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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
  • 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
  • Jessica Hodgins - Distributed Mentor Project (DMP)

    School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 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.

CRA-W Staff:

Carla Ellis - Funding
Computer Science Department
Duke University

Carla Schlatter Ellis is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Duke University. She received the B.S. degree from the University of Toledo, Toledo Oh, in 1972 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1977 and 1979. Before coming to Duke in 1986, she was on the faculty at the University of Oregon, Eugene, from 1978 to 1980, and at the University of Rochester, Rochester NY, from 1980 to 1986. She serves on the ACM Executive Committee and Council and as ACM SIG Governing Board Chair. She was formerly Chair of SIGOPS.

Professor Ellis's research is in the area of Operating Systems. Over the course of her career, she has studied storage management for multiprocesssors, file systems for distributed systems, techniques for concurrent access to database indexing structures, and mobile computing. Her current passion involves finding ways to conserve energy and extend the lifetime of batteries for mobile and wireless devices. She calls her current project "Milly Watt" and focuses on power management in the OS and application interface.

Professor Ellis has a teenage son. She enjoys outdoor activities, especially mountain biking (including building trails for them on her property), kayaking, cross-country skiing, outdoor photography, gardening, and hiking. She also loves to travel.