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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:

Lori A. Clarke - Co-Chair

Professor Lori A. Clarke is a member of the Computer Science faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is an ACM Fellow, a member of the IEEE Publication Board, and an elected member of the Computing Research Association's Board of Directors. She is a former IEEE Distinguished Visitor, ACM National Lecturer, associate editor of ACM TOPLAS and IEEE TSE, member of the CCR NSF advisory board, ACM SIGSOFT secretary/treasurer, vice-chair and chair, as well as a 1990 recipient of the University of Massachusetts Chancellor's Medal, and a 1993 recipient of a University Faculty Fellowship. She has written numerous papers, served on many program committees, and was program co-chair of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering. She is general chair of the 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering. She has been a Principal Investigator on a number of NSF and ARPA/DARPA projects.

Dr. Clarke has worked in the area of software testing and analysis for many years. She was one of the primary developers of symbolic execution, a technique used to reason about the behavior of software systems and to select test data. With Richardson, she developed one of the first approaches for specification-based testing. With Podgurski, Richardson, and Zeil she showed how the more popular test coverage criteria relate to each other. This paper was cited, ten years after the conference, as one of the most influential papers of ICSE 8. This led to work with Thompson and Richardson that demonstrated how fault-based approaches fail to provide necessary fault detection conditions, thus revealing a major weakness in this approach. With Podgurski, she defined a general, language-independent model of program dependencies, which generalizes Weiser's work on program slicing. In the environments area Clarke, along with Wileden and Wolf, debunked the benefits of a nested program structure and then proposed an alternative component interaction model. With Tarr, she also developed one of the first database programming language, Pleiades . Recently her work has focused on analysis of concurrent systems. With Cobleigh, Dwyer, Naumovich and Osterweil, she has developed FLAVERS, a static analysis tool that uses data flow analysis techniques to verify user-specified properties. FLAVERS is an efficient technique that allows users to selectively improve the accuracy of the program model as needed to improve the accuracy of the results.


Lori Pollock - Co-Chair

Lori Pollock has been a professor at the University of Delaware. Lori Pollock received her M.S and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She was awarded the University of Delaware's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001, and the University's E. A. Trabant Award for Women's Equity in 2004. She served on the executive committee and officer of ACM SIGPLAN for several terms.

Her research focuses on program analysis for optimizing compilers, software testing, mobile code integrity, aspect-oriented programming, and parallel and distributed systems. She has served as program committee member of conferences in compilers, high performance computing, and software testing. She has also served as organizing chair and on the steering committee for several workshops.