Emma Brunskill is majoring in Computer Engineering
and Physics at the University of Washington. She has been a researcher on six different projects in the UW Departments of
Computer Science, Physics, Geophysics, and Chemistry; she also worked as summer
research student at CERN (the European Center for Particle Physics). Her
Computer Science research focuses on scalable distributed systems. She
created a visualization tool for a new cluster membership protocol and is
now working on a mathematical analysis of that protocol. Emma has been named as the 1999 Mary Gates Scholar, the 1999 Anderson
Scholar, and twice as a University of Washington Undergraduate Scholar. She has
been a teaching assistant in both the Physics and the Computer Science
departments and she has been active in the CRA Undergraduate Mentor Program.
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