Champaign-Urbana, 2001.