CRA-W Co-Chairs:

• Lori A. Clarke - Co-Chair
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
  

• Lori Pollock - Co-Chair
  
  Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
  

CRA-W Members and Projects:

• Nancy Amato - Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)
  
  Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
  
• Cecilia R. Aragon - Communications
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
• Carla Brodley
  
  Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
  
• Tracy Camp - Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)
  Colorado School of Mines
  
• Sheila Castañeda - Career Mentoring Workshops, - Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)
  
  Computer Science Department, Clarke College
  
• Joanne Cohoon
  University of Virginia
  
• Dilma Da Silva
  
• Carla Ellis
  
  Computer Science Department, Duke University
  
• Faith Ellen - Canadian Distributed Mentoring Project (CDMP)
  
  University of Toronto
  
• Kathleen Fisher
  
  AT&T Labs Research
  
• Joan Francioni
  Department of Computer Science, Winona State University
  
• Maria Gini - Distributed Mentor Project (DMP)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
  
• Susanne E. Hambrusch
  
  Purdue University
  
• Mary Jean Harrold
  
  College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Mary Jane Irwin - Steering Committee member, Awards and Nominations, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP), Governments Affairs member
  
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University
  
• Susan Landau - ResearcHers, Booklist
  
  Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
  
• Tessa Lau
  Staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center
  
• Margaret Martonosi - Editor of the Expanding the Pipeline Column
  
  Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
  
• Renée J. Miller - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
  
• Joann Ordille - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
  
  Avaya Labs
  
• Mary Lou Soffa - Affilites DMP Program, Grad Cohort Program, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP)
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
  
• Telle Whitney - Liaison with the Institute for Women in Technology
  
  Institute for Women in Technology
  

CRA-W Emerita Members:
Emerita status is bestowed upon retired members who made major contributions to CRA-W during their membership.

• Anne Condon
  
  University of British Columbia
• Fran Berman
  San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD
• Leah Jamieson
  
  Purdue University
• Marie Klawe
  
  Harvey Mudd College
  
• Nancy G. Leveson
  MIT
  

CRA-W Staff:

• Carla Romero - Director of Programs
  
  Computing Research Association
  
• Sarah Poon - Web Designer
• Aimée Vargas - CRA-W Webmaster
  

Cecilia R. Aragon: Communications
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. Cecilia R. Aragon is a Staff Scientist with the Visualization Group in the High Performance Computing Research Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. She has worked in several areas of computer science research, publishing results in theoretical computer science, visualization, visual analytics, image processing, and human-computer interaction. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.

Aragon's early work was in theoretical computer science. With Raimund Seidel, she developed treaps, binary search trees in which each node has both a key and a priority, and randomized search trees, which use random priorities in treaps to achieve good average-case performance. With Johnson, McGeoch, and Schevon, she conducted the first extensive evaluation of the simulated annealing algorithm in combinatorial optimization problems. More recently, she has been working in visualization and analytics with applications to large scientific data sets. She developed an airflow hazard indicator for helicopter pilots that increased their ability to land safely during simulated hazardous conditions. With Bailey, Poon, Runge, and Thomas, she developed Sunfall, a visual analytics system for supernova astrophysics.

She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in both computer science and astrophysics. As of April 2008, her publications have been cited over 1300 times (per Google Scholar). Her twenty-plus years of work experience include research, teaching, software development, and entrepreneurial and management experience. Prior to holding her current appointment, she was a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Before that, she was the founder and CEO of a small aviation company, an airshow and test pilot, aerobatic champion, and medallist at the World Aerobatic Championships, the Olympics of aviation.

Aragon is also active in supporting diversity in computing. She is a founding member of Latinas in Computing, a member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), and a member of the University of California Presidential Advisory Committee on the Status of Women.

Aragon and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their two children. She enjoys reading, walking, flying, and being a soccer mom. Her Erdös number is 3.